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Ecology

Nature Remade Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds

Campos Luis A., Dietrich Michael R., Saraiva Tiago, Young Christian

ISBN: PB: 9780226783437, ISBN: HB: 9780226783260, University of Chicago Press, July 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 2 tables

"Engineering" has firmly taken root in the entangled bank of biology even as proposals to remake the living world have sent tendrils in every direction, and at every scale. Nature Remade explores these complex prospects from a resolutely historical a...

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Gardening

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Northern Garden Symphony Combining Hardy Perennials for Blooms All Season

Warbelow Cyndie

ISBN: PB: 9781602234413, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Put the power of a garden planning pro to work for you! Northern Garden Symphony offers explanations and illustrations of the sequential blooms of ornamental perennials as a tool for garden design. The idea of sequential blooming, Fairbanks-famous au...

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Interior Design

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Nature Inside Plants and Flowers in the Modern Interior

Sparke Penny

ISBN: HB: 9780300244021, Yale University Press, February 2021
224 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 120 illus.

From ferns in 19th-century British parlors to contemporary "living walls" in commercial spaces, plants and flowers have long been incorporated into the design of public and private spaces. Spanning two centuries, "Nature Inside" explores the history...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Nature's Fabric Leaves in Science and Culture

Lee David

ISBN: HB: 9780226180595, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
512 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 514 colour plates, 49 halftones, 14 line drawings

Leaves are all around us – in backyards, cascading from window boxes, even emerging from small cracks in city sidewalks given the slightest glint of sunlight. Perhaps because they are everywhere, it's easy to overlook the humble leaf, but a close loo...

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Photography

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Nuvuk, the Northernmost Altered Land, Altered Lives in Barrow, Alaska

Inulak Lum Daniel James

ISBN: HB: 9781602231955, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2013
80 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 76 colour illus.

For years, tour guide Daniel Lum has brought visitors as well as his children out to the remote corners of Barrow, Alaska, one of the northernmost cities in the world, to witness polar bears and walrus on the dark, sandy beaches. Over time, snapping...

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New England Wildflower Society's Flora Novae Angliae A Manual for the Identification of Native and Naturalized Vascular Plants of New England

Haines Arthur, Farnsworth Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300171549, Yale University Press, January 2012
992 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1000 black&white illus.

This comprehensive manual offers accurate, up-to-date, and clear information for identifying New England's remarkable array of tracheophytes (vascular plants, excluding mosses). With fully researched entries on some 3,500 native and non-native specie...

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Amazing Nature

Nature's Palette The Science of Plant Color

Lee David

ISBN: PB: 9780226470535, ISBN: HB: 9780226470528, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
426 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones, 83 line drawings, 438 colour illus.

Though he didn't realize it at the time, David Lee began this book twenty-five years ago as he was hiking in the mountains outside Kuala Lumpur. Surrounded by the wonders of the jungle, Lee found his attention drawn to one plant in particular, a spec...

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Nature

Ecology

Natural History of the New World The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas

Graham Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226306803, ISBN: HB: 9780226306797, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 line drawings, 5 tables, 69 halftones

The paleoecological history of the Americas is as complex as the region is broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, the New World features some of the most extraordinary vegetation on the planet. But until now it has lacked a com...

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