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Long, Long Life of Trees
ISBN: PB: 9780300228205, Yale University Press, March 2017
296 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 60 black&white illus.
A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship wi...
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£10,99
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Field Guide to Long Island Sound Coastal Habitats, Plant Life, Fish, Seabirds, Marine Mammals, and Other Wildlife
ISBN: PB: 9780300220353, Yale University Press, March 2017
416 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 1200 colour illus.
A lavishly illustrated and long-overdue guidebook to the rich natural history of Long Island Sound and its coastlines, a region beloved by millions of people. Long Island Sound consists of a diverse collection of unique marine, estuarine, and terres...
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House of Owls
ISBN: PB: 9780300223422, Yale University Press, January 2017
224 pp., 23.5x17.8 cm, 94 black&white illus.
Tony Angell, master artist and naturalist, offers an intimate account of owls he has observed, admired, and depicted for decades For a quarter century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of western...
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All These Worlds are Yours The Scientific Search for Alien Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300208696, Yale University Press, November 2016
232 pp., 21x14 cm
Where would you look for alien life? An astronomer and science popularizer explains the basics of astrobiology to outline five plausible scenarios for finding extraterrestrials Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth tran...
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£25,00
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Art and Optics in the Hereford Map An English Mappa Mundi, c. 1300
ISBN: HB: 9780300220339, Yale University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
A single, monumental mappa mundi (world map), made around 1300 for Hereford Cathedral, survives intact from the Middle Ages. As Marcia Kupfer reveals in her arresting new study, this celebrated testament to medieval learning has long been profoundly...
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Future Humans Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300208719, Yale University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 21x14 cm
Are humans still subject to the forces of evolution? An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens In this intriguing book, evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon draws on the explosion of discoveries in recent...
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Intelligence in the Flesh Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than it Thinks
ISBN: PB: 9780300223477, Yale University Press, September 2016
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
An enthralling exploration that upends the prevailing view of consciousness and demonstrates how intelligence is literally embedded in the palms of our hands If you think that intelligence emanates from the mind and that reasoning necessitates the su...
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Where Song Began Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World
ISBN: HB: 9780300221664, Yale University Press, August 2016
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.
An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia's distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution. Renowned for its gallery of unusual mammals, Australia is also a land of extraordinary birds. But unlike the mammals, the bi...
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Spare the Birds! George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society
ISBN: HB: 9780300215458, Yale University Press, August 2016
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.
An engaging history of the founding of one of the world's most popular environmental organizations, the Audubon Society In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. T...
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Project Puffin The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock
ISBN: PB: 9780300219791, ISBN: HB: 9780300204810, Yale University Press, July 2016
376 pp., 21x14 cm, 8-page colour illus., 30 black&white images
"Project Puffin" is the inspiringstory of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned that puffins had neste...
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