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Birds

Narrow Edge A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey

Cramer Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780300219692, ISBN: HB: 9780300185195, Yale University Press, June 2016
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Thousands of ravenous tiny shorebirds race along the water's edge of Delaware Bay, feasting on pin-sized horseshoe-crab eggs. Fueled by millions of eggs, the migrating red knots fly on. When they arrive at last in their arctic breeding grounds, they...

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Mathematics

Fractal Worlds Grown, Built, and Imagined

Frame Michael, Urry Amelia

ISBN: PB: 9780300197877, Yale University Press, June 2016
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 328 black&white illus.

Fractal geometry is a uniquely fascinating area of mathematics, exhibited in a range of shapes that exist in the natural world, from a simple broccoli floret to a majestic mountain range. In this essential primer, mathematician Michael Frame – a clos...

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Nature

Hawthorn The Tree That Has Nourished, Healed, and Inspired Through the Ages

Vaughn Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780300219876, Yale University Press, June 2016
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

One of humankind's oldest companions, the hawthorn tree, is bound up in the memories of every recorded age and the plot lines of cultures all across the Northern Hemisphere. Hawthorn examines the little-recognized political, cultural, and natural his...

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Birds

Birders of Africa History of a Network

Jacobs Nancy J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300209617, Yale University Press, June 2016
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.

In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who worked with them. Drawing on ethnogr...

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Nature

Thoreau's Wildflowers

Thoreau Henry D., Wisner Geoff, Moser Barry

ISBN: HB: 9780300214772, Yale University Press, May 2016
344 pp., 23.5x15.2 cm, 217 black&white illus.

Some of Henry David Thoreau's most beautiful nature writing was inspired by the flowering trees and plants of Concord. An inveterate year-round rambler and journal keeper, he faithfully recorded, dated, and described his sightings of the floating wat...

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History

Entomology

Fine Lines Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Art

Blackwell Stephen H., Johnson Kurt

ISBN: HB: 9780300194555, Yale University Press, May 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 75 colour illus., 94 black&white illus.

This landmark book is the first full appraisal of Vladimir Nabokov's long-neglected contributions as a scientist. Although his literary achievements are renowned, until recently his scientific discoveries were ignored or dismissed by many. Nabokov cr...

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Evolution

Crop Genetic Diversity in the Field and on the Farm Principles and Applications in Research Practices

Jarvis Devra I., Hodgkin Toby, Brown Anthony H. D., Tuxill John, Noriega Isabel Lopez, Smale Melinda, Sthapit Bhuwon, Samper Cristian

ISBN: PB: 9780300161120, Yale University Press, May 2016
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 82 black&white illus.

Based on twenty years of global research, this is the first comprehensive reference on crop genetic diversity as it is maintained on farmland around the world. Showcasing the findings of seven experts representing the fields of ecology, crop breeding...

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Popular Science

Education

Science Blogging The Essential Guide

Wilcox Christie, Brookshire Bethany, Goldman Jason G.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197556, Yale University Press, May 2016
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Here is the essential how-to guide for communicating scientific research and discoveries online, ideal for journalists, researchers, and public information officers looking to reach a wide lay audience. Drawing on the cumulative experience of twenty-...

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Popular Science

Black Hole How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved

Bartusiak Marcia

ISBN: PB: 9780300219661, Yale University Press, May 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 27 black&white illus.

For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes-not even light-seemed to confound all lo...

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History

Exploration and Discovery Treasures of the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Skelly David K., Near Thomas J., Lorenz Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781933789057, Yale University Press, April 2016
128 pp., 25x15 cm, 150 colour illus.

Founded in 1866 with a generous gift from international financier George Peabody, the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University has for 150 years acquired, studied, protected, and displayed its ever-expanding collections. Among the museum'...

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