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Nature Underfoot Living with Beetles, Crabgrass, Fruit Flies, and Other Tiny Life Around Us
ISBN: HB: 9780300242782, Yale University Press, April 2020
272 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 9 black&white illus.
Fruit flies, silverfish, dandelions, and crabgrass are the bane of many people and the target of numerous chemical and physical eradication efforts. In this compelling reassessment of the relationship between humans and the natural world, John Hainze...
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£20,00
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Wings in the Light Wild Butterflies in North America
ISBN: HB: 9780300236132, Yale University Press, March 2019
288 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 430 colour illus.
See what it's like to stare a butterfly in the eyes. Lavishly illustrated and scientifically rigorous, this dazzling volume provides a comprehensive visual guide to the butterflies of North America. David Lee Myers's stunning photography captures the...
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£25,00
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Fine Lines Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Art
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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£40,00
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Dragonflies Magnificent Creatures of Water, Air, and Land
ISBN: HB: 9780300197082, Yale University Press, May 2015
176 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 172 colour illus.
Almost without our noticing, dragonflies dart through our world, flying, seeing, hunting, mating. Their lives are as mysterious as their gossamer wings are beautiful. In this book Pieter van Dokkum reveals many of the dragonfly's secrets, capturing t...
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£30,00
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Chasing Monarchs Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage
ISBN: PB: 9780300203875, Yale University Press, May 2014
352 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Although no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there were well-accepted assumptions about the nature and form of the migration. But to Robert Michael Pyle,...
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£14,99
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Mariposa Road The First Butterfly Big Year
ISBN: PB: 9780300190977, Yale University Press, April 2013
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 maps
With a love for adventure as great as his lifelong fascination with butterflies, America's best-known lepidopterist set himself an irresistible challenge: how many of the 800 species of butterflies known in the U.S. could he track down in a single ye...
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£19,00
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Field Guide to the Ants of New England
ISBN: PB: 9780300169300, Yale University Press, September 2012
352 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 310 colour images, 350 black&white illus.
This book is the first user-friendly regional guide devoted to ants – the "little things that run the world". Lavishly illustrated with over 500 line illustrations, 300 photographs, and regional distribution maps for every species, this guide will in...
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£30,00
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Spider Silk Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating
ISBN: PB: 9780300181463, Yale University Press, February 2012
248 pp., 22.7x14.8 cm, 12 colour illus.
Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wonder...
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£19,00
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