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Nature

Amazing Nature

Relics Travels in Nature's Time Machine

Naskrecki Piotr

ISBN: HB: 9780226568706, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
384 pp., 23x23 cm, 414 colour illus.

On any night in early June, if you stand on the right beaches of America's East Coast, you can travel back in time all the way to the Jurassic. For as you watch, thousands of horseshoe crabs will emerge from the foam and scuttle up the beach to their...

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Astronomy

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Moon A Brief History

Brunner Bernd

ISBN: PB: 9780300177695, Yale University Press, October 2011
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 93 black&white illus.

Werewolves and Wernher von Braun, Stonehenge and the sex lives of sea corals, aboriginal myths, and an Anglican bishop: in his new book, "Moon", Bernd Brunner weaves variegated information into an enchanting glimpse of Earth's closest celestial neigh...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Deceptive Beauties The World of Wild Orchids

Ziegler Christian

ISBN: HB: 9780226982977, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
184 pp., 28x28 cm, 165 colour illus.

Confucius called them the "king of fragrant plants", and John Ruskin condemned them as "prurient apparitions". Across the centuries, orchids have captivated us with their elaborate exoticism, their powerful perfumes, and their sublime seductiveness....

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Nature

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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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Fishes of the Open Ocean A Natural History and Illustrated Guide

Pepperell Julian

ISBN: HB: 9780226655390, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
272 pp., 28x23 cm, 370 colour illus.

Between the surface of the sea and depths of two hundred meters lies a remarkable range of fish, generally known as pelagics, or open-ocean dwellers. These creatures are among the largest, fastest, highest-leaping, and most migratory fish on the enti...

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Nature

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Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers & Other Unusual Relationships

Crump Marty

ISBN: HB: 9780226121857, University of Chicago Press, November 2009
232 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 120 line illus.

Vampire bats that regurgitate blood for roosting buddies. Mosquitoes that filch honeydew droplets from ants. Reptiles that enforce chastity on their lovers with copulatory plugs. Capuchin monkeys that use millipede secretions as mosquito repellent. T...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Great Plains America's Lingering Wild

Forsberg Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226257259, University of Chicago Press, October 2009
256 pp., 27.9x31 cm, 150 colour illus.

The Great Plains were once among the greatest grasslands on the planet. But as the United States and Canada grew westward, the Plains were plowed up, fenced in, overgrazed, and otherwise degraded. Today, this fragmented landscape is the most endanger...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Headless Males Make Great Lovers And Other Unusual Natural Histories

Crump Marty

ISBN: PB: 9780226122021, ISBN: HB: 9780226121994, University of Chicago Press, May 2007
212 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 108 line illus.

The natural world is filled with diverse – not to mention quirky and odd – animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return for sex; the...

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Sea Life

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Deep The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss

Nouvian Claire

ISBN: HB: 9780226595665, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
256 pp., 30.7x26.1 cm, 220 colour illus.

On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters – the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 met...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Tropical Forest Diversity and Dynamism Findings from a Large-Scale Plot Network

Elizabeth Losos, Egbert Giles Leigh Jr.

ISBN: PB: 9780226493466, ISBN: HB: 9780226493459, University of Chicago Press, October 2004
688 pp., 23x15 cm, 170 tables, 4 halftones, 130 line illus.

Long-term Forest Dynamics Plots (FDPs) allow ecologists to explain patterns in diversity and dynamics in tropical forests around the world. In this collection, Elizabeth Losos and Egbert Giles Leigh Jr. assemble extensive standardized data – collecte...

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