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Ecology

Terrestrial Protected Areas of Madagascar Their History, Description, and Biota

Goodman Steven M., Raherilalao Marie Jeanne, Wohlhauser Sebastien

ISBN: HB: 9782953892390, University of Chicago Press, Association Vahatra in Antananarivo, April 2019
1716 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, Set of 3 volumes, 804 figures, 392 tables

In 1989, a book written by Martin E. Nicoll and Olivier Langrand was published on the protected areas of Madagascar, which heralded in a new era of conservation for this island nation. In the subsequent three decades, there was an important increase...

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Mammals

Cow with Ear Tag #1389

Gillespie Kathryn

ISBN: PB: 9780226582856, ISBN: HB: 9780226582719, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 5 line drawings

To translate the journey from a living cow to a glass of milk into tangible terms, Kathryn Gillespie set out to follow the moments in the life cycles of individual animals – animals like the cow with ear tag #1389. She explores how the seemingly beni...

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Mammals

Evolution

Critical Terms for Animal Studies

Gruen Lori

ISBN: PB: 9780226355429, ISBN: HB: 9780226355399, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 1 table

Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex relationships between humans and other animals. Scholarship in Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies t...

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Evolution

Archaeology & Paleontology

Across the Bridge Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates

Gee Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780226403052, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 12 line drawings

Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques allow genetic inspection of even non-model organisms....

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Ecology

Nature

Land Bridges Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections

Graham Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226544298, ISBN: HB: 9780226544151, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 88 halftones

Land bridges are the causeways of biodiversity. When they form, organisms are introduced into a new patchwork of species and habitats, forever altering the ecosystems into which they flow; and when land bridges disappear or fracture, organisms are se...

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Mammals

Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey

Gluck John P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226375656, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place them in sanctuaries. This significant decision comes after a lengthy process of examination and deba...

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Evolution

Shaping Humanity How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins

Gurche John

ISBN: PB: 9780300216844, ISBN: HB: 9780300182026, Yale University Press, December 2015
368 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 163 colour illus.

What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally-renowned paleo-artist John Gurche describes the extraordinary process by which he creates forensically accurat...

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Evolution

Accidental Species Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

Gee Henry

ISBN: PB: 9780226271200, ISBN: HB: 9780226284880, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings

The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary ima...

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Sea Life

Nature

Stung! On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean

Gershwin Lisa-ann

ISBN: PB: 9780226213033, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
456 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 16 colour illus.

Our oceans are becoming increasingly inhospitable to life – growing toxicity and rising temperatures coupled with overfishing have led many marine species to the brink of collapse. And yet there is one creature that is thriving in this seasick enviro...

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Nature

Ecology

Extinct Madagascar Picturing the Island's Past

Goodman Steven M., Jungers William L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226143972, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
296 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 21 colour plates, 87 halftones, 12 tables

The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island's baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including something approaching one hundred species of lemur. Madagascar's mammal faun...

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