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Wildflowers of Unalaska Island A Guide to the Flowering Plants of an Aleutian Island (Second Edition)

Golodoff Suzi

ISBN: PB: 9781602232204, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2014
218 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 215 colour plates, 167 halftones, 1 map

In the Aleutian Islands, wildflowers are king. Persistent low temperatures mean trees are unable to thrive, and so swaths of open tundra serve as the dramatic stage for a stunning variety of flowers".Wildflowers of Unalaska Island" is the only guide...

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Mammals

Atlas of Selected Land Vertebrates of Madagascar

Goodman Steven M., Raherilalao Marie Jeanne

ISBN: HB: 9782953892352, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
308 pp., 40x29 cm, 446 colour plates and maps

One of the largest islands in the world, Madagascar is home to an astonishing array of endemic vertebrate biodiversity. While recent decades have seen numerous publications on the subject – ranging from technical papers to species descriptions and fi...

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Sea Life

Biology of Reefs and Reef Organisms

Goldberg Walter M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226301686, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
424 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 328 colour plates, 36 halftones, 14 line illus.

Reefs provide a wealth of opportunity for learning about biological and ecosystem processes, and reef biology courses are among the most popular in marine biology and zoology departments the world over. Walter M. Goldberg has taught one such course f...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Evolution

Lost World of Fossil Lake Snapshots from Deep Time

Grande Lance

ISBN: HB: 9780226922966, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
432 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 3 tables, 243 colour plates, 3 line illus.

The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert community. But during the early Eocene, more than...

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Sea Life

Common Edible Seaweeds in the Gulf of Alaska Second Edition

Garza Dolly

ISBN: PB: 9781566121682, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
61 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 44 halftones

Seaweed is fast becoming a new favorite snack, as eaters everywhere are realizing what Alaska Natives have known for millennia: seaweed can be a healthy and tasty treat. Found in abundance along Alaska's shores, it has been believed to do everything...

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Nature

Peru: Maijuna

Gilmore Michael P., Vriesendorp Corine, Alverson William S., Campo del Alvaro, May von Rudolf, Lopez Wong Cristina, Rios Ochoa Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9780982841907, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, August 2011
328 pp., 27.3x21 cm

In July of 2009 a team of socio-economic experts from the United States and Peru conducted a social asset inventory of the ancestral territory of the Maijuna indigenous people in northeastern Peru in order to identify patterns of social organization...

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Evolution

First in Line Tracing Our Ape Ancestry

Gundling Tom

ISBN: PB: 9780300180176, Yale University Press, July 2011
220 pp., 21x14.8 cm, black&white illus.

Despite Darwin's bold contention in 1871 that the likely ancestor for Homo sapiens was an African ape, the scientific community hesitated for decades before accepting small-brained but bipedal walking "apes" from southern Africa as direct human ances...

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Evolution

History

Essential Naturalist Timeless Readings in Natural History

Graham Michael H., Parker Joan, Dayton Paul K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226305707, ISBN: HB: 9780226305691, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
552 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 39 tables, 4 halftones, 18 line illus.

Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, its practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But...

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Ecology

Natural History of the New World The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas

Graham Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226306803, ISBN: HB: 9780226306797, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 line drawings, 5 tables, 69 halftones

The paleoecological history of the Americas is as complex as the region is broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, the New World features some of the most extraordinary vegetation on the planet. But until now it has lacked a com...

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Ecology

Field Guide to the Families and Genera of Woody Plants of Northwest South America With Supplementary Notes on Herbaceous Taxa

Gentry Alwyn H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226289441, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
920 pp., 25.4x16.5 cm, 291 line drawings

To understand almost any part of the tropical rain forest's fabulously complex web of life, one must first learn to identify a bewildering array of plants. Alwyn Gentry's landmark book, completed just before his tragic death in 1993, is the only fiel...

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