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Nature

Nature Inside Plants and Flowers in the Modern Interior

Sparke Penny

ISBN: HB: 9780300244021, Yale University Press, February 2021
224 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 120 illus.

From ferns in 19th-century British parlors to contemporary "living walls" in commercial spaces, plants and flowers have long been incorporated into the design of public and private spaces. Spanning two centuries, "Nature Inside" explores the history...

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Evolution

Dinner with Darwin Food, Drink, and Evolution

Silvertown Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226760094, ISBN: HB: 9780226245393, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 6 line drawings

What do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of waffles, of course, but these staples of breakfast bounty also share an evolutionary function: eggs, seeds (from which we derive flour by grinding), and milk have each evolved to no...

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Mammals

Ecology

Yellowstone Wolves Science and Discovery in the World's First National Park

Smith Douglas W., Stahler Daniel R., MacNulty Daniel R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226728346, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 colour plates, 29 halftones, 24 line drawings

In 2020, it will have been twenty-five years since one of the greatest wildlife conservation and restoration achievements of the twentieth century took place: the reintroduction of wolves to the world's first national park, Yellowstone. Eradicated af...

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Nature

Ecology

Tongass Odyssey Seeing the Forest Ecosystem through the Politics of Trees

Schoen John

ISBN: PB: 9781602234260, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2020
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 82 colour plates, 3 graphs, 3 maps

Tongass Odyssey is a biologist's memoir of personal experiences over the past four decades studying brown bears, deer, and mountain goats and advocating for conservation of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The largest national forest in the nation,...

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Ecology

Evolution

Catastrophic Thinking Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene

Sepkoski David

ISBN: HB: 9780226348612, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

We live in an age in which we are repeatedly reminded – by scientists, by the media, by popular culture – of the looming threat of mass extinction. We're told that human activity is currently producing a sixth mass extinction, perhaps of even greater...

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Birds

How to See Birds An Enthusiast's Guide

Stadlen Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9781906506698, GMC Group, Papadakis, October 2019
192 pp., 24.7x19 cm, colour illus.

When we see a bird, do we actually notice it? Many of us don't. But in Britain, there are more than a million members of the RSPB and, thanks to social media, there is also a growing number of bird photographers. From the giant raptors of our skies t...

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Evolution

Alfred Russel Wallace Companion

Smith Charles H., Costa James, Collard David A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226622101, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Although Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) was one of the most famous scientists in the world at the time of his death at the age of ninety, today he is known to many as a kind of "almost-Darwin", a secondary figure relegated to the footnotes of Darw...

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Evolution

History

Collecting Experiments Making Big Data Biology

Strasser Bruno J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226635040, ISBN: HB: 9780226634999, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Databases have revolutionized nearly every aspect of our lives. Information of all sorts is being collected on a massive scale, from Google to Facebook and well beyond, to produce new knowledge. But as the amount of information in databases explodes,...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

Field Guide to Reptiles of New South Wales Third Edition

Swan Gerry, Shea Glenn, Sadlier Ross

ISBN: PB: 9781925546088, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, March 2018
256 pp., 21x14.8 cm

In "A Field Guide to Reptiles of New South Wales" you will find every gecko, flap-footed lizard, goanna, dragon, skink, snake and turtle known to live throughout the state's many habitats. The guide narrows down the field of species identification to...

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Nature

Phylogeny and Evolution of the Angiosperms Revised and Updated Edition

Soltis Douglas, Soltis Pamela, Endress Peter, Chase Mark, Manchester Steven, Judd Walter, Majure Lucas, Mavrodiev Evgeny

ISBN: HB: 9780226383613, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
560 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 60 colour plates, 36 halftones, 129 line drawings, 18 tables

Although they are relative latecomers on the evolutionary scene, having emerged only 135-170 million years ago, angiosperms – or flowering plants – are the most diverse and species-rich group of seed-producing land plants, comprising more than 13,000...

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