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Nature

Northern Garden Symphony Combining Hardy Perennials for Blooms All Season

Warbelow Cyndie

ISBN: PB: 9781602234413, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Put the power of a garden planning pro to work for you! Northern Garden Symphony offers explanations and illustrations of the sequential blooms of ornamental perennials as a tool for garden design. The idea of sequential blooming, Fairbanks-famous au...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Bark A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast

Wojtech Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781684580316, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 283 colour plates, 151 halftones, 65 maps

What kind of tree is that? Whether you're hiking in the woods or simply sitting in your backyard, from Maine to New York you'll never be without an answer to that question, thanks to this handy companion to the trees of the Northeast. Featuring detai...

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Dogs

Canine Communciation How to Read Your Dog

Wimpole Justin, Patterson Kate

ISBN: PB: 9781760790806, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, July 2019
186 pp., 23.5x18.2 cm

Includes canine behaviour and body language, illness,aggression and anxiety,barking and socialising and toilet training. "Canine Communication" will improve your relationship with your dog.

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Evolution

Adaptation in Metapopulations How Interaction Changes Evolution

Wade Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226129730, ISBN: HB: 9780226129563, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 27 line drawings, 11 tables

All organisms live in clusters, but such fractured local populations, or demes, nonetheless maintain connectivity with one another by some amount of gene flow between them. Most such metapopulations occur naturally, like clusters of amphibians in ver...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

Field Guide to Reptiles of Queensland Second Edition

Wilson Steve

ISBN: PB: 9781921517488, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, August 2015
256 pp., 21x14.8 cm

"A Field Guide to Reptiles of Queensland" covers all of Queensland's 440 named species, including 135 that occur nowhere else. Colour photographs make for quick identification, aided by line drawings, keys, distribution maps and descriptions. Queens...

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Nature

Ecology

Our Once and Future Planet Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century

Woodworth Paddy

ISBN: PB: 9780226333403, ISBN: HB: 9780226907390, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
536 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

The environmental movement is plagued by pessimism. And that's not unreasonable: with so many complicated, seemingly intractable problems facing the planet, coupled with a need to convince people of the dangers we face, it's hard not to focus on the...

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Birds

Double-Crested Cormorant Plight of a Feathered Pariah

Wires Linda R., Mackay Barry Kent

ISBN: HB: 9780300187113, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

The double-crested cormorant, found only in North America, is an iridescent black waterbird superbly adapted to catch fish. It belongs to a family of birds vilified since biblical times and persecuted around the world. Thus it was perhaps to be expec...

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Nature

Ecology

Island Life Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates

Wallace Alfred Russel

ISBN: PB: 9780226045030, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 halftones

Alfred Russel Wallace is best known as the codiscoverer, with Charles Darwin, of natural selection, but he was also history's foremost tropical naturalist and the father of biogeography, the modern study of the geographical basis of biological divers...

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Mammals

Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska Fourth Edition

Wynne Kate

ISBN: PB: 9781566121675, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
80 pp., 21.6x15 cm

The authoritative book on Alaska marine life",Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska" is a clear and concise look at all twenty-nine of Alaska's mammal species, including whales, dolphins, seals, walrus, and polar bears. Now in its fourth edition, this aw...

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Ecology

Nature

Disconnected Rivers Linking Rivers to Landscapes

Wohl Ellen E.

ISBN: PB: 9780300194708, Yale University Press, January 2013
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

This important and accessible book surveys the history and present condition of river systems across the United States, showing how human activities have impoverished our rivers and impaired the connections between river worlds and other ecosystems....

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