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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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Ecology

Birds

Natural Encounters Biking, Hiking, and Birding Through the Seasons

Beehler Bruce M., Anderton John C.

ISBN: HB: 9780300243482, Yale University Press, July 2019
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 28 black&white illus.

In this "personal encyclopedia of nature's seasons", lifetime naturalist Bruce Beehler reflects on his three decades of encountering nature in Washington, D.C. The author takes the reader on a year?long journey through the seasons as he describes the...

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Birds

Thinking Like a Parrot Perspectives from the Wild

Bond Alan, Diamond Judy

ISBN: HB: 9780226248783, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 35 halftones, 6 line drawings

People form enduring emotional bonds with other animal species, such as dogs, cats, and horses. For the most part, these are domesticated animals, with one notable exception: Many people form close and supportive relationships with parrots, even thou...

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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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Evolution

Popular Science

Nature's Giants The Biology and Evolution of the World's Largest Lifeforms

Ruxton Graeme D., Owen-Smith Norman

ISBN: HB: 9780300239881, Yale University Press, April 2019
224 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 350 colour illus.

The colossal plants and animals of our world – dinosaurs, whales, and even trees – are a source of unending fascination, and their sheer scale can be truly impressive. Size is integral to the way that organisms experience the world: a puddle that a h...

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Dogs

How Dogs Work

Coppinger Raymond, Feinstein Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226637761, ISBN: HB: 9780226128139, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 41 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

How well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as "man's best friend", but what actually drives the things they do? What is going on in their fur-covered heads as they look at us with their big, expressive eyes? Raymond Copping...

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Photography

Mammals

Allowed to Grow Old Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries

Leshko Isa

ISBN: HB: 9780226391373, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 48 colour plates

There's nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet – a dog or cat who has been at our side for years, forming an ineffable bond. Pampered pets, however, are a rarity among animals who have been domesticated. Farm animals, for example, are usu...

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Nature

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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Evolution

History

Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose Natural History in Early America

Dugatkin Lee Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226639109, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledgling republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French Count and world-renowned naturalis...

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