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Sea Life

Ahab's Rolling Sea A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"

King Richard J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226789873, ISBN: HB: 9780226514963, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 71 halftones

Although Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing – or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers "...

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Mammals

Animals' Best Friends Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild

King Barbara J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226601489, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

As people come to understand more about animals' inner lives – the intricacies of their thoughts and the emotions that are expressed every day by whales and cows, octopus and mice, even bees – we feel a growing compassion, a desire to better their li...

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Nature

Amber Waves The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop

Zabinski Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780226553719, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
216 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 11 halftones

On our breakfast tables and in our bakeries, we take for granted a grain that has made human civilization possible, a cereal whose humble origins belie its world-shaping power: wheat. "Amber Waves" is a biography of a group of species that grew in sc...

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Ecology

All the Fish in the Sea Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management

Finley Carmel

ISBN: PB: 9780226701622, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 3 line drawings

Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield (MSY). The concept is based on a confidence that scientists can predict, theoretically, the largest catch that can be taken...

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Ecology

Alaska Codfish Chronicle A History of the Pacific Cod Fishery in Alaska

Mackovjak James

ISBN: PB: 9781602233898, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
557 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 halftones

Cod is one of the most widely consumed fish in the world. For many years, the Atlantic cod industry took center stage, but partly thanks to climate change and overfishing, it is more and more likely that the cod on your kitchen table or in your fast...

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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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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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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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Ark and Beyond The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation

Minteer Ben A., Maienschein Jane, Collins James P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226538464, ISBN: HB: 9780226538327, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones, 2 line drawings, 6 tables

Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid climate change. But there is hope, and it, too, comes in a most human form: zoos and aquariums. Gatheri...

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Ecology

Sea Life

All the Boats on the Ocean How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing

Finley Carmel

ISBN: HB: 9780226443379, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Most current fishing practices are neither economically nor biologically sustainable. Every year, the world spends $80 billion buying fish that cost $105 billion to catch, even as heavy fishing places growing pressure on stocks that are already strug...

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