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Biography & Memoires

Multifarious Mr. Banks From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World

Musgrave Toby

ISBN: HB: 9780300223835, Yale University Press, April 2020
496 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 48 colour illus.

As official botanist on James Cook's first circumnavigation, the longest-serving president of the Royal Society, advisor to King George III, the "father of Australia", and the man who established Kew as the world's leading botanical garden, Sir Josep...

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Mammals

Reference

Manual of the Mammalia An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals"

Kelt Douglas A., Patton James L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226533001, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
544 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 513 halftones, 33 line drawings

The taxonomy of recent mammals has lately undergone tremendous revision, but it has been almost four decades since the last update to Timothy E. Lawlor's acclaimed identification guide the "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals". Inte...

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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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Evolution

Man the Footballer - Homo Passiens The Missing Link in Human Evolution

McInnes Mike

ISBN: PB: 9781782551560, Bookport, Meyer & Meyer Sport, September 2018
352 pp., 21x14.7 cm, 35 colour and black&white illus.

In this book you will discover the truth – that Homo passiens is the missing link in human evolution. That Homo sapiens is a recently arrived imposter in the evolution of the genus Homo – a charlatan, a fraud, a villain, a quack! That all the academi...

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Nature

Ecology

Managing the Wild Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests

Peters Charles M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300229332, Yale University Press, April 2018
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peters's thirty-five years of fieldwork around the globe, these absorbing stories argue that the best solutions for sustainably managing tropical forests come from the people who live in them. As Peters says, "Local pe...

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Birds

Ecology

Moral Entanglements Conserving Birds in Britain and Germany

Bargheer Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9780226543826, ISBN: HB: 9780226376639, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 1 line drawing

At the center of Stefan Bargheer's account of bird watching, field ornithology, and nature conservation in Britain and Germany stands the question of how values change over time and how individuals develop moral commitments. Using life history data d...

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Ecology

Evolution

Messages from Islands A Global Biodiversity Tour

Hanski Ilkka

ISBN: PB: 9780226406442, ISBN: HB: 9780226406305, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones, 2 tables

From a small island in the Baltic Sea to the large tropical islands of Borneo and Madagascar, "Messages from Islands" is a global tour of these natural, water-bound laboratories. In this career-spanning work, Ilkka Hanski draws upon the many islands...

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Mammals

Evolution

Monkeytalk Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates

Fischer Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780226124247, University of Chicago Press, December 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 2 line drawings

Monkey see, monkey do – or does she? Can the behavior of non-human primates – their sociality, their intelligence, their communication – really be chalked up to simple mimicry? Emphatically, absolutely: no. And as famed primatologist Julia Fischer re...

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Nature

Microbes from Hell

Forterre Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780226265827, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones

At the close of the 1970s, the two-domain classification scheme long used by most biologists – prokaryotes versus eukaryotes – was upended by the discovery of an entirely new group of organisms: archaea. Initially thought to be bacteria, these single...

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Anthropology

Sea Life

Made of Salmon Alaska Stories from the Salmon Project

Lord Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781602232839, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates

All over the world, salmon populations are in trouble, as overfishing and habitat loss have combined to put the once-great Atlantic and Pacific Northwest runs at serious risk. Alaska, however, stands out as a rare success story: its salmon population...

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