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Nuvuk, the Northernmost Altered Land, Altered Lives in Barrow, Alaska

Inulak Lum Daniel James

ISBN: HB: 9781602231955, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2013
80 pp., 20.3x25.4 cm, 76 colour illus.

For years, tour guide Daniel Lum has brought visitors as well as his children out to the remote corners of Barrow, Alaska, one of the northernmost cities in the world, to witness polar bears and walrus on the dark, sandy beaches. Over time, snapping...

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New England Wildflower Society's Flora Novae Angliae A Manual for the Identification of Native and Naturalized Vascular Plants of New England

Haines Arthur, Farnsworth Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300171549, Yale University Press, January 2012
992 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1000 black&white illus.

This comprehensive manual offers accurate, up-to-date, and clear information for identifying New England's remarkable array of tracheophytes (vascular plants, excluding mosses). With fully researched entries on some 3,500 native and non-native specie...

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Amazing Nature

Nature's Palette The Science of Plant Color

Lee David

ISBN: PB: 9780226470535, ISBN: HB: 9780226470528, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
426 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones, 83 line drawings, 438 colour illus.

Though he didn't realize it at the time, David Lee began this book twenty-five years ago as he was hiking in the mountains outside Kuala Lumpur. Surrounded by the wonders of the jungle, Lee found his attention drawn to one plant in particular, a spec...

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Ecology

Natural History of the New World The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas

Graham Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226306803, ISBN: HB: 9780226306797, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 line drawings, 5 tables, 69 halftones

The paleoecological history of the Americas is as complex as the region is broad: stretching from the Arctic Circle to Tierra del Fuego, the New World features some of the most extraordinary vegetation on the planet. But until now it has lacked a com...

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Evolution

Natural History of Time

Richet Pascal

ISBN: PB: 9780226712888, ISBN: HB: 9780226712871, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
481 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 line drawings, 3 tables, 12 halftones

For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide an answer to the pressing question of the earth's age, even though nature abounds with clues. In "A Natural History of Time", geophysicist Pascal Richet tells the fascinating story...

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Mammals

Neotropical Rainforest Mammals A Field Guide

Emmons Louise H., Feer François

ISBN: PB: 9780226207216, University of Chicago Press, September 1997
396 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 colour plates, 9 halftones, 195 maps, 14 line drawings

"Neotropical Rainforest Mammals", the first color-illustrated field guide to these marvelously diverse and elusive creatures, has enjoyed tremendous success since its initial publication in 1990. Ecotourists and field researchers alike have applauded...

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Birds

Ecology

Neotropical Birds Ecology and Conservation

Stotz Douglas F., Fitzpatrick John W., Parker III Theodore A., Moskovits Debra K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226776309, ISBN: HB: 9780226776293, University of Chicago Press, June 1996
502 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 16 colour plates, 46 halftones, 51 line drawings, 64 tables

Four of the world's leading ornithologists and ardent conservationists have produced this unique synthesis of the ecological information on all 4,037 species of birds found from Mexico south to Tierra del Fuego. In tables that cover more than 300 pag...

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