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Weeds of North America

Dickinson Richard, Royer France

ISBN: PB: 9780226076447, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
656 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1254 colour plates, 26 halftones, 125 line drawings

"What is a weed", opined Emerson, "but a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered?" While that may be a worthy notion in theory, these plants of undiscovered virtue cause endless hours of toil for backyard gardeners. Wherever they take root,...

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Catching Nature in the Act Reaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century

Terrall Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226088600, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones

Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people – diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God's providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because...

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Wildflowers of Unalaska Island A Guide to the Flowering Plants of an Aleutian Island (Second Edition)

Golodoff Suzi

ISBN: PB: 9781602232204, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2014
218 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 215 colour plates, 167 halftones, 1 map

In the Aleutian Islands, wildflowers are king. Persistent low temperatures mean trees are unable to thrive, and so swaths of open tundra serve as the dramatic stage for a stunning variety of flowers".Wildflowers of Unalaska Island" is the only guide...

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Nature

Bitter Roots The Search for Healing Plants in Africa

Osseo-Asare Abena Dove

ISBN: PB: 9780226086026, ISBN: HB: 9780226085524, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

For over a century, plant specialists worldwide have sought to transform healing plants in African countries into pharmaceuticals. And for equally as long, conflicts over these medicinal plants have endured, from stolen recipes and toxic tonics to un...

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Ecology

Nature

All the Trees of the Forest Israel's Woodlands from the Bible to the Present

Tal Alon

ISBN: HB: 9780300189506, Yale University Press, November 2013
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

In this insightful and provocative book Alon Tal provides a detailed account of Israeli forests, tracing their history from the Bible to the present, and outlines the effort to transform drylands and degraded soils into prosperous parks, rangelands a...

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Evolution

Nature

In Search of Mechanisms Discoveries across the Life Sciences

Craver Carl F., Darden Lindley

ISBN: PB: 9780226039794, ISBN: HB: 9780226039657, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 8 line drawings, 4 tables

Neuroscientists investigate the mechanisms of spatial memory. Molecular biologists study the mechanisms of protein synthesis and the myriad mechanisms of gene regulation. Ecologists study nutrient cycling mechanisms and their devastating imbalances i...

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Nature

Life of a Leaf

Vogel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226104775, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 47 colour plates, 18 halftones, 10 line illus.

In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In "The Life of a Leaf", Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate ph...

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Ecology

Nature

Ornaments of Life Coevolution and Conservation in the Tropics

Fleming Theodore H., Kress W. John

ISBN: PB: 9780226253411, ISBN: HB: 9780226253404, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 98 colour plates, 2 halftones, 15 line drawings, 53 tables

The average kilometer of tropical rainforest is teeming with life; it contains thousands of species of plants and animals. As "The Ornaments of Life" reveals, many of the most colorful and eye-catching rainforest inhabitants – toucans, monkeys, leaf-...

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Photography

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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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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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