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Grasses, Sedges, Rushes An Identification Guide

Brown Lauren, Elliman Ted

ISBN: PB: 9780300236774, Yale University Press, October 2020
256 pp., 20.3x14.6 cm, 147 colour illus., 416 black&white illus.

This elegant and easy-to-use guide is an updated and amended revision of Lauren Brown's seminal "Grasses: An Identification Guide", which was first published in 1979. While maintaining the spirit and goals of the original edition – a portable, straig...

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Cultural Studies

Botany of Gin

Thorogood Chris, Hiscock Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781851245536, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2020
112 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 35 colour illus.

From its roots in ancient Greek herbal medicine, the popular spirit we now know as gin was established by the Dutch in the sixteenth century as a juniper-infused tincture to cure fevers. It gained notoriety during the London 'gin craze' in the eighte...

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Ecology

Tongass Odyssey Seeing the Forest Ecosystem through the Politics of Trees

Schoen John

ISBN: PB: 9781602234260, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2020
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 82 colour plates, 3 graphs, 3 maps

Tongass Odyssey is a biologist's memoir of personal experiences over the past four decades studying brown bears, deer, and mountain goats and advocating for conservation of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The largest national forest in the nation,...

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Amazing Nature

Bark A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast

Wojtech Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781684580316, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 283 colour plates, 151 halftones, 65 maps

What kind of tree is that? Whether you're hiking in the woods or simply sitting in your backyard, from Maine to New York you'll never be without an answer to that question, thanks to this handy companion to the trees of the Northeast. Featuring detai...

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Culture Studies

Blooming Flowers A Seasonal History of Plants and People

Boddy Kasia

ISBN: HB: 9780300243338, Yale University Press, April 2020
256 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 64 colour illus.

The bright yellow of a marigold and the cheerful red of a geranium, the evocative fragrance of a lotus or a saffron-infused paella – there is no end of reasons to love flowers. Ranging through the centuries and across the globe, Kasia Boddy looks at...

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Forests Adrift Currents Shaping the Future of Northeastern Trees

Canham Charles D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300238297, Yale University Press, April 2020
240 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 23 black&white illus.

The northeastern United States is one of the most densely forested regions in the country, yet its history of growth, destruction, and renewal are for the most part poorly understood – even by specialists. In this engaging look at both the impermanen...

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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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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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