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Ecology

Beasts at Bedtime Revealing the Environmental Wisdom in Children's Literature

Heneghan Liam

ISBN: HB: 9780226431383, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
256 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

Talking lions, philosophical bears, very hungry caterpillars, wise spiders, altruistic trees, companionable moles, urbane elephants: this is the magnificent menagerie that delights our children at bedtime. Within the entertaining pages of many childr...

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Earth Sciences

Ice Formation and Evolution in Clouds and Precipitation Measurement and Modeling Challenges

Baumgardner Darrel, McFarquhar Greg M., Heymsfield Andrew J.

ISBN: HB: 9781944970260, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
320 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

Background and Overview Chapter 1. Overview of Ice Nucleating Particles – Zamin A. Kanji, Luis A. Ladino, Heike Wex, Yvonne Boose, Monika Burkert-Kohn, Daniel J. Cziczo, and Martina Krنmer Chapter 2. Cirrus Clouds – Andrew J. Heymsfield, Martina Krنm...

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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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Bombs Away Militarization, Conservation, and Ecological Restoration

Havlick David G.

ISBN: HB: 9780226547541, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones

When viewed from space, the Korean Peninsula is crossed by a thin green ribbon. On the ground, its mix of dense vegetation and cleared borderlands serves as home to dozens of species that are extinct or endangered elsewhere on the peninsula. This is...

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Earth Sciences

Climate in the Age of Empire Weather Observers in Colonial Canada

Slonosky Victoria C.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970208, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 16 halftones

Though efforts to understand human-caused climate change have intensified in recent decades, weather observers have been paying close attention to changes in climate for centuries. This book offers a close look at that work as it was practiced in Can...

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Entangled People and Ecological Change in Alaska's Kachemak Bay

Sigman Marilyn

ISBN: PB: 9781602233485, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2018
250 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 colour plate, 4 halftones

Chronicling her quest for wildness and home in Alaska, naturalist Marilyn Sigman writes lyrically about the history of natural abundance and human notions of wealth – from seals to shellfish to sea otters to herring, halibut, and salmon – in Alaska'...

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Ecology

Nature

Land Bridges Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections

Graham Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226544298, ISBN: HB: 9780226544151, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 88 halftones

Land bridges are the causeways of biodiversity. When they form, organisms are introduced into a new patchwork of species and habitats, forever altering the ecosystems into which they flow; and when land bridges disappear or fracture, organisms are se...

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Ecology

Future of Conservation in America A Chart for Rough Water

Machlis Gary E., Jarvis Jonathan B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226542058, ISBN: HB: 9780226541860, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
112 pp., 17.8x12.7 cm, 7 halftones

This is a turbulent time for the conservation of America's natural and cultural heritage. From the current assaults on environmental protection to the threats of climate change, biodiversity loss, and disparity of environmental justice, the challenge...

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Evolution

Hierarchy Perspectives for Ecological Complexity

Allen T. F. H., Starr Thomas B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226489681, ISBN: HB: 9780226489544, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones, 28 line drawings, 2 tables

Although complexity surrounds us, its inherent uncertainty, ambiguity, and contradiction can at first make complex systems appear inscrutable. Ecosystems, for instance, are nonlinear, self-organizing, seemingly chaotic structures in which individuals...

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Great Derangement Climate Change and the Unthinkable

Ghosh Amitav

ISBN: PB: 9780226526812, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
176 pp., 21.6x14 cm

Are we deranged? The acclaimed Indian novelist Amitav Ghosh argues that future generations may well think so. How else to explain our imaginative failure in the face of global warming? In his first major book of nonfiction since "In an Antique Land",...

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