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Sea Life

Chasing Science at Sea Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts

Prager Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226678740, ISBN: HB: 9780226678702, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
178 pp., 23x15 cm, 28 halftones, 4 colour illus.

To the average office-dweller, marine scientists seem to have the good life: cruising at sea for weeks at a time, swimming in warm coastal waters, living in tropical paradises. But ocean scientists who go to sea will tell you that it is no vacation....

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Mammals

Wild Justice The Moral Lives of Animals

Bekoff Marc, Pierce Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780226041636, ISBN: HB: 9780226041612, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones

Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. Yet what are we to make of a female gorilla in a German...

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Amazing Nature

Fishes of the Open Ocean A Natural History and Illustrated Guide

Pepperell Julian

ISBN: HB: 9780226655390, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
272 pp., 28x23 cm, 370 colour illus.

Between the surface of the sea and depths of two hundred meters lies a remarkable range of fish, generally known as pelagics, or open-ocean dwellers. These creatures are among the largest, fastest, highest-leaping, and most migratory fish on the enti...

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Mammals

Recent Mammals of Alaska

Cook Joseph A., MacDonald Stephen O.

ISBN: PB: 9781602230729, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
399 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 110 maps, 50 line illus.

From the polar bear and the gray wolf to the walrus and river otter, there are 115 species of mammals in Alaska that have never been fully catalogued until now. Biologists Joseph A. Cook and Stephen O. MacDonald have compiled here the first comprehen...

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Biography & Memoires

Mammals

Bear Wrangler Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist

Troyer Will

ISBN: PB: 9781602230446, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones

Beginning in 1951, Will Troyer embarked on a thirty-year career with the U. S. Department of the Interior that included positions such as fish and game warden and manager of the Kodiak Island brown bear preserve. Troyer's engaging prose affirms his p...

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Amazing Nature

Deep The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss

Nouvian Claire

ISBN: HB: 9780226595665, University of Chicago Press, March 2007
256 pp., 30.7x26.1 cm, 220 colour illus.

On dry land, most organisms are confined to the surface, or at most to altitudes of a hundred meters – the height of the tallest trees. In the oceans, though, living space has both vertical and horizontal dimensions: with an average depth of 3800 met...

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Amazing Nature

Sperm Whales Social Evolution in the Ocean

Whitehead Hal

ISBN: PB: 9780226895185, ISBN: HB: 9780226895178, University of Chicago Press, August 2003
456 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 41 tables, 60 halftones, 84 line illus.

Famed in story as "the great leviathans", sperm whales are truly creatures of extremes. Giants among all whales, they also have the largest brains of any creature on Earth. Males can reach a length of sixty-two feet and can weigh upwards of fifty ton...

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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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