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Birds

Art of Migration Birds, Insects, and the Changing Seasons in Chicagoland

Macnamara Peggy

ISBN: HB: 9780226046297, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
128 pp., 15.2x20.3 cm, 54 colour illus.

Tiny ruby-throated hummingbirds weighing less than a nickel fly from the upper Midwest to Costa Rica every fall, crossing the six-hundred-mile Gulf of Mexico without a single stop. One of the many creatures that commute on the Mississippi Flyway as p...

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Sea Life

Billion-Dollar Fish The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock

Bailey Kevin M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226022345, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones, 7 line illus.

Alaska pollock is everywhere. If you're eating fish but you don't know what kind it is, it's almost certainly pollock. Prized for its generic fish taste, pollock masquerades as crab meat in california rolls and seafood salads, and it feeds millions a...

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Mammals

Ecology

Population Fluctuations in Rodents

Krebs Charles J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226010359, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 tables, 77 halftones, 62 line illus.

How did rodent outbreaks in Germany help to end World War I? What caused the destructive outbreak of rodents in Oregon and California in the late 1950s, the large population outbreak of lemmings in Scandinavia in 2010, and the great abundance of fiel...

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Swordfish A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator

Ellis Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226922904, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 51 halftones, 3 line illus.

A perfect fish in the evolutionary sense, the broadbill swordfish derives its name from its distinctive bill – much longer and wider than the bill of any other billfish – which is flattened into the sword we all recognize. And though the majesty and...

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Mammals

Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska Fourth Edition

Wynne Kate

ISBN: PB: 9781566121675, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
80 pp., 21.6x15 cm

The authoritative book on Alaska marine life",Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska" is a clear and concise look at all twenty-nine of Alaska's mammal species, including whales, dolphins, seals, walrus, and polar bears. Now in its fourth edition, this aw...

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Common Edible Seaweeds in the Gulf of Alaska Second Edition

Garza Dolly

ISBN: PB: 9781566121682, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
61 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 44 halftones

Seaweed is fast becoming a new favorite snack, as eaters everywhere are realizing what Alaska Natives have known for millennia: seaweed can be a healthy and tasty treat. Found in abundance along Alaska's shores, it has been believed to do everything...

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Anthropology

Birds

Global Pigeon

Jerolmack Colin

ISBN: PB: 9780226002088, ISBN: HB: 9780226001890, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 halftones, 10 colour illus.

The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisance – if they notice it at all. Yet pigeons are also...

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Ecology

Bali Marine Rapid Assessment Program 2011

Kusuma Mustika Putu Liza, Ratha I Made Jaya, Purwanto Saleh

ISBN: PB: 9781934151518, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, March 2013
135 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 72 colour illus.

This report contains the findings from marine biological assessments of fifty-two sites around the coast of Bali. The purpose of the survey was to collect data on biodiversity and coral reef health in order to provide recommendations for the governme...

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Evolution

Animal Personalities Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution

Carere Claudio, Maestripieri Dario

ISBN: PB: 9780226921976, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
520 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 tables, 12 halftones, 11 line illus.

Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they'll assure you that, yes, animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and nondomesticated animals – from invertebrates to monkeys and apes...

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Mammals

Wild Mammals in Captivity Principles and Techniques for Zoo Management, Second Edition

Kleiman Devra G., Thompson Katerina V., Kirk Baer Charlotte

ISBN: PB: 9780226440101, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
592 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 67 tables, 100 halftones, 39 line illus.

Zoos, aquaria, and wildlife parks are vital centers of animal conservation and management. For nearly fifteen years, these institutions have relied on "Wild Mammals in Captivity" as the essential reference for their work. Now the book reemerges in a...

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