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Sea Life

Underwater Eden Saving the Last Coral Wilderness on Earth

Stone Gregory S., Obura David

ISBN: HB: 9780226775609, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
184 pp., 25x20 cm, 2 tables, 91 colour illus.

"It was the first time I'd seen what the ocean may have looked like thousands of years ago". That's conservation scientist Gregory S. Stone talking about his initial dive among the corals and sea life surrounding the Phoenix Islands in the South Paci...

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Ecology

World in One Cubic Foot Portraits of Biodiversity

Liittschwager David

ISBN: HB: 9780226481234, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
224 pp., 30x30 cm, 985 colour illus.

Twelve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches, the cubic foot is a relatively tiny unit of measure compared to the whole world. With every step, we disturb and move through cubic foot after cubic foot. But behold the cubic foot in nature – from cor...

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Ecology

Rapid Biological Assessment of the Kwamalasamutu Region, Southwestern Suriname

O'Shea Brian J., Alonso Leeanne E., Larsen Trond H.

ISBN: PB: 9781934151501, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, October 2012
156 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 3 maps, 44 colour illus.

This report contains the findings from a Rapid Biological Assessment of the Kwamalasamutu region of southwestern Suriname. Focusing particularly on the plant and animal species important to the indigenous Trio people, this survey establishes baseline...

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Land of Extremes A Natural History of the Arctic North Slope of Alaska

Huryn Alexander, Hobbie John

ISBN: PB: 9781602231818, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2012
311 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 620 colour illus.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of the North Slope, the only arctic tundra in the United States. The first section provides detailed information on climate, geology, landforms, and ecology. The second provides a guide to the...

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Floating Gold A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris

Kemp Christopher

ISBN: HB: 9780226430362, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
232 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm, 21 halftones, 12 colour illus.

"Preternaturally hardened whale dung" is not the first image that comes to mind when we think of perfume, otherwise a symbol of glamour and allure. But the key ingredient that makes the sophisticated scent linger on the skin is precisely this bizarre...

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Peru: Yaguas-Cotuhe

Pitman Nigel, Vriesendorp Corine, Moskovits Debra K., May von Rudolf, Alvira Diana, Wachter Tatzyana, Stotz Douglas F., Campo del Alvaro

ISBN: PB: 9780982841914, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, April 2012
378 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour illus.

In October 2010, a team of experts from Peru, Colombia, and the United States conducted a rapid social and biological inventory of the Yaguas, Cotuhe, and the lower Putumayo watersheds of northeastern Peru. The social team assessed the strengths and...

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History of Art

Visible Empire Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment

Bleichmar Daniela

ISBN: HB: 9780226058535, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
288 pp., 24.1x22 cm, 1 table, 2 halftones, 99 colour illus.

Between 1777 and 1816, botanical expeditions crisscrossed the vast Spanish empire in an ambitious project to survey the flora of much of the Americas, the Caribbean, and the Philippines. While these voyages produced written texts and compiled collect...

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Photography

Science on Ice Four Polar Expeditions

Linder Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780226482477, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
288 pp., 28x20 cm, 157 colour illus.

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised", wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar exp...

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Amazing Nature

Relics Travels in Nature's Time Machine

Naskrecki Piotr

ISBN: HB: 9780226568706, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
384 pp., 23x23 cm, 414 colour illus.

On any night in early June, if you stand on the right beaches of America's East Coast, you can travel back in time all the way to the Jurassic. For as you watch, thousands of horseshoe crabs will emerge from the foam and scuttle up the beach to their...

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Amazing Nature

Deceptive Beauties The World of Wild Orchids

Ziegler Christian

ISBN: HB: 9780226982977, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
184 pp., 28x28 cm, 165 colour illus.

Confucius called them the "king of fragrant plants", and John Ruskin condemned them as "prurient apparitions". Across the centuries, orchids have captivated us with their elaborate exoticism, their powerful perfumes, and their sublime seductiveness....

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