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Entomology

Dancing Bees Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language

Munz Tania

ISBN: PB: 9780226526508, ISBN: HB: 9780226020860, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 7 line drawings

We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators – and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886-1982) discovered during World War II, b...

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Birds

Spare the Birds! George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society

Merchant Carolyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300215458, Yale University Press, August 2016
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.

An engaging history of the founding of one of the world's most popular environmental organizations, the Audubon Society In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. T...

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Birds

Welcome to Subirdia Sharing Our Neighborhoods With Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife

Marzluff John M., DeLap Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780300216875, ISBN: HB: 9780300197075, Yale University Press, December 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.

"Welcome to Subirdia" presents a surprising discovery: the suburbs of many large cities support incredible biological diversity. Populations and communities of a great variety of birds, as well as other creatures, are adapting to the conditions of ou...

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Mammals

Wolves on the Hunt The Behavior of Wolves Hunting Wild Prey

Mech L. David, Smith Douglas W., MacNulty Daniel R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226255149, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
208 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 28 colour plates, 44 halftones, 3 line drawings, 6 tables

The interactions between apex predators and their prey are some of the most awesome and meaningful in nature – displays of strength, endurance, and a deep coevolutionary history. And there is perhaps no apex predator more impressive and important in...

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Nature

Life and Times of a Big River An Uncommon Natural History of Alaska's Upper Yukon

Marchand Peter J.

ISBN: PB: 9781602232471, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

When Richard Nixon signed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971, eighty million acres were flagged as possible national park land. Field expeditions were tasked with recording what was contained in these vast acres. Under this decree, five...

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Evolution

Evolution Myth or, The Genes Cry Out Their Urgent Song, Mister Darwin Got It Wrong

Mejsnar Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024625201, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
150 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 20 halftones, 8 charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The origins of life, species, and man continue to interest scientists and stir debate among the general public more than one hundred and fifty years after Charles Darwin published "On the...

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Evolution

History

Cultural History of Heredity

Muller-Wille Staffan, Rheinberger Hans-Jorg

ISBN: PB: 9780226213484, ISBN: HB: 9780226545707, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones, 9 line illus.

It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger offer a suc...

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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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Evolution

Evolution of Primate Societies

Mitani John C., Call Josep, Kappeler Peter M., Palombit Ryne A., Silk Joan B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226531724, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
744 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 44 tables, 157 halftones, 34 line illus.

In 1987, the University of Chicago Press published "Primate Societies", the standard reference in the field of primate behavior for an entire generation of students and scientists. But in the twenty-five years since its publication, new theories and...

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Ecology

Mammals

Extreme Measures The Ecological Energetics of Birds and Mammals

McNab Brian K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226561233, ISBN: HB: 9780226561226, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 7 halftones, 97 line illus.

Along with reproduction, balancing energy expenditure with the limits of resource acquisition is essential for both a species and a population to survive. But energy is a limited resource, as we know well, so birds and mammals – the most energy-inten...

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