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Nature

Hawthorn The Tree That Has Nourished, Healed, and Inspired Through the Ages

Vaughn Bill

ISBN: PB: 9780300219876, Yale University Press, June 2016
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

One of humankind's oldest companions, the hawthorn tree, is bound up in the memories of every recorded age and the plot lines of cultures all across the Northern Hemisphere. Hawthorn examines the little-recognized political, cultural, and natural his...

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Birds

Birders of Africa History of a Network

Jacobs Nancy J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300209617, Yale University Press, June 2016
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.

In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who worked with them. Drawing on ethnogr...

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Birds

Sport

Pigeon Racing My Personal Insights

Emerton Jim

ISBN: PB: 9781861516794, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, May 2016
332 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Jim Emerton is one of the most respected figures in pigeon racing, having bred and raced birds for 40 years and had birds return to the loft from as far as 879 miles away. Now he writes on the subject for magazines and websites, sharing his expertise...

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Nature

Thoreau's Wildflowers

Thoreau Henry D., Wisner Geoff, Moser Barry

ISBN: HB: 9780300214772, Yale University Press, May 2016
344 pp., 23.5x15.2 cm, 217 black&white illus.

Some of Henry David Thoreau's most beautiful nature writing was inspired by the flowering trees and plants of Concord. An inveterate year-round rambler and journal keeper, he faithfully recorded, dated, and described his sightings of the floating wat...

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History

Entomology

Fine Lines Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Art

Blackwell Stephen H., Johnson Kurt

ISBN: HB: 9780300194555, Yale University Press, May 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 75 colour illus., 94 black&white illus.

This landmark book is the first full appraisal of Vladimir Nabokov's long-neglected contributions as a scientist. Although his literary achievements are renowned, until recently his scientific discoveries were ignored or dismissed by many. Nabokov cr...

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Evolution

Crop Genetic Diversity in the Field and on the Farm Principles and Applications in Research Practices

Jarvis Devra I., Hodgkin Toby, Brown Anthony H. D., Tuxill John, Noriega Isabel Lopez, Smale Melinda, Sthapit Bhuwon, Samper Cristian

ISBN: PB: 9780300161120, Yale University Press, May 2016
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 82 black&white illus.

Based on twenty years of global research, this is the first comprehensive reference on crop genetic diversity as it is maintained on farmland around the world. Showcasing the findings of seven experts representing the fields of ecology, crop breeding...

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Anthropology

Sea Life

Made of Salmon Alaska Stories from the Salmon Project

Lord Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9781602232839, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates

All over the world, salmon populations are in trouble, as overfishing and habitat loss have combined to put the once-great Atlantic and Pacific Northwest runs at serious risk. Alaska, however, stands out as a rare success story: its salmon population...

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Philosophy

Dogs

Run, Spot, Run The Ethics of Keeping Pets

Pierce Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780226209890, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we're providing them with a safe, healthy life. But there's another emotion, less often acknowledged, that can be nearly as po...

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Evolution

Adaptation in Metapopulations How Interaction Changes Evolution

Wade Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226129730, ISBN: HB: 9780226129563, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones, 27 line drawings, 11 tables

All organisms live in clusters, but such fractured local populations, or demes, nonetheless maintain connectivity with one another by some amount of gene flow between them. Most such metapopulations occur naturally, like clusters of amphibians in ver...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

America's Snake The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake

Levin Ted

ISBN: HB: 9780226040646, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

There's no sound quite like it, or as viscerally terrifying: the ominous rattle of the timber rattlesnake. It's a chilling shorthand for imminent danger, and a reminder of the countless ways that nature can suddenly snuff us out. Yet most of us have...

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