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Birds

Project Puffin The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock

Kress Stephen W., Jackson Derrick Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219791, ISBN: HB: 9780300204810, Yale University Press, July 2016
376 pp., 21x14 cm, 8-page colour illus., 30 black&white images

"Project Puffin" is the inspiringstory of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned that puffins had neste...

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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Dolphin Confidential Confessions of a Field Biologist

Bearzi Maddalena

ISBN: PB: 9780226418605, ISBN: HB: 9780226040158, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 71 line illus.

Who hasn't fantasized about the unique thrill of working among charismatic and clever dolphins in the wild? We need not live this solely in our imaginations anymore. With "Dolphin Confidential" Maddalena Bearzi invites all of us shore-bound dreamers...

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Birds

Narrow Edge A Tiny Bird, an Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey

Cramer Deborah

ISBN: PB: 9780300219692, ISBN: HB: 9780300185195, Yale University Press, June 2016
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 10 black&white illus.

Thousands of ravenous tiny shorebirds race along the water's edge of Delaware Bay, feasting on pin-sized horseshoe-crab eggs. Fueled by millions of eggs, the migrating red knots fly on. When they arrive at last in their arctic breeding grounds, they...

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Mathematics

Fractal Worlds Grown, Built, and Imagined

Frame Michael, Urry Amelia

ISBN: PB: 9780300197877, Yale University Press, June 2016
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 328 black&white illus.

Fractal geometry is a uniquely fascinating area of mathematics, exhibited in a range of shapes that exist in the natural world, from a simple broccoli floret to a majestic mountain range. In this essential primer, mathematician Michael Frame – a clos...

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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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