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Astronomy

Aliens Among Us How Invasive Species are Transforming the Planet and Ourselves

Leslie Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300208900, Yale University Press, February 2018
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 black&white illus.

From an award-winning adventure and science journalist comes an eye-opening exploration of a burgeoning environmental phenomenon and the science coalescing around it. Leslie Anthony leads readers on adventures physical and philosophical as he explore...

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Sea Life

Ark and Beyond The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation

Minteer Ben A., Maienschein Jane, Collins James P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226538464, ISBN: HB: 9780226538327, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones, 2 line drawings, 6 tables

Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid climate change. But there is hope, and it, too, comes in a most human form: zoos and aquariums. Gatheri...

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Ecology

Sea Life

All the Boats on the Ocean How Government Subsidies Led to Global Overfishing

Finley Carmel

ISBN: HB: 9780226443379, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Most current fishing practices are neither economically nor biologically sustainable. Every year, the world spends $80 billion buying fish that cost $105 billion to catch, even as heavy fishing places growing pressure on stocks that are already strug...

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Astronomy

All These Worlds are Yours The Scientific Search for Alien Life

Willis Jon

ISBN: HB: 9780300208696, Yale University Press, November 2016
232 pp., 21x14 cm

Where would you look for alien life? An astronomer and science popularizer explains the basics of astrobiology to outline five plausible scenarios for finding extraterrestrials Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth tran...

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Cartography

Art and Optics in the Hereford Map An English Mappa Mundi, c. 1300

Kupfer Marcia

ISBN: HB: 9780300220339, Yale University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

A single, monumental mappa mundi (world map), made around 1300 for Hereford Cathedral, survives intact from the Middle Ages. As Marcia Kupfer reveals in her arresting new study, this celebrated testament to medieval learning has long been profoundly...

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Anthropology

History

Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange A Financial History of Victorian Science

Flandreau Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780226360447, ISBN: HB: 9780226360300, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, "Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange" tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of gl...

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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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Nature

Amazing Rare Things The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery

Attenborough Sir David, Owens Susan, Clayton Martin, Alexandratos Rea

ISBN: PB: 9780300215724, Yale University Press, September 2015
224 pp., 25.1x19.4 cm, 160 colour illus.

The Royal Collection, held at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, and Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, has been shaped by the personal tastes of kings and queens for more than five hundred years. The Collection s exquisite natural history artworks in "Amazin...

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Entomology

All about Butterflies of Australia

Sankowsky Garry

ISBN: PB: 9781921517433, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, August 2015
176 pp., 21x15 cm, 300 colour illus.

This new title investigates the always-popular subject of Australian butterflies.Early chapters explore the lifecycle of these magestic insects, with stunning images showing the progression from egg through caterpillar and chrysalis stages to adult b...

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