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Entomology

Spicer Rice Eleanor, Buddle Christopher M.,

ISBN: PB: 9780226332253, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
80 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 72 colour plates

Spiders have a problem, and it's us. Despite their magnificent talents for crafting webs, capturing mosquitoes, and camouflage, for millennia arachnophobia has hampered our ability to appreciate these eight-legged and -eyed marvels. No longer! In thi...

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Evolution

Darwin's Evolving Identity Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation

Sponsel Alistair

ISBN: HB: 9780226523118, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 27 halftones

Why – against his mentor's exhortations to publish – did Charles Darwin take twenty years to reveal his theory of evolution by natural selection? In "Darwin's Evolving Identity", Alistair Sponsel argues that Darwin adopted this cautious approach to a...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia Fifth Edition

Swan Gerry, Wilson Steve

ISBN: PB: 9781925546026, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, December 2017
560 pp., 21x15 cm

"A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia" has been the most comprehensive field guide available for Australian reptiles since the first edition was published in 2003. As new species are discovered, known ranges extended and higher quality images be...

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Entomology

Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants

Spicer Rice Eleanor, Wild Alex, Dunn Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226445816, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
96 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 96 colour plates

Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects – with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark – as well as some of the strongest. Fans of both the city and countryside alike...

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Entomology

Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants of California

Spicer Rice Eleanor, Wild Alex, Dunn Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226351537, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
80 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 78 colour plates

Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects – with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark – as well as some of the strongest. Fans of both the city and countryside alike...

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Entomology

Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants of Chicago

Spicer Rice Eleanor, Wild Alex, Dunn Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226266800, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
64 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 66 colour plates

Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects – with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark – as well as some of the strongest. Fans of both the city and countryside alike...

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Entomology

Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Ants of New York City

Spicer Rice Eleanor, Wild Alex, Dunn Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226351674, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
80 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 77 colour plates

Did you know that for every human on earth, there are about one million ants? They are among the longest-lived insects – with some ant queens passing the thirty-year mark – as well as some of the strongest. Fans of both the city and countryside alike...

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Nature

Long, Long Life of Trees

Stafford Fiona

ISBN: PB: 9780300228205, Yale University Press, March 2017
296 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 60 black&white illus.

A lyrical tribute to the diversity of trees, their physical beauty, their special characteristics and uses, and their ever-evolving meanings Since the beginnings of history trees have served humankind in countless useful ways, but our relationship wi...

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Evolution

Future Humans Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution

Solomon Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780300208719, Yale University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 21x14 cm

Are humans still subject to the forces of evolution? An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens In this intriguing book, evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon draws on the explosion of discoveries in recent...

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Birds

Ecology

Why Birds Matter Avian Ecological Function and Ecosystem Services

Sekercioglu Cagan H., Wenny Daniel G., Whelan Christopher J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226382630, ISBN: HB: 9780226382463, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 6 line drawings, 8 tables

For over one hundred years, ornithologists and amateur birders have jointly campaigned for the conservation of bird species, documenting not only birds' beauty and extraordinary diversity, but also their importance to ecosystems worldwide. But while...

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