Born of Ice and Fire
How Glaciers and Volcanoes (with a Pinch of Salt) Drove Animal Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300242591,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 27 black&white illus.
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 27 black&white illus.
An exploration of how the Cryogenian Period, when our planet was covered in ice for millions of years, created today's remarkable biodiversity.
More than half a billion years ago, our world was completely covered by glaciers, a "Snowball Earth" tha...
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20.00 GBP
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Curious Species
How Animals Made Natural History
ISBN: HB: 9780300266184,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 14 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 14 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
A compelling and innovative exploration of how animals shaped the field of natural history and its ecological afterlives.
Can corals build worlds? Do rattlesnakes enchant? What is a raccoon, and what might it know? Animals and the questions they ra...
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30.00 GBP
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Unity of Science
Exploring Our Universe, from the Big Bang to the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300253610,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 74 black&white illus.
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 74 black&white illus.
A journey guided by science that explores the universe, the earth, and the story of life.
For Irwin Shapiro, science starts with questions. This book provides a broad and entertaining survey of major scientific discoveries that have changed our vie...
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20.00 GBP
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Hooghly
The Global History of a River
ISBN: PB: 9781911723349,
ISBN: HB: 9781787383258,
Hurst Publishers,
January 2024
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
280 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
A lyrical history of one of India's great rivers – the entry-point of maritime commercial colonialism, and the life-sustaining waterway of Bengal and its former capital, Calcutta.
The Hooghly, a distributary of the Ganges flow...
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16.99 GBP
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25.00 GBP
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Bosniaks
Nationhood After Genocide
ISBN: PB: 9781805260462,
Hurst Publishers,
December 2023
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
240 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm
For sale in CIS only!
A compelling exploration of Bosniak political identity, chronicling the development of a nation and its people in the wake of catastrophe.
For the first time in nearly two centuries, one ethnic group now constitutes an absolut...
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27.50 GBP
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Wingsnappers
Lessons from an Exuberant Tropical Bird
ISBN: HB: 9780300269413,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.
Birds, hormones, and extraordinary behavior: The story of the tiny but mighty golden-collared manakin of Panama.
This book is the story of a remarkable bird, the golden-collared manakin (Manacus vitellinus) of Panama. Males of this species perform...
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30.00 GBP
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Plastics: Just a Load of Rubbish?
Uncovering the Secrets of Seaweed and How It Can Help Save the Planet
A decade to save the planet.
That's the current call to arms. Targets are set, governments vow to do their bit and on a societal level we are encouraged to do ours by choosing to forego all things plastic. The question is whether this is the right de...
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14.99 GBP
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Lab for All Seasons
The Laboratory Revolution in Modern Botany and the Rise of Physiological Plant Ecology
ISBN: PB: 9780300267211,
ISBN: HB: 9780300267228,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
The first book to chronicle how innovation in laboratory designs for botanical research energized the emergence of physiological plant ecology as a vibrant subdiscipline.
Laboratory innovation since the mid-twentieth century has powered advances in...
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30.00 GBP
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65.00 GBP
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Seven Measures of the World
ISBN: HB: 9780300266276,
Yale University Press,
August 2023
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 65 black&white illus.
224 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 65 black&white illus.
The fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world.
From the beginning of history, measurement has been interwoven into the human experience, shaping our understanding of nature, p...
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18.99 GBP
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In the Herbarium
The Hidden World of Collecting and Preserving Plants
ISBN: HB: 9780300247916,
Yale University Press,
July 2023
336 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 42 black&white illus.
336 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 42 black&white illus.
How herbaria illuminate the past and future of plant science.
Collections of preserved plant specimens, known as herbaria, have existed for nearly five centuries. These pressed and labeled plants have been essential resources for scientists, allowi...
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