Beastly Britain An Animal History
ISBN: HB: 9780300264470, Yale University Press, May 2025
320 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm, 32 colour illus., 10 figures
The remarkable history of Britain and its animals, told through ten iconic species. Have you ever wondered why we count sheep to get to sleep? Or where the phrase "red herring" comes from? Across British history, animals have been written about in...
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In Praise of Floods The Untamed River and the Life It Brings
ISBN: HB: 9780300278491, Yale University Press, February 2025
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 48 black&white illus.
James C. Scott reframes rivers as alive and dynamic, revealing the consequences of treating them as resources for our profit. Rivers, on a long view, are alive. They are born; they change; they shift their channels; they forge new routes to the sea...
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Walking Europe's Last Wilderness A Journey through the Carpathian Mountains
ISBN: HB: 9780300253542, Yale University Press, February 2025
400 pp., 23,4x15,3 cm, 15 colour illus., 5 maps
An evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range and its threatened landscape, peoples, and history. The Carpathian Mountains of Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine are Europe's last true wilderness. A landscape of great spruce and beec...
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Born of Fire and Rain Journey into a Pacific Coastal Forest
ISBN: HB: 9780300275421, Yale University Press, January 2025
280 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 79 black&white illus.
Go beyond the scenery of the Pacific temperate rainforest to witness how complex ecosystems survive in a world of upheavals. If you live on a rapidly changing planet, you'd be wise to learn how it works. The giant old forests on a skinny stretch of...
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Smithsonian Trees of North America
ISBN: HB: 9780300185218, Yale University Press, August 2024
800 pp., 26,7x19,1 cm, 3626 colour illus.
An indispensable illustrated source of information for hundreds of species of North American trees. This authoritative reference on native and non-native trees of North America, by Smithsonian veteran W. John Kress, provides an unprecedented apprai...
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Field Guide to the Connecticut River From New Hampshire to Long Island Sound
ISBN: FLEXI: 9780300264203, Yale University Press, April 2024
448 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 752 colour illus.
The first comprehensive natural history guide to the Connecticut River and its environs, with more than 750 illustrations. The Connecticut River, New England's longest and most historic river, originates in northern New Hampshire and wends more tha...
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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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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.
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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