University of Chicago Press 2022 Life Sciences Subject Catalog

LIFE SCIENCES

from CHICAGO

Power in the Wild

The Subtle and Not-So-Subtle Ways Animals Strive for Control over Others

Lee Alan Dugatkin

“A scrupulously scientific but highly accessible tour of power’s manifestations among caribou, bonobos, deer, dolphins, hyenas, meerkats, mice, mongooses (mongeese?). . . .

True to its title, Power in the Wild doesn’t address Homo sapiens. But the anthropocentrically inclined will find that the power dynamics of nonhuman animals offer plenty of insight into our own, distorted a bit as in a funhouse mirror. . . . A stunningly provocative reflection.”—Wall Street Journal

2022 208 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 1 halftones, 1 tables

1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81594-7 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Platypus Matters

The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals

Jack Ashby

“Keen to overturn the warped, colonial perception that monotremes (e.g. platypuses and echidnas) and marsupials are more primitive than other mammal species, the zoologist author who runs Cambridgeʼs Natural History Museum takes us on a tour of the fauna of Australia in all their glory. In an engaging and entertaining narrative reminiscent of Gerald Durrell, we learn that wombats produce cubic poo, that the platypus played a disruptive role in the narrative of evolution, and much more besides.”—Bookseller

2022 400 p. 6 x 9 23 color plates, 14 halftones

2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-78925-5 $29.00 Your Price: $20.30

Principles of Animal Behavior

Fourth Edition

Lee Alan Dugatkin

2020 576 p. 81/2 x 11 529 color plates, 31 halftones, 3 line drawings

3 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-44838-1 $95.00 Your Price: $66.50

The Sloth Lemurʼs Song

Madagascar from the Deep Past to the Uncertain Present

Alison Richard

“[Richard] looks at the long history of the island and takes on the persistent myth of it as a timeless, forested paradise destroyed by human settlers.”— Guardian

“Richard's book can best be summarized as a love story; an ode to Madagascar. Throughout, the author interweaves first-person accounts of her extensive experience as a field biologist, detailed and accurate accounts of the natural history of the island, up-to-theminute summaries of the latest scientific studies spanning everything from botany to geology to climatology, with the binding ‘through line’ of the Malagasy people and their relationship to the landscape.”—Anne Yoder, Duke University 2022 304 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 50 halftones 4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81756-9 $27.00 Your Price: $18.90

Audubon at Sea

The

Coastal and

Transatlantic

Adventures of John James Audubon Edited by Christoph Irmscher and Richard J. King

“These excellent selections are a wonderful reminder of why Audubon’s writing deserves to be more widely read. Audubon at Sea is a delightful, captivating book, one that ranges to different regions and seasons, and features not only birds but fish, marine mammals, and many passages of interest concerning fishing, hunting, and collecting practices. Irmscher and King’s expertise is impressive, and their introductions are helpful, informative, and beautifully written. . . . This is a superb read.”—Michael P. Branch, author of On the Trail of the Jackalope 2022 352 p. 6 x 9 20 color plates, 38 halftones 5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75667-7 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

From the Seashore to the Seafloor

An Illustrated Tour of Sandy Beaches, Kelp Forests, Coral Reefs, and Life in the Ocean's Depths

Janet Voight and Peggy Macnamara

“Look upon these majesties of marine life, read about them, learn something about them—and be grateful you were born on the blue planet. . . . The minds and the eyes of these two journeying women will take you places you haven’t been.”—David Quammen

In this book, octopus expert Janet Voight and celebrated artist Peggy Macnamara offer a deep dive to meet the enchanting inhabitants of the world’s marine ecosystems, complete with stunning watercolor illustrations of these amazing creatures.

2022 144 p. 8 x 6 76 color plates

6 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81766-8 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Fascinating Shells

An Introduction to 121 of the World’s Most Wonderful Mollusks

Andreia Salvador

“Beautifully illustrated with photographs of mollusk shells held by the Natural History Museum in London, this appealing book educates and inspires simply by showing and telling us about the animals that created these stunning works of art. Who ever thought that a person could learn so much about natural history and evolution, about human culture and human nature by learning about mollusk shells?”—Forbes

2022 256 p. 6 x 7 123 color plates

7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81913-6 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

Red Leviathan

The Secret History of Soviet Whaling

Ryan Tucker Jones

“American environmentalists are inclined to see the United States’ Cold War opponent as a villain. Telling the story of the Soviet role in modern whaling, Jones complicates this perspective by acknowledging the Soviets’ disproportionate impact while also looking beyond it. . . . From the first attempts at whaling in Peter’s Russia to the protest era and pushback against whaling by Greenpeace and the Sea Shepherds, Red Leviathan combines thorough research and great storytelling to fill a necessary gap in the history of global whaling.”—Jakobina K. Arch, Whitman College, author of Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment of Early Modern Japan

2022 304 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones

8 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-62885-1 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

We Are All Whalers

The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility

Michael J. Moore

“Moore, a marine scientist and veterinarian, makes a compelling argument that whales’ survival depends on each of us—not just on those who venture out on ships, hunting whales for meat and blubber. It’s sobering to grapple with the ways we might unwittingly contribute to the mammals’ demise, like by eating commercially caught seafood. But Moore also offers reason to be hopeful, including new technologies for ropeless fishing.”

Washington Post

2022 224 p. 5 x 8 33 halftones

9 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82399-7 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Chasing Plants

Journeys with a Botanist through Rainforests, Swamps, and Mountains

Chris Thorogood

“Botanist Thorogood combines his two lifelong passions, painting and plants, in this marvelous account of his travels around the globe. . . . The realistic oil paintings that appear throughout are a testament to Thorogood’s careful attention to the flora, and the vivid descriptions will make readers feel like they’re on the hunt with him. This will be catnip for plant lovers.”—Publishers Weekly

2022 224 p. 6 x 9 40 color plates, 76 halftones

10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82353-9 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Trees

From Root to Leaf

Paul Smith

“Smithʼs stunning prose and fabulous illustrations make his book, Trees, an essential volume for both tree lovers and tree professionals. He not only celebrates trees, but also interweaves amazing facts and essential biology about these essential woody denizens of our planet. From seeds to leaves and form, bark, wood, flowers, and fruits, the book is an inspirational journey through the stories of diverse trees, and their impact on humankind. I loved it!”—Margaret Lowman, Executive Director, TREE Foundation

2022 320 p. 91/8 x 111/8 500 color plates

11 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82417-8 $49.95 Your Price: $34.96

The Hidden Universe

Adventures in Biodiversity

Alexandre

“

Antonelli

The Hidden Universe is a sweeping road map to biodiversity science and conservation, from Linnaeus and the dodo to the Convention on Biological Diversity and pet hamsters. Updated and opinionated, part primer and part autobiographical account, it provides an engaging introduction for those who want to start exploring the main scientific and policy issues around biodiversity.”—Sandra Diaz, National University of Córdoba

2022 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 26 halftones

13 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82187-0 $22.00 Your Price: $15.40

Extraordinary Orchids

Sandra Knapp

“Meticulously researched—as one would expect from Knapp, a senior research botanist at the Natural History Museum—this book is also lavishly brought to life with an abundance of artwork by a roll call of great botanical illustrators. . . . Full of captivating surprises and interesting information about this immense, diverse family of flowering plants.”—BBC Wildlife

“Stories behind Dracula orchids, rattlesnake plantains, fairy orchids, and other fantastical forms come together in this beautiful tome. . . . A visual treat.”— Country Life

2021 160 p. 10 x 13 140 color plates, 7 halftones

14 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77967-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Tropical

Arctic Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland

Jennifer McElwain, Marlene Hill Donnelly, and Ian Glasspool

2021 152 p. 81/2 x 11 91 color plates, 15 halftones

12 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53443-5 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

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Dawn at Mineral King Valley

The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the

Rise of Environmental Law

Daniel P. Selmi

“Selmi tells the remarkable story of how, against all odds, one of America’s iconic natural resources was saved from destruction just as the modern-day environmental movement was emerging and entering our legal framework. Focusing on an extraordinary array of characters, he conveys the human drama behind this epic environmental struggle. Lawyers and nonlawyers alike will thoroughly enjoy every twist and turn of this fascinating story.”—former US Senator Tom Udall

2022 344 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones

15 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81619-7 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Yellowstone Wolves Science and Discovery in the World’s First National Park

Edited by Douglas W. Smith, Daniel R. Stahler, and Daniel R. MacNulty

“How did wolves go from feared, hunted and decimated to a protected part of Yellowstone National Park’s ecosystem? Yellowstone Wolves tells the fascinating story. . . . It’s a comprehensive look at what happened when wolves were driven out of Yellowstone, and how nature is recovering now that they’re back. . . . Part scientific tome, part rallying cry against humans’ impulse to interfere with the natural world, Yellowstone Wolves is a powerful testament to what happens when ‘people unite to give Mother Nature a chance,’ as Jane Goodall puts it in her foreword to the book.”

Washington Post

2020 344 p. 81/2 x 11 62 color plates, 29 halftones, 24 line drawings

16 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72834-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

National Parks Forever

Fifty Years of Fighting and a Case for Independence

Jonathan Jarvis and T. Destry Jarvis

“An earnest plea to move the National Park Service out of the highly politicized Department of the Interior and make it an independent agency.”—Kirkus

“In careers spanning half a century, both Jon and Destry Jarvis personally witnessed how the National Park Service became a partisan battleground for competing political ideologies, with policies ricocheting back and forth every time a new administration came to power. Filled with detailed firsthand accounts and insightful analysis, National Parks Forever not only chronicles the sorrowful result, but also points to a way to rescue ‘America’s best idea’—and make it even better.”—Dayton Duncan, writer/producer, The National Parks: America’s Best Idea

2022 240 p. 6 x 9 20 halftones

17 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81908-2 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Wildlife as Property Owners A New Conception of Animal Rights

Karen Bradshaw

“With so many legal, political, and constitutional avenues closed, the most promising strategy, influenced by Indigenous law, has been to establish the ‘rights of nature.’ One such approach relies on property law. Bradshaw, a law professor at Arizona State University, argues that wildlife such as bison and elephants have ancestral lands, and that they use, mark, and protect their territory. ‘Deer do not hire lawyers,’ she writes in a new book, Wildlife as Property Owners, but if deer did hire lawyers, they’d be able to claim that, under the logic of the law of property, they should own their habitats.”—Jill Lepore, Atlantic

2020 152 p. 51/4 x 81/4

18 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-57136-2 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Waters of the World

The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet Whole Sarah Dry

“In the eight detailed, immensely readable essays of Waters of the World , Dry shows how over the past 150 years scientists have slowly come to see climate as a global system, and to recognize how human activity contributes to changes in the complex interactions of ice, oceans, and the atmosphere.”—New York Review of Books

“Waters of the World takes readers from the lab to the study to the field and back again.

. . . An accessible work of science history that draws on some of the best recent scholarship in the field.”—Science

2021 368 p. 6 x 9 50 halftones

19 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81684-5 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

Water Always Wins Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge

Erica Gies

“A fascinating look at the consequences of our attempts to control water in an age of climate instability. Whether we dam, divert or concrete it over, from the California’s Central Valley to Iraq’s Mesopotamian Marshes, the results are the same: too much water where we don’t want it, not nearly enough where it is needed. Gies makes a persuasive case that to preserve ourselves, we need to consider what water wants.”— Chicago Tribune

2022 344 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones

20 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71960-3 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20

Downriver

Into the Future of Water in the West

Heather Hansman

2022 248 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone

23 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81997-6 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Oil Beach

How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond

Christina Dunbar-Hester

In this compelling interdisciplinary investigation, award-winning author Christina DunbarHester explores the complex relationships among commerce, empire, environment, and the nonhuman life forms of San Pedro Bay over the last fifty years—a period coinciding with the era of modern environmental regulation in the United States. Focusing specifically on cetaceans, bananas, sea birds, and otters whose lives are intertwined with the vitality of the port complex itself, Oil Beach reveals how logistics infrastructure threatens ecologies as it circulates goods and capital—and helps us to consider a future where the accumulation of life and the accumulation of capital are not in violent tension.

2023 272 p. 6 x 9 48 halftones

21 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81971-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Future Sea How to Rescue and Protect the World's Oceans

Deborah Rowan Wright

“

Future Sea sets out marine policy researcher Rowan Wright’s ideas about how to end destructive industrial activities at sea and enable ocean wildlife to return and thrive. Luckily, she includes steps that anyone, from children to political leaders, can take.”—New Scientist

“A profound plan to save the seas. . . . Our ocean life-support system continues to buckle under human pressures. We have been approaching marine conservation backward, Wright argues. . . . Instead of regulating individual fisheries or putting boundaries around select areas of the ocean, we need to protect the whole thing.”—Science

2022 200 p. 51/4 x 81/4 22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82408-6 $15.00 Your Price: $10.50

In the Name of Plants

From Attenborough to Washington, the People behind Plant Names

Sandra Knapp

In this lush and lively book, celebrated botanist Sandra Knapp explores the people whose names have been immortalized in plant genera, presenting little-known stories about both the featured plants and their eponyms alongside photographs and botanical drawings from the collections of London’s Natural History Museum. Including granular details on the taxonomy and habitats for 30 plants alongside its vibrant illustrations, this book is sure to entertain and enlighten any plant fan.

2022 192 p. 6.7 x 9 100 color plates

24 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82430-7 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Growing Orchids at Home

The Beginner’s Guide to Orchid Care

Manos Kanellos and Peter White Orchids are one of the most diverse groups of the plant kingdom, prized for the staggering variety of their appearance and fragrance. Growing Orchids at Home provides an authoritative but approachable guide to caring for these beguiling plants in your own personal abode, accompanied by 200 color illustrations and practical tips for solving common issues. Blending biological expertise with accessible advice, this book is the only guide the aspiring orchid-head will need on their shelves.

Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

2021 74 p. 71/2 x 93/4 200 color plates

25 Paper ISBN: 978-1-84246-718-3 $13.00 Your Price: $9.10

Driven by Nature

A Personal Journey from Shanghai to Botany and Global Sustainability

Peter H. Raven

Distributed for Missouri Botanical Garden Press

2021 408 p. 6 x 9 50 color plates, 70 halftones

26 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-935641-19-3 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Amber Waves

The Extraordinary Biography of Wheat, from Wild Grass to World Megacrop

Catherine Zabinski

“Relationships can be notoriously complicated, and our ancient bond with wheat is no exception. As Zabinski recounts in Amber Waves, it’s been a rocky path over the millennia, replete with heartbreak, endless drama, and even an unlikely love affair. . . . Amber Waves nimbly segues into a socio-agro primer, providing a crash course in genetics, plant breeding, and agronomy. . . . Zabinksi is a reliably optimistic guide, pointing us toward a hopeful food future.”—Wall Street Journal

2022 216 p. 5 x 8 11 halftones

27 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82005-7 $17.00 Your Price: $11.90

Mushrooms

A Natural and Cultural History

Nicholas P. Money

“Addressed to nature enthusiasts, Mushrooms is a perfect introduction to the kingdom of fungi. Each of the sixteen chapters is dedicated to a theme, ranging from Mushroom Science to Mushroom Superstition. Did you know that there is an Einstein of mycology? . . . Or that the largest organism in the world is a tangled web of hyphae that radiates for over 10 square km through a conifer forest in Oregon?

Mushrooms addresses these questions and many more.”—Economic Botany

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2022 224 p. 51/2 x 91/4 10 color plates, 90 halftones

28 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-616-5 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia Exploring Tapovan

Peter Ashton and David Lee

2022 448 p. 6 x 9 145 color plates, 15 halftones, 19 tables

29 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53569-2 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50

Kew Pocketbooks

distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens,

Kew

These beautiful pocketbooks present an array of botanical art, reproduced in full color from the archives of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Festive Flora

2022 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates

30 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-725-1 $12.95 Your Price: $9.06

Fruit

2022 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates

31 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-752-7 $12.95 Your Price: $9.06

Herbs and Spices

2022 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates

32 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-753-4 $12.95 Your Price: $9.06

Carnivorous Plants

2021 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates

33 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-736-7 $12.95 Your Price: $9.06

Fungi

2022 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates

34 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-726-8 $12.95 Your Price: $9.06

Wildflowers

2021 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates

35 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-735-0 $12.95 Your Price: $9.06

Japanese Plants

2021 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates

36 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-720-6 $12.95 Your Price: $9.06

Roots to Seeds

400 Years of Oxford Botany

Stephen A. Harris

Since 1621 and the foundation of the Oxford Botanic Garden, Oxford has been home to an outstanding collection of plant specimens, botanical illustrations, and rare books on plant classification, collecting, and plant biology. Featuring archival material such as seventeenth-century herbals, elegant garden plans, plant models, and fossil slides, this book tells the story of botanical science at Oxford and the intrepid botanists who devoted themselves to the essential study of plants over the past four centuries.

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing

2021 224 p. 91/2 x 101/4 80 color plates

37 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-561-1 $60.00 Your Price: $42.00

The Botanical Series from Reaktion Books

House Plants

Mike Maunder

2022 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 94 color plates, 17 halftones

38 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-543-4 $27.00

Your Price: $18.90

Ash

Edward Parker

2021 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 80 color plates, 30 halftones

39 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-356-0 $27.00

Your Price: $18.90

Crab Wars

A Tale of Horseshoe Crabs, Ecology, and Human Health

William Sargent

“This beautifully written book is nonfiction but it reads like a particularly gripping novel. It’s filled with natural history, scientific discovery, pharmaceutical developments, and plenty of politics, and yet, Sargent tells the horseshoe crabs’ tale with enormous compassion and balance. . . . A thought-provoking and sobering reflection on the unintended consequences of scientific progress and the dangers posed when self-regulating industries control a limited natural resource.”—Forbes

Distributed for Brandeis University Press

2021 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 maps

40 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-076-7 $24.95 Your Price: $17.46

Diamonds in the Marsh

A Natural History of the Diamondback Terrapin Barbara Brennessel

“Environmentalists, ecologists, and marine biologists will delight in this meticulously detailed but highly readable look at the only North American turtle species that can tolerate ‘fresh water, salt water, and everything in between.’”—Publishers Weekly

“A comprehensive natural history such as Diamonds in the Marsh is an invaluable tool in the study and conservation of a species, and can provide a solid foundation for future research, conservation, and management decisions. . . . An interesting read for reptile aficionados.”—Herpetological Review

Distributed for Brandeis University Press

2021 256 p. 6 x 9 16 color plates, 23 halftones, 27 figures

41 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-080-4 $27.95 Your Price: $19.56

Otter

Daniel Allen

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2020 192 p. 5 x 8 103 halftones

42 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-224-2 $14.00 Your Price: $9.80

The Book of Minds

How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens

Philip Ball

“Ball, a former editor at Nature, attempts to conceptualize the makeup of minds truly alien to our own, including those of plants, robots, and fungi. He provides a definition of what it means to have a mind (it’s all about an entity’s particular experience of being itself), and in doing so, illuminates much of what makes human minds unique.”—Publishers Weekly

“Ball argues that we must look beyond our own brains and delve into the minds of other creatures if we want to truly understand ourselves and comprehend the possibility of alien or machine intelligence.”—New Scientist

2022 512 p. 6 x 9 43 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79587-4 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20

Dogopolis

How Dogs and Humans Made Modern New York, London, and Paris

Chris

Pearson

“Pearson’s history helps to explain why we treat dogs the way we do, and how city-dwellers in particular have come to define themselves in relation to the nonhuman. . . . Dogopolis offers a corrective to the rosy way we often prefer to see the human-canine bond: it may be millennia-old but unconditional it certainly is not.”—Times Literary Supplement 2021 256 p. 6 x 9 21 halftones

44 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79816-5 $24.00 Your Price: $16.80

Spider Webs Behavior, Function, and Evolution

William Eberhard

2020 816 p. 81/2 x 11 195 halftones, 97 line drawings

45 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53460-2 $75.00 Your Price: $52.50

333 Birds

Peter Vos

The artist Peter Vos (1935–2010) was fascinated by birds. He kept bird diaries in which he noted down the birds he came across and captured them in pen and ink and watercolor, depicting these feathered creatures in a multitude of positions and activities that reflected their personalities. This facsimile of a sketchbook that Vos completed over eighteen months, from June 1980 to December 1981, is a beautiful record of his encounters with individual birds.

Distributed for Paul Holberton Publishing

2022 415 p. 41/2 x 73/4 350 color plates

46 Paper ISBN: 978-90-6868-846-7 $60.00 Your Price: $42.00

Avian Illuminations

A Cultural History of Birds Boria Sax

Beautifully illustrated, Avian Illuminations is a superb overview of humanity’s long and rich association with our avian companions.

“Birds can go wherever they want, muses Sax in Avian Illuminations, his wide-ranging, wistful history of human connections with the bird world, from the first drawings on cave walls to Rachel Carson’s dire warnings. Some birds may beat their wings, some might just prefer to let themselves be carried by the wind. It is almost impossible, writes Sax, ʻ to imagine this sort of freedom.ʼ”—Wall Street Journal

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2021 456 p. 61/4 x 91/4 102 color plates, 105 halftones

47 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-432-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Vulture

The Private Life of an Unloved Bird Katie Fallon

Distributed for Brandeis University Press

2020 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 30 color plates

48 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-033-0 $24.95 Your Price: $17.46

Animalsʼ Best Friends

Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild Barbara J. King

“Animals’ Best Friends is the most comprehensive exploration I’ve read of the complex relationship between the human and nonhuman, full of great insights and practical information.”—New York Times Book Review

“An inspiring manifesto for how caring humans can become truly humane by choosing to live more compassionately with all animals. . . . Perhaps King’s greatest achievement is her quiet optimism that we can change how we interact with animals and make things better for them—and improve our own lives along the way.”—Forbes

2021 280 p. 51/2 x 81/2

49 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-60148-9 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Chimpanzees in Context

A Comparative Perspective on Chimpanzee Behavior, Cognition, Conservation, and Welfare

Edited by Lydia M. Hopper and Stephen R. Ross

“Mind-bending discoveries with far-reaching implications are abundant inside this volume. . . . If you ever wondered how much chimpanzees are like us compared to other animals, this is the book for you.”—Brian Hare, coauthor of Survival of the Friendliest: Understanding Our Origins and Rediscovering Our Common Humanity

2021 752 p. 6 x 9 71 halftones, 44 tables 50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-72798-1 $75.00 Your Price: $52.50

Thinking like a Parrot Perspectives from the Wild

Alan Bond and Judy Diamond

2021 296 p. 6 x 9 20 color plates, 35 halftones, 6 line drawings 51 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81520-6 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

The Animal Series

from Reaktion Books

This pioneering series explores the historical significance and impact of a wide range of animals.

Robin

Helen F. Wilson

2022 224 p. 51/4 x 71/2 60 color plates, 45 halftones

52 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-626-4 $19.95

Your Price: $13.96

Nightingale

Bethan Roberts

2021 224 p. 51/4 x 71/2 77 color plates, 23 halftones

53 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-474-1 $19.95

Your Price: $13.96

Raccoon

Daniel Heath Justice

2021 224 p. 51/4 x 71/2 80 color plates, 20 halftones

54 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-424-6 $19.95

Your Price: $13.96

Squid

Martin Wallen

2021 216 p. 51/4 x 71/2 80 color plates, 20 halftones

55 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-334-8 $19.95

Your Price: $13.96

Turtle

Louise M. Pryke

2021 216 p. 51/4 x 71/2 70 color plates, 30 halftones

56 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-336-2 $19.95

Your Price: $13.96

Wasp

Richard Jones

2019 208 p. 51/4 x 71/2 80 color plates, 20 halftones

57 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-161-0 $19.95

Your Price: $13.96

How the Clinic Made Gender

The

Medical History of a Transformative Idea

Sandra Eder

“A stunningly original book. Eder shows that the concept of gender was originally mobilized not in the feminist debates of the 1970s and ’80s but decades earlier by social scientists and clinicians in their engagement with intersex children at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. For the first time, we hear the stories of the children and their parents through Eder's extensive quotations from personal medical records.”—Thomas W. Laqueur, author of Making Sex

2022 336 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones

58 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81993-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

The Maternal Imprint

The Contested Science of Maternal-Fetal Effects

Sarah S. Richardson

“An outstanding depiction of the mutual constitution of science and society. Cleverly unpacking the complex history of scientific debates on so-called ʻmaternal impressionsʼ (later, ʻmaternal effectsʼ) on offspring and future generations, author Sarah Richardson unveils the epistemological origins of concepts we take for granted today. . . . The book is an epistemological provocation, a reminder that science is a political enterprise, and an invitation to produce knowledge that empowers women instead of knowledge that makes them solely responsible for our collective future.”—Science

2021 384 p. 6 x 9

59 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-54480-9 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20

Breathing

An Inspired History

Edgar Williams

Distributed for Reaktion Books

2021 256 p. 51/2 x 91/4 70 halftones

60 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-362-1 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

A Planet of Viruses

Third Edition

Carl Zimmer

“Offers an edifying tour of the improbable world of viruses, which is also our world. The strategies our bodies have devised for survival are endlessly matched by viruses, with their uncanny intelligence for evolution. Over the past year, their ability to reinvent themselves has heightened the suspense around the development of new vaccines against COVID-19.”

Guardian

“Zimmer reshapes our understanding of the hidden realities at the core of everyday existence. . . . Concise and illuminating.”

Washington Post, on the first edition

2021 144 p. 5 x 7 24 halftones

61 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78259-1 $15.00 Your Price: $10.50

How to Make a Vaccine

An Essential Guide for COVID-19 and Beyond John Rhodes

“A go-to guide for non-experts on vaccine development.”—Lancet

“Skillfully pitched at non-specialists.”―Nature

“How to Make a Vaccine is a required primer that demystifies concepts and gives an informative overview of how vaccines are developed and how they work. An essential guide indeed.”—The Inquisitive Biologist

2021 184 p. 51/2 x 81/2 1 table

62 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-79251-4 $15.00 Your Price: $10.50

The Beautiful Cure

The Revolution in Immunology and What It Means for Your Health

Daniel M. Davis

2021 256 p. 6 x 9

63 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75877-0 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Rethinking Hypothyroidism

Why Treatment Must Change and What Patients Can Do

Antonio C. Bianco, MD

“A true ‘whodunit’—a famous scientist discovers we have it all wrong and offers a primer on the contrarian thinking at the heart of scientific discovery.”—David A. Ansell, MD, author of The Death Gap: How Inequality Kills

In Rethinking Hypothyroidism , Dr. Antonio C. Bianco, a physician and a scientist who has studied hypothyroidism and thyroid hormones for decades, offers an accessible overview of the disease’s treatment and the role of big pharma in shaping it, making the case that the current approach is failing many patients. But more than this, Bianco calls for alternatives to improve lives, and he equips patients and their families with the tools to advocate for other treatments.

2022 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2

64 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82316-4 $22.00 Your Price: $15.40

Duel Without End

Mankind’s Battle with Microbes Stig

S. Frøland

“An excellent book on the large pandemics through history. . . . Demonstrates in a brilliant way how modern biomedical research has contributed to the battle against microbes.”

—Nils Chr. Stenseth, University of Oslo

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2022 640 p. 61/4 x 91/4 59 color plates, 89 halftones

65 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-505-2 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Viral Economies

Bird Flu Experiments in Vietnam

Natalie Porter

2019 240 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones

66 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-64894-1 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

Life and Research

A Survival Guide for Early-Career Biomedical Scientists

Paris H. Grey and David G. Oppenheimer

“Part survival guide and part pep-talk, Life and Research: An Early-Career Guide for Biomedical Scientists should be included in every welcome package for scientists joining a new lab or research program. Grey and Oppenheimer have created a portable version of the ideal mentor —helpful, honest, and compassionate. I wish I’d had this book ten years ago, as it would have saved me a lot of frustration and loneliness while navigating the confusing world of grad school.”—Susanna Harris, Ph.D., Founder and Chair of PhD Balance Chicago Guides to Academic Life 2022 264 p. 6 x 9 67 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82209-9 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

The Chicago Guide to College Science Teaching

Terry McGlynn

“It is the empathy that McGlynn brings to his subject that sets his book apart. . . . As instructors, we think we already know the nuts and bolts of how to teach a course, but how to structure a classroom such that it may foster the empathy required to promote lasting change? We haven’t thought about this enough, but lucky for us, McGlynn has. Every subject covered within this ‘Practical Guide’ is grounded in McGlynn’s vision of a more equitable and compassionate learning environment and promises deep benefits for students and teachers alike.”—Hope Jahren, Author of Lab Girl Chicago Guides to Academic Life 2020 184 p. 6 x 9 68 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-54236-2 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Handbook of Quantitative Ecology

Justin Kitzes

“A low-threshold, high-ceiling introduction. Kitzes’s book will appeal to undergraduate and graduate students who wish to increase their quantitative understanding to be able to better engage with the literature (which has grown increasingly quantitative) and take the first step—a large leap, in fact—toward becoming practitioners of quantitative ecology.”

—Andrew Rominger, University of Maine

2022 176 p. 6 x 9 24 halftones, 19 tables 69 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81834-4 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Foundations of Ecology II

Classic Papers with Commentaries

Edited by Thomas E. Miller and Joseph Travis

“The ecological literature has grown explosively in the past few decades. Having a compilation of papers that experts consider most significant is highly valuable, particularly for students less familiar with the field. The editorial commentaries, which thoughtfully lay out the historical development of subfields of ecology, will be appreciated by an even broader readership. As a whole, Foundations of Ecology II is a worthy extension of the nowclassic first volume.”—Judith L. Bronstein, University of Arizona

2022 920 p. 6 x 9 1 halftones 70 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-12536-7 $75.00 Your Price: $52.50

Strata

William Smith’s Geological Maps

Edited by the Oxford University Museum of Natural History

“As visually dazzling as a gem field. Bursting with full-color maps, illustrations and photographs, [this book] presents the work of William Smith (1769-1839), who created the first geological map of England at a time when most people still believed the planet was just a few thousand years old. . . . If you know a geology nerd—or anyone interested in British history or fine books—Strata will make a spectacular gift.”—Washington Post

2020 256 p. 101/2 x 143/8 500 color plates

71 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-75488-8 $65.00 Your Price: $45.50

Phenomena

Doppelmayr’s Celestial Atlas

Giles Sparrow

2022 256 p. 101/2 x 143/8 600 color plates

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Elsewhere

A Journey into Our Age of Islands

Alastair Bonnett

“A great primer on the concept of islands in the modern age. . . . Engagingly written.”

Library Journal

“[A] beguiling, fact-filled account of the world’s headlong dash to build artificial islands. Via a mixture of extensive desk research and short field visits, Bonnett invites readers to journey with him from militaryorientated ‘Frankenstein Islands’ in the South China Sea to gigantic windfarms anchored to the bottom of the North Sea.”—Times Literary Supplement

2022 272 p. 51/4 x 81/4 33 color plates, 19 halftones

73 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82385-0 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Amber From Antiquity to Eternity

Rachel King

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2022 272 p. 61/2 x 91/4 89 color plates, 16 halftones

74 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-591-5 $40.00

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Pearl Nature’s Perfect Gem

Fiona Lindsay Shen

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2022 256 p. 61/2 x 83/4 50 color plates, 50 halftones

75 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-621-9 $35.00

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The Earth Series from Reaktion Books

Coal

Nature and Culture

Ralph Crane

2021 224 p. 53/4 x 81/4 76 color plates, 23 halftones

76 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-366-9 $24.95

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The Sea

Nature and Culture

Richard Hamblyn

2021 240 p. 53/4 x 81/4 80 color plates, 24 halftones

77 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-487-1 $24.95

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Science on a Mission

How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean

Naomi Oreskes

“Impressive and authoritative. . . . Oreskes uses fascinating historical episodes to reveal serious, underappreciated consequences of oceanographers’ prolonged reliance on secret, mission-driven navy projects. . . . As an exposé of how navy-sponsored oceanographers wound up constraining their own research agendas and believing their own myths, the book should give pause to all scientists who consider themselves immune to the potential influence of their funders, or who romanticize the golden age of military scientific patronage.” Science

2022 744 p. 6 x 9 73 halftones, 17 line drawings

78 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82400-0 $32.00 Your Price: $22.40

Climate Ghosts

Migratory Species in the Anthropocene

Nancy Langston

“Climate Ghosts is as much a call to address the violent and ongoing legacies of settler colonial racism, as it is to salvage particular animals and ecosystems in decline. This is a must-read book—written with humility, head, and heart.”—Brinda Sarathy, University of Washington Bothell

The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities at Brandeis University

Distributed for Brandeis University Press

2021 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 15 color plates, 7 maps, 9 figures

79 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-065-1 $29.95 Your Price: $20.96

Dangerous Earth

What We Wish We Knew about Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Climate Change, Earthquakes, and More Ellen Prager

2020 272 p. 6 x 9 9 color plates, 24 halftones

80 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-54169-3 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

The Nutmegʼs Curse

Parables for a Planet in Crisis

Amitav Ghosh

“Illuminating. . . . [Ghosh] wants us to reckon with broader structures of power, involving ‘the physical subjugation of people and territory,’ and, crucially, the ‘idea of conquest, as a process of extraction.’ The world-as-resource perspective not only depletes our environment of the raw materials we seek; it ultimately depletes it of meaning.”—New Yorker

“Topics such as climate change usually encourage looking into the future, but Ghosh’s captivating new book instead looks back in time, tracing the patterns that gave rise to climate change to the beginnings of colonialism and following those patterns all over the globe.”—American Scientist

2021 336 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones 81 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82395-9 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

The Climate of History in a Planetary Age

Dipesh Chakrabarty

“One of the first thinkers to reckon with the concept of the Anthropocene and its relation to humanism and its critics, Chakrabarty forges new territory in his account of the planetary. . . . This is a tour de force of critical thinking that will prove to be a game changer for the humanities.”—Claire Colebrook, Pennsylvania State University

2021 296 p. 6 x 9 2 halftones 82 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-73286-2 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Catastrophic Thinking

Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene

David Sepkoski

2020 360 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones

83 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-34861-2 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Vanished Giants

The Lost World of the Ice Age

Anthony J. Stuart

“Stuart reveals the vibrant lives of Pleistocene megafauna, driven extinct by climate change and human hunters. Can lessons from the past halt a sixth mass extinction?”—New Scientist

“Deft and entertaining, Vanished Giants reveals the ‘hugest, fiercest, and strangest’ Ice Age animals. . . . Stuart’s conclusions about global extinction patterns are as fascinating and complex as the species he examines themselves, and his reflections about how similar forces threaten so many large animals today makes this an important and captivating book.”—Foreword Reviews

2022 288 p. 6 x 9 69 halftones

84 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82403-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

Land Bridges

Ancient Environments, Plant Migrations, and New World Connections

Alan Graham

“

Land Bridges attempts to reconstruct the broad outlines of the geological and paleobotanical history of the last hundred million years. The history of plate tectonics—how it influenced past plant migration, current composition of regional floras, and intercontinental linkages—makes this book a great pleasure to read. . . . Few scientists have developed such an impressive, integrated picture of earth history. Spectacular.”—Henry Hooghiemstra, University of Amsterdam

2018 288 p. 6 x 9 88 halftones

85 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-54429-8 $54.00 Your Price: $37.80

What Is Paleolithic Art?

Cave Paintings and the Dawn of Human Creativity

Jean Clottes

2016 208 p. 6 x 9 28 halftones, 2 line drawings

86 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-26663-3 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Dragonsʼ Teeth and Thunderstones

The Quest for the Meaning of Fossils

Ken McNamara

“This delightfully informative history of fossils ends where most conventional books on the subject begin: with the realization by scholars in the late 1600s that the bone-like and shell-like petrifications frequently found in sedimentary rocks are the remains of animals long dead. Prior to that, according to Cambridge paleontologist McNamara, speculation about the nature of fossils was as rich and varied as the human experience itself. . . . There is a story behind every shape in every culture, evidence not only of the plasticity of nature but also the inexhaustibility of the human imagination.”—Natural History

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2020 288 p. 51/4 x 81/4 70 halftones 87 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-290-7 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Nature Fast and Nature Slow

How Life Works, from Fractions of a Second to Billions of Years

Nicholas P. Money

“This is a lovely concept, a cosmic zoom of biology, where the zoom is not in space but in time. Each chapter looks at biological actions that occur in a particular timeframe, starting with those that occur in a fraction of a second and running up to billions of years.” popularscience.co.uk

Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 9 color plates, 1 halftone 88 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-404-8 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

The Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death

Pierre M. Durand

2020 232 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones, 3 tables 89 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-74776-7 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

What Is Regeneration?

Jane Maienschein and Kate MacCord

“From hydras to humans, this short book by two marine biologists explores the peculiar process of regeneration. . . . Maienschein and MacCord argue that we need to see regeneration as a window into the world of biology in general. . . . Far from being an interesting curio, then, studying regeneration can tell us much about life in general, from a cellular level right up to the level of ecosystems, and inform everything from regenerative therapies using stem cells to ecosystem protection and recovery.”—New Scientist

Convening Science 2022 184 p. 51/2 x 81/2 18 halftones 90 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81656-2 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

Can Microbial Communities Regenerate?

Uniting Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

S. Andrew Inkpen and W. Ford Doolittle

“The majority of the literature on microbial communities is descriptive, rather than conceptual or theoretical. This book is quite unique, and valuable, in providing a general cross-disciplinary approach to one aspect of microbial community ecology, potentially encouraging more rational, thoughtful, and critical research on this very important topic.”—J.I. Prosser, University of Aberdeen Convening Science 2022 136 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 halftones, 3 tables 91 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82034-7 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

Nature Remade

Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds

Edited by Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, and Christian C. Young Convening Science

2021 320 p. 6 x 9 24 halftones, 2 tables 92 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78343-7 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50

Biotic Borders

Transpacific Plant and Insect Migration and the Rise of Anti-Asian Racism in America, 1890–1950 Jeannie N. Shinozuka

“During the noonday of US imperialism in the Pacific, xenophobia and nativism informed and were informed by debates in science over biodiversity and native and invasive species and by calls for legal, environmental, and public health protections from foreign pests and pathogens, including humans, trees, and beetles. ‘Invasion biology’ and white and Christian nationalisms are in dialogue, as this remarkable book shows.”—Gary Y. Okihiro, author of Third World Studies: Theorizing Liberation 2022 304 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones 93 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81733-0 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

Knowing Manchuria

Environments, the Senses, and Natural Knowledge on an Asian Borderland

Ruth Rogaski

“Manchuria comes alive in this insightful, elegant text. Rogaski shows us how people, plagues, plants, and animals shaped the meanings of a place caught between nation-states and empires. . . . [This book] helps us to better understand how spaces become places and how efforts to know a place can be both brutally destructive and pregnant with wondrous possibility.”—Ian Jared Miller, Harvard University 2022 440 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 21 halftones 94 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80965-6 $45.00 Your Price: $31.50

Crossing the Boundaries of Life

Günter

Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology

Karl S. Matlin

Convening Science

2022 368 p. 6 x 9 38 halftones, 2 line drawings 95 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81934-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

The Kew Gardens Cookbook

A Celebration of Plants in the Kitchen

Edited by Jenny Linford

The Kew Gardens Cookbook is an anthology of vegetarian recipes gathered from leading chefs and food writers such as Yotam Ottolenghi, Fuchsia Dunlop, Olia Hercules, and Claudia Roden. Organized in six sections—leaves; roots, squashes, and tubers; grains and pulses; fungi; herbs and spices; and fruits and nuts—this book features more than 60 delicious and unusual vegetarian recipes.

Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2022 208 p. 71/2 x 91/2 100 color plates

96 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-745-9 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00

The Domestic Herbal Plants for the Home in the Seventeenth Century Margaret Willes

Featuring exquisite colored illustrations from John Gerard’s herbal book of 1597 as well as prints, archival material, and manuscripts, this book provides an intriguing look into the use of household plants and herbs in Stuart England. Recipes used for preparations such as flower syrups, snail water, and wormwood ale are also included, and a brief herbal gives descriptions of plants both familiar and less known to today’s readers.

Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing 2020 256 p. 61/4 x 81/4 60 color plates

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A Cornucopia of Fruit & Vegetables

Illustrations from an Eighteenth-Century

Botanical Treasury

Caroline Ball

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2021 148 p. 6 x 71/2 100 color plates

98 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-566-6 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Floating Gold

A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris

Christopher

Kemp

“Kemp (a molecular biologist) tells stories about ambergris: fragrant stuff, produced in the gut of the sperm whale, that for centuries has been both a prized commodity and a compellingly mysterious substance. . . . Floating Gold offers an enticing initiation into the shadowy and intriguing history of ambergris.” Science 2022 232 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 21 halftones 99 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82105-4 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60

Bark

A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast

Michael Wojtech

Featuring detailed information and illustrations covering each phase of a tree’s life cycle, this indispensable guidebook explains how to identify trees by their bark alone—no more need to wait for leaf season. Chapters on the structure and ecology of tree bark, descriptions of bark appearance, an easy-to-use identification key, and supplemental information on non-bark characteristics—all enhanced by more than 450 photographs, illustrations, and maps—will show you how to distinguish the textures, shapes, and colors of bark to recognize various tree species, and also understand why these traits evolved.

Distributed for Brandeis University Press 2020 280 p. 51/2 x 83/4 283 color plates, 151 halftones, 65 maps 100 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-031-6 $29.95 Your Price: $20.96

The Botany of Gin

Chris Thorogood and Simon Hiscock

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2020 112 p. 53/4 x 81/4 35 color plates 101 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-553-6 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Naturally Brilliant Colour

Andrew Parker

For thousands of years, the raw materials of the natural world have supplied the vivid colors found in art, with hues drawn from sources including metal ores, plant roots, and even animal waste. Naturally Brilliant Colour showcases the debut of a new frontier in botanically derived pigment: Pure Structural Color, widely considered the brightest color visible to the human eye. Illustrated with 60 vibrant images, this book opens our eyes to reveal that the world of color is more complex and sophisticated than previously imagined.

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2022 112 p. 91/2 x 11 60 color plates

102 Paper ISBN: 978-1-84246-733-6 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50

The Art of the Bird

The History of Ornithological Art through Forty Artists

Roger J. Lederer

“Art history and the history of science intertwine in this beautiful tribute to the scientific illustration of birds.”—American Scientist

“Exquisite. . . . Ornithological gems such as Joseph Wolf’s gorgeous crimson-bellied tragopan, Roger Tory Peterson’s flock of flamingos in the Andes, and James Fenwick Lansdowne’s rainbow-plumed Chinese pheasant reveal not only the sophistication of avian art, but the extravagant global variety of avian species.”

Natural History

2019 224 p. 91/2 x 11 200 color plates

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Birds Journal

Eric Fitch Daglish

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2021 160 p. 51/4 x 71/4 19 halftones

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Strange Bright Blooms

A History of Cut Flowers

Randy Malamud

“Malamud’s new book explores our endless attraction to cut flowers as a ‘shortcut to beauty’ but also as a medium in which to explore all manner of concerns around love and war, class and race, life and death. Who would have thought that Marie Osmond’s paper roses, Jeff Koons’s tulips, Mae Reeves’s hats, T. S. Eliot’s sleeping dahlias, and Banksy’s Flower Bomber (among many, many other wonderful blooms) would combine to make such a fabulous arrangement?”—Kasia Boddy, author of Blooming Flowers

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2021 324 p. 71/2 x 93/4 90 color plates, 20 halftones

105 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-401-7 $40.00 Your Price: $28.00

The Guitar

Tracing the Grain Back to the Tree

Chris Gibson and Andrew Warren

“How old is a guitar? Did its life begin in the hands of the player, in the workshop or the factory, in the sourcing of its wood, or in the forests from which it came with their majestic, centuries-old trees? In an exhilarating, round-the-world journey, Gibson and Warren follow the trail of this most eloquent of instruments to its arboreal roots. Full of colorful characters, it’s a story that will keep you on edge of your seat.”—Tim Ingold, University of Aberdeen

2021 288 p. 6 x 9 44 halftones, 1 table 106 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-76396-5 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

Marianne North 100 Postcards

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2020 61/2 x 41/2 Illustrated in color throughout 107 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-684-1 $20.00 Your Price: $14.00

What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be?

Edited by John Hausdoerffer, Brooke Parry Hecht, Melissa K. Nelson, and Katherine Kassouf Cummings

“What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? captures the deep dialogue, continuity, and resonance Indigenous peoples feel and espouse for ancestors, ourselves, our children—with a view for the now and for our very uncertain future. And yet, its audience is at once Indigenous and Universal. Weaving poetry, narrative, interview, essay, and spirit, it is a unique, landmark tapestry. Utterly timely and profoundly urgent.”—Gregory Cajete, author of Native Science: Natural Laws of Interdependence

2021 248 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones

108 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-77743-6 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25

The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected

A Natural Philosopher’s Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything

Marcelo Gleiser

A personal and engaging tribute to nature from a world-famous theoretical physicist.

“The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected is an elegantly written, introspective, and thoughtprovoking meditation on growing up as someone curious about the universe. It’s a wonderful introduction to the human side of science and the scientific side of being human.”

—Sean Carroll, author of The Big Picture Distributed for Brandeis University Press

2022 204 p. 51/2 x 8

109 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-108-5 $24.95 Your Price: $17.46

The Porch

Meditations on the Edge of Nature

Charlie Hailey

2021 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 6 halftones, 6 line drawings

110 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-76995-0 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75

Weather Forecaster to Research Scientist

My

Career in Meteorology

Robert M. Atlas

This engaging memoir follows the sixty-year meteorology career of Robert M. Atlas, beginning with his start as an apprentice forecaster for the US Weather Bureau during a time when satellite meteorology and operational numerical weather prediction were just in their infancy. Weather Forecaster to Research Scientist also tells the story of Atlas’s time as an operational forecaster in the US Air Force, discusses his pioneering work on ocean surface winds using satellites, and describes his leadership of scientific organizations within NASA and NOAA as well as his experiences teaching at several universities.

Distributed for American Meteorological Society 2022 120 p. 6 x 9 23 color plates, 3 halftones 111 Paper ISBN: 978-1-944970-77-2 $25.00 Your Price: $17.50

Wanderers

A History of Women Walking Kerri Andrews

“A wild portrayal of the passion and spirit of female walkers and the deep sense of ‘knowing’ that they found along the path.”—Raynor Winn, author of the The Salt Path

“The reader of Andrews’s Wanderers: A History of Women Walking laces her boots and strikes out with ten women who walked, wrote, and wrote about walking. . . . There are some lovely vignettes. . . . The book is at its best when imaginatively recreating the sole-tiring, soul-stirring, stomping simplicity of walking alone. Then the reader shares the rapture of Virginia Woolf’s cry: ‘Oh the joy of walking!’”—The Critic Distributed for Reaktion Books 2021 304 p. 5 x 73/4 112 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-501-4 $14.00 Your Price: $9.80

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