Deep Water
From the Frilled Shark to the Dumbo Octopus and from the Continental Shelf to the Mariana Trench
Riley BlackFrom celebrated science writer Riley Black, a beautifully illustrated, compelling deep dive into the life story of the abyss, its ancient creatures, and the scientists and sub mersibles that have documented them.
“A delight. . . . Be prepared for surprises.”
New York Times, on My Beloved Brontosaurus
“Gorgeously composed. . . . Richly imagined.”
Wall Street Journal , on The Last of the Dinosaurs
2023 224 p. 91/2 x 11 100 color plates, 100 halftones
1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82731-5 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Bird Day
A Story of 24 Hours and 24 Avian Lives
Mark E. Hauber
“Angell writes (and draws) with the absolute authority of one who has studied, rehabilitated, lived with, and loved the animals his whole life.”—Praise for Tony Angell’s The House of Owls, Wall Street Journal
“A wonderful book that simultaneously made me nos talgic about a cave full of oilbirds in Trinidad and a kiwi running between my legs in a New Zealand sleet storm—and further informed me about the lives of birds. A brilliant collaboration between a first‑rate behaviorist and my favorite bird artist.”—Paul R. Ehrlich, author of Life: A Journey through Science and Politics and The Birder’s Handbook
Earth Day
2023 168 p. 43/4 x 6 24 halftones
2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81940-2 $18.00 Your Price: $12.60
Trees From Root to Leaf
Paul Smith“Smith’s stunning prose and fabulous illustrations make his book, Trees, an essential volume for both tree lovers and tree professionals. . . . 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
3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82417-8 $49.95 Your Price: $34.96
Life Sculpted
Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi That Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape the Earth
Anthony J. Martin
“With an equal dose of wit and scholarship, Martin turns what is literally a boring topic—how animals and other species drill and chew through rock, bone, and wood— into an epic tale of evolution. Fun and readable, yet aca demically rigorous, Martin is one of the finest populariz ers of paleontology today, and one of my favorite science writers.”—Steve Brusatte, New York Times–bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
2023 360 p. 6 x 9 56 halftones
4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81047-8 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
The Next Supercontinent
Solving the Puzzle of a Future Pangea
Ross Mitchell
“An engaging insider’s story of geological discovery and insight at a grand scale—the unification and fragmen tation of supercontinents over geologic time, and why such behavior is repeating, yet changing. This first‑hand account reads like The Double Helix , but with mountains for molecules.”—Paul Hoffman, Harvard University
2023 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2 56 halftones
5 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82491-8 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
The Gardener’s Guide to Prairie Plants
Neil Diboll and Hilary Cox
“If you are looking for the complete—and I do mean com plete—guide to prairie ecosystems, you will not do better than this much‑needed book. Diboll and Cox cover not only what prairie species look like at each of their growth stages (a first!), they also dive deep into their historical and ecological roles in prairie ecosystems.”
—Douglas W. Tallamy, University of Delaware
2023 644 p. 6 x 9 1278 color plates, 55 tables
6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-80593-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Mountains of Fire
The Menace, Meaning, and Magic of Volcanoes
Clive Oppenheimer“I absolutely loved this book—it’s so full of passion, wonderment, philosophy, anthropology and most of all volcanoes! It ignited my mind and delighted my imagina tion. I loved the deep and poignant connections between history, meaning and people, but it’s Clive Oppenheimer’s dazzling charisma and thrilling experiences that infuse this book with an energy befitting our planet’s most powerful force.”—Sara
Dosa,director of the Academy
Award–nominated film Fire of Love
2023 352 p. 6 x 9 20 color plates, 15 halftones
7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82634-9 $27.50 Your Price: $19.25
Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms
Forays with Fungi across Hemispheres
Alison Pouliot“Anyone who has joined Alison in a forest, anywhere in the world, will know her incredible ability to magnify those microscopic organisms that hold our natural world together, to connect every element of human life—phys ical, emotional, or social—to the function of our natural landscapes. [Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms] is like a walk in the forest, pungent and complex, filled with curiosity and wonder, and leaving you with a sense that there is so much more to uncover.”—Millie
“Gardening Australia”
2023 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 16 color plates
Ross, ABCTV8 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82963-0 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Who’s a Good Dog? And How to Be a Better Human
Jessica Pierce“
Who’s a Good Dog? is sorely needed to fill essentially a void in the public conversation about the human‑dog relationship. Pierce bravely asks us to examine our assumptions about our dogs’ emotional landscapes, and to consider our own actions and choices within those relationships. Her book is a comprehensive, accessible manual for people who have never before considered the basic ethical implications of living with a dog.”
—Lisa Moses, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine, Harvard Medical School Center for Bioethics
2023 304 p. 51/2 x 81/2 3 halftones, 3 tables
9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-72171-2 $26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Ocean Bestiary
Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton
Written and illustrated by Richard J. King
“Ocean Bestiary engages readers in the ocean’s intricacies and significance, by telling curious, at times humorous stories of its animals as seen through the eyes of people who have spent time at sea—observing, sailing, fishing, and studying often in remote, unseen parts of the planet. The diversity of storytellers and human characters— with a particular focus on people from non‑Western, non‑white ethnic backgrounds—helps us to see that the ocean is for everyone. Fresh, accessible, and with enter taining illustrations, these are stories worth telling and well told.”—Helen Scales, author of The Brilliant Abyss
Oceans in Depth
2023 320 p. 51/2 x 8 93 halftones
10 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81803-0 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
Oceans under Glass
Tank Craft and the Sciences of the Sea
Samantha Muka
“At long last, a book dedicated to the nonstandard art of tinkering with oceans. Oceans under Glass traces the mul tiple networks, disciplines, and methods involved in pro ducing situated knowledges about marine life. Engaging a variety of methodologies, from ethnography to archi val research, and working across multiple disciplines, including science and technology studies and biological and environmental history, Muka sketches a loving bri colage of tank crafters and their work in shaping future oceans.”—Irus
Braverman, author of Coral WhisperersOceans in Depth
2022 240 p. 6 x 9 21 halftones
11 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82413-0 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Oil Beach
How Toxic Infrastructure Threatens Life in the Ports of Los Angeles and Beyond
Christina Dunbar-Hester
“Oil Beach accomplishes that rarest of feats: it transforms the way the world looks, bringing into view the hidden logic that structures the very ground beneath our feet. The story of the LA ports is hugely consequential and, in Dunbar‑Hester’s hands, it’s also exhilarating, encom passing both the broad sweep of change and the small details that give meaning to our landscape. It’s unusual to find an academic book that’s hard to put down, but Dunbar‑Hester’s smart, sometimes funny, and always elo quent voice is truly singular.”—Miriam
of California
2023 272 p. 6 x 9 48 halftones
Posner, University12 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81971-6 $30.00 Your Price: $21.00
A Book of Noises
Notes on the Auraculous Caspar Henderson
“Magnificent, bravura, beautiful and astoundingly inter esting.”—Praise for Henderson, Sunday Times
“A feast for the ears, mind, and spirit. Henderson not only celebrates the marvels of sound, but also offers won derfully original reflections on the relationships among music, science, and the living world. A delightful and generative invitation to deeper listening.”
—David George Haskell, author of Sounds Wild and Broken 2023 272 p. 51/2 x 81/2
13 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82323-2 $24.00 Your Price: $16.80
Dr. Nurse
Science, Politics, and the Transformation of American Nursing
Dominique A. Tobbell
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Dr. Nurse is a very rewarding read. Using perspectives drawn from the sociology of the professions and feminist histories of science, Tobbell explores the ways nurse sci entists are both undervalued and in high demand, then connects that paradox convincingly to nursing’s own difficulties confronting racial and class diversity among its practitioners. Her argument is cogent and illustrated by engaging case studies.”—Nancy Tomes, Stony Brook University
2022 320 p. 6 x 9
14 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82290-7 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Birth Figures
Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body
Rebecca Whiteley
“Whiteley’s work, at the intersection of medical and art history, beautifully illuminates the multiple meanings of images of unborn children in early modern Europe. She offers fresh, sophisticated, and nuanced interpretations of images that have puzzled me for years!”
—Mary E. Fissell, Johns Hopkins University
“Recovering midwives’ pictorial practice while putting anatomy in its place, Whiteley reconstructs how copy ing drove innovation and viewers made meanings. Her appealing book thus extends reproductive, gender, and visual studies, as well as histories of art, medicine, and the body.”—Nick Hopwood, University of Cambridge
2023 312 p. 6 x 9 6 color plates, 55 halftones
15 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82312-6 $49.00 Your Price: $34.30
Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
For well over a century, the Marine Biological Laboratory has been a nexus of scientific discovery, shaping our understanding of biology and its evolutionary and ecological dynamics. This series highlights the ongoing role MBL plays in the creation and dissemination of science, in its broader historic context as well as current practice and future potential.
Can Microbial Communities Regenerate?
Uniting Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
S. Andrew Inkpen and W. Ford Doolittle
A philosopher of science and a molecu lar biologist examine a simple question.
Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
2022 136 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 halftones, 3 tables
16 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82034-7
$20.00 Your Price: $14.00
What Is Regeneration?
Jane Maienschein and Kate MacCord
Two historians and philosophers of science offer an essential primer on the meaning and limits of regener ation.
Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
2022 184 p. 51/2 x 81/2 18 halftones
17 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81656-2
$20.00 Your Price: $14.00
Crossing the Boundaries of Life
Günter Blobel and the Origins of Molecular Cell Biology
Karl S. Matlin
A close look at Günter Blobel’s trans formative contributions to molecular cell biology.
Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
2022 368 p. 6 x 9 38 halftones, 2 line drawings
18 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81934-1 $35.00 Your Price: $24.50
Why Study Biology by the Sea?
Edited by Karl S. Matlin, Jane Maienschein, and Rachel A. Ankeny
By the 20th century, scientific work was being done inside permanent seaside field stations. This book tells the story of these institutions and examines the value of these places.
Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
2020 344 p. 6 x 9 33 halftones,
6 line drawings
19 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-67293-9
$48.00 Your Price: $33.60
Nature Remade Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds
Edited by Luis A. Campos, Michael R. Dietrich, Tiago Saraiva, and Christian C. Young
Fourteen original essays trace mate rial practices of the engineering of biology.
Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
2021 320 p. 6 x 9 24 halftones, 2 tables
20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-78343-7
$45.00 Your Price: $31.50
The Ark and Beyond
The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation
Edited by Ben Minteer, Jane Maienschein, and James P. Collins
Traces the history of wildlife preser vation in zoos and aquariums.
Convening Science: Discovery at the Marine Biological Laboratory
2018 528 p. 6 x 9 51 halftones,
2 line drawings, 6 tables
21 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53846-4
$38.00 Your Price: $26.60
Red Leviathan
The Secret History of Soviet Whaling
Ryan Tucker Jones
A revealing and authoritative history that shows how Soviet whalers nearly destroyed endangered whale popula tions, while also contributing to the scientific understanding necessary for these creatures’ salvation.
2022 304 p. 6 x 9 30 halftones
22 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-62885-1
$30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Future Sea
How to Rescue and Protect the World’s Oceans
Deborah Rowan Wright
A counterintuitive and compelling argument that existing laws already protect the entirety of our oceans— and a call to understand and enforce those protections.
2022 200 p. 6 x 9
23 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82408-6
$15.00 Your Price: $10.50
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
An octopus expert and celebrated artist offer a deep dive to meet the enchanting inhabitants of the world’s marine ecosystems.
2022 144 p. 8 x 6 76 color plates
24 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81766-8
$25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Shells A Natural and Cultural History
Fabio Moretzsohn
Echoing with the sounds of the sea, an exquisite survey of the science and customs of conchs, clams, coquinas, cowries, and much more.
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2023 176 p. 61/4 x 81/4 114 color plates, 10 halftones
25 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-713-1 $27.50
Your Price: $19.25
Unearthing the Underworld
A Natural History of Rocks
Ken McNamara
A geological saga that digs deep, revealing how even the most ordinary rocks can be stepping stones to the hidden history of our planet.
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2023 296 p. 61/4 x 81/4 43 color plates, 30 halftones
26 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-718-6 $25.00
Your Price: $17.50
Science on a Mission
How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don’t Know about the Ocean
Naomi Oreskes
A vivid portrait of how Naval over sight shaped American oceanog raphy, revealing what difference it makes who pays for science.
2022 744 p. 6 x 9 73 halftones, 17 line drawings
27 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82400-0
$32.00 Your Price: $22.40
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
The compelling and adventurous stories of seven pioneering scientists who were at the forefront of what we now call climate science.
2021 368 p. 6 x 9 50 halftones
28 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 hopeful journey around the world and across time, illuminating better ways to live with water.
2022 344 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones
29 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-71960-3
$26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Fascinating Shells
An Introduction to 121 of the World’s Most Wonderful Mollusks
Andreia Salvador
Beautiful photographs of stunning shells from London’s Natural History Museum, home to one of the most significant and comprehensive collec tions in the world.
2022 256 p. 6 x 7 123 color plates
30 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81913-6 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
We Are All Whalers
The Plight of Whales and Our Responsibility
Michael J. Moore
Relating his experiences caring for endangered whales, a veterinarian and marine scientist shows we can all share in the salvation of these imper iled animals.
2022 224 p. 5 x 8 33 halftones
31 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82399-7
$18.00 Your Price: $12.60
Floating Gold
A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris
Christopher Kemp
A fascinating natural history of an incredibly curious substance.
2022 232 p. 6 x 9 12 color plates, 21 halftones
32 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82105-4
$18.00 Your Price: $12.60
Crab Wars
A Tale of Horseshoe Crabs, Ecology, and Human Health
William Sargent
A timely look at the exploitation of a species that has helped with the development of countless drugs and is fast becoming endangered.
Distributed for Brandeis University Press
2021 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 4 maps
33 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-076-7
$24.95 Your Price: $17.46
Dawn at Mineral King Valley
The Sierra Club, the Disney Company, and the Rise of Environmental Law
Daniel P. Selmi
The story behind the historic Mineral King Valley case, which reveals how the Sierra Club battled Disney’s ski resort development and launched a new environmental era in America.
2022 344 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones
34 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81619-7 $30.00
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Mushrooms
A Natural and Cultural History
Nicholas P. Money
Featuring a wealth of illustrations, a fungi filled tour of the importance of mushrooms, from the enchanted forests of folklore to their role in sus taining life on earth.
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2023 224 p. 51/2 x 91/4 10 color plates, 90 halftones
35 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78914-616-5 $22.50 Your Price: $15.75
Kew Pocketbooks
Things to Do with Plants
50 Ways to Connect with the Botanical World
Emma Crawforth
A creative guide to the way plants can help us improve our lives sustainably. Distributed for Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 2023 168 p. 6 x 8 80 color photos, 10 line drawings
36 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-779-4
$25.00 Your Price: $17.50
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.
Mexican Plants
Bryony Langley
2023 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates
37 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-767-1
$14.95 Your Price: $10.46
Orchids
Michael F. Fay
2023 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates
38 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-771-8
$14.95 Your Price: $10.46
Herbs and Spices
2022 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates
39 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-753-4
$12.95 Your Price: $9.06
Festive Flora
2022 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates
40 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
41 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-752-7
$12.95 Your Price: $9.06
Fungi
2022 96 p. 51/2 x 71/4 40 color plates
42 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-84246-726-8
$12.95 Your Price: $9.06
The Hidden Universe
Adventures in Biodiversity
Alexandre Antonelli
An unforgettable exploration of the natural world and the concept of bio diversity—what it is, why it matters, and how we as individuals can work to preserve it.
2022 256 p. 51/2 x 81/2 26 halftones
43 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82187-0
$22.00 Your Price: $15.40
Chasing Plants
Journeys with a Botanist through Rainforests, Swamps, and Mountains
Chris Thorogood
From an acclaimed botanist and artist, a thrilling and beautifully illustrated expedition around the globe in search of the world’s most extraordinary plants.
2022 224 p. 6 x 9 40 color plates, 76 halftones
44 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82353-9
$27.50 Your Price: $19.25
In the Name of Plants
From Attenborough to Washington, the People behind Plant Names
Sandra Knapp
An award winning author and bota nist offers a vividly illustrated look at the namesakes behind thirty plants.
2022 192 p. 63/4 x 9 100 color plates
45 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82430-7
$25.00 Your Price: $17.50
Trees and Forests of Tropical Asia
Exploring Tapovan
Peter Ashton and
David LeeInformed by decades of researching tropical Asian forests, a comprehen sive, up to date, and beautifully illus trated synthesis of the natural history of this unique place.
2022 448 p. 6 x 9 145 color plates, 15 halftones, 19 tables
46 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-53569-2
$45.00 Your Price: $31.50
Tropical Arctic Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland
Jennifer McElwain, Marlene Hill Donnelly, and Ian GlasspoolAn illustrated visit to the tropical arctic of 205 million years ago when Greenland was green.
2021 152 p. 81/2 x 11 91 color plates, 15 halftones
47 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-53443-5
$30.00 Your Price: $21.00
New in Paper The Wardian Case How a Simple Box Moved Plants and Changed the World
Luke KeoghThe story of a nineteenth century invention (essentially a tiny green house) that allowed for the first time the movement of plants around the world, feeding new agricultural indus tries, the commercial nursery trade, botanic and private gardens, invasive species, imperialism, and more.
2023 288 p. 6 x 9 19 color plates, 40 halftones
48 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82397-3
$26.00 Your Price: $18.20
Extraordinary Orchids
Sandra Knapp
A beautiful and fascinating introduc tion to how the flamboyant orchid survives with style, even in the most unforgiving environments.
2021 160 p. 10 x 13 140 color plates, 7 halftones
49 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-77967-6
$30.00 Your Price: $21.00
Bark
A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast
Michael Wojtech
Whether you’re a professional nat uralist or a parent leading a family hike, this new edition of Bark is your essential guide to the region’s 67 native and naturalized tree species.
Distributed for Brandeis University Press
2020 280 p. 51/2 x 83/4 283 color plates, 151 halftones, 65 maps
50 Paper ISBN: 978-1-68458-031-6
$29.95 Your Price: $20.96