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Flannery's superb study shows that Europe is a land of \"exceptional dynamism\" and resilience * The Guardian *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732510388567,"sku":"9780141989020","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141989020.jpg?v=1719997199"},{"product_id":"otherlands-9780141991146","title":"Otherlands","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR\u003cbr\u003eA SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED\u003cbr\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, PROSPECT, THE NEW YORKER AND BBC HISTORY \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read'' Tom Holland\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e''Epically cinematic... A book of almost unimaginable riches'' \u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the past as we''ve never seen it before. \u003ci\u003eOtherlands\u003c\/i\u003e is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAward-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today. We visit the birthplace of humanity; we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known; and we watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal dawns.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOtherlands\u003c\/i\u003e is a staggering imaginative feat: an emotional narrative that underscores the tenacity of life - yet also the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, including our own. To read it is to see the last 500 million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time, but as a series of worlds, simultaneously fabulous and familiar.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller, March 2023\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book takes us through the natural history of previous forms of life in the most beguiling way. It makes you think about the past differently and it certainly makes you think about the future differently. This is a monumental work and I suspect it will be a very important book for future generations -- Ray Mears, Chair of the Wainwright Prize for UK Nature Writing\u003cbr\u003eThe word \"original\" is really overworked. But Thomas Halliday has produced a book the like of which I have never come across -- Jeremy Paxman\u003cbr\u003eAn extraordinary history of our almost-alien Earth... Epically cinematic... The writing is so palpably alive. A book of almost unimaginable riches.  It is a book that will make its own solid and lasting contribution. It could well be the best I read in 2022 - and I know it's only January -- James McConnachie * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA poet among palaeontologists -- David P. Barash * Wall Street Journal *\u003cbr\u003eA mesmerising journey into those vast stretches of Earth's pre-history that lie behind us, on such a scale that you experience a kind of temporal vertigo just thinking about it... [Halliday is] a brilliant writer, his lyrical style vividly conjuring myriad lost worlds... It's obviously a bit of a gamble choosing one's Book of the Year in March - but there's a very good chance already that mine will be \u003ci\u003eOtherlands\u003c\/i\u003e. Stunning -- Christopher Hart * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003eAn impressive, tightly packed, long view of the natural world. In cinematic terms, this book would be a blockbuster... Riveting scientific reading; a remarkable achievement of imagination grounded in fact -- NJ McGarrigle * Irish Times *\u003cbr\u003eAn immersive world tour of prehistoric life... Halliday never loses sight of the bigger picture, nimbly marshalling a huge array of insights thrown up by recent research. Each chapter gives not only a vivid snapshot of an ecosystem in action but also insights into geology, climate science, evolution and biochemistry... Mind-blowing -- Neville Hawcock * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eA sweeping, lyrical biography of Earth -- the geology, the biology, the extinctions and the ever-shifting ecology that defines our living planet -- Adam Rutherford * BBC Radio 4 Start the Week *\u003cbr\u003eSuperb... [An] epic, near-hallucinatory natural history of the living earth... Dazzling -- Simon Ings * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eRemarkable... Ingenious... A work of immense imagination [...] rooted firmly in the actual science -- Stuart Kelly * Scotsman *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating journey through Earth's history... [Halliday] is appropriately lavish in his depiction of the variety and resilience of life, without compromising on scientific accuracy... To read \u003ci\u003eOtherlands\u003c\/i\u003e is to marvel not only at these unfamiliar lands and creatures, but also that we have the science to bring them to life in such vivid detail -- Gege Li * New Scientist *\u003cbr\u003eRiveting... An intense and imaginative reading of fossils as runes that tell us about our own times, and possible future. Halliday is a Time Lord at heart, eager to lead us back to, say, the Permian or Oligocene epochs and unpack their lessons for 21st Century humanity. For all its scholarship, this is a very readable book, full of literary reference and accessible metaphor. \u003ci\u003eOtherlands\u003c\/i\u003e is also a wise manual for adaptive change rather than a prophecy of inevitable doom -- Matthew D'Ancona * Tortoise *\u003cbr\u003eThomas Halliday offers a 550m-year tour of the incredible diversity of life that has existed on our planet... Halliday's trick is to tell his story in reverse. The first hominids exit early; the continents merge and drift and merge again; the sounds of the cretaceous forest fall silent as we pass beyond the evolution of birdsong. Life retreats from land to ocean, and the first eyes give way to the sightless world of the Ediacaran, an alien realm of crawling beings -- David Farrier * Prospect *\u003cbr\u003eA brilliant series of reconstructions of life in the deep past, richly imagined from the fine details of the fossil record... A real achievement... Reading Halliday's book is as near to the experience of visiting these ancient worlds as you are likely to get -- Jon Turney * Arts Desk *\u003cbr\u003eWriting with gusto and bravado [...] Halliday has honed a unique voice... \u003ci\u003eOtherlands\u003c\/i\u003e is a verbal feast. You feel like you are there on the Mammoth Steppe, some 20,000 years ago, as frigid winds blow off the glacial front... Along the way, we learn astounding facts -- Steve Brusatte * Scientific American *\u003cbr\u003eVivid... An intricate analysis of our planet's interconnected past, it is impossible to come away from \u003ci\u003eOtherlands\u003c\/i\u003e without awe for what may lie ahead -- Amancai Biraben * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eHalliday takes us on a journey into deep time in this epic book, showing us Earth as it used to be and the worlds that were here before ours -- ‘The Hottest Books of the Year Ahead’ * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a piece of nature writing that covers millions of years, from the very start of evolution, while capturing the almost unthinkable ways geography has shifted and changed over time. Epic in scope and executed with charming enthusiasm, \u003ci\u003eOtherlands\u003c\/i\u003e looks set to be a big talking point for fans of non-fiction in 2022 -- ‘The 15 New Novels And Non-Fiction Books To Read In 2022’ * Mr Porter *\u003cbr\u003ePalaeobiologist Thomas Halliday embraces a yet more epic timescale in \u003ci\u003eOtherlands: A World in the Making\u003c\/i\u003e, touring the many living worlds that preceded ours, from the mammoth steppe in glaciated Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica. If you have ever wondered what sound a pterosaur's wings made in flight, this is the book for you -- 'The best science books coming your way in 2022’ * New Scientist *\u003cbr\u003eFull of wonder and fascination, exquisitely written, this is time travel of spectacular dimensions - a journey into our planet's evolution and the world in which we live. A compellingly important read -- Isabella Tree, author of WILDING\u003cbr\u003eThe best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read -- Tom Holland, author of DOMINION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Halliday's debut is a kaleidoscopic and evocative journey into deep time. He takes quiet fossil records and complex scientific research and brings them alive - riotous, full-coloured and three-dimensional. You'll find yourself next to giant two-metre penguins in a forested Antarctica 41 million years ago or hearing singing icebergs in South Africa some 444 million years ago. Maybe most importantly, \u003ci\u003eOtherlands \u003c\/i\u003eis a timely reminder of our planet's impermanence and what we can learn from the past\u003c\/p\u003e -- Andrea Wulf, author of THE INVENTION OF NATURE\u003cbr\u003eDeep time is very hard to capture - even to imagine - and yet Thomas Halliday has done so in this fascinating volume. He wears his grasp of vast scientific learning lightly; this is as close to time travel as you are likely to get -- Bill McKibben, author of FALTER\u003cbr\u003eAn absolutely gripping adventure story, exploring back through the changing vistas of our own planet's past. Earth has been many different worlds over its planetary history, and Thomas Halliday is the perfect tour guide to these past landscapes, and the extraordinary creatures that inhabited them. \u003ci\u003eOtherlands \u003c\/i\u003eis science writing at its very finest -- Lewis Dartnell, author of ORIGINS\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eOtherlands\u003c\/i\u003e is one of those rare books that's both deeply informative and daringly imaginative. It will change the way you look at the history of life, and perhaps also its future -- Elizabeth Kolbert, author of THE SIXTH EXTINCTION\u003cbr\u003eThis stunning biography of our venerable Earth, detailing her many ages and moods, is an essential travel guide to the changing landscapes of our living world. As we hurtle into the Anthropocene, blindly at the helm of this inconstant planet, Halliday gives us our bearings within the panorama of deep time. Aeons buckle under his pen: the world before us made vivid; the paradox of our permanence and impermanence visceral. Wonderful -- Gaia Vince, author of TRANSCENDENCE\u003cbr\u003eStirring, surprising and beautifully written, \u003ci\u003eOtherlands\u003c\/i\u003e offers glimpses of times so different to our own they feel like parallel worlds. In its lyricism and the intimate attention it pays to nonhuman life, Thomas Halliday's book recalls Rachel Carson's \u003ci\u003eUnder the Sea Wind\u003c\/i\u003e, and marks the arrival of an exciting new voice -- Cal Flynn, author of ISLANDS OF ABANDONMENT\u003cbr\u003eImaginative -- Andrew Robinson * Nature *\u003cbr\u003eThis study of our prehistoric earth is \"beyond cinematic\", James McConnachie says. \"It could well be the best book I read in 2022 -- Robbie Millen and Andrew Holgate, Books of the Year * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eIt's phenomenally difficult for human brains to grasp deep time. Even thousands of years seem unfathomable, with all human existence before the invention of writing deemed 'prehistory', a time we know very little about. Thomas Halliday's book \u003ci\u003eOtherlands\u003c\/i\u003e helps to ease our self-centred minds into these depths. Moving backwards in time, starting with the thawing plains of the Pleistocene (2.58 million - 12,000 years ago) and ending up in the marine world of the Ediacaran (635-541 mya), he devotes one chapter to each of the intervening epochs or periods and, like a thrilling nature documentary, presents a snapshot of life at that time. It's an immersive experience, told in the present tense, of these bizarre 'otherlands', populated by creatures and greenery unlike any on Earth today -- Books of the Year * Geographical *\u003cbr\u003eEach chapter of this literary time machine takes us further back in prehistory, telling vivid stories about ancient creatures and their alien ecologies, ending 550 million years ago -- The Telegraph Cultural Desk, Books of the Year * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eThe largest-known asteroid impact on Earth is the one that killed the dinosaurs 65?million years ago, but that is a mere pit stop on Thomas Halliday's evocative journey into planetary history in \u003ci\u003eOtherlands\u003c\/i\u003e. Each chapter of this literary time machine takes us further back into the deep past, telling vivid stories about ancient creatures and their alien ecologies, until at last we arrive 550?million years ago in the desert of what is now Australia, where no plant life yet covers the land. Halliday notes the urgency of reducing carbon emissions in the present to protect our settled patterns of life, but adds: \"The idea of a pristine Earth, unaffected by human biology and culture, is impossible.\" It's an epic lesson in the impermanence of all things -- Steven Poole, Books of the Year * Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eThe world on which we live is \"undoubtedly a human planet\", Thomas Halliday writes in this extraordinary debut. But \"it has not always been, and perhaps will not always be\". Humanity has dominated the Earth for a tiny fraction of its history. And that History is vast. We tend to lump all dinosaurs, for example, into one period in the distant past. But more time passed between the last diplodocus and the first tyrannosaurus than has passed between the last tyrannosaurus and the present day. A mind-boggling fact. This is a glorious, mesmerising guide to the past 500 million years bought to life by this young palaeobiologist's rich and cinematic writing -- Ben Spencer, Books of the Year * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA book that I really want to read but haven't yet bought - so I hope it goes into my Christmas stocking - is \u003ci\u003eOtherlands\u003c\/i\u003e: A World in the Making by Thomas Halliday. It sounds so amazing - a history of the world before history, before people. He's trying to write the history of the organisms and the plants and the creatures and everything else as the world grows from protozoic slime or whatever we emerged from. It sounds like an absolutely incredible effort of imagination. I think that Christmas presents should be books you can curl up with and get engrossed in and transported by - and \u003ci\u003eOtherlands\u003c\/i\u003e sounds like exactly that -- Michael Wood, Books of the Year * BBC History Magazine *\u003cbr\u003eBut, of course, not all history is human history, \u003ci\u003eOtherlands,\u003c\/i\u003e by Thomas Halliday, casts its readers further and further back, past the mammoths, past the dinosaurs, back to an alien world of shifting rock and weird plants. 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Moore: Terrestrial locomotor evolution in urban environments 13: Caroline Isaksson and Frances Bonier: Urban evolutionary physiology 14: Tuul Sepp, Kevin J. McGraw and Mathieu Giraudeau: Urban sexual selection 15: Daniel Sol, Oriol Lapiedra, and Simon Ducatez: Cognition and adaptation to urban environments 16: Emmanuel Milot and Stephen C. Stearns: Selection on humans in cities","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732805202263,"sku":"9780198836858","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780198836858.jpg?v=1719998474"},{"product_id":"marine-biology-a-very-short-introduction-very-short-introductions-9780198841715","title":"Marine Biology A Very Short Introduction Very","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe oceans are our planet''s most distinctive and imposing natural habitat. 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The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction looks at evidence from the continents, the oceans, and the ice core records, and the human stories behind it all. Jamie Woodward examines the remarkable environmental shifts that took place during the Great Ice Age of the Quaternary Period. He explores the evolution of ideas, evaluates the contributions of the leading players in the great debates, and presents some of the ingenious methods that have been used to retrieve information about the recent geological past.In an era of warming climate, the study of the ice age past is now more important than ever. This book examines the wonders of the Quaternary ice age - to show how ice age landscapes and ecosystems were repeatedly and rapidly transformed as plants, animals, and humans reorganized their worlds. 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The author explains the devastating effects that invasive species can have on local ecosystems.","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732903178583,"sku":"9780226206387","price":21.85,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226206387.jpg?v=1719998885"},{"product_id":"diet-for-a-large-planet-9780226826530","title":"Diet for a Large Planet","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA history of the unsustainable modern dietheavy in meat, wheat, and sugarthat requires more land and resources than the planet is able to support.    We are facing a world food crisis of unparalleled proportions. Our reliance on unsustainable dietary choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our planet. Solutions from lab-grown food to vegan diets to strictly local food consumption are often discussed, but a central question remains: how did we get to this point? In Diet for a Large Planet, Chris Otter goes back to the late eighteenth century in Britain, where the diet heavy in meat, wheat, and sugar was developing. As Britain underwent steady growth, urbanization, industrialization, and economic expansion, the nation altered its food choices, shifting away from locally produced plant-based nutrition. 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In the century before the First World War, Britain remade the planet in order to feed its own people, and in doing so transformed the environment forever.\" * Tribune Magazine *\u003cbr\u003e\"He has written a really excellent book, and it deserves a wide readership.\" * London Review of Books *\u003cbr\u003e\"In \u003ci\u003eDiet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e, an impressive feat of scholarly work, Chris Otter goes back to the roots of the current environmental and health problems that have accompanied dietary changes in the West, focusing on the transformations in British diets in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Apart from the extensive array of sources, the greatest asset of his book lies in Otter’s thorough survey of the breadth of techno-logical, metabolic, and environmental transformations that produced the “large planet” diet,while never losing sight of its social and political consequences. By paying close attention to the way evolutions in British diets reshaped technological and ecological landscapes throughout the globe, and to the impact it had on British and colonial bodies, Otter offers what might be considered one of the most accomplished examples of food history. He goes beyond the merely quantitative or cultural dimensions of eating to analyze the political and material dimensions of the widespread reconfigurations of food systems that developed from the beginning of the nineteenth century. . . . this extremely ambitious work is a rewarding read and is bound to become a reference in the field.\" * Journal of British Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"Otter posits that the elements of 'large planet thinking' have shaped world ecology to suit capitalism and have led to inequities between classes and countries at the peril of the planet. Are we creating Malthus’s worst nightmare—a planet that requires more land than it possesses?\" * CHoW Line (Culinary Historians of Washington, D.C.) *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDiet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e synthesizes a tremendous range of scholarship into a genuinely interdisciplinary narrative that draws from ecology, economics, history, science and technology studies, nutritional science, and evolutionary biology. Especially for the Victorian era, Otter’s primary source base is remarkably deep, most notably including medical journals, industry textbooks, a range of parliamentary papers, newspapers, farming treatises, surveys, cookbooks, and first-person accounts.\" * Victorian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDiet for a Large Planet\u003c\/i\u003e is a marvelous accomplishment. Otter assembles a prodigious range of sources to show how British interventions remaking global foodways in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, linking contemporary planetary crisis to these intellectual, ecological, and agro-industrial transitions.\"  * Environmental History *\u003cbr\u003e\"In this persuasively argued critique, Otter traces the origins of the modern diet to Britain's eating habits and the way different types of food were perceived in the nineteenth century. Focusing on Britain's desire for meat, sugar and wheat, \u003ci\u003eDiet for a Large Planet\u003c\/i\u003e shows how the country's almost insatiable historic desire for these commodities has transformed global land use and, in turn, increased carbon emissions and facilitated extinctions. The outsourcing of the country's nutritional needs and the foodways   which emerged paved the way for a global agri-food system that consumes more resources than the planet is able to sustain. Otter's perceptive analysis shows how prevailing diets of choice, consisting of red meat, wheat bread and sugar are linked to luxury, wealth and power, and contribute to environmental degradation and climate change.\" * Agricultural History Review *\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDiet for a Large Planet\u003c\/i\u003e is a brilliant, bold book that forces us to rethink the short- and long-term global implications of changes in what British people ate and how they thought about food in the nineteenth century. Otter masterfully weaves together scientific, technological, political, cultural, and economic histories into a magnificent study of the making of the modern, global food system. This book is a satisfying if filling meal that will appeal to the tastes of anyone interested in the history of food, environment, industry, consumption and global capitalism.” -- Erika Rappaport, author of A Thirst for Empire: How Tea Shaped the Modern World\u003cbr\u003e“The British diet, like British dentistry, is a familiar punchline. But Otter shows that it is much more than this. He argues that Britain’s dietary transformation remade bodies and geographies, and the outsourcing of its nutritional needs paved the way for the global food system. Fast, filling, simultaneously nutritious and unhealthy, Britain’s appetite for meat, wheat, sugar, and dairy presaged the era of ‘Big Food’ as well as cheap food. If looking back is the key to looking forward with any optimism, Otter’s brilliant and pioneering account is an urgent as well as timely intervention.” -- Philip Howell, co-editor of The Routledge Companion to Animal-Human History\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eDiet for a Large Planet\u003c\/i\u003e arranges an impressive array of evidence from diverse sources into a powerful analysis of how Britain forged the modern world of food systems and their consequent effects upon human and environmental well-being. Few, if any, books link human and environmental health together in such a sustained and creative way. Otter is clearly a scholar of immense ambition, erudition, and passion.” -- Matthew Klingle, author of Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDiet for a Large Planet \u003c\/i\u003eis an impressive book... A major contribution to the history of diets and the way in which one of them has gained global prominence...\" * Food and History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. Meat\u003cbr\u003e 2. Wheat\u003cbr\u003e 3. Sugar\u003cbr\u003e 4. Risk\u003cbr\u003e 5. Violence\u003cbr\u003e 6. Metabolism\u003cbr\u003e 7. Bodies\u003cbr\u003e 8. Earth\u003cbr\u003e 9. Acceleration\u003cbr\u003e   Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"The University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732930834775,"sku":"9780226826530","price":30.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780226826530.jpg?v=1719998998"},{"product_id":"these-trees-tell-a-story-9780300230895","title":"These Trees Tell a Story","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA deeply personal master class on how to read a natural landscape and unravel the clues to its unique ecological history\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A delightful immersion in close observation and deep understanding.”—Tristan Gooley, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Lost Art of Reading Nature’s Signs\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Natural Navigator\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A book for the shelf of any forest wanderer—and a book to take on those wanders, so you can much better understand what you’re seeing!”—Bill McKibben, author of \u003ci\u003eWandering Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Charney inspires readers to rediscover a sense of wonder in their local landscapes, from soil to slopes to stone walls to salamanders. 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Benton, author of \u003ci\u003eDinosaurs Rediscovered\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWhen Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Yale University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733514957143,"sku":"9780300242591","price":19.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780300242591.jpg?v=1720000384"},{"product_id":"analyzing-ecological-data-9780387459677","title":"Analyzing Ecological Data","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eData management and software.- Advice for teachers.- Exploration.- Linear regression.- Generalised linear modelling.- Additive and generalised additive modelling.- to mixed modelling.- Univariate tree models.- Measures of association.- Ordination  First encounter.- Principal component analysis and redundancy analysis.- Correspondence analysis and canonical correspondence analysis.- to discriminant analysis.- Principal coordinate analysis and non-metric multidimensional scaling.- Time series analysis  Introduction.- Common trends and sudden changes.- Analysis and modelling of lattice data.- Spatially continuous data analysis and modelling.- Univariate methods to analyse abundance of decapod larvae.- Analysing presence and absence data for flatfish distribution in the Tagus estuary, Portugal.- Crop pollination by honeybees in Argentina using additive mixed modelling.- Investigating the effects of rice farming on aquatic birds with mixed modelling.- Classification trees and radar detectio\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the reviews:\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"I liked the compact style of the book and really enjoyed the case studies. The book would be a suitable companion to statistics courses for both ecologists and statisticians at the introductory graduate level….All in all, I enjoyed reading the book and marvel at the wide range of sophisticated statistical models used in modern ecology.\"(Biometrics, 64, March 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Readership: Undergraduates, postgraduates and scientists engaged in areas of the environmental sciences and ecological research. The material presented in this book has been developed and used by the authors in teaching statistics to its intended readership. The text is divided into two parts … . I have no doubt that for undergraduate students the main strength of the book will be the breadth of topics covered by the case studies – ranging from terrestrial ecology to marine biology.\" (C. M. O’Brien, International Statistical Review, Vol. 75 (3), 2007)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"This is a practical way of analysing ecological data in which methodological approaches are combined with real data sets with the advantages and disadvantages of each strategy discussed. Who is it for? Upper undergraduates, postgraduates and researchers in ecology. Presentation It links ecological data, data analysis and discussion of the approaches. Would you recommend it? If you want an edited volume on different methods of ecological data analysis, then this book is worth looking through.\" (Times Higher Education, May, 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The book is aimed at three types of readers: ecologists who wish to develop their own statistical skills, quantitative ecologists who want to use more advanced techniques, and statistical scientists seeking more experience analyzing ecological data. … Enjoyable aspects of the book include good graphical outputs, with interpretations, in the text. … Overall, this book is wroth the purchase price … . No other book combines as many good ecological data sets with such thoughtfully written analyses. I give this book two enthusiastic thumbs up!\" (Loveday Conquest, Journal of the American Statistical Asociation, Vol. 103 (483), September, 2008)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The book aims to give readers sufficient information to apply statistical methodology in a correct and useful way. … the book meets its aim, covering a wide range of statistical techniques and dealing with many situations that are encountered in ecological statistics. This is an excellent, nicely presented and very readable book. I would highly recommend it to numerate researchers and students interested in environment and ecological data analysis.\" (Weiqi Luo, Journal of Applied Statistics, Vol. 36 (2), February, 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Analysing Ecological Data by a group of ecologists-gone-statisticians from Scotland is the latest book in this area and based on years of teaching and consultancy experience. … The book differs from many of its competitors in its structure: it contains a general introduction to several fields of descriptive ecological data analysis (370 pages), which is augmented with 17 chapter-length case studies … . In summary, I can recommend the book primarily as advanced material for ecologists … .\" (Carsten F. Dormann, Basic and Applied Ecology, Vol. (10), 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction.- Data management and software.- Advice for teachers.- Exploration.- Linear regression.- Generalised linear modelling.- Additive and generalised additive modelling.- Introduction to mixed modelling.- Univariate tree models.- Measures of association.- Ordination--first encounter.- Principal component analysis and redundancy analysis.- Correspondence analysis and canonical correspondence analysis.- Introduction to discriminant analysis.- Principal coordinate analysis and non-metric multidimensional scaling.- Time series analysis--Introduction.- Common trends and sudden changes.- Analysis and modelling lattice data.- Spatially continuous data analysis and modelling.- Univariate methods to analyse abundance of decapod larvae.- Analysing presence and absence data for flatfish distribution in the Tagus estuary, Portugual.- Crop pollination by honeybees in an Argentinean pampas system using additive mixed modelling.- Investigating the effects of rice farming on aquatic birds with mixed modelling.- Classification trees and radar detection of birds for North Sea wind farms.- Fish stock identification through neural network analysis of parasite fauna.- Monitoring for change: using generalised least squares, nonmetric multidimensional scaling, and the Mantel test on western Montana grasslands.- Univariate and multivariate analysis applied on a Dutch sandy beach community.- Multivariate analyses of South-American zoobenthic species--spoilt for choice.- Principal component analysis applied to harbour porpoise fatty acid data.- Multivariate analysis of morphometric turtle data--size and shape.- Redundancy analysis and additive modelling applied on savanna tree data.- Canonical correspondence analysis of lowland pasture vegetation in the humid tropics of Mexico.- Estimating common trends in Portuguese fisheries landings.- Common trends in demersal communities on the Newfoundland-Labrador Shelf.- Sea level change and salt marshes in the Wadden Sea: a time series analysis.- Time series analysis of Hawaiian waterbirds.- Spatial modelling of forest community features in the Volzhsko-Kamsky reserve.","brand":"Springer-Verlag New York Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733725851991,"sku":"9780387459677","price":208.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"mixed-effects-models-and-extensions-in-ecology-with-r-9780387874579","title":"Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLimitations of Linear Regression Applied on Ecological Data.- Things are not Always Linear; Additive Modelling.- Dealing with Heterogeneity.- Mixed Effects Modelling for Nested Data.- Violation of Independence  Part I.- Violation of Independence  Part II.- Meet the Exponential Family.- GLM and GAM for Count Data.- GLM and GAM for AbsencePresence and Proportional Data.- Zero-Truncated and Zero-Inflated Models for Count Data.- Generalised Estimation Equations.- GLMM and GAMM.- Estimating Trends for Antarctic Birds in Relation to Climate Change.- Large-Scale Impacts of Land-Use Change in a Scottish Farming Catchment.- Negative Binomial GAM and GAMM to Analyse Amphibian Roadkills.- Additive Mixed Modelling Applied on Deep-Sea Pelagic Bioluminescent Organisms.- Additive Mixed Modelling Applied on Phytoplankton Time Series Data.- Mixed Effects Modelling Applied on American Foulbrood Affecting Honey Bees Larvae.- Three-Way Nested Data for Age Determination Techniques Applied to Cetaceans.- GL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the reviews:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"For many people dealing with statistics is like jumping into ice-cold water. This metaphor is depicted by the cover of this book … . full of excellent example code and for most graphs and analyses the code is printed and explained in detail. … Each example finishes with … valuable information for a person new to a technique. In summary, I highly recommend the book to anyone who is familiar with basic statistics … who wants to expand his\/her statistical knowledge to analyse ecological data.\" (Bernd Gruber, \u003ci\u003eBasic and Applied Ecology\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol. 10, 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This book is written in a very approachable conversational style. The additional focus on the heuristics of the process rather than just a rote recital of theory and equations is commendable. This type of approach helps the reader get behind the ‘why’ of what’s being done rather than blindly follow a simple list of rules.… In short, this text is good for researchers with at least a little familiarity with the basic concepts of modeling and who want some solid stop-by-stop guidance with examples on how common ecological modeling tasks are accomplished using R.\" (Aaron Christ, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Statistical Software\u003c\/i\u003e, November 2009, Vol. 32)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The authors succeed in explaining complex extensions of regression in largely nonmathematical terms and clearly present appropriate R code for each analysis. A major strength of the text is that instead of relying on idealized datasets … the authors use data from consulting projects or dissertation research to expose issues associated with ‘real’ data. … The book is well written and accessible … . the volume should be a useful reference for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and experienced professionals working in the biological sciences.\" (Paul E. Bourdeau, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 84, December, 2009)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This is a companion volume to Analyzing Ecology Data by the same authors. …It extends the previous work by looking at more complex general and generalized linear models involving mixed effects or heterogeneity in variances. It is aimed at statistically sophisticated readers who have a good understanding of multiple regression models… .The pedagogical style is informal… . The authors are pragmatists—they use combinations of informal graphical approaches, formal hypothesis  testing, and information-theoretical model selection methods  when analyzing data. …Advanced graduate students in ecology or ecologists with several years of experience with ‘messy’ data would find this book useful. …Statisticians would find this book interesting for the nice explorations of many of the issues with messy data. This book would be (very) suitable for a graduate course on statistical consulting—indeed, students would learn a great deal about the use of sophisticated statistical models in ecology! …I very much liked this book (and also the previous volume). I enjoyed the nontechnical presentations of the complex ideas and their emphasis that a good analysis uses ‘simple statistical methods wherever possible, but doesn’t use them simplistically.’” (Biometrics, Summer 2009, 65, 992–993)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“This book is a great introduction to a wide variety of regression models. … This text examines how to fit many alternative models using the statistical package R. … The text is a valuable reference … . A large number of real datasets are used as examples. Discussion on which model to use and the large number of recent references make the book useful for self study … .” (David J. Olive, Technometrics, Vol. 52 (4), November, 2010)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLimitations of linear regression applied on ecological data. - Things are not always linear; additive modelling. - Dealing with hetergeneity. - Mixed modelling for nested data. - Violation of independence - temporal data. - Violation of independence; spatial data. - Generalised linear modelling and generalised additive modelling. - Generalised estimation equations. - GLMM and GAMM. - Estimating trends for Antarctic birds in relation to climate change. - Large-scale impacts of land-use change in a Scottish farming catchment. - Negative binomial GAM and GAMM to analyse amphibian road killings. - Additive mixed modelling applied on deep-sea plagic bioluminescent organisms. - Additive mixed modelling applied on phyoplankton time series data. - Mixed modelling applied on American Fouldbrood affecting honey bees larvae. - Three-way nested data for age determination techniques applied to small cetaceans. - GLMM applied on the spatial distribution of koalas in a fragmented landscape. - GEE and GLMM applied on binomial Badger activity data.","brand":"Springer-Verlag New York Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733726671191,"sku":"9780387874579","price":113.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"urban-ecology-9780521188241","title":"Urban Ecology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA pioneering and richly illustrated book, highlighting powerful nature working in cities, suburbs, exurbs\/peri-urbs, and presenting spatial patterns, flows, and models from hundreds of cities worldwide. This teaching text is a valuable source for advanced undergraduates, graduates, researchers and professionals who will improve urban areas for both nature and people.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'All the judges on this year's postgraduate Biology Book of the Year panel had this book high on their list of favourites. Its extensive scope and interdisciplinary approach puts it into the same class as last year's winning postgraduate text … an authoritative, comprehensive and extensive reference work that will be a valuable resource for urban designers and planners, ecologists and analysts.' Sue Howarth, Judge, 2014 Society of Biology Book Awards\u003cbr\u003e'Both extensive in scope and synthetic in approach, this book opens the door wide for designers and planners to employ urban ecology both inventively and credibly. Illuminated by many insightful analytical diagrams, it can be the basis for designing with nature across urban scales: from site to region. I want all my students in the Metropolitan Design Dynamics studio to study it and bring it as a key reference into their professional practice. Urban Ecology is a signal achievement that makes Richard Forman's profoundly synthetic understanding of urban ecology accessible to designers and planners. The book's extraordinarily inclusive reach into the literature of many urban disciplines, its typological approach, and its many analytical diagrams will speak to designers and inspire analysts. It should become a standard reference for those who participate in urban ecological design or planning.' Joan Iverson Nassauer, University of Michigan\u003cbr\u003e'In landscape ecology, Richard Forman is well-known for his competence to periodically overview the advancing body of knowledge. He has a sharp eye for new developments and in combination with his pictorial way of analysing the diversity of landscapes and their ecological functioning, his books became landmarks in the field of landscape ecology. With Urban Ecology: Science of Cities, [he] has now captured the urban landscape as a spatial system where humans interact with nature to create a place to live and work. Through the eyes of a landscape architect, we are treated to a comprehensive description of how urban landscape patterns have grown out of this interaction. Unlike other urban ecology books, this is not a book about ecological mechanisms, nor is it about planning urban landscapes. Instead, [he] lets us see the urban environment as a continuously changing living landscape for humans and other organisms.' Paul Opdam, Alterra Wageningen UR\u003cbr\u003e'Richard Forman has had the unique education, university environment and international experience to write the first comprehensive urban ecology textbook that will guide the new urban revolution. This innovative book provides the foundation and inspiration for creating healthy, livable, sustainable and resilient cities and towns in the future.' Mark J. McDonnell, from the Foreword\u003cbr\u003e'… the most impressive up-to-date urban ecology textbook I know of … a must-read for ecologists and practitioners.' Ian MacGregor-Fors, Conservation Biology\u003cbr\u003e'… Forman has found just the right balance between science and instruction, making this volume a great candidate as a textbook or an addition to one's reference collection.' The Quarterly Review of Biology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eForeword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Part I. Framework: 1. Foundations; 2. Spatial patterns and mosaics; 3. Flows, movements, change; Part II. Ecological Features: 4. Urban soil and chemicals; 5. Urban air; 6. Urban water systems; 7. Urban water bodies; 8. Urban habitats, vegetation, plants; 9. Urban wildlife; Part III. Urban Features: 10. Human structures; 11. Residential, commercial, industrial areas; 12. Greenspaces, corridors, systems; Epilogue; Appendices; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48733849092439,"sku":"9780521188241","price":56.04,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}]},{"product_id":"ecoevolutionary-dynamics-9780691204178","title":"Ecoevolutionary Dynamics","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book gives comprehensive coverage, including classical (selection, adaptation, divergence), basic (gene flow, plasticity, ecosystem functions), and some recent (genomics) issues that are richly illustrated by simple, clear tables, and figures.\" * Conservation Biology *","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48735989268823,"sku":"9780691204178","price":40.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691204178.jpg?v=1723810431"},{"product_id":"the-cuckoo-9780995567306","title":"The Cuckoo","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe all know Cuckoos as the harbingers of spring  whose haunting calls proclaim the birds own name across fields and reedbeds.  A bird much more often heard than actually seen, and often mistaken for a hawk or falcon when briefly glimpsed in flight. Cuckoos are also well known, perhaps even infamous, for their habit of laying their own eggs into the nests of much smaller species, such as reed warblers, who are then doomed to raise the enormous cuckoo chick rather than their own young, and whose eggs are ruthlessly thrown from the nest by the cuckoo hatchling.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut how does this complex behaviour act out in nature, and how did it evolve?  What are the cuckoo's special tricks and what counter-measures have the host birds developed to resist the depredations of cuckoos?  In this book the authors delve into the stories behind what we see, and into the complex and ever evolving evolutionary arms race by which the nest parasite and its hosts constantly try to leapfrog each other into\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wild Nature Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48737984217431,"sku":"9780995567306","price":18.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780995567306.jpg?v=1723811652"},{"product_id":"wetland-ecology-9781009288644","title":"Wetland Ecology","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA thoroughly updated and accessible textbook featuring topical issues such as sea level rise, eutrophication, facilitation, restoration and conservation. This third edition is richly illustrated in colour, packed with examples from every major continent and wetland type, and features end-of-chapter questions to review and extend students' learning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Keddy's new version of Wetland Ecology is even more readable, not stuffy; it successfully strives for comprehension, not memorization, imbued with questions and principled hypotheses to guide experiments and syntheses. He retrieves both older and newer writings as a scientist first, and also as a citizen-scientist with affection for personal curiosity and society.' R. Eugene Turner, Louisiana State University, USA\u003cbr\u003e'This new edition is essential reading for all those around the globe interested in wetlands. The book emphasizes general principles and causal factors responsible for shaping natural wetlands and how they apply to restoration and conservation. Dr Keddy recalls how the old foundational studies contributed to building current understandings of wetland ecology. Numerous illustrations and probing concluding questions at the end of each chapter make the book a valuable teaching resource.' Barry G. Warner, University of Waterloo, Canada\u003cbr\u003e'In this third edition of Wetland Ecology: Principles and Conservation, Dr Paul Keddy has once again shown his strong understanding of how wetlands function. Rather than minor changes and edits to the second edition, this is a reorganized and rewritten expansion, with new sub-sections that delve further into the subject matter. Reference to the classical wetland literature is retained, but wetland science is brought up to date with references through 2022. New examples are included to help explain principles, and a concerted effort was made to use international examples. The effect of humans on wetland functions is prominent in many sections. Most figures are now in colour, and many excellent colour photographs have been added to assist in understanding of the text. Inclusion of insightful questions after each chapter helps to make this book an excellent text for use in undergraduate and graduate courses.' Douglas Wilcox, SUNY Brockport, USA\u003cbr\u003e'This is the most comprehensive book in wetland ecology. It explores the diversity and complexity of wetlands, covering a wide range of topics from ecology and functioning to restoration and conservation. These topics are presented clearly, they are superbly illustrated and organized in a way that makes this textbook of equal value to both students and researchers. A must-have book for anyone interested in wetlands.' Vasilis Louca, University of Aberdeen, UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface; 1. Wetlands: an introduction; 2. Flooding; 3. Fertility; 4. Natural disturbance; 5. Competition; 6. Herbivory; 7. Burial; 8. Other factors; 9. Diversity; 10. Zonation; 11. Services and functions; 12. Research: paths forward; 13. Restoration; 14. Conservation and management; References; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738020786519,"sku":"9781009288644","price":47.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781009288644.jpg?v=1723811685"},{"product_id":"only-in-africa-9781108959667","title":"Only in Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat humans originated from Africa is well-known. However, this is widely regarded as a chance outcome, dependant simply on where our common ancestor shared the land with where the great apes lived. This volume builds on from the ''Out of Africa'' theory, and takes the view that it is only in Africa that the evolutionary transitions from a forest-inhabiting frugivore to savanna-dwelling meat-eater could have occurred. This book argues that the ecological circumstances that shaped these transitions are exclusive to Africa. It describes distinctive features of the ecology of Africa, with emphasis on savanna grasslands, and relates them to the evolutionary transitions linking early ape-men to modern humans. It shows how physical features of the continent, especially those derived from plate tectonics, set the foundations. This volume adequately conveys that we are here because of the distinctive features of the ecology of Africa.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e... the book is exceptionally well written, and very recommendable as a foundational introduction to modern Africa savanna ecology for a readership ranging from undergraduates to professional researchers in paleoanthropology.' Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Evolutionary Anthropology\u003cbr\u003e'In Only in Africa Owen-Smith presents us with copious evidence of the complexity of interactions within and between species of plants, herbivores, and carnivores, coherently linking the trophic levels. He also makes a compelling case that the early stages of human evolution could only have happened in Africa. For those willing to accept that their knowledge of relevant contemporary African ecosystems and their critical role in human evolution could do with some updating and refreshing, Norman Owen-Smith's new book provides just the help they need. Its importance for paleoanthropology cannot be exaggerated.' Bernard Wood, Journal of Human Evolution\u003cbr\u003e'a cross-disciplinary textbook that provides a natural historian's overview of the ecology of Africa, with a gradually sharpening focus on the primates that originated there and evolved into modern humans … Owen-Smith provides a refreshing look at a continent in its entirety and all the life it has generated, facilitating a perspective quite different from the usual focus on only one particular aspect of that life … Highly recommended.' L. Swedell, Choice Connect\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface; Foreword; List of abbreviations; Part I. The physical cradle: Land forms, geology, climate, hydrology and soils: 1. High Africa: Eroding surfaces; 2. Climate: Rainfall seasonality; 3. Water in rivers, lakes and wetlands; 4. Bedrock geology: Volcanic influences; 5. Soils: Foundations of fertility; Part II. The savanna garden: Grassy vegetation and plant dynamics: 6. Forms of savannah; 7. How savanna trees and grasses grow and compete; 8. Plant demography and dynamics: Fire traps; 9. Paleo-savannas: Expanding grasslands; Part III. The big mammal menagerie: Herbivores, carnivores and their ecosystem impacts: 10. Niche distinctions: resources versus risks; 11. Big fierce carnivores: Hunting versus scavenging; 12. Herbivore abundance: Bottom-up and top-down; 13. How large herbivores transform savanna ecosystems; 14. Paleo-faunas: Rise and fall of the biggest grazers; Part IV. Evolutionary transitions: From primate ancestors to modern humans: 15. Primate predecessors: From trees to ground; 16. Primate ecology: From forests into savannas; 17. How an ape became a hunter; 18. Cultural evolution: From tools to art and genes; 19. Reticulate evolution through turbulent times; 20. Prospects for a lonely planet; Index.","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738347778391,"sku":"9781108959667","price":35.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781108959667.jpg?v=1723811957"},{"product_id":"freshwater-fishes-of-north-america-9781421435121","title":"Freshwater Fishes of North America","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe highly anticipated second volume of Freshwater Fishes of North America, a monumental, fully illustrated reference that provides comprehensive details on the freshwater fishes of the United States, Canada, and Mexico.   When the first volume of Freshwater Fishes of North America was published, it was immediately hailed as the definitive reference in the field. Readers have been fervently awaiting the next volume in this encompassing three-book set ever since. Now complete, volume 2, covering families Characidae to Poeciliidae, is the result of decades of analysis by leading fish experts from universities and research laboratories across North America.   Each volume in this authoritative synthesis covers the ecology, morphology, reproduction, distribution, behavior, taxonomy, conservation, and the fossil record of the included North American fish families. The encyclopedic reviews of each family are accompanied by color photographs (nearly 250 in this volume alone), range maps, and a\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is enough to keep a fish nerd occupied for a very, very long time . . . 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Hopkins II and Melvin L. Warren, Jr.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 19 Esociformes: Esocidae, Pikes, and Umbridae (Mudminnows)\u003cbr\u003e Frank H. McCormick, Terry Grande, Cheryl Theile, Melvin L. Warren, Jr., J. Andrés López, Mark V. H. Wilson, Roger A. Tabor, Julian D. Olden, and\u003cbr\u003e Lauren M. Kuehne\u003cbr\u003eChapter 20 Percopsidae: Trout-perches\u003cbr\u003e Brooks M. Burr and Melvin L. Warren, Jr.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 21 Amblyopsidae: Cavefishes\u003cbr\u003e Ginny L. Adams, Brooks M. Burr, and Melvin L. Warren, Jr.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 22 Aphredoderidae: Pirate Perches\u003cbr\u003e Brooks M. Burr and Melvin L. Warren, Jr.\u003cbr\u003eChapter 23 Gadidae (Gadinae and Lotinae): Cods and Cuskfishes\u003cbr\u003e Peter B. Berendzen\u003cbr\u003eChapter 24 Mugilidae: Mullets\u003cbr\u003e Steven L. Powers\u003cbr\u003eChapter 25 Atherinopsidae: New World Silversides\u003cbr\u003e Kyle R. Piller and Clyde D. 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At the same time, it invites and at times pulls the reader into a sense of the fundamental sharedness of all life and our profound obligations, perhaps now more than ever, to hold open room for others to be and to become in their own unique and precious ways.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Thom van Dooren, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Wake of Crows: Living and Dying in Shared Worlds\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Essential reading about the question of our time: how to belong.  A chorus of beautiful, wise, grieving, exulting, and generative voices, guiding us into true ‘family values’ for a wild living Earth. 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May this book be a living document that guides us toward love and care for all kin.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Janisse Ray, author of \u003cem\u003eWild Spectacle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"The \u003cem\u003eKinship\u003c\/em\u003e series of books is an ensemble of outstanding essays that reveal the truth that reality is rooted in relationships. After reading these marvellous essays, it becomes crystal clear that there is no reality outside relationships. These books shatter the old story of separation between humans and Nature and explode the belief that nature is a machine and the planet Earth is a dead rock. Here is the new story of the living Earth and a celebration of deep connectivity of life; human as well as more-than-human life. These are inspiring and enlightening essays. They will change your perception of Nature. I recommend these books wholeheartedly!\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Satish Kumar, Founder, Schumacher College, Editor Emeritus, \u003cem\u003eResurgence\u003c\/em\u003e \u0026amp; \u003cem\u003eEcologist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“What a joyful series this is, this family of books, crafted with love, clarity, and compassion by a family of poets, scholars, and sages. Together the volumes form a five-part harmony, converging beautifully around notions of kinship and kinning. The authors ask, how do we rightly relate? How may we learn to live well with our kin? Can we listen with sensitivity to the voices and languages of others, the beings with fur, claws, wings, scales, and fins with whom we share the mountains, rivers, seas, grasslands, and forests, places that ring with spirit and meaning, too, who are family, too? The chapters are stories as much as studies, narratives born from experience, wisdom, and observations over many generations. I can’t wait to share this family with my students and colleagues in conservation and anthropology, and with my friends and kin everywhere.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Dr. Amanda Stronza, Anthropologist and Professor of Ecology and Conservation Biology, Texas A\u0026amp;M University\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Kinship is essential reading. Five books of elemental grace and charm, beginning with a spider's web. Each strand glistens in the sunlight, dreaming, catch and release, a journey through the multiverse. Each gathering of words, a page, a tribe, a story of who we are, who we have been, and who we've yet to become, shiny, bright, new, and very old. The DNA of rock and stone, of all our relations, the chemistry of breathing, letting go, and Love. 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Taken together, these exquisite volumes are a balm for the soul.”\u003cstrong\u003e—Dr. Amy Brady, Executive Director of \u003cem\u003eOrion\u003c\/em\u003e magazine\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Kinship is the type of series I would want to gift to my wild, untamed, and unschooled children, for from its pages springs an education at the end of homogenous time, a crack in the tarmac of ascension, an insurgency of the hitherto invisible. At a time when the human is no longer tenable as a category unto itself, we will need the prophetic voices of these poets, philosophers, mothers, fathers, scientists, thinkers, public intellectuals, artists, and awestruck fugitives to kindle a politics of humility, to help us fall down to earth from our gilded perches, to help us stray from the threatening familiarity of our own image. It is time to meet the others we imagined we left behind: this constellation of stars will guide us.\"\u003cstrong\u003e—Bayo Akomolafe, Ph.D., author of \u003cem\u003eThese Wilds Beyond our Fences: Letters to My Daughter on Humanity’s Search for Home \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The Kinship series upends colonial paradigms around humans and our relationship with more-than-human nature. These paradigms have driven mainstream environmental movements to engage in myopic efforts that at times have exacerbated ecological imbalances. Through stories, essays, art, poetry, and more, contributors chip away at the layers that bind our collective colonial ethos. Rather than owning nature, we are urged to think about our kinship with all that is nonhuman. Rather than controlling our environments using methods rooted in human exceptionalism (i.e., we know best), we are urged to learn from our kin. 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