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Across the Streamby Daniil Kharms, Ginsburg, Nancy TafuriISBN 0688104770 (0-688-10477-0)
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Aesops Fablesby Charles SantoreISBN 067988758X (0-679-88758-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Aesops Fables'Book summary:Here are the time-honored fables of Aesop as never seen before. Santore's animals leap off the page in explosions of color, giving messages to ponder and physical beauty to savor. School Library Journal called this interpretation of the classic morality tales " a delight to the eye and ear." [via]
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Alice's Adventures In Wonderlandby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0688110878 (0-688-11087-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland'Book summary:Source of legend and lyric, reference and conjecture, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is for most children pure pleasure in prose. While adults try to decipher Lewis Carroll's putative use of complex mathematical codes in the text, or debate his alleged use of opium, young readers simply dive with Alice through the rabbit hole, pursuing "The dream-child moving through a land / Of wonders wild and new." There they encounter the White Rabbit, the Queen of Hearts, the Mock Turtle, and the Mad Hatter, among a multitude of other characters--extinct, fantastical, and commonplace creatures. Alice journeys through this Wonderland, trying to fathom the meaning of her strange experiences. But they turn out to be "curiouser and curiouser," seemingly without moral or sense.
For more than 130 years, children have reveled in the delightfully non-moralistic, non-educational virtues of this classic. In fact, at every turn, Alice's new companions scoff at her traditional education. The Mock Turtle, for example, remarks that he took the "regular course" in school: Reeling, Writhing, and branches of Arithmetic-Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision. Carroll believed John Tenniel's illustrations were as important as his text. Naturally, Carroll's instincts were good; the masterful drawings are inextricably tied to the well-loved story. (All ages) --Emilie Coulter [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glassby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0688120504 (0-688-12050-4)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass'Book summary:That Alice. When she's not traipsing after a rabbit into Wonderland, she's gallivanting off into the topsy-turvy world behind the drawing-room looking glass. In Through the Looking Glass, Lewis Carroll's masterful and zany sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, she makes more eccentric acquaintances, including Tweedledee and Tweedledum, the White Queen, and a somewhat grumpy Humpty Dumpty. Through a giant and elaborate chess game, Alice explores this odd country, where one must eat dry biscuits to quench thirst, and run like the wind to stay in one place. As in life, Alice must stay on her toes to learn the rules of this game. Through the Looking Glass immediately took its rightful place beside its partner on the shelf of eternal classics. And luckily for generations of enraptured children, Carroll was again able to persuade John Tenniel to create the fantastic woodblock engravings that have become so indelibly associated with the Alice stories. For almost 130 years, Alice's curious adventures have amused, perplexed, and delighted readers, young and old. This gorgeous, deluxe boxed set of both volumes contains engravings from Tenniel's original woodblocks that were discovered in a London bank in 1985, and reproduced for the first time here. "'What is the use of a book,' thought Alice, 'without pictures?'" What indeed? (All ages) [via]
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found Thereby Lewis Carroll, John TennielISBN 0679417958 (0-679-41795-8)
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Amazing Animal Babiesby Christopher MaynardISBN 0679839240 (0-679-83924-0)
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Amazing Poisonous Animalsby Alexandra Parsons, Jerry Young, Dorling Kindersley Publishing StaffISBN 0679806997 (0-679-80699-7)
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Animal Thinkingby Donald GriffinISBN 0674037138 (0-674-03713-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Astonishing Elephantby Shana AlexanderISBN 0679456600 (0-679-45660-0)
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At Mary Bloom'sby AlikiISBN 0688024807 (0-688-02480-7)
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Barry the Bravest St Bernardby Lynn Hall, Antonio CastroISBN 0679830545 (0-679-83054-5)
Softcover, Random House Children's Books
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Bearby Marian EngelISBN 0689107609 (0-689-10760-9)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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The Black Stallion and Flameby Walter FarleyISBN 0679820205 (0-679-82020-5)
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The Black Stallion and Satanby Walter FarleyISBN 0679813462 (0-679-81346-2)
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The Black Stallion and the Girlby Walter FarleyISBN 0679820213 (0-679-82021-3)
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The Black Stallion Legendby Walter FarleyISBN 0679826998 (0-679-82699-8)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Alec shrugs off the wild taleuntil disaster strikes from the sky. Suddenly the fate of an entire native tribe is in his hands . . . and the mighty Black is faced with a challenge greater than any race! [via]More editions of The Black Stallion Legend:
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The Black Stallion's Ghostby Walter FarleyISBN 0679869506 (0-679-86950-6)
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Buffalo Before Breakfastby Mary Osborne, Sal MurdoccaISBN 0679890645 (0-679-89064-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Buffalo Before Breakfast'Book summary:Morgan Le Fey, a magical librarian from the time of King Arthur, has charged a brave young pair of children with the task of freeing an enchanted dog from a spell by collecting four gifts. In the 18th easy-to-read chapter book in Mary Pope Osborne's Magic Tree House series, eight-year-old Jack and seven-year-old Annie travel back almost 200 years to the Great Plains to find a "gift from the prairie blue." Along the way, Annie and Jack make friends with young Black Hawk, narrowly miss a buffalo stampede, and learn about how the Lakotas view the earth and their place in it. (Ages 8 to 12) [via]
Certain Poor Shepherdsby Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, Andrew DavidsonISBN 0684844583 (0-684-84458-3)
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Certain Poor Shepherds : A Christmas Taleby Elizabeth Marshall ThomasISBN 0684833131 (0-684-83313-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Close Friendsby Peter JenkinsISBN 068808527X (0-688-08527-X)
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A Day No Pigs Would Dieby Robert Newton PeckISBN 0679853065 (0-679-85306-5)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Diversity of Lifeby Edward O. WilsonISBN 0674212983 (0-674-21298-3)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Diversity of Life'Book summary:Humans, the Harvard University entomologist Edward O. Wilson has observed, have an innate--or at least extremely ancient--connection to the natural world, and our continued divorce from it has led to the loss of not only "a vast intellectual legacy born of intimacy" with nature, but also our very sanity. In The Diversity of Life, Wilson takes a sweeping view of our planet's natural richness, remarking on what on the surface seems a paradox: "almost all the species that ever lived are extinct, and yet more are alive today than at any time in the past." (Wilson's elegant explanation is a scientific education in itself.) This great variety of species is, of course, threatened by habitat destruction, global climate change, and a host of other forces, and Wilson revisits his oft-stated call for the protection of wilderness and undeveloped land, noting that "wilderness has virtue unto itself and needs no extraneous justification." We should, he continues, regard every species, "every scrap of biodiversity," as precious and irreplaceable, without attempting to quantify that regard with utilitarian measures such as "bio-economics." In short, Wilson offers with this book a simple, workable environmental ethic that extends the work of Aldo Leopold and other conservationists. A remarkably productive and influential scientist, Wilson is also a fine writer, and his survey of biodiversity makes for welcome and instructive reading. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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A Dog's Lifeby Peter Mayle, Edward KorenISBN 0679762671 (0-679-76267-1)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Familiar Animal Tracksby John FarrandISBN 0679741488 (0-679-74148-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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Fishby Steve ParkerISBN 0679804390 (0-679-80439-0)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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The Glow-in-the Dark Book of Animal Skeletonsby Regina Kahney, Christopher Santoro, Gina SingerISBN 0679810803 (0-679-81080-3)
Hardcover, Random House Children's Books
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Gorillasby Joyce Milton, Robert Hynes, Bryn BarnardISBN 0679872841 (0-679-87284-1)
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The Grand Escapeby Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, Alan DanielISBN 0689317220 (0-689-31722-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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Happy Horsemanshipby Dorothy Henderson PinchISBN 0684852152 (0-684-85215-2)
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Horseby Juliet Clutton-Brock, Karl Shone, Jerry YoungISBN 067981681X (0-679-81681-X)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Horses of the Sun: A Gallery of the World's Most Ex1Uisite Equinesby Robert VavraISBN 0688138640 (0-688-13864-0)
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The House I'll Build for the Wrensby Shirley Neitzel, Nancy Winslow ParkerISBN 068814974X (0-688-14974-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The House I'll Build for the Wrens'Book summary:It started with a diagram and a fertile imagination, but it took much more from Mother's toolbox to achieve the wren's house. In the end everyone (even Mother) was happy, and young readers will be, too, as they "read" the rebus pictures and chant the words aloud. Full-color illustrations. [via]
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I Love You As Much...by Laura Krauss Melmed, Henri SorensenISBN 068811718X (0-688-11718-X)
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In the Hand of the Goddessby Tamora PierceISBN 0679801111 (0-679-80111-1)
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In the Snowby Lindsay Barrett GeorgeISBN 0688170560 (0-688-17056-0)
Softcover, Mulberry Books
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Inch by Inchby Leo LionniISBN 0688132839 (0-688-13283-9)
Softcover, Mulberry Books
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Insectby Laurence Mound, L. A. MoundISBN 0679804412 (0-679-80441-2)
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Is a Camel a Mammal?by Tish Rabe, Jim DurkISBN 0679873023 (0-679-87302-3)
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Island of Dr Moreauby H. G. WellsISBN 0679602305 (0-679-60230-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Island of Dr. Moreau'Book summary:A shipwreck in the South Seas, a palm-tree paradise where a mad doctor conducts vile experiments, animals that become human and then "beastly" in ways they never were before--it's the stuff of high adventure. It's also a parable about Darwinian theory, a social satire in the vein of Jonathan Swift (Gulliver's Travels), and a bloody tale of horror. Or, as H. G. Wells himself wrote about this story, "The Island of Dr. Moreau is an exercise in youthful blasphemy. Now and then, though I rarely admit it, the universe projects itself towards me in a hideous grimace. It grimaced that time, and I did my best to express my vision of the aimless torture in creation." This colorful tale by the author of The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, and The War of the Worlds lit a firestorm of controversy at the time of its publication in 1896. [via]
Jiggle, Wiggle, Pranceby Sally NollISBN 0688067603 (0-688-06760-3)
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Jump Frog Jumpby Robert Kalan, Byron BartonISBN 0688092411 (0-688-09241-1)
Softcover, Harpercollins Childrens Books
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Hardcover, Harpercollins - Jump Frog Jump: ISBN 0688842712 (0-688-84271-2)
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Millie's Book: As Dictated to Barbara Bushby Millie BushISBN 0688040330 (0-688-04033-0)
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Morgan's Zooby James Howe, Leslie H. MorrillISBN 0689310463 (0-689-31046-3)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Morgan's Zoo'Book summary:The Chelsea Park Zoo is a small zoo, and a slightly run down one at that. But to twins Andrew and Allison, it's their favorite place in the world. To the animals who live there, it's their home. And to the kindly, gentle zookeeper, Morgan, it's his life. So when the city announces the zoo will be shut down and the animals shipped to zoos all over the country, the twins -- and the animals -- spring into action to save Morgan's Zoo.
But closing the zoo isn't the only danger afoot. The animals soon discover they have a chance to do more than save their home -- they have a chance to become heroes. [via]
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My Puppy Is Bornby Joanna Cole, Margaret MillerISBN 0688101984 (0-688-10198-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Publishers
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to Floridaby National Audubon Society, Peter AldenISBN 067944677X (0-679-44677-X)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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The Nature of Animal Healing : The Path to Your Pet's Health, Happiness, and Longevityby Martin GoldsteinISBN 0679455000 (0-679-45500-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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The Nature of Horses: Exploring Equine Evolution Intelligence and Behaviorby Stephen BudianskyISBN 0684827689 (0-684-82768-9)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Noah's Arkby Roy McKie, Knee High Books StaffISBN 067986654X (0-679-86654-X)
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Once a Mouseby Marcia BrownISBN 0684126621 (0-684-12662-1)
Hardcover, Atheneum
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Otter Nonsenseby Norman Juster, Michael WitteISBN 0688122825 (0-688-12282-5)
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The Phantom Tollboothby Norton JusterISBN 0679833706 (0-679-83370-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Phantom Tollbooth'Book summary:"It seems to me that almost everything is a waste of time," Milo laments. "[T]here's nothing for me to do, nowhere I'd care to go, and hardly anything worth seeing." This bored, bored young protagonist who can't see the point to anything is knocked out of his glum humdrum by the sudden and curious appearance of a tollbooth in his bedroom. Since Milo has absolutely nothing better to do, he dusts off his toy car, pays the toll, and drives through. What ensues is a journey of mythic proportions, during which Milo encounters countless odd characters who are anything but dull.
Norton Juster received (and continues to receive) enormous praise for this original, witty, and oftentimes hilarious novel, first published in 1961. In an introductory "Appreciation" written by Maurice Sendak for the 35th anniversary edition, he states, "The Phantom Tollbooth leaps, soars, and abounds in right notes all over the place, as any proper masterpiece must." Indeed.
As Milo heads toward Dictionopolis he meets with the Whether Man ("for after all it's more important to know whether there will be weather than what the weather will be"), passes through The Doldrums (populated by Lethargarians), and picks up a watchdog named Tock (who has a giant alarm clock for a body). The brilliant satire and double entendre intensifies in the Word Market, where after a brief scuffle with Officer Short Shrift, Milo and Tock set off toward the Mountains of Ignorance to rescue the twin Princesses, Rhyme and Reason. Anyone with an appreciation for language, irony, or Alice in Wonderland-style adventure will adore this book for years on end. (Ages 8 and up) [via]
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The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imaginationby Harriet RitvoISBN 0674673581 (0-674-67358-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imagination'Book summary:"Cats is 'dogs,' and rabbits is 'dogs,' and so's parrots; but this `ere 'tortis' is a insect," a porter explains to an astonished traveler in a nineteenth-century Punch cartoon. Railways were not the only British institution to schematize the world. This enormously entertaining book captures the fervor of the Victorian age for classifying and categorizing every new specimen, plant or animal, that British explorers and soldiers and sailors brought home. As she depicts a whole complex of competing groups deploying rival schemes and nomenclatures, Harriet Ritvo shows us a society drawing and redrawing its own boundaries and ultimately identifying itself. The experts (whether calling themselves naturalists, zoologists, or comparative anatomists) agreed on their superior authority if nothing else, but the laymen had their say--and Ritvo shows us a world in which butchers and artists, farmers and showmen vied to impose order on the wild profusion of nature. Sometimes assumptions or preoccupations overlapped; sometimes open disagreement or hostility emerged, exposing fissures in the social fabric or contested cultural territory. Of the greatest interest were creatures that confounded or crossed established categories; in the discussions provoked by these mishaps, monstrosities, and hybrids we can see ideas about human society--about the sexual proclivities of women, for instance, or the imagined hierarchy of nations and races. A thoroughly absorbing account of taxonomy--as zoological classification and as anthropological study--The Platypus and the Mermaid offers a new perspective on the constantly shifting, ever suggestive interactions of scientific lore, cultural ideas, and the popular imagination. [via]
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Sajo and the Beaver Peopleby Grey OwlISBN 0684922983 (0-684-92298-3)
Hardcover, Scribner
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Salta, Ranita, Salta/Jump, Frog, Jumpby Robert Kalan, Byron Barton, Aida MarcuseISBN 0688138047 (0-688-13804-7)
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Shadow of a Bullby Maia WojciechowskaISBN 0689300425 (0-689-30042-5)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behaviorby David Sibley, Chris Elphick, John B. DunningISBN 0679451234 (0-679-45123-4)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sibley Guide to Bird Life and Behavior'Book summary:From the creator of the seminal field guide, The Sibley Guide to Birds, comes another indispensable book for bird watchers. This veritable bible to the world of birds is the collaborative effort of 48 expert birders and biologists, who combine scientific accuracy and detail with an easily readable and well-organized format. How does a tiny chickadee survive subzero temperatures? How do flocks of birds synchronize their flights? How can an albatross cross miles of ocean without flapping its wings? Which bird brains are actually intelligent? It's all here in essays giving an overview of avian evolution, biology, and the aerodynamics of flight and in chapters devoted to the 80 bird families of North America, each one detailing taxonomy, habitats, feeding, breeding, vocalizations, migrations, and more. Concerned about declining populations, Sibley also discusses the conservation status of each species and the factors that threaten them. This fascinating source of information is destined to be a well-thumbed companion. -- Lesley Reed [via]
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The Sibley Guide to Birdsby David Sibley, Audubon SocietyISBN 0679451226 (0-679-45122-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Sibley Guide to Birds'Book summary:More than 10 years in the making, David Sibley's Guide to Birds is a monumental achievement. The beautiful watercolor illustrations (6,600, covering 810 species in North America) and clear, descriptive text place Sibley and his work squarely in the tradition of John James Audubon and Roger Tory Peterson; more than a birdwatcher and evangelizer, he is one of the foremost bird painters and authorities in the U.S. Still, his field guide will no doubt spark debate. Unlike Kenn Kaufman's Focus Guide, Sibley's is unapologetically aimed at the converted. Beginning birders may want to keep a copy of Sibley at home as a reference, but the wealth of information will have the same effect on novices as trying to pick out a single sandpiper in a wheeling flock of thousands. The familiar yellow warbler, for instance, gets no less than nine individual illustrations documenting its geographic, seasonal, and sex variations--plus another eight smaller illustrations showing it in flight. Of course, more experienced birders will appreciate this sort of detail, along with Sibley's improvements on both Peterson and the National Geographic guide:
- As in Peterson, Sibley employs a pointer system for key field markings--but additional text blurbs are included alongside the illustrations to facilitate identification.
- Descriptive passages on identification are more detailed than those in most other field guides. For example, Sibley includes extensive information on the famously hard-to-distinguish hawks in the genus Accipiter (sharp-shinned, Cooper's, and northern goshawk), noting differences in leg thickness and wing beat that will be of use to more advanced birders. A section on the identification of "peeps" (small sandpipers) includes tips about seasonal molting and bill length. Confusing fall warblers, Empidonax flycatchers, and Alcids receive similar treatment.
- As previously mentioned, ample space is given to illustrations that show plumage variations by age, sex, and geography within a single species. Thus, an entire page is devoted to the red-shouldered hawk and its differing appearances in the eastern U.S., Florida, and California; similarly, gulls are distinguished by age and warblers by sex.
- Range maps are detailed and accurate, with breeding, wintering, and migration routes clearly depicted; rare but regular geographic occurrences are denoted by green dots.
- The binding and paper stock are of exceptional quality. Despite its 544 pages, a reinforced paperback cover and sewn-in binding allow the book to be spread out flat without fear of breaking the binding.
Some birders will be put off by the book's size. Slightly larger than the National Geographic guide, it's less portable than most field guides and will likely spend more time in cars and desks than on a birder's person while in the field. For some it will be a strictly stay-at-home companion guide to consult after a field trip; others may want to have it handy in a fannypack or backpack. But regardless of how it is used, Sibley's Guide to Birds is a significant addition to any birding library. "Birds are beautiful," the author writes in the preface, "their colors, shapes, actions, and sounds are among the most aesthetically pleasing in nature." Pleasing, too, is this comprehensive guide to their identification. --Langdon Cook [via]
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The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric Lifeby Douglas Palmer, R.J.G. Savage, Colin Harrison, Barry Cox, Brian GardinerISBN 0684864118 (0-684-86411-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures: A Visual Who's Who of Prehistoric Life'Book summary:An unmatched reference work distinguished by its erudition and beauty, "The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures" is an illustrated who's who of prehistoric life, a Baedeker of more than 500 million years of evolution on Earth.
With entries for more than 600 species, each arranged in its evolutionary sequence, the book presents a panorama of enormous diversity, from predatory dinosaurs to primitive amphibians, from giant armored fish to woolly mammoths, saber-tooth tigers and dire wolves. Each entry features a specially commissioned full-color painting prepared according to the best research of today in close collaboration with world-renowned paleontologists. The records of the rocks -- fossil bones, teeth, skin, hair and even footprints and nests -- have been combined with knowledge of the anatomy and behavior of present-day descendants to arrive at informed judgments about posture, color and other aspects of appearance.
Lively and informative "biographies" of the creatures accompany these remarkable illustrations: how they moved, what they ate, where they ranged and the habitats and ecological niches they occupied. Comparisons are made wherever possible with familiar living animals, highlighting both the contrasts and similarities. Also included are articles on subjects such as the time scale of evolution, fossil formation and interpretation and convergent evolution.
Truly a magnificent sourcebook, "The Simon & Schuster Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Creatures" is both a triumph of scholarship and a work of art. It will stand as the best and most accurate presentation of the prehistoric animal world available. [via]
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Slippery Babiesby Ginny JohnstonISBN 0688096050 (0-688-09605-0)
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Sociobiologyby Edward Osborne WilsonISBN 0674002350 (0-674-00235-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sociobiology: The New Synthesis'Book summary:E.O. Wilson defines sociobiology as "the systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior," the central theoretical problem of which is the question of how behaviors that seemingly contradict the principles of natural selection, such as altruism, can develop. Sociobiology: A New Synthesis, Wilson's first attempt to outline the new field of study, was first published in 1975 and called for a fairly revolutionary update to the so-called Modern Synthesis of evolutionary biology. Sociobiology as a new field of study demanded the active inclusion of sociology, the social sciences, and the humanities in evolutionary theory. Often criticized for its apparent message of "biological destiny," Sociobiology set the stage for such controversial works as Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene and Wilson's own Consilience.
Sociobiology defines such concepts as society, individual, population, communication, and regulation. It attempts to explain, biologically, why groups of animals behave the way they do when finding food or shelter, confronting enemies, or getting along with one another. Wilson seeks to explain how group selection, altruism, hierarchies, and sexual selection work in populations of animals, and to identify evolutionary trends and sociobiological characteristics of all animal groups, up to and including man. The insect sections of the books are particularly interesting, given Wilson's status as the world's most famous entomologist.
It is fair to say that as an ecological strategy eusociality has been overwhelmingly successful. It is useful to think of an insect colony as a diffuse organism, weighing anywhere from less than a gram to as much as a kilogram and possessing from about a hundred to a million or more tiny mouths.
It's when Wilson starts talking about human beings that the furor starts. Feminists have been among the strongest critics of the work, arguing that humans are not slaves to a biological destiny, forever locked in "primitive" behavior patterns without the ability to reason past our biochemical nature. Like The Origin of Species, Sociobiology has forced many biologists and social scientists to reassess their most cherished notions of how animals work. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Sociobiology: The New Synthesisby Edward O. Wilson, Sarah LandryISBN 0674816218 (0-674-81621-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sociobiology: The New Synthesis'Book summary:E.O. Wilson defines sociobiology as "the systematic study of the biological basis of all social behavior," the central theoretical problem of which is the question of how behaviors that seemingly contradict the principles of natural selection, such as altruism, can develop. Sociobiology: A New Synthesis, Wilson's first attempt to outline the new field of study, was first published in 1975 and called for a fairly revolutionary update to the so-called Modern Synthesis of evolutionary biology. Sociobiology as a new field of study demanded the active inclusion of sociology, the social sciences, and the humanities in evolutionary theory. Often criticized for its apparent message of "biological destiny," Sociobiology set the stage for such controversial works as Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene and Wilson's own Consilience.
Sociobiology defines such concepts as society, individual, population, communication, and regulation. It attempts to explain, biologically, why groups of animals behave the way they do when finding food or shelter, confronting enemies, or getting along with one another. Wilson seeks to explain how group selection, altruism, hierarchies, and sexual selection work in populations of animals, and to identify evolutionary trends and sociobiological characteristics of all animal groups, up to and including man. The insect sections of the books are particularly interesting, given Wilson's status as the world's most famous entomologist.
It is fair to say that as an ecological strategy eusociality has been overwhelmingly successful. It is useful to think of an insect colony as a diffuse organism, weighing anywhere from less than a gram to as much as a kilogram and possessing from about a hundred to a million or more tiny mouths.
It's when Wilson starts talking about human beings that the furor starts. Feminists have been among the strongest critics of the work, arguing that humans are not slaves to a biological destiny, forever locked in "primitive" behavior patterns without the ability to reason past our biochemical nature. Like The Origin of Species, Sociobiology has forced many biologists and social scientists to reassess their most cherished notions of how life works. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Striderby Beverly Cleary, Paul O. ZelinskyISBN 0688099009 (0-688-09900-9)
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Tigers: A Look into Glittering Eyeby Lee ServerISBN 0681415851 (0-681-41585-1)
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Timothy, or, Notes of an Abject Reptileby Verlyn KlinkenborgISBN 0679737537 (0-679-73753-7)
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The Well Cat Book: The Classic Comprehensive Handbook of Cat Careby Terri McGinnisISBN 0679770003 (0-679-77000-3)
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Wild, Wild Wolvesby Joyce Milton, Larry SchwingerISBN 0679810528 (0-679-81052-8)
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Winter Whaleby Joanne Ryder, Michael Rothman, Amy Cohn, Carol LaceyISBN 0688131107 (0-688-13110-7)
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Year at Maple Hill Farmby Alice Provensen, Martin ProvensenISBN 0689204949 (0-689-20494-9)
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Yertle the Turtle and Other Storiesby SeussISBN 0679832297 (0-679-83229-7)
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