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The Agromyzidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia and Denmarkby K.A. SpencerISBN 8787491087 (87-87491-08-7)
Softcover, Brill Academic Pub
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Ambient Findabilityby Peter MorvilleISBN 0596007655 (0-596-00765-5)
Softcover, Oreilly & Associates Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Ambient Findability'Book summary:How do you find your way in an age of information overload? How can you filter streams of complex information to pull out only what you want? Why does it matter how information is structured when Google seems to magically bring up the right answer to your questions? What does it mean to be "findable" in this day and age? This eye-opening new book examines the convergence of information and connectivity. Written by Peter Morville, author of the groundbreaking Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the book defines our current age as a state of unlimited findability. In other words, anyone can find anything at any time. Complete navigability.
Morville discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that are coming together to make unlimited findability possible. He explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society, since Web access is now a standard requirement for successful people and businesses. But before he does that, Morville looks back at the history of wayfinding and human evolution, suggesting that our fear of being lost has driven us to create maps, charts, and now, the mobile Internet.
The book's central thesis is that information literacy, information architecture, and usability are all critical components of this new world order. Hand in hand with that is the contention that only by planning and designing the best possible software, devices, and Internet, will we be able to maintain this connectivity in the future. Morville's book is highlighted with full color illustrations and rich examples that bring his prose to life.
Ambient Findability doesn't preach or pretend to know all the answers. Instead, it presents research, stories, and examples in support of its novel ideas. Are we truly at a critical point in our evolution where the quality of our digital networks will dictate how we behave as a species? Is findability indeed the primary key to a successful global marketplace in the 21st century and beyond. Peter Morville takes you on a thought-provoking tour of these memes and more -- ideas that will not only fascinate but will stir your creativity in practical ways that you can apply to your work immediately.
""A lively, enjoyable and informative tour of a topic that's only going to become more important.""
--David Weinberger, Author, "Small Pieces Loosely Joined" and "The Cluetrain Manifesto"
""I envy the young scholar who finds this inventive book, by whatever strange means are necessary. The future isn't just unwritten--it's unsearched.""
--Bruce Sterling, Writer, Futurist, and Co-Founder, The Electronic Frontier Foundation
""Search engine marketing is the hottest thing in Internet business, and deservedly so. Ambient Findability puts SEM into a broader context and provides deeper insights into human behavior. This book will help you grow your online business in a world where being found is not at all certain.""
--Jakob Nielsen, Ph.D., Author, "Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity"
""Information that's hard to find will remain information that's hardly found--from one of the fathers of the discipline of information architecture, and one of its most experienced practitioners, come penetrating observations on why findability is elusive and how the act of seeking changes us.""
--Steve Papa, Founder and Chairman, Endeca
""Whether it's a fact or a figure, a person or a place, Peter Morville knows how to make it findable. Morville explores the possibilities of a world where everything can always be found--and the challenges in getting there--in this wide-ranging, thought-provoking book.""
--Jesse James Garrett, Author, "The Elements of User Experience"
""It is easy to assume that current searching of the World Wide Web is the last word in finding and using information. Peter Morville shows us that search engines are just the beginning. Skillfully weaving together information science research with his own extensive experience, he develops for the reader a feeling for the near future when information is truly findable all around us. There are immense implications, and Morville's lively and humorous writing brings them home.""
--Marcia J. Bates, Ph.D., University of California Los Angeles
""I've always known that Peter Morville was smart. After reading Ambient Findability, I now know he's (as we say in Boston) wicked smart. This is a timely book that will have lasting effects on how we create our future."
--Jared Spool, Founding Principal, User Interface Engineering
""In Ambient Findability, Peter Morville has put his mind and keyboard on the pulse of the electronic noosphere. With tangible examples and lively writing, he lays out the challenges and wonders of finding our way in cyberspace, and explains the mutually dependent evolution of our changing world and selves. This is a must read for everyone and a practical guide for designers.""
--Gary Marchionini, Ph.D., University of North Carolina
""Find this book! Anyone interested in makinginformation easier to find, or understanding how finding and being found is changing, will find this thoroughly researched, engagingly written, literate, insightful and very, very cool book well worth their time. Myriad examples from rich and varied domains and a valuable idea on nearly every page. Fun to read, too!"
--Joseph Janes, Ph.D., Founder, Internet Public Library
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolutionby Richard Dawkins, Yan WongISBN 061861916X (0-618-61916-X)
Softcover, Mariner Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution'Book summary:Just as we trace our personal family trees from parents to grandparents and so on back in time, so in The Ancestor's Tale Richard Dawkins traces the ancestry of life. As he is at pains to point out, this is very much our human tale, our ancestry. Surprisingly, it is one that many otherwise literate people are largely unaware of. Hopefully Dawkins's name and well deserved reputation as a best selling writer will introduce them to this wonderful saga.
The Ancestor's Tale takes us from our immediate human ancestors back through what he calls concestors, those shared with the apes, monkeys and other mammals and other vertebrates and beyond to the dim and distant microbial beginnings of life some 4 billion years ago. It is a remarkable story which is still very much in the process of being uncovered. And, of course from a scientist of Dawkins stature and reputation we get an insider's knowledge of the most up-to-date science and many of those involved in the research. And, as we have come to expect of Dawkins, it is told with a passionate commitment to scientific veracity and a nose for a good story. Dawkins's knowledge of the vast and wonderful sweep of life's diversity is admirable. Not only does it encompass the most interesting living representatives of so many groups of organisms but also the important and informative fossil ones, many of which have only been found in recent years.
Dawkins sees his journey with its reverse chronology as cast in the form of an epic pilgrimage from the present to the past [and] all roads lead to the origin of life. It is, to my mind, a sensible and perfectly acceptable approach although some might complain about going against the grain of evolution. The great benefit for the general reader is that it begins with the more familiar present and the animals nearest and dearest to usour immediate human ancestors. And then it delves back into the more remote and less familiar past with its droves of lesser known and extinct fossil forms. The whole pilgrimage is divided into 40 tales, each based around a group of organisms and discusses their role in the overall story. Genetic, morphological and fossil evidence is all taken into account and illustrated with a wealth of photos and drawings of living and fossils forms, evolutionary and distributional charts and maps through time, providing a visual compliment and complement to the text. The design also allows Dawkins to make numerous running comments and characteristic asides. There are also numerous references and a good index.-- Douglas Palmer [via]
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Aquatic Insects of North Americaby Richard MerrittISBN 0787232416 (0-7872-3241-6)
Hardcover, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
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Arboretumby David ByrneISBN 1932416579 (1-932416-57-9)
Hardcover, McSweeneys Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arboretum'Book summary:For over twenty-five years, David Byrne has focused his unique genius upon forms as diverse as disco, architectural photography, and PowerPoint. Now he presents what may be his most personal work to date, a collection of drawings and diagrams mapping the strange corners of his mental landscape. Its an eclectic blend of faux science, automatic writing, satire, and an attempt to find connections where none were thought to exist a sort of self-therapy, allowing the hand to say what the voice cannot. Irrational logic, its sometimes called. It's the application of logical scientific rigor and form to basically irrational premises. To proceed, carefully and deliberately, from nonsense, with a straight face, often arriving at a new kind of sense. The world keeps opening up, unfolding, and just when we expect it to be closed to be a sealed, sensible box it shows us something completely surprising.[via]
Byrnes enigmatic, enchanting collection teaches us that there is absolutely no reason to discount anything, of any type, anywhere.More editions of Arboretum:
The Biographer's Taleby A. S. ByattISBN 0786235233 (0-7862-3523-3)
Softcover, Thorndike Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Biographer's Tale'Book summary:A.S. Byatt chronicles the life of the mind with the immediacy other novelists bring to the physical world. So when the graduate-student hero of The Biographer's Tale announces that he needs "a life full of things," we take his words with a grain of salt. Yes, Phineas G. Nanson has renounced the "cross-referenced abstractions" of life as a postmodern literary theorist, and vows to ground himself in what he warily calls the "facts" (the quotation marks are definitely in order). Yet he first forays into empiricism by reading a three-volume life of the Victorian traveler, writer, and diplomat Elmer Bole--then immediately undertakes a biography of Bole's biographer, Scholes Destry-Scholes.
Things, as Nanson discovers, can prove just as slippery as ideas. His research quickly leapfrogs beyond the biographer to his other subjects: scientist Carl Linnaeus, playwright Henrik Ibsen, and eugenicist Francis Galton, all of whom Destry-Scholes chronicled in three unpublished, unfinished, and, as it turns out, well-embroidered accounts. Meanwhile, our hero continues his forays into the real world. He takes a part-time job with a pair of gay travel agents, who arrange some very specialized vacations, and meets up with a Swedish bee taxonomist named Fulla, who wants to save the world. He also unearths a perplexing series of Destry-Scholes's index cards, full of sketches, facts, quotations, and unattributed lines of verse. These he attempts to shuffle into some kind of order, even as the enigmatic figure of the biographer himself seems to appear and disappear from view.
There are echoes here of Byatt's Booker Prize-winning Possession, another detective story for the MLA set. Yet The Biographer's Tale is an altogether odder--and chillier--sort of book. It is, in fact, almost terrifyingly learned, and wears its research about as lightly as a pair of Fulla's Ecco sandals. The mystery here is nothing less than the nature of mind, so it's no criticism to say that her characters have little life outside the ideas they represent. What's surprising is that the result is so readable, even beautiful at times. Here, for instance, is Nanson on truth and beauty:
There are a very few human truths and infinite variations on them. I was about to write that there are very few truths about the world, but the truth about that is that we don't know what we are not biologically fitted to know, it may be full of all sorts of shining and tearing things, geometries, chemistries, physics we have no access to and never can have. Reading and writing extend--not infinitely, but violently, but giddily--the variations we can perceive on the truths we thus discover.
The index cards themselves can be painful to read (remember the ersatz Victorian poetry in Possession?). But persevere, dear reader--meaning emerges through the play of one esoteric piece of information against another, just as it does in real life. Byatt extends her philosophical variations as far as she giddily can, and in The Biographer's Tale, she has constructed an elaborate, glittering labyrinth at the center of which lie surprisingly simple truths. --Mary Park [via]More editions of The Biographer's Tale:
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The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perceptionby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679753346 (0-679-75334-6)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception'Book summary:In the eighteenth century, medicine underwent a mutation. For the first time, medical knowledge took on a precision that had formerly belonged only to mathematics. The body became something that could be mapped. Disease became subject to new rules of classification. And doctors begin to describe phenomena that for centuries had remained below the threshold of the visible and expressible.
In The Birth of the Clinic the philosopher and intellectual historian who may be the true heir to Nietzsche charts this dramatic transformation of medical knowledge. As in his classic Madness and Civilization, Michel Foucault shows how much what we think of as pure science owes to social and cultural attitudes -- in this case, to the climate of the French Revolution. Brilliant, provocative, and omnivorously learned, his book sheds new light on the origins of our current notions of health and sickness, life and death. [via]More editions of The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception:
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Blowfliesby Knut RognesISBN 9004093044 (90-04-09304-4)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Blowflies'Book summary:The Calliphoridae are a widespread family of insects of great medical, veterinary and forensic importance. They encompass, among others, the familiar greenbottle and bluebottle filth flies. The book presents a taxonomic revision of the blowflies of Fennoscandia and Denmark. Keys and diagnoses, descriptions, summaries of distribution and biology are given for all taxa. Male and female genitalia are illustrated in great detail. The nomenclature is revised and numerous new specific and generic synonymies are established. Full references to the primary literature are given. A new subfamily classification of the world Calliphoridae is proposed on the basis of cladistic principles. The definition and higher classification of the family and related groups are discussed. [via]
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Botanical Latin: History, Grammar Syntax, Terminology and Vocabularyby William Thomas StearnISBN 0715300520 (0-7153-0052-0)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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Botanical Latin: History, Grammar, Syntax, Terminology and Vocabularyby William T. StearnISBN 0881923214 (0-88192-321-4)
Hardcover, Timber Press, Incorporated
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Botany in a Day: The Patterns Method of Plant Identificationby Thomas J. ElpelISBN 1892784076 (1-892784-07-6)
Softcover, Mountain Pr
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Botany in a Day: Thomas J. Elpel's Herbal Field Guide to Plant Familiesby Thomas J. ElpelISBN 1892784025 (1-892784-02-5)
Softcover, Mountain Pr
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Butterflies in Your Pocket: A Guide to the Butterflies of the Upper Midwestby Steve Hendrix, Diane DebinskiISBN 087745843X (0-87745-843-X)
Softcover, Univ of Iowa Pr
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Caterpillars Of Eastern North America: A Guide To Identification And Natural Historyby David L. WagnerISBN 0691121443 (0-691-12144-3)
Softcover, Princeton Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Caterpillars Of Eastern North America: A Guide To Identification And Natural History'Book summary:This lavishly illustrated guide will enable you to identify the caterpillars of nearly 700 butterflies and moths found east of the Mississippi. The more than 1,200 color photographs and two dozen line drawings include numerous exceptionally striking images. The giant silk moths, tiger moths, and many other species covered include forest pests, common garden guests, economically important species, and of course, the Mescal Worm and Mexican Jumping Bean caterpillars. Full-page species accounts cover almost 400 species, with up to six images per species including an image of the adult plus succinct text with information on distribution, seasonal activity, foodplants, and life history. These accounts are generously complemented with additional images of earlier instars, closely related species, noteworthy behaviors, and other intriguing aspects of caterpillar biology.
Many caterpillars are illustrated here for the first time. Dozens of new foodplant records are presented and erroneous records are corrected. The book provides considerable information on the distribution, biology, and taxonomy of caterpillars beyond that available in other popular works on Eastern butterflies and moths. The introductory chapter covers caterpillar structure, life cycles, rearing, natural enemies, photography, and conservation. The section titled "Caterpillar Projects" will be of special interest to educators.
Given the dearth of accessible guides on the identification and natural history of caterpillars, Caterpillars of Eastern North America is a must for entomologists and museum curators, forest managers, conservation biologists and others who seek a compact, easy-to-use guide to the caterpillars of this vast region.
- A compact guide to nearly 700 caterpillars east of the Mississippi, from forest pests to garden guests and economically important species
- 1,200 color photos and 24 line drawings enable easy identification
- Full-page species accounts with image of adult insect for almost 400 species, plus succinct text on distribution and other vital information
- Many caterpillars illustrated here for the first time
- Current information on distribution, biology, and taxonomy not found in other popular works
- A section geared toward educators, "Caterpillar Projects"
- An indispensable resource for all who seek an easy-to-use guide to the caterpillars of this vast region
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Checklist of North American Birdsby American Ornithologists UnionISBN 189127600X (1-891276-00-X)
Hardcover, Amer Ornithologists Union
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Common Names of Mammals of the Worldby Don E. Wilson, F. Russell ColeISBN 1560983833 (1-56098-383-3)
Softcover, Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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The Dicotyledoneae of Ohio: Part 2. Linaceae Through Campanulaceaeby Toms S. CooperriderISBN 081420628X (0-8142-0628-X)
Hardcover, Ohio State Univ Pr
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Discovering Birds: The Emergence of Ornithology As a Scientific Discipline 1760-1850by Paul Lawrence FarberISBN 0801855373 (0-8018-5537-3)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Drosophilidae (diptera) Of Fennoscandia and Denmarkby G. BACHLI, Carlos R. Vilela, Stefan Andersson EscherISBN 9004140743 (90-04-14074-3)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Drosophilidae (diptera) Of Fennoscandia and Denmark'Book summary:Many species of Drosophila are very important laboratory animals in almost all fields of biological research, because of the ease of culturing on artificial media as well as of their rapid rate of development. Also the study of natural populations, including their living conditions, has become more and more important. "The Drosophilidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia" gives a detailed account of the taxonomy, identification, distribution, and biology of 17 genera and 128 species of West European Drosophilidae. Full descriptions and standardized illustrations of the terminalia are provided for 80 North European species. The aims of this books is to faciliate field work by providing identification keys and by giving hints for further studies on biology, distribution and other aspects of drosophilids. [via]
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The Empidoidae (Diptera) of Fennoscandia And Denmark IV: Genus Hilaraby Milan ChvalaISBN 9004147993 (90-04-14799-3)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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The Empidoideaby M. ChvalaISBN 9004096639 (90-04-09663-9)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Empidoidea'Book summary:This volume is the third in a group of six volumes on Empidoidea (Diptera, Brachycera) of Fennoscandia and Denmark. It covers the true Empididae, the dance flies, of the taxonomically difficult genus Empis. In total 64 species and 11 subgenera are treated, including the faunas of Great Britain and the Netherlands. Each subgenus is briefly characterized, with data on phylogeny, distribution, biology and number of species. The species are fully described and differential characters are illustrated, including the male genitalia. Data for occurrence and distribution are provided and epigamic and swarming behaviour are reviewed. The complete work should be of use to dipterists, taxonomists and museologists, as well as to researchers in ecology, zoogeography, evolutionary biology, agriculture and environmental studies. [via]
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Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorderby David WeinbergerISBN 0805080430 (0-8050-8043-0)
Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co
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The Fabric of Knowledge: A Study of the Relations between Ideasby John Lionel JolleyISBN 0715607146 (0-7156-0714-6)
Hardcover, Duckworth
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A Field Guide to Moths of Eastern North Americaby Charles V. CovellISBN 1884549217 (1-884549-21-7)
Softcover, Virginia Museum of Natural History
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The Film Snob's Dictionary: An Essential Lexicon of Filmological Knowledgeby David Kamp, Lawrence Levi, Ross MacDonaldISBN 0767918762 (0-7679-1876-2)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earthby Lynn Margulis, Karlene V. SchwartzISBN 0716719126 (0-7167-1912-6)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earth'Book summary:This is the most complete and original biological field guide in history. Lynn Margulis, one of the most brilliant biologists of the 20th century, and her colleague Karlene Schwartz provide a roller-skate tour of the whole world of living things, from the smallest bacteria in the hot springs of Yellowstone to the mightiest oak (humans too, but we are set firmly in our place). In his Foreword, Stephen Jay Gould says "If the originality comes before us partly as a 'picture book,' it should not be downgraded for that reason--for primates are visual animals, and the surest instruction in a myriad of unknown creatures must be a set of figures with concise instruction about their meaning--all done so admirably in this volume." --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Five Kingdoms, Student Handbook to Accompany Five Kingdoms: An Illustrated Guide to the Phyla of Life on Earthby Lynn Margulis, Karlene V. SchwartzISBN 0716731835 (0-7167-3183-5)
Softcover, W H Freeman & Co
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The Flat-Footed Flies: (Diptera Opetiidae and Platypezidae) of Europeby Peter J. ChandlerISBN 9004120238 (90-04-12023-8)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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Gardener's Latin: A Lexiconby Bill NealISBN 1565123840 (1-56512-384-0)
Softcover, Algonquin Books
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Handbook of Paleozoologyby Emil Kuhn-Schnyder, Hans RieberISBN 0801828376 (0-8018-2837-6)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Horse Flies of Europe : Diptera: Tabanidaeby M. Chvala, L. Lyneborg, J. MouchaISBN 090084857X (0-900848-57-X)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Publishers
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How to Know the Freshwater Fishesby Samuel EddyISBN 0697047504 (0-697-04750-4)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill Science Engineering
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How to Know the Immature Insectsby H.F. ChuISBN 0697048063 (0-697-04806-3)
Softcover, McGraw-Hill College
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Indexers and Indexes in Fact and Fictionby Hazel K. BellISBN 080208494X (0-8020-8494-X)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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International Code of Botanical Nomenclatureby INTERNATIONAL BOTANICAL CONGRESS 1987 B, W. GreuterISBN 3874292789 (3-87429-278-9)
Hardcover, Lubrecht & Cramer Ltd
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Invertebratesby Richard C. Brusca, Gary J. Brusca, Nancy HaverISBN 0878930973 (0-87893-097-3)
Hardcover, Sinauer Associates, Incorporated
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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognitionby Umberto Eco, Alastair McEwenISBN 015601159X (0-15-601159-X)
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Why did Marco Polo describe the rhinoceros as a type of unicorn? Why couldn't 18th-century observers figure out how to classify the duck-billed platypus? Given a dictionary or encyclopedia definition of a mouse, how easy would it be to identify one if we had never seen one before? These are some of the examples that Eco uses to explore the ways in which we see and describe the world--the ways, that is, in which cultures develop taxonomies. If you want to know "why we can tell an elephant from an armadillo," or why mirrors do not in fact reverse images, this book will tell you. In fact, it will also tell you why you know what I am talking about when I say "this book." Got it? No? Then get it. --Burhan Tufail [via]
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Mammals of Washington and Oregonby Tamara EderISBN 1551053373 (1-55105-337-3)
Softcover, Lone Pine Pub
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Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unityby Gregory BatesonISBN 1572734345 (1-57273-434-5)
Softcover, Hampton Pr
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Molecular Systematicsby David M. Hillis, Craig Moritz, Barbara K. MableISBN 0878932828 (0-87893-282-8)
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Mushrooms of Northeastern North Americaby David W. Fischer, Alan E. Bessette, Arleen R. BessetteISBN 0815603886 (0-8156-0388-6)
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Nabokov's Blues: The Scientific Odyssey of a Literary Geniusby Kurt Johnson, Steven L. CoatesISBN 1581950098 (1-58195-009-8)
Hardcover, Zoland Books
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The Naming of Names: The Search For Order In The World Of Plantsby Anna PavordISBN 1596910712 (1-59691-071-2)
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Naturalistby Edward O. WilsonISBN 1597260886 (1-59726-088-6)
Softcover, Island Pr
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Ontogeny and Phylogenyby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 0674639413 (0-674-63941-3)
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* Recapitulation
* The Analogistic tradition from Anaximander to Bonnet
* Transcendental origins, 1793-1860
* Evolutionary triumph, 1859-1900
* Pervasive influence
* Decline, fall, and generalization
* Heterochrony and paedomorphosis
* Heterochrony and the parallel of ontogeny and phylogeny
* The Ecological and evolutionary significance of heterochrony
* Progenesis and neoteny
* Retardation and neoteny in human evolution
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Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciencesby Michel FoucaultISBN 0679753354 (0-679-75335-4)
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Peterson Field Guide to the Mammalsby William BurtISBN 0785798668 (0-7857-9866-8)
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Pigeonby Wendell M. LeviISBN 0910876010 (0-910876-01-0)
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Plant Identification Terminology: An Illustrated Glossaryby James G. Harris, Melinda Woolf HarrisISBN 0964022168 (0-9640221-6-8)
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The Platypus and the Mermaid: And Other Figments of the Classifying Imaginationby Harriet RitvoISBN 0674673581 (0-674-67358-1)
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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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Pollen Analysisby P.D. Moore, J.A. Webb, Margaret E. CollinsonISBN 0865428956 (0-86542-895-6)
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The Sarcophagidae - Diptera - Of Fennoscandia and Denmarkby th PapeISBN 9004081844 (90-04-08184-4)
Hardcover, Brill Academic Pub
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Scientific and Common Names for the Amphibians and Reptiles of Mexico in English and Spanishby Ernest A. Liner, Jose L. CamarilloISBN 091698432X (0-916984-32-X)
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Scientific and Standard English Names of Amphibians and Reptiles of North America North of MexicoISBN 0916984540 (0-916984-54-0)
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The Sciomyzidae - Diptera - Of Fennoscandia and Denmarkby R. RozkosnyISBN 9004075925 (90-04-07592-5)
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Seed to Seed: Seed Saving and Growing Techniques for Vegetable Gardenersby Kent Whealy, Suzanne AshworthISBN 1882424581 (1-882424-58-1)
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The Sepsidae (Diptera) of Europeby Adrian C. Pont, Rudolf MeierISBN 9004124772 (90-04-12477-2)
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The Siphonini - Diptera-Tachinidae - Of Europeby Stig AndersonISBN 9004107312 (90-04-10731-2)
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Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequencesby Geoffrey C. Bowker, Susan Leigh StarISBN 0262522950 (0-262-52295-0)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences'Book summary:Is this book sociology, anthropology, or taxonomy? Sorting Things Out, by communications theorists Geoffrey C. Bowker and Susan Leigh Star, covers a lot of conceptual ground in its effort to sort out exactly how and why we classify and categorize the things and concepts we encounter day to day. But the analysis doesn't stop there; the authors go on to explore what happens to our thinking as a result of our classifications. With great insight and precise academic language, they pick apart our information systems and language structures that lie deeper than the everyday categories we use. The authors focus first on the International Classification of Diseases (ICD), a widely used scheme used by health professionals worldwide, but also look at other health information systems, racial classifications used by South Africa during apartheid, and more.
Though it comes off as a bit too academic at times (by the end of the 20th century, most writers should be able to get the spelling of McDonald's restaurant right), the book has a clever charm that thoughtful readers will surely appreciate. A sly sense of humor sneaks into the writing, giving rise to the chapter title "The Kindness of Strangers," for example. After arguing that categorization is both strongly influenced by and a powerful reinforcer of ideology, it follows that revolutions (political or scientific) must change the way things are sorted in order to throw over the old system. Who knew that such simple, basic elements of thought could have such far-reaching consequences? Whether you ultimately place it with social science, linguistics, or (as the authors fear) fantasy, make sure you put Sorting Things Out in your reading pile. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Spiders and Their Kinby Lorna R. Levi, Herbert Walter Levi, Herbert Spencer Zim, Nicholas StrekalovskyISBN 1582381569 (1-58238-156-9)
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The Stratiomyioidea - Diptera - Of Fennoscandia and Denmarkby R. RozkosnyISBN 8787491001 (87-87491-00-1)
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The Tachydromiinae (Dipt. Empididae) of Fennoscandia and Denmarkby Milan ChvalaISBN 8787491044 (87-87491-04-4)
Hardcover, Scandinavian Science Press
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Taxonomy of Flowering Plantsby Cedric Lambert PorterISBN 0716707098 (0-7167-0709-8)
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Typologies and Taxonomies: An Introducation to Classification Techniquesby Kenneth D. BaileyISBN 0803952597 (0-8039-5259-7)
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The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Livedby Colin TudgeISBN 0198503113 (0-19-850311-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures That Have Ever Lived'Book summary:It takes a brave writer to tackle the truly Herculean task of describing The Variety of Life with the astronomical numbers of organisms living today, let alone all those that have fallen by the wayside over the billions of years of life on Earth. No one is quite sure how many living species there are, but it is estimated to be somewhere between 10 million and 100 million. Fortunately, since the days of the great Swedish naturalist Linnaeus, around 250 years ago, life has been grouped and classified into hierarchical schemes. As a result, it is possible to encompass this enormous variety of life by describing the relatively few groups into which it can be clustered. And, since the mid-19th century and the Darwin-Wallace theory of evolution by natural selection, classification has taken on an extra, evolutionary dimension.
Colin Tudge, a well-known British science writer, has training in whole animal biology and a self-proclaimed love for the natural-historical foray among our fellow creatures. The first part of this big book (all of 90 pages) deals with the thorny problems of what Tudge rightly calls the craft and science of classification. Since the 1950s, the word cladistics has terrorized many traditional naturalists and biologists. But it is here to stay, and Tudge provides a very welcome guide that will be invaluable to both lay people and students.
The bulk of the text, nearly 500 pages, forms part II and includes the descriptions of the main groups, from the most primitive (alpha proteobacteria) prokaryotes to Eupatorium, a large genus of 1,800 or so species of plant. In between these two groups, at either end of the biological spectrum, lie all the more familiar bugs and beasts, including ourselves. Inevitably, given so many millions of organisms, difficult choices have to be made. Some groups are only dealt with at phylum level (for example, brachiopods), while others are detailed down to family level (for example, primates). Some extinct groups (not surprisingly, the dinosaurs) get a look, but not many overall. The short epilogue concerns conservation and is followed by a useful reference list of sources and an index. Altogether, the 600-odd pages are enlivened with a large number of excellent black-and-white drawings of individual organisms and diagrams illustrating evolutionary relationships. For all natural historians and anyone interested in biology, the The Variety of Life is a must. --Douglas Palmer, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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Vertebrate Paleontology and Evolutionby Robert L. CarrollISBN 0716718227 (0-7167-1822-7)
Hardcover, Freeman & Company, W. H.
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Walker's Mammals of the Worldby Ronald M. NowakISBN 0801857899 (0-8018-5789-9)
Hardcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Walker's Mammals of the World'Book summary:From aardwolves and bandicoots to yapoks and zorillas, Ernest P. Walker's Mammals of the World is the most comprehensive--the preeminent--reference work on mammals. Now, completely revised and updated, this fascinating guide is better than ever--covering more than 1,000 genera of mammals, including nearly one hundred that did nor appear in previous editions, and describing more than 4,000 different species.
The newest Walker's Mammals offers, for the first time in a single publication, a complete account of world mammals in all of historical time--that is, since about 3,000 B.C. Another new feature is that species are arranged within each genus in the order of simple to more advanced life forms, so that species are shown in their closest relation to one another. No other work contains illustrations--more than 1,700--of virtually every genus of mammals. Included are pictures by such noted wildlife photographers as Leonard Lee Rue III, Bernhard Grzimek, David Pye, and Warren T. Houck. Many new photographs of rarely seen animals have been added and, as in previous editions, most photographic illustrations are of live animals rather than of skins or skeletons.
Each section of the book describes one genus and includes facts such as scientific and common names, the number and distribution of species, measurements and physical traits, habitat, locomotion, daily and seasonal activity, population dynamics, home range, social life, reproduction, and longevity. Textual summaries present accurate, well-documented descriptions of the physical characteristics and living habits of mammals in every part of the world. Endangered species and those having singular economic importance are given particular attention, and the names and ranges of all the species within a given genus are listed at the beginning of each entry.
Since its publication in 1964, Walker's Mammals of the World has become a favorite guide to the natural world for general readers and an invaluable resource for professionals. This fifth edition represents more than half a century of scholarship--Ernest P. Walker himself devoted more than thirty years to the original project--and remains true to Walker's vision, smoothly combining thorough scholarship with a popular, readable style to preserve and enhance what the Washington Post called "a landmark of zoological literature."
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What Wood Is That: A Manual of Wood Identificationby Herbert Leeson EdlinISBN 0670759074 (0-670-75907-4)
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What's in the Names of Wild Animalsby Peter R. Limburg, Murray TinkelmanISBN 0698204166 (0-698-20416-6)
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Winter Twigs: A Wintertime Key to Deciduous Trees and Shrubs of Northwestern Oregon and Western Washingtonby Patricia L. Packard, Helen Margaret GilkeyISBN 0870715305 (0-87071-530-5)
Softcover, Oregon st Univ Pr
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of Historyby Stephen Jay GouldISBN 039330700X (0-393-30700-X)
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Gould describes how the Burgess Shale fauna was discovered, reassembled, and analyzed in detail so clear that the reader actually gets some feeling for what paleobiologists do, in the field and in the lab. The many line drawings are unusually beautiful, and now can be compared to a wonderful collection of photographs in Fossils of the Burgess Shale by Derek Briggs, one of Gould's students.
Burgess Shale animals have been called a "paleontological Rorschach test," and not every geologist by any means agrees with Gould's thesis that they represent a "road not taken" in the history of life. Simon Conway Morris, one of the subjects of Wonderful Life, has expressed his disagreement in Crucible of Creation. Wonderful Life was published in 1989, and there has been an explosion of scientific interest in the pre-Cambrian and Cambrian periods, with radical new ideas fighting for dominance. But even though many scientists disagree with Gould about the radical oddity of the Burgess Shale animals, his argument that the history of life is profoundly contingent--as in the movie It's a Wonderful Life, from which this book takes its title--has become more accepted, in theories such as Ward and Brownlee's Rare Earth hypothesis. And Gould's loving, detailed exposition of the labor it took to understand the Burgess Shale remains one of the best explanations of scientific work around. --Mary Ellen Curtin [via]
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Kant E L'ornitorincoby Umberto EcoISBN 8845228681 (88-452-2868-1)
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Kant Y El Ornitorrincoby Umberto EcoISBN 8426412653 (84-264-1265-3)
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Angiospermernes Taxonomiby Rolf DahlgrenISBN 8750013955 (87-500-1395-5)
Hardcover, Akademisk Forlag, Eksp.: DBK
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