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PHOTOGRAPHY
- Egg & Nest
- Photographer Rosamond Purcell (Bookworm; Owl's Head) has trained her lens on the tens of thousands of birds' eggs and nests in the collection of an obscure museum on the California coast. With glosses on the specimen's natural history by curator Linnea Hall, Purcell shows us the eggs and nests in their breathtaking variety of form and ingenuity of construction, from the eggs of the extinct elephantbird to a nests made of guano, lace, or fireworks.
- Hardcover October 2009
- The Great Wall Revisited
- Hardcover September 2008
- On the Surface of Things
- Using innovative photographic technology, Frankel finds startling abstract beauty on the surfaces of objects all around us. Chemist George Whitesides explains each photograph, describing why and how each of these phenomena occur.
- Paperback April 2008
- Hispaniola
- Biodiversidad a Través de un Recorrido Fotográfico
- A Dominican-based conservationist and photographer, Fernández is documenting the efforts of a distinguished team of international scientists as they unravel the workings of evolution being played out on the island of Hispaniola. What Fernández captures here so vividly is not just the amazing variety of living creatures that have erupted in evolutionary isolation, but the urgency of scientists racing to give that variety a name before it vanishes.
- Hardcover October 2007
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