Harvard University Press - NATURE

Sharks and Rays of Australia

Thu, 30 Apr 2009 00:00:00 EDT

Peter R. Last
John D. Stevens
The waters around Australia, the world’s smallest continent, are home to the greatest diversity of sharks and rays on Earth. Fully 100 of these sea creatures (along with their little-known relatives, the chimaerids) have been named or described since the first edition of this book—the biggest revision of the Class Chondrichthyes since the time of Linneaus. This second edition of Sharks and Rays of Australia brings more than 300 of these species to life in newly commissioned, full-color illustrations.
Hardcover April 2009

Prairie Dogs

Mon, 2 Feb 2009 00:00:00 EST

C. N. Slobodchikoff
Bianca S. Perla
Jennifer L. Verdolin
Slobodchikoff and colleagues synthesize the results of their long-running study of Gunnison’s prairie dogs (Cynomys gunnisoni), one of the keystone species of the short-grass prairie ecosystem. By examining the complex factors behind prairie dog decline, we can begin to understand the problems inherent in our adversarial relationship with the natural world.
Hardcover February 2009

Dogs

Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:00:00 EST

Catherine Johns
The juxtaposition and explanation of images as diverse as Greek pottery, Victorian jewelry, Assyrian sculpture, and Japanese netsuke, illuminates our understanding of the place of dogs in human society around the world. This book explores these cultural expressions and reflections of our deep and long-standing interest in dogs.
Hardcover December 2008

The Discovery of Global Warming

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Spencer R. Weart
In 2001 an international panel of climate scientists announced that the world was warming at a rate without precedent during at least the last ten millennia. The story of how scientists reached that conclusion was the story Weart told in The Discovery of Global Warming. The award-winning book is now revised and expanded to reflect the latest science.
Paperback October 2008

Egg & Nest

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT

Rosamond Purcell
Linnea S. Hall
René Corado
Introduction by Bernd Heinrich
Alongside Rosamond Purcell’s stunning photographs, Linnea Hall and René Corado offer an engaging history of egg collecting, the provenance of the specimens in the photographs, and the biology, conservation, and ecology of the birds that produced them.
Hardcover October 2008

Audubon: Early Drawings

Tue, 30 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT

John James Audubon
Introduction by Richard Rhodes
Notes by Scott V. Edwards
Foreword by Leslie A. Morris
In 1805, Jean Jacques Audubon fled revolutionary violence in both Haiti and France to take refuge in frontier America. Ten years later, John James Audubon was an American citizen whose desire to “become acquainted with nature” led him to reinvent himself as a naturalist and artist. The drawings he made during this crucial decade, of specimens he collected in France and in America, are published together here for the first time in large format and full color.
Hardcover September 2008