Marianne Stowell Bracke
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Conservation for Cities: How To Plan & Build Natural Infrastructure
For city planners, landscape architects, and ecologists, this book is a solid research overview; also appropriate for a general audience.
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It Started with Copernicus: Vital Questions About Science
Overall, the philosophy of science may be a challenging and unfamiliar concept, but this book is a readable introduction to the topic.
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Blaser explains even the most complicated scientific and medical concepts with straightforward clarity. Most important, he makes a case for why readers, whatever their background, absolutely need to care about society's overuse and misuse of antibiotics. [See Prepub Alert, 10/21/13.]
Missing Microbes: How the Overuse of Antibiotics Is Fueling Our Modern Plagues
Blaser explains even the most complicated scientific and medical concepts with straightforward clarity. Most important, he makes a case for why readers, whatever their background, absolutely need to care about society's overuse and misuse of antibiotics. [See Prepub Alert, 10/21/13.]
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Odd Couples: Extraordinary Differences Between the Sexes in the Animal Kingdom
Fairbairn's writing makes this book suitable for a general audience with an interest in biology, while her inclusion of endnotes, charts, tables, and a glossary makes it useful as well for those with a more technical bent. Recommended.
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The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
The author's enthusiasm for his profession, especially the more harrowing aspects of fieldwork, is infectious, and he does an excellent job of showing the heart-pounding excitement of making new scientific discoveries. Readers will never think about rocks the same way again.
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Harvest: An Adventure into the Heart of America's Family Farms
His sense of humor is refreshing, and it's clear that he thoroughly enjoyed bringing these people's stories to a new audience. Recommended.
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Empire of the Beetle
Nikiforuk tallies the human and ecological costs of bark beetles' destruction of wide swathes of trees, costs that are exacerbated by climate change. His plainspoken writing style is especially poignant as he gives voice to the devastating human experience of lost forests. Recommended.
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Plastic Ocean
In 1997, when Moore took a shortcut across the nearly windless North Pacific Subtropical Gyre...
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Salt Marsh Diary
This lively work will appeal to the poetic at heart and nature lovers alike, particularly those who feel the gulf between the world they live in and the simplicity of the world outside. Recommended.
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