Life Sciences from the University of Chicago Press
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The acquiring editor at the University of Chicago Press for this subject is Joseph Calamia.
The Philosopher Fish
Vector
Richard Owen
Platypus Matters
Plants Matter
A Splendour of Succulents & Cacti
Beautiful Experiments
How Life Works
The Huxleys
New Earth Histories
Saving the World
Rethinking Hypothyroidism
Deep Water
An Ancient Mesopotamian Herbal
The Kew Temperate Plant Families Identification Handbook
Worm
The Greater Perfection
The Three Ethologies
Beautiful Shells
The Craft of Science Writing
One Planet, Many Worlds
The Book of Orchids
Cuckoo
Petrichor
Things to Do with Plants
Foundations of Stream and River Ecology
Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder’s Fork and Lizard’s Leg
Frog Day
The Herbarium Handbook
A Little Queer Natural History
More-than-Human Histories of Latin America and the Caribbean
The Gardener’s Guide to Prairie Plants
Botanical Architecture
Botany of the Kitchen Garden
Probably Overthinking It
Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery
The Well-Connected Animal
Weeds
Shaping the Wild
Ferdinand Bauer’s Remarkable Birds
George Meléndez Wright
Ancient Oaks in the English Landscape
Kew Pocketbooks: Orchids
Land Art as Climate Action
Plant Collectors in Angola
Extinctions
The Visual Elements—Design
The Visual Elements—Photography
Silm Da’axk / To Revive and Heal Again
Water Always Wins
Botanical Icons
Sea Level
The Beauty of the Flower
Catesby’s Natural History
Bird Day
A Sense of Urgency
A Book of Noises
Is Anyone Listening?
Oak Origins
Kew Pocketbooks: Poisonous Plants
Environmental Futures
Demystifying Orchid Pollination
The Green Ages
Ocean Bestiary
Handbook of Quantitative Ecology
Extraordinary Orchids
In the Name of Plants
Journeys with Emperors
Field Guide to the Orchids of Europe and the Mediterranean
How Primates Eat
Kew Pocketbooks: Houseplants
Kew Pocketbooks: Mexican Plants
Moss and Lichen
The Kew Gardens Christmas Book
Birdwatching in Maine
Bamboo
How Does Germline Regenerate?
Life Sculpted
Kew Pocketbooks: Trees
What is Conservation?
Foundations of Ecology II
The Next Supercontinent
Shells
The Book of Snakes
Stones
Mountains of Fire
Diet for a Large Planet
Freshwater Fish of the Northeast
Who’s a Good Dog?
Principles of Soundscape Ecology
Meetings with Remarkable Mushrooms
Apes on the Edge
Performance All the Way Down
Wind
Disputed Inheritance
Sloth
The Sloth Lemur’s Song
Nightingale
Fascinating Shells
Enchanted Forests
Dawn at Mineral King Valley
Catastrophic Thinking
Trees
Solvable
Rowan
Otherworldly Antarctica
William James, MD
Seaglass
Chasing Plants
Carnivorous Plants
Orchid
Shaping Science
The Chemical Age
Tools and the Organism
Robin
Born This Way
A Planet of Viruses
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