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Innocent. Invader. Lover. Thief. Sparrows are everywhere and wear many guises. Able to live in the Arctic and the desert, from Beijing to San Francisco, the house sparrow is the most ubiquitous wild bird in the world. They are the subject of elegies by Catullus and John Skelton and listed as “pretty...
Author
Kim Todd
Binding
Paperback
Pages
192
Publisher
Reaktion Books
ISBN #
1861898754
EAN Code
9781861898753
ISBN #
8
A natural history of non-native species of animals currently living and thriving in America focuses on the various experiments, most well-intentioned, that introduced many foreign life forms to the continent.
Author
Kim Todd
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
288
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN #
0393048608
EAN Code
9780393048605
ISBN #
2
In early 1945, the United States military was recruiting female mathematicians for a top-secret project to help win World War II. Betty Jean Jennings (Bartik), a twenty-year-old college graduate from rural northwest Missouri, wanted an adventure, so she applied for the job. She was hired as a comput...
Author
Jean Jennings Bartik
Binding
Paperback
Pages
248
Publisher
Truman State University Press
ISBN #
1612480861
EAN Code
9781612480862
ISBN #
5
A bewitching look at nonnative species in American ecosystems, by the heir apparent to McKibben and Quammen. Mosquitoes in Hawaii, sea lampreys in the Great Lakes, mountain goats in the Olympic Mountains of Washington State—not one of these species is native to the environment in which it now flouri...
Author
Kim Todd
Binding
Paperback
Pages
328
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN #
0393323242
EAN Code
9780393323245
ISBN #
3
Today, an entomologist in a laboratory can gaze at a butterfly pupa with a microscope so powerful that the swirling cells on the pupa’s skin look like a galaxy. She can activate a single gene or knock it out. What she can’t do is discover how the insect behaves in its natural habitat—which means sh...
Author
Kim Todd
Binding
Paperback
Pages
352
Publisher
Mariner Books
ISBN #
0156032996
EAN Code
9780156032995
ISBN #
1
Author
Kim Todd
ISBN #
0151011087
Author
Kim Todd
ISBN #
0156032996
Author
Kim Todd
ISBN #
0393048608
Author
Kim Todd
ISBN #
0393323242