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Tuzo
The Unlikely Revolutionary of Plate Tectonics
Price:
$48.95
ISBN: 9781487524579
Pub Date: September 2022
Tuzo is the never-before-told story of one of Canada’s most influential scientists and the discovery of plate tectonics, a pivotal development that forever altered how we think of our planet.
Made to Order
The Designing of Animals
Price:
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487541606
Pub Date: April 2022
Made to Order explains more than three centuries of attitudes toward animal breeding.
The Life of Permafrost
A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science
Price:
$79.00
ISBN: 9781487501938
Pub Date: January 2021
By tracing the English word permafrost back to its Russian roots, this unique intellectual history uncovers the multiple, contested meanings of permafrost as a scientific idea and environmental phenomenon.
Taking the Bite Out of Rabies
The Evolution of Rabies Management in Canada
Price:
$221.00
ISBN: 9781487504281
Pub Date: July 2020
Taking the Bite out of Rabies records the evolution of rabies management and control in Canada.
Beauty or Statistics
Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000
Price:
$100.00
ISBN: 9781487507008
Pub Date: March 2020
The long tradition of livestock breeding in the Netherlands serves as a valuable example of the delicate balance between art and science, beauty and statistics in the modernizing field of agriculture.
Biology of Sex
Price:
$87.00
ISBN: 9781487593377
Pub Date: May 2018
Intended primarily for readers without a science background, Biology of Sex provides novel content from the human and non-human worlds to introduce the complex subject of sex and reproduction.
Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada
Price:
$119.00
ISBN: 9781442647107
Pub Date: December 2017
Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada is an accessible and up-to-date study on the diverse marine fish population existing in Canadian waters.
Researches on Fungi, Vol. VII
The Sexual Process in the Uredinales
Price:
$59.00
ISBN: 9781487598167
Pub Date: October 2017
This is the last volume of the late Professor Buller's monumental work on Fungi, completed shortly before his death in 1943.
Nuclear Portraits
Communities, the Environment, and Public Policy
Price:
$43.95
ISBN: 9781442626294
Pub Date: March 2017
In Nuclear Portraits, scholars from Europe, North America, and Asia demonstrate the complexity, controversy, contradictions, and dangers that surround many aspects of the nuclear industry.
A Century of Maritime Science
The St. Andrews Biological Station
Price:
$96.00
ISBN: 9781442648586
Pub Date: April 2016
A Century of Maritime Science reviews the fisheries, environmental, oceanographic, and aquaculture research conducted over the last hundred years at St. Andrews from the perspective of the participating scientists.
Kouchibouguac
Removal, Resistance, and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park
Price:
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442628403
Pub Date: March 2016
In Kouchibouguac, Ronald Rudin tells the story of the park’s establishment, the resistance of its residents, and the memory of that experience.
Why the Porcupine is Not a Bird
Explorations in the Folk Zoology of an Eastern Indonesian People
Price:
$48.95
ISBN: 9781487520014
Pub Date: February 2016
Why the Porcupine Is Not a Bird is a comprehensive analysis of knowledge of animals among the Nage people of central Flores in Indonesia.
Masterminding Nature
The Breeding of Animals, 1750-2010
Price:
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442626522
Pub Date: March 2015
Margaret Derry examines the evolution of modern animal breeding from the invention of improved breeding methodologies in eighteenth-century England to the application of molecular genetics in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Natural History of Canadian Mammals
Squirrels, Beavers, Gopher, Nutria, and Porcupine (Rodents 1)
Price:
$17.95
ISBN: 9781442622289
Pub Date: November 2014
This selection includes the first section on rodents and features descriptions of squirrels, beavers, gophers, nutria, and porcupines.
The Natural History of Canadian Mammals
Rats, Mice, Voles and Lemmings (Rodents 2)
Price:
$17.95
ISBN: 9781442622296
Pub Date: November 2014
This second section on rodents features descriptions of rats, mice, voles, and lemmings.
The Natural History of Canadian Mammals
Bats, Pikas, Hares, Rabbits, Shrews, and Moles
Price:
$22.95
ISBN: 9781442622302
Pub Date: November 2014
This section features descriptions of pikas, hares and rabbits, shrews, moles, and bats.

Tuzo
The Unlikely Revolutionary of Plate Tectonics
$48.95
ISBN: 9781487524579
Pub Date: September 2022
Tuzo is the never-before-told story of one of Canada’s most influential scientists and the discovery of plate tectonics, a pivotal development that forever altered how we think of our planet.
Made to Order
The Designing of Animals
$70.00
ISBN: 9781487541606
Pub Date: April 2022
Made to Order explains more than three centuries of attitudes toward animal breeding.
The Life of Permafrost
A History of Frozen Earth in Russian and Soviet Science
$79.00
ISBN: 9781487501938
Pub Date: January 2021
By tracing the English word permafrost back to its Russian roots, this unique intellectual history uncovers the multiple, contested meanings of permafrost as a scientific idea and environmental phenomenon.
Taking the Bite Out of Rabies
The Evolution of Rabies Management in Canada
$221.00
ISBN: 9781487504281
Pub Date: July 2020
Taking the Bite out of Rabies records the evolution of rabies management and control in Canada.
Beauty or Statistics
Practice and Science in Dutch Livestock Breeding, 1900–2000
$100.00
ISBN: 9781487507008
Pub Date: March 2020
The long tradition of livestock breeding in the Netherlands serves as a valuable example of the delicate balance between art and science, beauty and statistics in the modernizing field of agriculture.
Biology of Sex
$87.00
ISBN: 9781487593377
Pub Date: May 2018
Intended primarily for readers without a science background, Biology of Sex provides novel content from the human and non-human worlds to introduce the complex subject of sex and reproduction.
Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada
$119.00
ISBN: 9781442647107
Pub Date: December 2017
Marine Fishes of Arctic Canada is an accessible and up-to-date study on the diverse marine fish population existing in Canadian waters.
Researches on Fungi, Vol. VII
The Sexual Process in the Uredinales
$59.00
ISBN: 9781487598167
Pub Date: October 2017
Nuclear Portraits
Communities, the Environment, and Public Policy
$43.95
ISBN: 9781442626294
Pub Date: March 2017
In Nuclear Portraits, scholars from Europe, North America, and Asia demonstrate the complexity, controversy, contradictions, and dangers that surround many aspects of the nuclear industry.
A Century of Maritime Science
The St. Andrews Biological Station
$96.00
ISBN: 9781442648586
Pub Date: April 2016
A Century of Maritime Science reviews the fisheries, environmental, oceanographic, and aquaculture research conducted over the last hundred years at St. Andrews from the perspective of the participating scientists.
Kouchibouguac
Removal, Resistance, and Remembrance at a Canadian National Park
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442628403
Pub Date: March 2016
In Kouchibouguac, Ronald Rudin tells the story of the park’s establishment, the resistance of its residents, and the memory of that experience.
Why the Porcupine is Not a Bird
Explorations in the Folk Zoology of an Eastern Indonesian People
$48.95
ISBN: 9781487520014
Pub Date: February 2016
Why the Porcupine Is Not a Bird is a comprehensive analysis of knowledge of animals among the Nage people of central Flores in Indonesia.
Masterminding Nature
The Breeding of Animals, 1750-2010
$45.95
ISBN: 9781442626522
Pub Date: March 2015
Margaret Derry examines the evolution of modern animal breeding from the invention of improved breeding methodologies in eighteenth-century England to the application of molecular genetics in the 1980s and 1990s.
The Natural History of Canadian Mammals
Squirrels, Beavers, Gopher, Nutria, and Porcupine (Rodents 1)
$17.95
ISBN: 9781442622289
Pub Date: November 2014
This selection includes the first section on rodents and features descriptions of squirrels, beavers, gophers, nutria, and porcupines.
The Natural History of Canadian Mammals
Rats, Mice, Voles and Lemmings (Rodents 2)
$17.95
ISBN: 9781442622296
Pub Date: November 2014
This second section on rodents features descriptions of rats, mice, voles, and lemmings.
The Natural History of Canadian Mammals
Bats, Pikas, Hares, Rabbits, Shrews, and Moles
$22.95
ISBN: 9781442622302
Pub Date: November 2014
This section features descriptions of pikas, hares and rabbits, shrews, moles, and bats.