The second new Princeton Field Guide volume scheduled to be published this coming May from Princeton University Press should really set entomologists and general naturalist buzzing, for it will take another very important but under-represented-in-print geographic group of insects as its subject: “Common Bees of Western North America.”
If a friend were to ask you to recommend a modern book – just one – that would help him or her to understand your fascination with natural history, you’d likely be hard pressed to do it. I know I certainly would. After all, there are so many excellent works that have been published within this wide-ranging category over the past fifty years that picking just one would be quite a challenge indeed.
There are a wide variety of reasons people become involved with tarot. For some, it’s good, old-fashioned fortune-telling, while others see it as intellectually representational of psychological archetypes. Then there are those who simply enjoy the aesthetic experience of pondering the intricate, symbolically representative artwork that has been worked into the cards by various artists […]
I’l be honest; I’m not quite sure if Matt Stansberry’s and David Wilson’s “Rust Belt Arcana; Tarot and Natural History in the Exurban Wilds” is a book about natural history explained through tarot, a book about tarot explained through natural history, both of these, neither of them, or something else entirely.