This category contains full-length reviews of, short essays about, and new pertaining to books.
“Great googly moogly!” … was what I exclaimed upon opening the email message from Princeton University Press that contained the announcement that they would be publishing a truly monumental new field guide to the birds of North America in the early Spring of 2027.
In his recently published book “Cannabis; A Global History,” Prof. Borougerdi presents his readers with the remarkable, complex, millennia-spanning history of how humans discovered, investigated, cultivated, employed, cherished, and even worshiped with species of Cannabis plants.
The first ever annotated edition of Charles Darwin’s “The Descent of Man” will be published this month; very welcome news indeed to someone such as myself with a passion for… well, let’s just say that in addition to liking big books, I also like small notes.
As my impromptu urban naturalizing activities have mostly only gained me quizzical looks and the odd hesitant question, I long thought I was the only person who did such things. Then I recently discovered the writings of Amanda Tuke.