This category contains full-length reviews of, short essays about, and new pertaining to books.
In his recently published “Bugwatching; the Art, Joy, and Importance of Observing Insects,” Eric R. Eaton presents his readers with a method for developing a practice of observing arthropods that is not dissimilar to that of watching birds.
For an upcoming business trip to Los Angeles, I’m taking full advantage of a very interesting book published in 2024 by Heyday, Craig Stanford’s “Unnatural Habitat; the Native and Exotic Wildlife of Los Angeles,” to prepare myself for opportunities to observe and casually study the native and non native plants and animals I may see while there.
Had a book existed such as “The Princeton Field Guide to Sauropod and Prosauropod Dinosaurs,” it very likely would have been my most prized possession, and would have increased my already elevated level of precociousness by at least an order of magnitude.
Back in May of 2025, whilst attending The Biggest Week in American Birding, Dr. Robert Kirk, Princeton University Press’ Publisher of the Press’ Princeton Field Guides and Natural History categories, drew my attention to the then recently published Habitats of North America: A Field Guide for Birders, Naturalists, and Ecologists. Right away I could tell […]