The book sales of summer continue. The most recent one to come to appear is the New York University Press Summer Sale 2025 offering 60% off their books’ cover prices.
New York University Press’ Summer Sale 2025
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Field Guide to the Birds of North America (McMullen)
Containing a total of eleven hundred species depicted using over six thousand illustrations, Miles McMullen’s recently published “Field Guide to the Birds of North America” from Pelagic Publishing packs as much information about its subject into a field-portable volume as I’ve yet seen in any field guide.
Noteworthy Podcast Episodes (Week Ending 18 July 2025)
The podcasts featuring interviews with authors of books about natural history or history of science topics were particularly interesting this past week. Books about pigs, mudlarking, and microscopy are the topics of discussion.
Why Fish Don’t Exist is Blackwell’s Pick for July
Lulu Miller’s “Why Fish Don’t Exist; A Story of Finding Our Way in a Chaotic World,” has been selected by Blackwell’s as their pick for the non-fiction Book of the Month for July 2025.