Substantially updated and expanded from the original 2013 edition, the new second edition of “The California Naturalist Handbook” provides very user-friendly introductions to and overviews of the plant and animal communities in the various ecoregions of the state.
How do we read? How should we teach Children to read? How have the debates surrounding there questions contributed to the American culture wars and the rise of the anti-science movement? These are very important questions indeed, and ones that Prof. Adrian Johns takes up in discussing his new book “The Science of Reading” on the University of Chicago’s “Big Brains” podcast.
Wouldn’t it be nice if those setting out to perhaps make a career for themselves in a particular field had a guidebook available to them that provided clear, straight-forward advice on not just the formal aspects of how to undertake the work done in that field but also explained the “unwritten” aspects of how those in the field actually got there and how, as it were, the sausage is made? Well for those for whom a career in the field of ecology is the goal – or even for those simply considering if it is right for them – “How To Do Ecology” has provided just such a guidebook since its first edition was published in 2006.
This past summer, I once again took up Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle, as my “daily morning read” for most of July and a bit of August. This was perhaps the third or fourth time I’d read the book, but like so many works to which I return, I find I discover something newly […]