For his Sunday Book Review this week, Mark takes an pre-publication sneak peek into the forthcoming “Europe’s Dragonflies: A Field Guide to the Damselflies and Dragonflies” from Princeton University Press.
Mark Looks Forward to Summer Odes
Princeton
Fungi of Temperate Europe
Hailed as “one of the most comprehensive mycological guides ever published,” the recently published two volume “Fungi of Temperate Europe” by Thomas Laessoe and Jens H. Petersen is a grand tour through more than 2,800 of the fungi species to be found throughout Europe’s temperate zone.
Fungipedia
In case you hadn’t marked it on your calendar, Tuesday, 21 April 2020, is Fungi Day. And as such, taking the opportunity to learn a bit more about the fascinating fungal framework that supports a remarkable amount and diversity of the life on this planet simply seems appropriate.
Bird Love
Birds do it.
But if you’ve taken a basic biology course, you likely already knew that.
Dr. Wenfei Tong, however, knows much more about how they do it than just the basics, and in her new book “Bird Love; the Family Life of Birds,” she explores and explains the extraordinary range of courtship, mating, and brood rearing practices found among the planet’s diverse birdlife.