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The Inquisitive Biologist

This week's #NewBooks at the library: I was chuffed to now also find an affordable copy of #Dinosaurs: Past and Present, Volume 2! Second, The Art and Making of #Arcane: League of Legends. Loved the series and thought to myself "if they publish a book with artwork...". And more #Buffon. There aren't many biographies on him - this 1972 classic is one of two on my wishlist. #Paleontology #Palaeontology #Palaeoart #Biography #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. On the left, standing up, Dinosaurs: Past and Present, Volume 2, showing a drawing of a small dinosaur in front of a large rock with a storm blowing fragments of ferns across the setting. The picture mostly orangey-ochre-coloured. In the middle, lying down, The Art and Making of #Arcane: League of Legends, showing a drawing a of a girl with long braids and stompy boots sitting on a turned-around chair, facing the viewer. She is holding a steampunk gun and wings extend from the chair to both sides. The cover is hot pink with white graffiti surrounding her. On the right, standing up, Buffon, showing a plain dark-red cover with the title and author names in gilded lettering sitting over a small,stylised drawing of globe over which a winged horse jumps. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.
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New review: How is the living world organized and classified? Encyclopaedic in scope yet compelling to read, the deeply researched Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains is an 851-page behemoth that surveys 26 centuries of our changing understanding.

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The Inquisitive Biologist · Book review – Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains: The History of High-Level Biological ClassificationHow is the living world organized and classified? Encyclopaedic in scope yet compelling to read, the deeply researched Kingdoms, Empires, & Domains is an 851-page behemoth that surveys 26 centu…
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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Late to the party, I know, but a collector's edition was all I needed to buy @hughhowey's Wool. I also found two inexpensive second-hand copies of OUP titles: Natural Selection & Beyond: The Intellectual Legacy of #AlfredRusselWallace (the Wallace biography I reviewed invited further reading) and #Overfishing: What Everyone Needs to Know. #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon #Evolution #HistoryOfScience #ScienceHistory #HistSci #Oceans #MarineBiology

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. On the left, standing up, Hugh Howey's Wool, showing silver and red lettering on a stylised spiral background. In the middle, lying down, Overfishing: What Everyone Needs to Know, which lacks its dust jacket and shows gold lettering on a plain black cover. On the right, standing up, Natural Selection & Beyond, showing a painted portrait of an old man with a white beard and glasses in a black suit and an orange tropical butterfly. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books and part of the beech-coloured laminate floor.
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