Meet, if you would, Miss Henrietta Atkins, teacher of evolutionary science to generations of local schoolchildren in Hammondsport, N.Y., perhaps the most enduring character Andrea Barrett has ever ...

Talk at PT Library to cover naming, battles, tribes ...

The number of excellent natural history books is increasing exponentially. These represent my my favorites from among this year's many offerings: For youngsters, NorthWord Press has published a ...

Historians rely on documents to piece together the past. Geoarcheologists go deeper – literally. Deep under Lake Matoaka lie stories that researchers are only now unearthing, layer by layer, tracking ...

Among many excellent natural-history books released this year is the oversize “Where the Animals Go: Tracking Wildlife with Technology in 50 Maps and Graphics” (W.W. Norton) by award-winning authors ...

A new examination of a pre-industrial Scottish natural history book gives a new understanding of post-industrial environmental change in the country. In a new paper published in the Royal Society ...

Peter Kuper’s book-length comic, Insectopolis: A Natural History, begins with an entomologist and her brother walking to the New York Public Library to see an exhibition on insects entitled ...

It’s almost summer, which, for many people, means insects, which, for many people, means bug spray and pest control-- but reading award-winning graphic artist Peter Kuper’s new book, Insectopolis: A ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Peter Brannen A NATURAL HISTORY OF THE FUTURE What the Laws of Biology Tell Us About the Destiny ...