For those who, like me, place great value in Oxford University Press‘ brilliant Very Short Introductions volumes not only for the consistently high quality of the information they contain but also for their perfectly pocketable size (you’ll never find my beloved old Harris tweed sport coat lacking one in its lower left-hand pocket), I am happy to report that 2016 will see a number of new natural history related titles added to the series’ expanding roster:
- Fungi by Nicholas P. Money (April 2016)
- Earth System Science by Tim Lenton (May 2016)
- Astrophysics by James Binney (June 2016)
- Savanna by Peter A. Furley (September 2016)
- Rocks by Jan Zalasiewicz (December 2016)
And, in February of 2017, one for which I’ve been waiting with particular eagerness since I first heard a rumor that it might be coming: Telescopes by Geoffrey Cottrell
