When a copy of Dr. Andrew A. Robichaud’s recently published “Animal City; The Domestication of America” from Harvard University Press arrived on my desk, I began reading it that very evening.
Animal City
America
The Chillingly Present Past
“From these things therefore it is clear that the city-state is a natural growth, and that man is by nature an animal that lives in a polis, and a man that is by nature and not merely by fortune citiless is either low in the scale of humanity or above it […]” – Aristotle, “Politics” […]
Common Spiders of North America
Contrary to what may be erroneously inferred from all the entomologically incorrect Halloween displays being more and more commonly seen these days, spiders do not possess internal calcified skeletons.
Rachel Carson: Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment
This Spring, thanks to a gift from The Gould Family Foundation Foundation that not only supported the creation of the volume but that will also keep it in print in the series, “Rachel Carson: Silent Spring & Other Writings on the Environment” will join the works of Muir, Leopold, the Bartrams, and all the other great works contained in the series.