Having gone quiet in 2014 following the publication of James P. Smith Jr.’s “Field Guide to Grasses of California,” I was delighted to learn that a new volume will be added to the California Natural History Guide series, its 111th, this October: the “Field Guide to California Insects,” Second Edition by Kip Will, Joyce Gross, Daniel Rubinoff, and Jerry A. Powell.
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.
As one raised on the north Oregon coast in a family with deep and long-standing ties to the fishing industry, and still living within a relatively short drive from it, I am perhaps a bit more aware of marine affairs than the average person. So not surprisingly, when a copy of Professor C. Drew Harvell’s “Ocean Outbreak; Confronting the Rising Tide of Marine Disease” arrived from University of California Press, you can believe that my interest was immediately piqued.
Ah Spring… the flowers are blooming, the birds are singing, and the publishers are holding amazing sales on their books.
Two that have most recently come to my attention are from Cornell University Press and the University of California Press.