With a format, size, and style of content that is very reminiscent of the original Golden Guides and the Observer’s Books series, the new Princeton University Press Little Books of Nature series is a welcome development indeed.
When The Marine Biological Laboratory set out to publish, through The University of Chicago Press, a series of books that would make available to the wider reading public examples of the types of research undertaken at the institution, as well as portraits of how such research is undertaken there, giving the series the title Convening Science was clearly the most logical choice.
The Renaissance Lives series from Reaktion Books and the University of Chicago offers a very interesting selection of relatively brief overviews of the lives and works of a number of notable artists, poets, and thinkers from that period, including five volumes that are certain to be of interest to enthusiasts of the history of science.
Princeton University Press’ new The Lives of the Natural World series sees its first two volumes publishing on 26 April 2022. The first of this inaugural pair – Dr. Britt Bunyard’s “The Lives of Fungi” – takes readers through a detailed and cleverly arranged introduction to the fascinating world of this remarkable kingdom of life.