Category: conservation

Our summer Friday series on the blog, The Press Reads, features short excerpts from recent JHUP books to whet your appetite and inspire timely additions to your summer reading list. First up,  black-eyed susans and a trip Gettysburg from Bryan MacKay's A Year across Maryland: A Week-by-Week Guide to Discovering Nature in the Chesapeake Region. Bryan is…

Guest post by Whit Gibbons How do you go from being a nature-loving kid in Alabama to the most respected biologist in America? Here’s one story of E. O. Wilson’s remarkable journey as we celebrate his 85th birthday on June 10, 2014. Without knowing it, I first crossed the wake of Edward Osborne Wilson in 1955…

Guest post by Whit Gibbons How do you go from being a nature-loving kid in Alabama to the most respected biologist in America? Here’s one story of E. O. Wilson’s remarkable journey as we celebrate his 85th birthday on June 10, 2014. Without knowing it, I first crossed the wake of Edward Osborne Wilson in 1955…

by Vincent J. Burke America’s Premier Mammalogy Publisher will be at the ASM annual meeting in Oklahoma City Once again Johns Hopkins University Press will present its line of top-selling Mammalogy books. Our titles range from classics such as Walker’s Mammals of the World to the field’s leading textbook, Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology, to the technical-reference…

by Vincent J. Burke America’s Premier Mammalogy Publisher will be at the ASM annual meeting in Oklahoma City Once again Johns Hopkins University Press will present its line of top-selling Mammalogy books. Our titles range from classics such as Walker’s Mammals of the World to the field’s leading textbook, Mammalogy: Adaptation, Diversity, Ecology, to the technical-reference…

Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast.  Guest Post by Gene Helfman One of the true and ongoing pleasures of writing a popular, science-based book about sharks is that it’s a great conversation starter.…

Wild Thing is an occasional series where JHU Press authors write about the flora and fauna of the natural world—from the rarest flower to the most magnificent beast.  Guest Post by Gene Helfman One of the true and ongoing pleasures of writing a popular, science-based book about sharks is that it’s a great conversation starter.…

Guest Post by Angela Sorby Arbor Day is on April 25th this year, but its—um—roots trace back to 1872, when the journalist J. Sterling Morton organized schoolchildren to plant a million trees in the State of Nebraska. By the turn of the century, tree-planting had become a political issue; as Theodore Roosevelt put it to…

Guest post by Howard Youth April is a month when there’s no denying winter's retreat. Even if the thermometer dips below freezing, it rarely stays there for long. Days stretch longer, too. For local plants and animals and the wildlife enthusiasts who observe them, it's a very busy time. Washington, D.C. is a capital city…

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