Wildlife of the Week: Big-eared Bats
07/26/2007
It’s hard to be neutral about the looks of this week’s featured animals, Rafinesque’s Big-eared Bat (pictured on the left) and Townsend’s Big-eared Bat (pictured below) . They are either … READ MORE
Category: Life Sciences
Wildlife of the Week: The Eastern Fence Lizard
07/20/2007
Today’s Wildlife of the Week, the Eastern Fence Lizard (Sceloporus undulatus), might be living in your backyard but you’d probably never notice, because this reptile is a bit of a… READ MORE
Colonial Botany–Now in Paperback
07/18/2007
Colonial Botany: Science, Commerce, and Politics in the Early Modern World Londa Schiebinger and Claudia Swan, Editors 352 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 54 illus. Cloth 2004… READ MORE
Wildlife of the Week: The Bald Eagle
06/28/2007
It looks like good news for this week’s featured wildlife species, the Bald Eagle (Halieaeetus leucocephalus). This morning, the Secretary of the Interior Dirk Kempthorne, flanked by an eagle named … READ MORE
Wildlife of the Week: The Roseate Tern
06/21/2007
This week’s featured creature from John H. Rappole’s Wildlife of the Mid-Atlantic, the Roseate Tern (Sterna dougallii), will occasionally grace the mid-Atlantic coastal states between May and July. This bird… READ MORE
Watson’s Back to Nature Wins First ASLE Book Award
06/18/2007
The Association for the Study of Literature and Environment gave its first Ecocriticism and Environmental Creative Writing Book Award to Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the… READ MORE
Wildlife of the Week: The Eastern Spotted Skunk
06/14/2007
The Eastern Spotted Skunk (Spilogale putorius) is this week’s featured fauna from the forthcoming Wildlife of the Mid-Atlantic by John H. Rappole. According to Rappole, "the purpose of the Spotted… READ MORE
Doctor Franklin’s Medicine Excerpt Available
03/20/2007
In Doctor Franklin’s Medicine, Stanley Finger uncovers the instrumental role that Benjamin Franklin–scientist, inventor, publisher, and statesman–played in the development of the healing arts, giving preventive and bedside medicine, hospital… READ MORE
Debunking Darwin Myths
03/15/2007
In the March 14 Times Literary Supplement, Jim Endersby reviewed the Penn Press reissue of The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text while debunking myths about Charles Darwin’s work and… READ MORE
The Evolution of the Origin
02/09/2007
As schools, universities, museums and (yes) churches around the world prepare to celebrate Darwin Day, it’s a great time to study the evolution of the book that started it all… READ MORE
