An investigation of the connections between the parallel rise of modern Hebrew and modern mediaAfter lying dormant for two millennia as a mainly written language, Hebrew awoke from its literary slumber...
Essays by international bestselling author Edward Tenner that explore both the negative and positive surprises of human ingenuityHow did the addition of lifeboats after the Titanic shipwreck contribute...
Sketching Splendor examines the work of three American naturalists, William Bartram, Titian Ramsay Peale, and John James Audubon whose work exemplifies innovation and injustice in equal measure. The...
In a letter to his wife, Abigail, John Adams judged the author of Common Sense as having “a better hand at pulling down than building.” Adams’s dismissive remark has helped shape the prevailing...
Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature
Elizabeth Gansen
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512824568
Pub Date: November 2023
Format: Hardcover
248 Pages
Natural Designs chronicles the life and work of the earliest and most influential Spanish historian of the New World, Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo (1478–1557). Through a combination of biography and...
A Field Guide to the City and the Surrounding Delaware Valley
Paul Meyer and Edward Barnard
Contributions by Catriona Bull Briger and William Cullina
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512823905
Pub Date: January 2023
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Philadelphia Trees is a pocket-sized resource for identifying the native trees, commonly encountered exotics, and popular ornamentals of the Philadelphia metropolitan area and adjacent counties in Pennsylvania,...
Early Modern Plant Books and the Husbandry of Print
Jessica Rosenberg
Price: $75.00
ISBN: 9781512823332
Pub Date: October 2022
Format: Hardcover
376 Pages
During the middle years of Queen Elizabeth’s reign, the number of books published with titles that described themselves as flowers, gardens, or forests more than tripled. During those same years,...
John James Audubon's The Birds of America stands as an unparalleled achievement in American art, a huge book that puts nature dramatically on the page. With that work, Audubon became one of the most...
The human right to science, outlined in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights and repeated in the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, recognizes everyone’s...
