NATURE / BIRDING Birds of the World Les Beletsky SEPTEMBER 528 pages, 6.8 x 11” 187 colour plates; 1,690 images 0-7748-1358-X / 978-0-7748-1358-7 cloth $55.00 UBC Press This stunning collection of art and text captures the grace, beauty, and flamboyance of the world’s birds. In more than 500 pages, ornithologist Les Beletsky has gathered over 1600 original paintings that reveal the form, posture, and plumage of all the avian families, with featured illustrations of 1307 species. The paintings are from eleven of the world’s leading bird artists, with many being published here for the first time. Beletsky’s detailed, yet eminently readable, descriptions are paired with the vivid images to show the diversity of the world’s approximately 200 bird families. Backyard birdwatchers, avid birders, and professional ornithologists alike will find in these pages everything from the everyday to the exotic, from diminutive hummingbirds to massive ostriches, from Antarctic penguins to tropical parrots. Comprehensive, authoritative, and beautifully illustrated, Birds of the World will amaze and inspire everyone with an interest in this remarkable fauna. Les Beletsky is series editor of the Travelers’ Wildlife Guides and Visiting Scholar at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, University of Washington. Illustrators include David Nurney, John Sill, Frank Knight, Brian Small, H. Douglas Pratt, John Gale, David Beadle, Diane Pierce, Dan Lane, John O’Neill, and Norman Arlott. The layout and design is being produced by famed designers Scott & Nix, whose clients include David Sibley, author of The Sibley Guide to Birds. » Also available Birds of Ontario: Habitat Birds of the Yukon Territory Birds of Oregon Requirements, Limiting Edited by Pamela Sinclair, Wendy A General Reference Factors, and Status Nixon, Cameron Eckert, and Nancy Edited by David B. Marshall, Volume 1: Nonpasserines, Hughes Matthew G. Hunter, and Alan L. 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Turner JULY JULY 224 pages, 6 x 9” 384 pages, 6 x 9” 0-7748-1157-9 / 978-0-7748-1157-6 42 b/w illustrations, 16 tables paper $34.95 0-7748-1267-2 / 978-0-7748-1267-2 new in paper $29.95 UBC PRESS UBC PRESS Rod Preece is Professor In this provocative inquiry into the status of Douglas Deur is a The European explorers who first visited the Emeritus at Wilfrid Laurier animals in human society from the fifth century professor of geography at Northwest Coast of North America assumed University. He has edited BC to the present, Rod Preece provides a the University of Nevada, that the entire region was virtually untouched and written several books, wholly new perspective on the human-animal Reno. Nancy J. Turner is wilderness whose occupants used the land including Awe for the relationship. He skillfully demonstrates that, Distinguished Professor in only minimally, hunting and gathering shoots, Tiger, Love for the Lamb, counter to prevailing intellectual opinion, Environmental Studies and roots, and berries that were peripheral and Animals and Nature, ethical attitudes toward animals are neither Geography at the University to a diet and culture focused on salmon. which received a Choice restricted to the twentieth century nor the of Victoria. The other Colonizers who followed the explorers used Outstanding Academic Book result of Darwin’s theory of evolution. They contributors include Kenneth these claims to justify the displacement of Award and was shortlisted have been part of Western thought and culture M. Ames, E. Richard Atleo Native groups from their land. Scholars now for the Raymond Klibansky for centuries. (Umeek), Melissa Darby, understand, however, that Northwest Coast Prize. Douglas Hallett, James T. peoples were actively cultivating plants With his usual eloquence, Preece builds a Jones, Dana Lepofsky, Ken well before they experienced contact with cogent and persuasive argument, challenging Lertzman, Rolf Mathewes, Europeans. Keeping It Living tells the story current assumptions about the historical James McDonald, Sonny of traditional Northwest Coast cultivation status of animals in Western civilization. McHalsie, Madonna L. Moss, practices, and of how they came to be He dispels the notion that animals were Sandra Peacock, Bruce overlooked by Europeans. denied ethical consideration by Christian D. Smith, Robhin Smith, doctrine, refutes the claim that the Cartesian Wayne Suttles, and Kevin Bringing together some of the world’s conception of animals as automata was widely Washbrook. most prominent specialists on Northwest embraced, and proves that “theriophily” -- the Coast cultures, this book discusses plant “A marvelous scholarly tour notion of animal superiority over humans -- management methods found from the de force. Preece is the most was given greater credence than is commonly Oregon Coast to Southeast Alaska. It looks learned person writing in the recognized. The exhaustive research and at tobacco gardens among the Haida and area today. His knowledge breadth of knowledge that Preece reveals Tlingit, managed camas plots among the is encyclopedic, and unlike in this book are matched by his belief in our Coast Salish of Puget Sound and the Strait many historians, he has a ethical responsibilities to animals. of Georgia, estaurine root gardens along the gift for relating the historical central coast of British Columbia, wapato to contemporary conceptual Brute Souls, Happy Beasts, and Evolution issues.” plot maintenance on the Columbia and Fraser will be required reading for animal lovers and Rivers, and tended berry plots up and down – Bernard Rollin, author of animal rights activists, and for scholars as the entire coast. Animal Rights and Human well as laypeople who have an interest in the Morality and The Unheeded Cry: history and philosophy of animal ethics. With contributions from ethnobotanists, Animal Consciousness. archaeologists, anthropologists, geographers, ecologists, and Native American scholars and elders, Keeping It Living documents practices, many quite different from those characteristic of European agriculture, that involve manipulating plants as well as their environments in a way that enhanced both the quantity and the quality of plant production. 2 www.ubcpress.ca / 1 877 864 8477 BOTANY / NATIVE STUDIES SCIENCE / HEALTH SCIENCE / ASTROBIOLOGY Renewing Salmon Big Fleas Have Little Fleas Science, Society, and Nation’s Food Traditions How Discoveries of Invertebrate the Search for Life in the Diseases Are Advancing Modern Universe Gary Paul Nabhan Science Bruce Jakosky Elizabeth W. Davidson Among all the “food nations” of North America, Ever since Louis Pasteur saved the French Are we alone in the universe? What is life’s future Salmon Nation is the richest in mushrooms, silk industry by identifying a disease affecting on Earth and beyond? How does life begin and berries, wild roots, fish, and shellfish. Native silkworms, scientists have focused their attention develop? These are age-old questions that have American traditions are at its core, but other on ever smaller organisms. In Big Fleas Have inspired wonder and controversy ever since the culinary accents – from Spanish to Japanese Little Fleas, Elizabeth Davidson shares amazing first people looked up into the sky. With today’s – have added to the mix. Renewing Salmon stories about diseases of insects and other technology, however, we are closer than ever to Nation’s Food Traditions describes over 180 invertebrates – and the scientists who learn from finding the answers. species of local plants and animals – many now them. at risk, others recovering, and all deserving of Astrobiology is a relatively new and fast-growing recognition – that have formed the basis of food Davidson reveals how human health often comes discipline that seeks to understand the origin, traditions in the Pacific Northwest. down to a contest of bug against bug. Even evolution, and distribution of life within the sewage, seething with bacteria, teems with universe. It is one of the few scientific fields This illustrated handbook brings together farmers, invertebrate life – animals that, like ourselves, that attracts the public’s intense curiosity and chefs, fisherfolk, food historians, orchardists, have ways of fighting infection. Scientific curiosity attention. This interest stems largely from activists, educators, and wild foragers in an about what allows these creatures to survive the deep personal meaning that the possible unprecedented effort to assess the current state in such polluted environments has led to the existence of extraterrestrial life has for so of foods unique to the Pacific Northwest. The discovery of chemicals with remarkable properties many. Whether this relates to deep spiritual and result is a comprehensive guide to the foods and potential usefulness to humankind. existential questions or the possibility of making which have nurtured Salmon Nation for centuries. contact with alien beings, there is no doubt that From shellfish diseases to bee parasites, the public is deeply vested in finding answers. Renewing Salmon Nation’s Food Traditions Davidson sheds light on a world most of us never describes the appearance and taste of each consider – but which matters far more than we In this broadly accessible introduction to the field, species, its origin and history, geographic range, might imagine. In our pandemic era, Big Fleas Bruce M. Jakosky looks at the search for life in and culinary uses.