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Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 62,699 ratings — published 2020
A Taxonomy for Learning, Teaching, and Assessing: A Revision of Bloom's Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 236 ratings — published 2000
Principles and Practices of Animal Taxonomy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 62 ratings — published 1998
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 702 ratings — published 2009
The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures that Have Ever Lived (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 205 ratings — published 2000
Ambient Findability: What We Find Changes Who We Become (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 1,357 ratings — published 2005
The Sceptical Botanist (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 14 ratings — published
Sixty Million Years of Horses (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Frogs of the World: A Guide to Every Family (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 16 ratings — published
Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.71 — 306 ratings — published 2012
Plant Systematics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 78 ratings — published 2005
Smithsonian Handbooks: Mushrooms (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 54 ratings — published
The Comparative Method in Evolutionary Biology (Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution)
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avg rating 3.79 — 14 ratings — published 1991
Nemesis (Magic: The Gathering: Masquerade Cycle, #2)
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avg rating 3.71 — 615 ratings — published 2000
The Wild Mammals of Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia) and Singapore by Medway Lord (1978-10-05) Paperback
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Morning Glories, Vol. 10: Expulsion (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.44 — 413 ratings — published 2017
Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 22,558 ratings — published 2022
Whales, Dolphins and Seals: A Field Guide to the Marine Mammals of the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.62 — 39 ratings — published 2006
PRAYING MANTISES of the UNITED STATES and CANADA (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published
The Story of Nature: A Human History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 33 ratings — published
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 81,987 ratings — published 2014
THE COMPLETE NATURALIST. A Life of Linnaeus. (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Spiders of the World: A Guide to Every Family (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.62 — 85 ratings — published
Beetles: The Natural History and Diversity of Coleoptera (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.75 — 12 ratings — published
Octopus, Squid, and Cuttlefish: A Visual, Scientific Guide to the Oceans’ Most Advanced Invertebrates (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 110 ratings — published 2018
Winter Tree Finder: A Manual for Identifying Deciduous Trees in Winter (Nature Study Guides)
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avg rating 4.17 — 131 ratings — published 1970
Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 2,309 ratings — published 2024
Kaufman Field Guide To Butterflies Of North America: The Most User-Friendly Visual Reference with 2,300+ Images, Range Maps, and Rare Species (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.42 — 195 ratings — published 2002
Naming What We Know: Threshold Concepts of Writing Studies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 199 ratings — published 2015
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 353,483 ratings — published 2015
Letters to a Young Scientist (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 4,805 ratings — published 2013
Collins Guide To Mushrooms & Toadstools (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 8 ratings — published
Birds of Maryland & Delaware Field Guide: Includes Washington, D.C. & Chesapeake Bay (Bird Identification Guides)
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avg rating 4.47 — 57 ratings — published 2005
Flora of Bhutan: Including a record of plants from Sikkim (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1983
Theory and Practice of Animal Taxonomy and Biodiversity (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published
Guide to Identification of Marine and Estuarine Invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1971
A Text Book of Botany (ebook)
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avg rating 3.72 — 264 ratings — published 2009
Dinosaur Impressions: Postcards from a Paleontologist (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.33 — 6 ratings — published 1998
Metagenomic Futures: How Microbiome Research is Reconfiguring Health and What it Means to be Human (Routledge Studies in Anthropology)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Plant Taxonomy, 2Ed (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 21 ratings — published
Agnatha 2: Thelodonti (Handbook of Paleoichthyology)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2007
The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 57,028 ratings — published 2009
Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part E, Porifera (Revised), vol. 2: Introduction to the Porifera
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2003
Chondrichthyes I: Paleozoic Elasmobranchii (Handbook of paleoichthyology)
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avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published 1981
Marine Molluscan Genera of Western North America: An Illustrated Key (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 3 ratings — published 1974
British land snails: Mollusca, Gastropoda : keys and notes for the identification of the species (Synopses of the British fauna)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 42,455 ratings — published 1986
Principles of Systematic Zoology (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 65 ratings — published 1969
Linnaeus' Philosophia Botanica (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 25 ratings — published 2003
“There is a sort of precritical thinking where many ideas seem right intuitively until exploring the reasons behind them reveals otherwise - even in the mundane. For example, it seems right that bats are flying rats and owls are flying cats; or that 'w' should be pronounced 'double-v' and 'm' should be pronounced 'double-n'. But biology, taxonomy, and historical linguistics might disagree. This is perhaps the purpose of education.”
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“As I grow wiser and more skeptical, I realize that almost everything in nomenclature comes full circle. The question remains whether I can outlast the taxonomists.”
― Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses
― Manual of Woody Landscape Plants: Their Identification, Ornamental Characteristics, Culture, Propagation and Uses