Hannah Holmes, Author . Wiley $22.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-471-37743-6
Despite its ubiquity, dust is not a popular subject among scientists, and lay people tend to brush it off. But Holmes, a science and natural history writer for the Discovery Channel Online, teases many tantalizing facts from this particulate...
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Hannah Holmes, Author . Bloomsbury $23.95 (240p) ISBN 978-1-58234-479-9
When science and travel writer Holmes (The Secret Life of Dust
) turned her attention to her suburban backyard, she discovered a community of wildlife desperately trying to survive in a sprawling world of "Wal-Marts and White-Crowned Sparrow...
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Hannah Holmes, Author . Random $25 (351p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6541-7
Holmes (Suburban Safari
) has been “uncomfortable with the notion that I was an animal apart, a sort of extraterrestrial on my own planet.” Hence, she examines her “animal self,” hoping to “clarify my identity in the...
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Hannah Holmes, Random, $26 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4000-6840-1
The contours of the human soul emerge from the scamperings of mutant rodents in this sprightly exposition of the biological roots of behavior. Science journalist Holmes (The Well-Dressed Ape) tours neurology and psychology labs the world over where...
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