What We Are Reading Today: ‘Wildlife of India’ by Bikram Grewal

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Updated 12 March 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Wildlife of India’ by Bikram Grewal

The Indian subcontinent is exceptionally rich in wildlife because of its wide variety of habitats and climates, ranging from the ocean to the Himalayas and from the Rajasthan desert to Mawsynram in Meghalaya, one of the wettest places on earth.

This diversity supports a huge range of charismatic species, from the iconic tiger to clouded leopards, crocodiles to king cobras, hornbills to eagles.

Covering these animals and many others, as well as trees and flowers, this color photographic field guide describes and illustrates more than 1,000 species from all over India, including the Andaman and Nicobar islands.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Data Science for Neuroimaging’

Updated 28 January 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Data Science for Neuroimaging’

Authors: Ariel Rokem & Tal Yarkoni 

As neuroimaging turns toward data-intensive discovery, researchers in the field must learn to access, manage, and analyze datasets at unprecedented scales.

Concerns about reproducibility and increased rigor in reporting of scientific results also demand higher standards of computational practice.

This book offers neuroimaging researchers an introduction to data science, presenting methods, tools, and approaches that facilitate automated, reproducible, and scalable analysis and understanding of data.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘A History of Biology’ by Michel Morange

Updated 27 January 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘A History of Biology’ by Michel Morange

This book presents a global history of the biological sciences from ancient times to today, providing needed perspective on the development of biological thought while shedding light on the field’s upheavals and key breakthroughs through the ages.

Michel Morange brings to life the dynamic interplay of science, society, and biology’s many sub-disciplines, enabling readers to better appreciate the interdisciplinary exchanges that have shaped the field over the centuries.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Renormalization Group and Condensed Matter Physics’

Updated 26 January 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Renormalization Group and Condensed Matter Physics’

Authors: David Nelson & Grace H. Zhang 

Renormalization group ideas have had a major impact on condensed matter physics for more than a half century.

This book develops the theory and illustrates the broad applicability of the renormalization group to major problems in condensed matter physics.

Based on course materials developed and class-tested by the authors at Harvard University, the book will be especially useful for students, as well as researchers. 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Prehistoric Textiles’

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Updated 25 January 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Prehistoric Textiles’

  • “Prehistoric Textiles” made an unsurpassed leap in the social and cultural understanding of textiles in humankind’s early history

Author: E.J.W.BARBER

This pioneering work revises our notions of the origins and early development of textiles in Europe and the Near East.
Using innovative linguistic techniques, along with methods from paleobiology and other fields, it shows that spinning and pattern weaving began far earlier than has been supposed.
“Prehistoric Textiles” made an unsurpassed leap in the social and cultural understanding of textiles in humankind’s early history.

 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Fuji: A Mountain in the Making’

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Updated 24 January 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Fuji: A Mountain in the Making’

Author: ANDREW W. BERNSTEIN

Mount Fuji is everywhere recognized as a wonder of nature and enduring symbol of Japan. Yet behind the picture-postcard image is a history filled with conflict and upheaval. Violent eruptions across the centuries wrought havoc and instilled fear.
It has been both a totem of national unity and a flashpoint for economic and political disputes.
And while its soaring majesty has inspired countless works of literature and art, the foot of the mountain is home to military training grounds and polluting industries.