January 2019 list by L. Berube
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The Re-origin of Species: A Second Chance for Extinct Animals
by Torill Kornfeldt
From the Siberian permafrost to balmy California, scientists across the globe are working to resurrect all kinds of extinct animals, from ones that just left us to those that have been gone for many thousands of years. Their tools in this hunt are both fossils and cutting-edge genetic technologies. Some of these scientists are driven by sheer curiosity; others view the lost species as a powerful weapon in the fight to preserve rapidly changing ecosystems.
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The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds
by Gavin Van Horn
A hiking trail through majestic mountains. A raw, unpeopled wilderness stretching as far as the eye can see. These are the settings we associate with our most famous books about nature. But Gavin Van Horn isn't most nature writers. He lives and works not in some perfectly remote cabin in the woods but in a city--a big city. And that city has offered him something even more valuable than solitude: a window onto the surprising attractiveness of cities to animals.
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