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This week's #NewBooks at the library: I bought second-hand copies of Fevered Planet: How #Diseases Emerge When We Harm Nature by the late John Vidal and #Dust: The Modern World in a Trillion Particles by Jay Owens, and picked up a review copy of Uncommon Ground: Rethinking Our Relationship With the #Countryside by Patrick Galbraith.

#AtmosphericSciences #Pandemics #Epidemics #PublicHealth #Zoonoses #Books #Scicomm #Bookstodon @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing upright on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books.

On the left, Fevered Planet, showing a black-and-white photo of the rocky landscape of a hand-dug open-pit mine. In the foreground is a small, lone human figure resting one leg on a pile of shattered rocks. The title is written across the photo in neon-orange, with the last letters of each word rendered as if they are powdering into fine dust at their edges.

In the middle, Uncommon Ground, showing part of the oil painting "Wivenhoe Park, Essex" by John Constable, showing a bucolic landscape with a grazing cow behind a wooden fence. The fence runs across the picture in the foreground, while there is a large pond in the background. Behind the pond can be seen a small planted grove of large trees, and on the right, part of what looks like a mansion. The centre of the image has been rendered as if part of the drawing has been ripped out, showing the rough edge of torn paper and at the bottom, a curled-up piece of torn paper.

On the right, Dust, showing a NASA satellite photograph of planet Earth at night. Next to artificial lighting, several colourful swirls are visible in blue, red, and purple. This is a composite image that was taken on the 23rd of August 2018 that shows the various aerosols in our atmosphere. You can read more about this particular image here: https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92654/just-another-day-on-aerosol-earth

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This week's #NewBooks at the library: Three more books from the NHBS January clearance sale
- 18 Miles: The Epic Drama of Our #Atmosphere and Its #Weather by Christopher Dewdney, published by Bloomsbury Sigma.
- Landscapes of #Collectivity in the Life Sciences, a more heady edited volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from @themitpress.
- Animal Languages: The Secret Conversations of the Living World by Eva Meijer, here in the English translation published by John Murray.

#Books #Bookstodon #Scicomm #AtmosphericSciences #Climatology #Meteorology #Biology #Philosophy #Ethology #AnimalBehavior @bookstodon

A photo of three books standing on a small, brown, wooden table. The out-of-focus background shows black shelves full of books.

On the left, 18 Miles, showing a a blue hardback with a blue sky and white clouds.

In the middle, Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences, showing a white hardback with an abstract piece of artwork. Two separate blue-grey rectangles are connected by a tangle of tan-coloured ropes. This is a 1966 sculpture by Eva Hesse, titled Metronomic Irregularity I.

On the right, Animal Languages, a cream-coloured hardback where each letter of the word animal has a colour illustration of one or more animals poking from behind each letter.

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