A survey of the Earth's habitats and ecosystems explains how evolution enables plants and animals to survive and how they rely on the natural resources around them and on each other
Contemporary accounts by notable figures, linked together with commentary, celebrate and recount the history of Oxford, the city and the university, illuminating a long tradition of scholarship...
"[An] ideal bedside-table book....Both the contributors and their contributions are shrewdly arranged"--The New Yorker. "Features a wide range of prose and poetry from the world's literatures dealing...