“Species” an ALA Choice Book 15 Jan 2011 I take what plaudits I can: Choice, from The American Library Association, has listed my book Species: A History of the Idea as an “Outstanding Academic Title” for 2010, a list they release each each January. Their criteria are: overall excellence in presentation and scholarship importance relative to other literature in the field distinction as a first treatment of a given subject in book or electronic form originality or uniqueness of treatment value to undergraduate students importance in building undergraduate library collections This is a nice bit of recognition. Book History Species concept History
History History in schools 13 Oct 2008 As I recall it, Australian history was deadly dull. Most of it could have been taught in a single half-year, with time to cover the second world war to spare. That’s what happens when a very few individuals live on a continent for (at that time) less than two centuries,… Read More
History Abandon all hope, ye who enter here! 23 Apr 2008 Or, “Ive been a baaaddd boy, Abbott” The Dante’s Inferno Test has banished you to the Second Level of Hell!Here is how you matched up against all the levels: Level Score Purgatory (Repenting Believers) Very Low Level 1 – Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers) Moderate Level 2 (Lustful) Very High Level 3… Read More
Ecology and Biodiversity Ecological speciation 30 Sep 201118 Sep 2017 A new paper in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology (link below) assesses the possibility of speciation by ecological differentiation in conjunction with geographical isolation. The interesting thing here is that it takes two views previously considered as antagonists and combines them into a single model. “Standard” views of speciation assume… Read More
That accolade must be better than a blog award. Shows that the ALA has some intelligent people making the choices. Given the quality of this choice I suspect the others might be worth reading.
I look forward to finding the book in our university library. (It has the Defining Species book now.) Congratulations!
You inspire me to buy the paperback and donate it to my local library. And I’ll check the university up the road (CSULB) and see if they want a copy. $40 well spent.
I, for one, have been enjoying my copy. It continues to come in handy as a reference, and was a good read all the way through. Cheers!
A well deserved recognition. Congratulations! And I agree with Susan Silberstein, this just shows what idiots the Bond people have been.
I echo the congratulations! They got the last five right, and they got the first one right regarding scholarship. I would only ask that for your next book you give me a chance to proofread to improve some of your sentence construction. I can’t touch your erudition, but I have spent enough time correcting writing before it goes out the door that I think I am good at proofing.