The New York Review of Books - USA (2022-06-23)

June 23, 2022 31

Passions for Birds

Science, Sentiment, and Sport

sean nixon

Cloth | $44.95 | 320pp | 14 photos

“Clearly argued, thorough, and wide-ranging,

Passions for Birds challenges the conventional

view that conservationist ideas simply replaced

older, more visceral ones.”

Jeremy Mynott, author of Birdscapes: Birds in

Our Imagination and Experience

Jackson’s Wars

A.Y. Jackson, the Birth of the Group

of Seven, and the Great War

douglas hunter

Cloth | $65 | 520pp | 65 photos, colour insert

The rise of celebrated painter A.Y. Jackson as a

soldier and an artist in the First World War.

Across Greenland’s Ice Cap

The Remarkable Swiss Scientific

Expedition of 1912

alfred de quervain

Introductions by Martin Hood, Martin Lüthi,

and Andreas Vieli

Cloth | $37.95 | 224pp | 65 colour photos, 1 map

How four young scientists from Zurich made the first

west-to-east crossing of Greenland’s ice cap in 1912.

Animal as Machine

The Quest to Understand How Animals

Work and Adapt

michel anctil

Cloth | $49.95 | 344pp | 30 photos

Recounting the adventures of natural historians

and zoologists who disassembled the machinery

and adaptability of animal functions.

Out of the Studio

The Photographic Innovations of Charles

and John Smeaton at Home and Abroad

john osborne and peter smeaton

Cloth | $49.95 | 232pp | 103 duotone photos

A biographical study of the Smeaton brothers, nineteenth-

century innovators of imaginative photography in Quebec,

Montreal, and Rome.

mqup.ca @McGillQueensUP

Longer Days Mean More

Time to Read

Dawn of a New Feeling

The Neocontemplative Condition

raffaele milani

translated by corrado federici

Cloth | $39.95 | 160pp

Examining the nature and aesthetic implica-

tions of mass media, and the emergence and

proliferation of virtual reality.

Government

Have Presidents and Prime Ministers

Misdiagnosed the Patient?

donald j. savoie

Cloth | $37.95 | 320pp | 1 table

An insightful comparative study of the

challenges confronting Western governments

in North America and abroad.

Canadian Spy Story

Irish Revolutionaries and the

Secret Police

david a. wilson

Cloth | $39.95 | 520pp | 65 photos, colour insert

Wilson takes readers into a dark and dangerous

world of betrayal and deception, spies and

informers, spanning Canada, the United States,

Ireland, and Britain.

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