Product Description: People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and natural-scientific texts, dating from the Spanish Renaissance to the German Enlightenment, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference charts the evolution of the modern concept of race and shows that natural philosophy, particularly efforts to taxonomize and to order nature, played a crucial role...read more

Offers an identification guide to common species of reptiles and amphibians.

Collects annotated photographs and descriptions of over 400 species of reptiles and amphibians, such as turtles, lizards, snakes, newts, and frogs. (view table of contents)

Provides descriptions of snakes that are found in Virginia, including information on appearance, habitat, range, behavior, food, and natural predators. (view table of contents)

Distribution maps and illustrations showing the snakes no less than one-third of their actual sizes accompany descriptions of the identifying characteristics of all United States species