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Return to Warden's Grove . Science, Desire, and the Lives of Sparrows. By Christopher Norment . University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA, 2008. 231 pp. $26. ISBN 9781587296338. Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction. Focusing on the author's fieldwork in Canada's Northwest Territories of C...

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Published in:Science
Main Author: Sagarin, Raphael D.
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 2008
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.1155994
https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.1155994
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Summary:Return to Warden's Grove . Science, Desire, and the Lives of Sparrows. By Christopher Norment . University of Iowa Press, Iowa City, IA, 2008. 231 pp. $26. ISBN 9781587296338. Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction. Focusing on the author's fieldwork in Canada's Northwest Territories of Canada, this memoir makes a thoughtful case for building holistic understanding of systems through careful and repeated observations at small scales.