What We Are Reading Today: ‘Snakes of Australia’

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Updated 13 February 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Snakes of Australia’

Authors: Tie Eipper & Scott Eipper

With more than 1,000 photographs, Snakes of Australia illustrates and describes in detail all 240 of the continent’s species and subspecies—from file snakes, pythons, colubrids, and natricids to elapids, marine elapids, homalopsids, and blind snakes. It features introductions to each family, species descriptions, type locations, distribution maps, and quick-identification keys to each family and genera.

It also covers English and scientific names, appearance, range, ecology, disposition, danger level, and IUCN Red List Category.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘An Introduction to String Algorithms’ by Carl Kingsford

Updated 25 January 2026
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘An Introduction to String Algorithms’ by Carl Kingsford

String algorithms make it possible to process, store, and manipulate text with computational efficiency, with applications ranging from search engines and social networks that regularly process terabytes of information to areas like genomics, where the genome of an organism can be encoded as a long string of letters.

This book provides an incisive introduction to the concepts and applications that every practitioner in the field needs to know.

It guides readers from the fundamentals of string processing to advanced computational methods.