What We Are Reading Today: ‘Birds of India’

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Updated 19 July 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Birds of India’

  • Comprehensive and definitive, this is an indispensable guide for anyone birding in this part of the world

Authors: RICHARD GRIMMETT, CAROL INSKIPP, AND TIM INSKIPP 

The best field guide to the birds of the Indian subcontinent is now even better.

Thoroughly updated and substantially expanded, this third edition of “Birds of India” features revised color plates, text, and distribution maps, and 64 more pages than the previous edition.

Comprehensive and definitive, this is an indispensable guide for anyone birding in this part of the world.

 

 


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Magnetic Reconnection’ by Masaaki Yamada

Updated 11 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Magnetic Reconnection’ by Masaaki Yamada

Plasmas comprise more than 99 percent of the visible universe; and, wherever plasmas are, magnetic reconnection occurs. In this common yet incompletely understood physical process, oppositely directed magnetic fields in a plasma meet, break, and then reconnect, converting the huge amounts of energy stored in magnetic fields into kinetic and thermal energy. In “Magnetic Reconnection,” Masaaki Yamada offers an illuminating synthesis of modern research and advances on this important topic.