The naming of the shrew / John Wright.

Subtitle on dust jacket: A curious history of Latin names

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2014.

xv, 303 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-283) and index.

Why do we use Latin names? -- The names there are -- The language of naming -- The act of naming -- The rules of naming -- The history of naming -- The father of taxonomy -- Taxonomy after Linnaeus -- What is a species? -- The tree of life.