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Standing between Life and Extinction Ethics and Ecology of Conserving Aquatic Species in North American Deserts
ISBN: PB: 9780226694474, ISBN: HB: 9780226694337, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 colour plates, 22 halftones
North American deserts – lands of little water – have long been home to a surprising diversity of aquatic life, from fish to insects and mollusks. But with European settlement, water extraction, resource exploitation, and invasive species set many of...
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£50,00
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£113,00
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First Domestication How Wolves and Humans Coevolved
ISBN: HB: 9780300226164, Yale University Press, February 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.
In this fascinating book, Raymond Pierotti and Brandy Fogg change the narrative about how wolves became dogs and in turn, humanity's best friend. Rather than describe how people mastered and tamed an aggressive, dangerous species, the authors describ...
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Philosophy of Pseudoscience Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem
ISBN: PB: 9780226051963, ISBN: HB: 9780226051796, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings
What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as "the demarcation problem". This issue has a long history in philos...
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£28,50
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£85,50
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Stratigraphic Paleobiology Understanding the Distribution of Fossil Taxa in Time and Space
ISBN: PB: 9780226649382, ISBN: HB: 9780226649375, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 colour illus., 31 halftones, 19 line illus.
Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late 1700s, Georges Cuvier argued for a literal interpretation, b...
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£34,50
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£97,50
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