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Principles of Animal Behavior (4th Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226448381, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
576 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 529 colour plates, 31 halftones, 3 line drawings
Since the last edition of this definitive textbook was published in 2013, much has happened in the field of animal behavior. In this fourth edition, Lee Alan Dugatkin draws on cutting-edge new work not only to update and expand on the studies present...
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£75,00
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Planet of Microbes The Perils and Potential of Earth's Essential Life Forms
ISBN: HB: 9780226353944, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
We live in a time of unprecedented scientific knowledge about the origins of life on Earth. But if we want to grasp the big picture, we have to start small – very small. That's because the real heroes of the story of life on Earth are microbes, the t...
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£19,00
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Plant Physics
ISBN: PB: 9780226150819, ISBN: HB: 9780226586328, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 tables, 44 halftones, 40 line illus.
From Galileo, who used the hollow stalks of grass to demonstrate the idea that peripherally located construction materials provide most of the resistance to bending forces, to Leonardo da Vinci, whose illustrations of the parachute are alleged to be...
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£32,50
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£52,00
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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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