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Restricted Data The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
ISBN: HB: 9780226020389, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 7 line drawings, 3 tables
The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered...
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£28,00
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Scientific History Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War
ISBN: HB: 9780226761381, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a reengagement with the natural sciences. Taking their cues from recent breakthroughs in genetics and the neurosciences, advocates of "big history" are calling for a reassessment of long-held a...
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£36,00
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New Technologies and Renaissance Studies III
ISBN: PB: 9781649590169, University of Chicago Press, Iter Press, February 2021
308 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 colour plates, 16 halftones, 90 figures, 8 tables, 8 graphs
These essays explore problems with digital approaches to analog objects and offer digital methods to study networks of production, dissemination, and collection. Further, they reflect on the limitations of those methods and speak to a central truth o...
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£56,00
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Scientific Freedom under Attack Political Oppression, Structural Challenges, and Intellectual Resistance in Modern and Contemporary History
ISBN: PB: 9783593513119, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Recent years have seen an alarming rise in antiintellectual outbursts by politicians, documented threats against radical scholars across continents, and serious blows to the fundamental right of scientific freedom. Scientific Freedom under Attack is...
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£40,00
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Poison Trials Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science
ISBN: PB: 9780226744858, ISBN: HB: 9780226744711, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 1 table
In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived – the other died in agony. In...
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£84,00
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Transmutations of Chymistry Wilhelm Homberg and the Academie Royale des Sciences
ISBN: HB: 9780226700786, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
504 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 line drawings
This book reevaluates the changes to chemistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) and the changing fortunes of his discipline at the Academie Royale des Sciences, France's official scien...
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£36,00
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Experimental Fire Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700
ISBN: HB: 9780226710709, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 2 tables
In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could...
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£28,00
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Cosmic Zoom Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation
ISBN: PB: 9780226742441, ISBN: HB: 9780226742304, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones
The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames announces itself as "A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe", and in it, we see two people enjoying a picnic on a sunny day before the view zooms up and away to show the park where t...
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£76,00
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Lost Species Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums
ISBN: PB: 9780226513706, ISBN: HB: 9780226386218, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki, an arboreal monkey from the Brazilian rainforests. The olinguito, a native of the Andes, which looks part mongo...
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£17,00
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£22,50
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Osiris, Volume 35 Food Matters: Critical Histories of Food and the Sciences
ISBN: PB: 9780226726861, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Since the early modern period, science has played an ever-growing role in healthcare, agriculture, the regulation of food and drink trades, and the standardization of nutrition guidelines. Yet until now, few studies had explored the historical proces...
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