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Scientific Journal Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century

Csiszar Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780226752501, ISBN: HB: 9780226553238, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of ac...

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Helmholtz A Life in Science

Cahan David

ISBN: HB: 9780226481142, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
944 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 40 halftones

Hermann von Helmholtz was a towering figure of nineteenth-century scientific and intellectual life. Best known for his achievements in physiology and physics, he also contributed to other disciplines such as ophthalmology, psychology, mathematics, ch...

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Evolution

History

House of Lost Worlds Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth

Conniff Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300226928, Yale University Press, June 2017
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 97 colour illus.

This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way we see the wo...

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Chemistry

History

Radium and the Secret of Life

Campos Luis A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226418742, ISBN: HB: 9780226238272, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians, botanists, and geneticists believed that radium might hold the secret to life. Physicists and chemists early on described the wondrous new element in l...

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America

History

Open Mind Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature

Cohen-Cole Jamie

ISBN: PB: 9780226361901, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 line drawings

"The Open Mind" chronicles the development and promulgation of a scientific vision of the rational, creative, and autonomous self, demonstrating how this self became a defining feature of Cold War culture. Jamie Cohen-Cole illustrates how from 1945 t...

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Earth Sciences

History

Earthquake Observers Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226212050, ISBN: HB: 9780226111810, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones, 1 line illus.

Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs, but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteent...

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Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century

Collins Harry

ISBN: PB: 9780226052298, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 7 line drawings, 4 tables

"Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog" brings to life science's efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are predicted by general relativity, and their discovery will not only demonstrate the truth of Einstein's theories but a...

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Evolution

Nature

In Search of Mechanisms Discoveries across the Life Sciences

Craver Carl F., Darden Lindley

ISBN: PB: 9780226039794, ISBN: HB: 9780226039657, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 8 line drawings, 4 tables

Neuroscientists investigate the mechanisms of spatial memory. Molecular biologists study the mechanisms of protein synthesis and the myriad mechanisms of gene regulation. Ecologists study nutrient cycling mechanisms and their devastating imbalances i...

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History

Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

Cooter Roger, Stein Claudia

ISBN: HB: 9780300186635, Yale University Press, July 2013
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter's contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work, Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual a...

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Media Studies

Science on American Television A History

Chotkowski LaFollette Marcel

ISBN: HB: 9780226921990, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
296 pp., 25x15 cm, 1 table, 23 halftones

As television emerged as a major cultural and economic force, many imagined that the medium would enhance civic education for topics like science. And, indeed, television soon offered a breathtaking banquet of scientific images and ideas – both factu...

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