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Osiris, Volume 35 Food Matters: Critical Histories of Food and the Sciences

Spary E. C., Zilberstein Anya

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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About Method Experimenters, Snake Venom, and the History of Writing Scientifically

Schickore Jutta

ISBN: PB: 9780226759890, ISBN: HB: 9780226449982, University of Chicago Press, Terra Foundation for American Art, September 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Scientists' views on what makes an experiment successful have developed dramatically throughout history. Different criteria for proper experimentation were privileged at different times, entirely new criteria for securing experimental results emerged...

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Making Spirit Matter Neurology, Psychology, and Selfhood in Modern France

Sommer McGrath Larry

ISBN: PB: 9780226699820, ISBN: HB: 9780226699790, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 1 table

The connection between mind and brain has been one of the most persistent problems in modern Western thought; even recent advances in neuroscience haven't been able to solve it satisfactorily. Historian Larry Sommer McGrath's "Making Spirit Matter" s...

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Life and Science of Harold C. Urey

Shindell Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9780226662084, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Harold C. Urey (1893-1981) was one of the most famous American scientists of the twentieth century. Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1934 for his discovery of deuterium and heavy water, Urey later participated in the Manhattan Project and NASA's lunar expl...

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Collecting Experiments Making Big Data Biology

Strasser Bruno J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226635040, ISBN: HB: 9780226634999, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Databases have revolutionized nearly every aspect of our lives. Information of all sorts is being collected on a massive scale, from Google to Facebook and well beyond, to produce new knowledge. But as the amount of information in databases explodes,...

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Scientific Revolution

Shapin Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226398341, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 21.6x14 cm

"There was no such thing as the Scientific Revolution, and this is a book about it". With this provocative and apparently paradoxical claim, Steven Shapin begins his bold, vibrant exploration of the origins of the modern scientific worldview, now upd...

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Ways of Making and Knowing The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge

Smith Pamela H., Meyers Amy R. W., Cook Harold J.

ISBN: PB: 9781941792117, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2018
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 91 colour plates, 2 tables

Although craftspeople and artists often work with natural materials, the notion that making art can constitute a means of knowing nature is a novel one. This book, with contributions from historians of science, medicine, art, and material culture, sh...

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Literary Criticism

History

Refracted Muse Literature and Optics in Early Modern Spain

Santo-Tomas Enrique Garcia

ISBN: PB: 9780226465739, ISBN: HB: 9780226376462, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique Garcia Santo-Tomas unfolds in "The Refracted Muse", the news of his work with telescopes brought him to surprising prominence – not just among Spaniards working in the developing scienc...

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Stepping in the Same River Twice Replication in Biological Research

Shavit Ayelet, Ellison Aaron M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300209549, Yale University Press, June 2017
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 38 black&white illus.

An international team of biologists, philosophers, and historians of science explores the critically important process of replication in biological and biomedical research. Without replication, the trustworthiness of scientific research remains in d...

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Asia

Red Revolution, Green Revolution Scientific Farming in Socialist China

Schmalzer Sigrid

ISBN: HB: 9780226330150, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 30 halftones

In 1968, the director of USAID coined the term "green revolution" to celebrate the new technological solutions that promised to ease hunger around the world – and forestall the spread of more "red", or socialist, revolutions. Yet in China, where mode...

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