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House of Lost Worlds Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth
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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£16,99
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Outward Mind Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226462202, ISBN: HB: 9780226442112, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In "The Outward Mind", Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an impor...
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£26,50
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£84,00
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Myth of Disenchantment Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences
ISBN: PB: 9780226403366, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 figures
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppr...
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£24,00
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Territories of Science and Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780226478982, ISBN: HB: 9780226184487, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones
The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that's not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and relig...
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£19,50
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£22,50
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Science in the Archives Pasts, Presents, Futures
ISBN: PB: 9780226432366, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
392 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 halftones, 11 line drawings, 1 table
Archives bring to mind rooms filled with old papers and dusty artifacts. But for scientists, the detritus of the past can be a treasure trove of material vital to present and future research: fossils collected by geologists; data banks assembled by g...
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£28,00
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Views of Nature
ISBN: PB: 9780226422473, ISBN: HB: 9780226923185, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables
While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists. Von Humboldt's 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist...
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£20,50
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£36,00
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Red Revolution, Green Revolution Scientific Farming in Socialist China
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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£36,00
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Curators Behind the Scenes of Natural History Museums
ISBN: HB: 9780226192758, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
432 pp., 24.1x16.5 cm, 146 colour plates
Over the centuries, natural history museums have evolved from being little more than musty repositories of stuffed animals and pinned bugs, to being crucial generators of new scientific knowledge. They have also become vibrant educational centers, fu...
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£32,00
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Osiris, Volume 31 History of Science and the Emotions
ISBN: PB: 9780226392042, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
318 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm
What new insights become available for historians when emotions are included as an analytical category? This volume of "Osiris" explores the historical interrelationships between science and its cultures and cultures of emotions. It argues that a dia...
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£28,00
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Reckoning with Matter Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage
ISBN: HB: 9780226411460, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones, 1 table
From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines. All failed – but that does not mean we cannot learn from the trail of ideas, correspondence,...
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