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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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Outsider Scientists Routes to Innovation in Biology

Harman Oren, Dietrich Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226078403, ISBN: HB: 9780226078373, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 4 line drawings

"Outsider Scientists" describes the transformative role played by "outsiders" in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and human sciences, has historically attracted many thinkers whose prim...

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Observing by Hand Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century

Nasim Omar W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226084374, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 colour plates

Today we are all familiar with the iconic pictures of the nebulae produced by the Hubble Space Telescope's digital cameras. But there was a time, before the successful application of photography to the heavens, in which scientists had to rely on hand...

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Chemistry

History

Secrets of Alchemy

Principe Lawrence M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226103792, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, November 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 12 colour plates, 23 halftones, 4 line illus.

Alchemy, the "Noble Art", conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stirring cauldrons. Though the history of alchemy is intricately linked to the history of chemistry, alchemy has nonetheless often been...

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History

Life Out of Sequence A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics

Stevens Hallam

ISBN: PB: 9780226080208, ISBN: HB: 9780226080178, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 3 line drawings

Thirty years ago, the most likely place to find a biologist was standing at a laboratory bench, peering down a microscope, surrounded by flasks of chemicals and petri dishes full of bacteria. Today, you are just as likely to find him or her in a room...

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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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Little Histories

Little History of Science

Bynum William F.

ISBN: PB: 9780300197136, Yale University Press, August 2013
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.

Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its...

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Music

Osiris, Volume 28 Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750-1980

Hui Alexandra, Kursell Julia, Jackson Myles W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226053752, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The understanding of sound underwent profound changes with the advent of laboratory science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. New techniques of sound visualization and detection, the use of electricity to generate sound, and the emergence of...

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History

General

Putting Science in Its Place Geographies of Scientific Knowledge

Livingstone David N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102849, ISBN: HB: 9780226487229, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
244 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 31 halftones, 5 maps

We are accustomed to thinking of science and its findings as universal. After all, one atom of carbon plus two of oxygen yields carbon dioxide in Amazonia as well as in Alaska; a scientist in Bombay can use the same materials and techniques to challe...

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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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