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Race and Photography Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980
ISBN: PB: 9780226320885, ISBN: HB: 9780226320748, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 halftones
"Race and Photography" studies the changing function of photography from the 1870s to the 1940s within the field of the "science of race", what many today consider the paradigm of pseudo-science. Amos Morris-Reich looks at the ways photography enable...
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£24,50
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£78,00
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Localization and Its Discontents A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines
ISBN: HB: 9780226288208, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 57 halftones
Psychoanalysis and neurological medicine have promoted contrasting and seemingly irreconcilable notions of the modern self. Since Freud, psychoanalysts have relied on the spoken word in a therapeutic practice that has revolutionized our understanding...
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£28,00
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Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger
ISBN: PB: 9780226320090, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
152 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 7 halftones, 75 line drawings
Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, "unheard of through the ages", revealed by a mysterious new instrument. Galileo had ingeniously...
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£13,00
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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
ISBN: PB: 9780226324159, ISBN: HB: 9780226046631, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 17 line drawings
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top milita...
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£16,00
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£31,00
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Naturalists at Sea Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin
ISBN: PB: 9780300205404, Yale University Press, October 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 36 colour illus.
On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the "long eighteenth century", naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrati...
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£14,99
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Great Paleolithic War How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past
ISBN: HB: 9780226293226, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
680 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 18 halftones, 9 tables
Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the Pleistocene era, scientists wondered whether North American prehistory might be just as ancient. And why not? The geologica...
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£44,00
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Dreamscapes of Modernity Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power
ISBN: PB: 9780226276526, ISBN: HB: 9780226276496, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
"Dreamscapes of Modernity" offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological p...
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£26,50
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£84,00
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Nature's Ghosts Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology
ISBN: PB: 9780226323657, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 halftones
The rapid growth of the American environmental movement in recent decades obscures the fact that long before the first Earth Day and the passage of the Endangered Species Act, naturalists and concerned citizens recognized – and worried about – the pr...
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£20,00
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Making "Nature" The History of a Scientific Journal
ISBN: HB: 9780226261454, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 3 tables
"Making 'Nature'" is the first book to chronicle the foundation and development of Nature, one of the world's most influential scientific institutions. Now nearing its hundred and fiftieth year of publication, Nature is the international benchmark fo...
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£36,00
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Private Doubt, Public Dilemma Religion and Science Since Jefferson and Darwin
ISBN: HB: 9780300203677, Yale University Press, July 2015
224 pp., 21x14 cm
Each age has its own crisis-our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears, Keith Thomson proposes in this thoughtful book. He considers the ideas and writings of Thomas Jefferson an...
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£43,00
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