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Lost Species Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums
ISBN: PB: 9780226513706, ISBN: HB: 9780226386218, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones
The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki, an arboreal monkey from the Brazilian rainforests. The olinguito, a native of the Andes, which looks part mongo...
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£17,00
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£22,50
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Life and Science of Harold C. Urey
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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£21,00
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Life on Display Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226598734, ISBN: HB: 9780226079660, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 2 line drawings
Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, "Life on Display" uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle p...
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£30,00
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£36,00
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Longing for Wide and Unknown Things The Life of Alexander von Humboldt
ISBN: HB: 9781849048903, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Alexander von Humboldt was the most admired scientist of his day. But the achievements for which he was most celebrated in his lifetime always fell short of perfection. When he climbed the Chimborazo, then believed to be the hi...
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£25,00
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Legitimizing Science National and Global Public (1800-2010)
ISBN: PB: 9783593504872, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
300 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 8 halftones and 8 line drawings
Since the founding in 1660 of the Royal Society, London, scientists engaging in experimental research have sought to establish a base for exploratory work in communities and their political institutions. This connection between science and the nation...
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£44,50
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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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Limits of Matter Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780226194998, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, December 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans raised a number of questions about the nature of reality and found their answers to be different from those that had satisfied their forebears. They discounted tales of witches, trolls, magic...
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£32,00
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Liberty's Dawn A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9780300205251, Yale University Press, March 2014
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16-page section of black&white illus.
This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. "The Industrial Revolution" brought not simply misery...
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£12,99
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Life Out of Sequence A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics
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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£24,00
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£73,00
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Little History of Science
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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£9,99
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