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Spider Webs Behavior, Function, and Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780226534602, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
704 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 195 halftones, 97 line drawings
In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical...
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£60,00
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Weak Knowledge Forms, Functions, and Dynamics
ISBN: HB: 9783593509778, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
620 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Many of us view the world of science as a firm bastion of knowledge, with each new discovery and further illumination adding to an unshakable foundation of natural truths. "Weak Knowledge" aims to rattle our faith, not in core certainties of scientif...
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£44,00
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History of Cartography, Volume 4 Cartography in the European Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780226184753, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
1920 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 962 colour plates, 4 line drawings, 6 tables
Since its launch in 1987, the "History of Cartography" series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. "Cartography in the European Enlightenment", the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a com...
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£395,00
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Cartography The Ideal and Its History
ISBN: PB: 9780226605685, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
296 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 65 halftones
Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has pr...
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£23,00
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Alexander von Humboldt The Complete Drawings from the American Travel Diaries
ISBN: HB: 9783791383545, Prestel Publishing, September 2018
736 pp., 34x24 cm, 600 colour illus.
This stunning volume delves into the extraordinary illustrated notebooks of Alexander von Humboldt's journeys through the Americas, which reveal the graphic musings of an intrepid explorer, a writer and philosopher, and the father of the environmenta...
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£160,00
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Evolutionary Theory A Hierarchical Perspective
ISBN: PB: 9780226426228, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 15 line drawings, 4 tables
The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organi...
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£26,50
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Pigeon Racing My Personal Insights
ISBN: PB: 9781861516794, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, May 2016
332 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Jim Emerton is one of the most respected figures in pigeon racing, having bred and raced birds for 40 years and had birds return to the loft from as far as 879 miles away. Now he writes on the subject for magazines and websites, sharing his expertise...
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£12,99
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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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Diving Seals and Meditating Yogis Strategic Metabolic Retreats
ISBN: HB: 9780226246710, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones, 14 line drawings
The comparative physiology of seemingly disparate organisms often serves as a surprising pathway to biological enlightenment. How appropriate, then, that Robert Elsner sheds new light on the remarkable physiology of diving seals through comparison wi...
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£26,00
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Osiris, Volume 29 Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World
ISBN: PB: 9780226158396, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
450 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm
The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. The alchemist, once marginalized as a quack, now joins the apothecary, miner, humanist, and natural historian as a practitioner...
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£25,00
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