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Evolution

Darwin's Orchids Then and Now

Edens-Meier Retha, Bernhardt Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226044910, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 33 halftones, 14 line drawings, 14 tables

For biologists, 2009 was an epochal year: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of a book now known simply as "The Origin of Species". But for many botanists, Darwin's true legacy starts with the 1862...

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Sea Life

Swordfish A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator

Ellis Richard

ISBN: HB: 9780226922904, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
296 pp., 23x15 cm, 51 halftones, 3 line illus.

A perfect fish in the evolutionary sense, the broadbill swordfish derives its name from its distinctive bill – much longer and wider than the bill of any other billfish – which is flattened into the sword we all recognize. And though the majesty and...

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Physics

Astronomy

Time Travel and Warp Drives A Scientific Guide to Shortcuts through Time and Space

Everett Allen, Roman Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226045481, ISBN: HB: 9780226224985, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones, 9 line illus.

Sci-fi makes it look so easy. Receive a distress call from Alpha Centauri? No problem: punch the warp drive and you're there in minutes. Facing a catastrophe that can't be averted? Just pop back in the timestream and stop it before it starts. But for...

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Physics

Relativity

Einstein Albert

ISBN: PB: 9780760759219, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, March 2013
144 pp., 21.6x19 cm, 2 colour illus.

Albert Einstein's Relativity: The Special and the General Theory (1920) is a cornerstone of modern physics. Einstein intended this book for "those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, b...

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Entomology

Field Guide to the Ants of New England

Ellison Aaron M., Gotelli Nicholas J., Farnsworth Elizabeth J., Alpert Gary D.

ISBN: PB: 9780300169300, Yale University Press, September 2012
352 pp., 22.9x16.5 cm, 310 colour images, 350 black&white illus.

This book is the first user-friendly regional guide devoted to ants – the "little things that run the world". Lavishly illustrated with over 500 line illustrations, 300 photographs, and regional distribution maps for every species, this guide will in...

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Sea Life

Evolution

Ecology and Evolution of Poeciliid Fishes

Evans Jonathan P., Pilastro Andrea, Schlupp Ingo

ISBN: HB: 9780226222745, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
472 pp., 28x22 cm, 54 maps, 25 tables, 34 line illus.

The history of biology is populated by numerous model species or organisms. But few vertebrate groups have aided evolutionary and ecological research more than the live-bearing fishes of the family Poeciliidae. Found throughout tropical and subtropic...

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Nature

Imperial Nature Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science

Endersby Jim

ISBN: PB: 9780226207926, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first – and most successful – British men of science to become a full-time professional. He was also, Jim...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Tropical Forest Diversity and Dynamism Findings from a Large-Scale Plot Network

Elizabeth Losos, Egbert Giles Leigh Jr.

ISBN: PB: 9780226493466, ISBN: HB: 9780226493459, University of Chicago Press, October 2004
688 pp., 23x15 cm, 170 tables, 4 halftones, 130 line illus.

Long-term Forest Dynamics Plots (FDPs) allow ecologists to explain patterns in diversity and dynamics in tropical forests around the world. In this collection, Elizabeth Losos and Egbert Giles Leigh Jr. assemble extensive standardized data – collecte...

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Mammals

Neotropical Rainforest Mammals A Field Guide

Emmons Louise H., Feer François

ISBN: PB: 9780226207216, University of Chicago Press, September 1997
396 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 colour plates, 9 halftones, 195 maps, 14 line drawings

"Neotropical Rainforest Mammals", the first color-illustrated field guide to these marvelously diverse and elusive creatures, has enjoyed tremendous success since its initial publication in 1990. Ecotourists and field researchers alike have applauded...

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