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Yungcautnguuq Nunam Qainga Tamarmi/The Entire Surface of the Land is Medicine: Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska Edible and Medicinal Plants of Southwest Alaska

Fienup-Riordan Ann

ISBN: PB: 9781602234222, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, March 2021
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 124 colour plates

In this book, close to one hundred men and women from all over southwest Alaska share knowledge of their homeland and the plants that grow there. They speak eloquently about time spent gathering and storing plants and plant material during snow-free...

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Birds

Vulture The Private Life of an Unloved Bird

Fallon Katie

ISBN: PB: 9781684580330, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates

Few animals have a worse reputation than the vulture. But is it deserved? With Vulture, Katie Fallon offers an irresistible argument to the contrary, tracing a year in the life of a typical North American turkey vulture. Turkey vultures, also known a...

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Cartography

Dislocating the Orient British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921

Foliard Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226755724, ISBN: HB: 9780226451336, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 45 halftones, 2 line drawings

While the twentieth century's conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well documented, the origins of the concept of the Middle East itself have been largely ignored. With "Dislocating the Orient", Daniel Foliard tells the story o...

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Mammals

Phyllostomid Bats A Unique Mammalian Radiation

Fleming Theodore H., Davalos Liliana M., Mello Marco A. R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226696126, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
512 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 9 colour plates, 46 halftones

With more than two hundred species distributed across most of mainland Mexico, Central and South America, and islands in the Caribbean Sea, the Phyllostomidae bat family (American leaf-nosed bats) is one of the world's most diverse mammalian families...

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Anthropology

Evolution

Why We Believe Evolution and the Human Way of Being

Fuentes Agustin

ISBN: HB: 9780300243994, Yale University Press, January 2020
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.

Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. Evolutionary...

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Sea Life

Ecology

All the Fish in the Sea Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management

Finley Carmel

ISBN: PB: 9780226701622, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 3 line drawings

Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield (MSY). The concept is based on a confidence that scientists can predict, theoretically, the largest catch that can be taken...

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Photography

Popular Science

Apollo's Muse The Moon in the Age of Photography

Fineman Mia, Saunders Beth, Hanks Tom

ISBN: HB: 9781588396846, Yale University Press, Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2019
192 pp., 22.9x22.9 cm, 150 colour and black&white illus.

Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, "Apollo's Muse" honors the rich history of photographic representations of the moon, from rarely seen early daguerreotypes to contemporary video art. Engaging and accessible, the book explore...

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Anthropology

Sea Life

Fishing How the Sea Fed Civilization

Fagan Brian

ISBN: PB: 9780300240047, Yale University Press, October 2018
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 39 black&white illus.

In this history of fishing – not as sport but as sustenance – archaeologist and best-selling author Brian Fagan argues that fishing was an indispensable and often overlooked element in the growth of civilization. It sustainably provided enough food t...

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Philosophy

Cartography

Blinding Polyphemus Geography and the Models of the World

Farinelli Franco

ISBN: HB: 9780857423788, Seagull Books, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Today, we believe that the map is a copy of the Earth, without realizing that the opposite is true: in our culture the Earth has assumed the form of a map. In "Blinding Polyphemus", Franco Farinelli elucidates the philosophical correlation between cu...

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History

Making Time Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan

Frumer Yulia

ISBN: HB: 9780226516448, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings

What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything – it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In "Making Time", Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in...

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