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Myth of Disenchantment Magic, Modernity, and the Birth of the Human Sciences
ISBN: PB: 9780226403366, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
400 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 5 figures
A great many theorists have argued that the defining feature of modernity is that people no longer believe in spirits, myths, or magic. Jason A. Josephson-Storm argues that as broad cultural history goes, this narrative is wrong, as attempts to suppr...
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£24,00
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Reckoning with Matter Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage
ISBN: HB: 9780226411460, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones, 1 table
From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines. All failed – but that does not mean we cannot learn from the trail of ideas, correspondence,...
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£28,00
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Birders of Africa History of a Network
ISBN: HB: 9780300209617, Yale University Press, June 2016
360 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 16 colour illus., 49 black&white illus.
In this unique and unprecedented study of birding in Africa, historian Nancy Jacobs reconstructs the collaborations between well-known ornithologists and the largely forgotten guides, hunters, and taxidermists who worked with them. Drawing on ethnogr...
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£45,00
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Crop Genetic Diversity in the Field and on the Farm Principles and Applications in Research Practices
ISBN: PB: 9780300161120, Yale University Press, May 2016
416 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 82 black&white illus.
Based on twenty years of global research, this is the first comprehensive reference on crop genetic diversity as it is maintained on farmland around the world. Showcasing the findings of seven experts representing the fields of ecology, crop breeding...
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£34,00
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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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Global Pigeon
ISBN: PB: 9780226002088, ISBN: HB: 9780226001890, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 halftones, 10 colour illus.
The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisance – if they notice it at all. Yet pigeons are also...
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£26,00
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£69,00
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Kandik Map
ISBN: PB: 9781602230422, ISBN: HB: 9781602230323, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2011
160 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In 1880, a Native American named Paul Kandik and a French explorer, Francois Mercier, traveled across northeastern Alaska and western Canada to create the earliest known map of the region. Linda Johnson now delves into the fascinating story behind th...
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£28,00
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Plants That We Eat Nauriat Niginaqtaut: From the Traditional Wisdom of the Inupiat Elders of Northwest Alaska
ISBN: PB: 9781602230743, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2010
241 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 60 halftones
"Plants That We Eat" is a handy, easy-to-use guide to the abundant edible plant life of Alaska. Drawing on centuries of knowledge that have kept the Inupiat people healthy, the book uses photographs and descriptions to teach newcomers to the north ho...
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£19,00
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