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Mammals
Animals' Best Friends Putting Compassion to Work for Animals in Captivity and in the Wild
King Barbara J.
ISBN: HB: 9780226601489, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
As people come to understand more about animals' inner lives – the intricacies of their thoughts and the emotions that are expressed every day by whales and cows, octopus and mice, even bees – we feel a growing compassion, a desire to better their li...
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Literary Criticism
Sea Life
Ahab's Rolling Sea A Natural History of "Moby-Dick"
King Richard J.
ISBN: PB: 9780226789873, ISBN: HB: 9780226514963, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 71 halftones
Although Herman Melville's "Moby-Dick" is beloved as one of the most profound and enduring works of American fiction, we rarely consider it a work of nature writing – or even a novel of the sea. Yet Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard avers "...
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Rapid Marine Biological Assessment of Anambas Islands, Indonesia RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, Volume 69
Kusuma Mustika Putu Liza, Suharsono, Soemodinoto Arisetiarso, Basuki Riyanto
ISBN: PB: 9781934151594, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, January 2021
120 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, illustrated throughout
This report contains the findings from a rapid marine biological assessment of the Anambas Islands in western Indonesia conducted in May 2012. The scientists researching the area offer detailed accounts of reef communities, as well as information on...
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History
Lost Species Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums
Kemp Christopher
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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Popular Science
My First Book of the Cosmos
Kaid-Salah Ferron Sheddad, Altarriba Eduard
ISBN: HB: 9781787080768, GMC Group, Button Books, June 2020
56 pp., 24.8x24.8 cm, colour illus.
This is the latest title from the awarding-winning illustrator and author duo Eduard Altarriba and Sheddad Kaid-Salah Ferron. Cosmology is closely related to astronomy and studies the origin and evolution of the universe. As with Eduard and Sheddad's...
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Physics
Quantum Legacies Dispatches from an Uncertain World
Kaiser David
ISBN: HB: 9780226698052, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
360 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 47 halftones
The ideas at the root of quantum theory remain stubbornly, famously bizarre: a solid world reduced to puffs of probability; particles that tunnel through walls; cats suspended in zombielike states, neither alive nor dead; and twinned particles that s...
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Mammals
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Manual of the Mammalia An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals"
Kelt Douglas A., Patton James L.
ISBN: HB: 9780226533001, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
544 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 513 halftones, 33 line drawings
The taxonomy of recent mammals has lately undergone tremendous revision, but it has been almost four decades since the last update to Timothy E. Lawlor's acclaimed identification guide the "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals". Inte...
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History
Beyond the Laboratory Scientists as Political Activists in 1930s America
Kuznick Peter J.
ISBN: PB: 9780226676203, University of Chicago Press, September 2019
374 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
The debate over scientists' social responsibility is a topic of great controversy today. Peter J. Kuznick here traces the origin of that debate to the 1930s and places it in a context that forces a reevaluation of the relationship between science and...
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Children's Books
Popular Science
My First Book of Relativity
Kaid-Salah Ferron Sheddad, Altarriba Eduard
ISBN: HB: 9781787080324, GMC Group, Button Books, April 2019
48 pp., 24.8x24.8 cm, colour illus.
It's never too early to start exploring big ideas. This companion volume to "My First Book of Quantum Physics" introduces complex science to children through bright illustrations and amusing text. Einstein's theory of relativity is one of the corners...
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Children's Books
Science that Changed the World Remarkable Discoveries and Breakthroughs
Kumar-Terry Stuart
ISBN: HB: 9781921580482, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, March 2019
72 pp., 28x21.5 cm, colour illus.
"Science that Changed the World" provides a gender and racially diverse cross-section of scientists through history. The intention is to describe the science that was discovered, the manner in which it was discovered and the impact of the discoveries...
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