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Ancient World

Eternal City A History of Rome in Maps

Maier Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780226591452, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 64 colour plates

One of the most visited places in the world, Rome attracts millions of tourists each year to walk its storied streets and see famous sites like the Colosseum, St. Peter's Basilica, and the Trevi Fountain. Yet this ancient city's allure is due as much...

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History

Forbidden Knowledge Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

Marcus Hannah

ISBN: HB: 9780226736587, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 2 tables

Forbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth century end up back on libra...

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Popular Science

Clock Mirage Our Myth of Measured Time

Mazur Joseph

ISBN: HB: 9780300229325, Yale University Press, June 2020
272 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 22 black&white illus.

What is time? This question has fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and scientists for thousands of years. Why does time seem to speed up with age? What is its connection with memory, anticipation, and sleep cycles? Award-winning author and ma...

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Birds

Birds An Anthology

Mitchell Jaqueline, Fitch Daglish Eric

ISBN: HB: 9781851245291, Bodleian Library Publishing, June 2020
272 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 25 black&white illus.

Thomas Hardy notes the thrush's "full-hearted evensong of joy illimited", Gilbert White observes how swallows sweep through the air but swifts "dash round in circles" and Rachel Carson watches sanderlings at the ocean's edge, scurrying "across the be...

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Birds

Ecology

In Search of Meadowlarks Birds, Farms, and Food in Harmony with the Land

Marzluff John M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300237146, Yale University Press, April 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 60 black&white illus.

With predictions of a human population of more than nine billion by the middle of this century and eleven billion by 2100, we stand at a crossroads in our agricultural evolution. In this clear and engaging yet scientifically rigorous book, wildlife b...

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Nature

Biography & Memoires

Multifarious Mr. Banks From Botany Bay to Kew, The Natural Historian Who Shaped the World

Musgrave Toby

ISBN: HB: 9780300223835, Yale University Press, April 2020
496 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 48 colour illus.

As official botanist on James Cook's first circumnavigation, the longest-serving president of the Royal Society, advisor to King George III, the "father of Australia", and the man who established Kew as the world's leading botanical garden, Sir Josep...

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Sea Life

Why Study Biology by the Sea?

Matlin Karl S., Maienschein Jane, Ankeny Rachel A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226672939, ISBN: HB: 9780226672762, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones, 6 line drawings

For almost a century and a half, biologists have gone to the seashore to study life. The oceans contain rich biodiversity, and organisms at the intersection of sea and shore provide a plentiful sampling for research into a variety of questions at the...

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Earth Sciences

Ecology

Drivers of Landscape Change in the Northwest Boreal Region

Markon Carl

ISBN: PB: 9781602233973, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
225 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 48 figures, 38 halftone

The northwest boreal region (NWB) of North America is a land of extremes. Extending more than 1.3 million square kilometers (330 million acres), it encompasses the entire spectrum between inundated wetlands below sea level to the tallest peak in Nort...

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Sea Life

Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography

Macdougall Doug

ISBN: HB: 9780300232059, Yale University Press, October 2019
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 29 black&white illus.

From late 1872 to 1876, H.M.S. Challenger explored the world's oceans. Conducting deep sea soundings, dredging the ocean floor, recording temperatures, observing weather, and collecting biological samples, the expedition laid the foundations for mode...

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Ecology

Alaska Codfish Chronicle A History of the Pacific Cod Fishery in Alaska

Mackovjak James

ISBN: PB: 9781602233898, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2019
557 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 70 halftones

Cod is one of the most widely consumed fish in the world. For many years, the Atlantic cod industry took center stage, but partly thanks to climate change and overfishing, it is more and more likely that the cod on your kitchen table or in your fast...

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