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True Creator of Everything How the Human Brain Shaped the Universe as We Know It
ISBN: HB: 9780300244632, Yale University Press, February 2020
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 39 black&white illus.
Renowned neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis introduces readers to a revolutionary new theory of how the human brain evolved to become an organic computer without rival in the known universe. Nicolelis undertakes the first attempt to explain the entirety...
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Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire
ISBN: PB: 9780226639727, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones
What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men – and occasionally women – who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors o...
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£27,00
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Spaceflight in the Shuttle Era and Beyond Redefining Humanity's Purpose in Space
ISBN: HB: 9780300206517, Yale University Press, August 2017
296 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 17 colour illus., 23 black&white illus.
An exploration of the changing conceptions of the iconic Space Shuttle and a call for a new vision of spaceflight. The thirty years of Space Shuttle flights saw contrary changes in American visions of space. Valerie Neal, who has spent much of her c...
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Mapping the Heavens The Radical Scientific Ideas That Reveal the Cosmos
ISBN: PB: 9780300227031, Yale University Press, July 2017
288 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 14 colour illus., 33 black&white illus.
This book provides a tour of the "greatest hits" of cosmological discoveries-the ideas that reshaped our universe over the past century. The cosmos, once understood as a stagnant place, filled with the ordinary, is now a universe that is expanding at...
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£11,99
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Plant Evolution An Introduction to the History of Life
ISBN: PB: 9780226342146, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 144 colour plates, 16 halftones, 24 line drawings, 20 tables
Although plants comprise more than 90% of all visible life, and land plants and algae collectively make up the most morphologically, physiologically, and ecologically diverse group of organisms on earth, books on evolution instead tend to focus on an...
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£34,00
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Sustainable Values, Sustainable Change A Guide to Environmental Decision Making
ISBN: PB: 9780226197456, ISBN: HB: 9780226197319, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 10 line drawings, 3 tables
Sustainability is a nearly ubiquitous concept today, but can we ever imagine what it would be like for humans to live sustainably on the earth? No, says Bryan G. Norton in "Sustainable Values, Sustainable Change". One of the most trafficked terms in...
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£92,00
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Plant Physics
ISBN: PB: 9780226150819, ISBN: HB: 9780226586328, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 tables, 44 halftones, 40 line illus.
From Galileo, who used the hollow stalks of grass to demonstrate the idea that peripherally located construction materials provide most of the resistance to bending forces, to Leonardo da Vinci, whose illustrations of the parachute are alleged to be...
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Observing by Hand Sketching the Nebulae in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: HB: 9780226084374, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 colour plates
Today we are all familiar with the iconic pictures of the nebulae produced by the Hubble Space Telescope's digital cameras. But there was a time, before the successful application of photography to the heavens, in which scientists had to rely on hand...
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£36,00
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Relics Travels in Nature's Time Machine
ISBN: HB: 9780226568706, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
384 pp., 23x23 cm, 414 colour illus.
On any night in early June, if you stand on the right beaches of America's East Coast, you can travel back in time all the way to the Jurassic. For as you watch, thousands of horseshoe crabs will emerge from the foam and scuttle up the beach to their...
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Paradise Found Nature in America at the Time of Discovery
ISBN: PB: 9780226583419, ISBN: HB: 9780226583402, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm
The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter's dream, with populations of game too...
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