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Shaping Science Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA's Teams
ISBN: HB: 9780226691084, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
In "Shaping Science", Janet Vertesi draws on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s. Although these missions appear to feature robotic expl...
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Chemical Age How Chemists Fought Famine and Disease, Killed Millions, and Changed Our Relationship with the Earth
ISBN: HB: 9780226697246, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones
For thousands of years, we've found ways to scorch, scour, and sterilize our surroundings to make them safer. Sometimes these methods are wonderfully effective. Often, however, they come with vast unintended consequences – typically not truly underst...
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How to Find a Higgs Boson and Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small
ISBN: HB: 9780300244182, Yale University Press, April 2020
272 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 18 black&white illus.
How did physicists combine talent and technology to discover the Higgs boson, the last piece in our inventory of the subatomic world? How did the Higgs change our understanding of the universe? And now, nearly a decade after its detection, what comes...
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Herbs and Roots A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace
ISBN: HB: 9780300243611, Yale University Press, January 2020
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.
Chinese medicine has a long history in the United States, with written records dating back to the American colonial period. In this intricately crafted history, Tamara Venit Shelton chronicles the dynamic systems of knowledge, therapies, and materia...
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Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 1 A Critical Edition
ISBN: HB: 9780226651385, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
632 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 64 tables
Volume 1 of this critical edition includes a note on the text from the Humboldt in English team, an introduction by editors Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette, a preface to the first edition by Alexander von Humboldt, and the translation of Volumes 1...
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Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 2 A Critical Edition
ISBN: HB: 9780226651552, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 180 tables
Volume 2 of this critical edition includes the translation of Volumes 3 and 4 of the second, revised French edition of Alexander von Humboldt's "Essai politique sur le royaume de de Nouvelle Espagne" from 1825 to 1827 as well as notes, supplements, i...
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Why the Wheel Is Round Muscles, Technology, and How We Make Things Move
ISBN: PB: 9780226599687, ISBN: HB: 9780226381039, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 81 halftones, 64 line drawings
There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates – be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel – a rotational mechanism that accomplishes w...
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Views of Nature
ISBN: PB: 9780226422473, ISBN: HB: 9780226923185, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables
While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists. Von Humboldt's 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist...
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Hawthorn The Tree That Has Nourished, Healed, and Inspired Through the Ages
ISBN: PB: 9780300219876, Yale University Press, June 2016
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.
One of humankind's oldest companions, the hawthorn tree, is bound up in the memories of every recorded age and the plot lines of cultures all across the Northern Hemisphere. Hawthorn examines the little-recognized political, cultural, and natural his...
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£26,00
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City Creatures Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness
ISBN: HB: 9780226192895, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
264 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 102 colour plates, 16 halftones
We usually think of cities as the domain of humans – but we are just one of thousands of species that call the urban landscape home. Chicago residents knowingly move among familiar creatures like squirrels, pigeons, and dogs, but might be surprised t...
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