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Ambonese Herbal Volume 4

Rumphius Georgius Everhardus

ISBN: HB: 9780300153736, Yale University Press, May 2011
624 pp., 28.8x20 cm, 136 black&white illus., 2 colour illus.

Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple us...

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Ambonese Herbal Volume 6

Rumphius Georgius Everhardus

ISBN: HB: 9780300153750, Yale University Press, May 2011
128 pp., 28.8x20 cm

Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple us...

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Ambonese Herbal Volume 5

Rumphius Georgius Everhardus

ISBN: HB: 9780300153743, Yale University Press, May 2011
640 pp., 28.8x20 cm, 138 black&white illus., 2 colour illus.

Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple us...

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Astronomy

Physical Processes in Circumstellar Disks around Young Stars

Garcia Paulo J. V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226282299, ISBN: HB: 9780226282282, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
440 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 15 halftones, 78 line illus., 12 colour illus.

Circumstellar disks are vast expanses of dust that form around new stars in the earliest stages of their birth. Predicted by astronomers as early as the eighteenth century, they weren't observed until the late twentieth century, when interstellar ima...

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Evolution

History

Essential Naturalist Timeless Readings in Natural History

Graham Michael H., Parker Joan, Dayton Paul K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226305707, ISBN: HB: 9780226305691, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
552 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 39 tables, 4 halftones, 18 line illus.

Like nearly every area of scholarly inquiry today, the biological sciences are broken into increasingly narrow fields and subfields, its practitioners divided into ecologists, evolutionary biologists, taxonomists, paleontologists, and much more. But...

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Ambonese Herbal Volume 3

Rumphius Georgius Everhardus

ISBN: HB: 9780300153729, Yale University Press, April 2011
720 pp., 28.8x20 cm, 211 black&white illus., 2 colour illus.

Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple us...

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Mathematics

Algorithmes

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: PB: 9781575866208, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2011
524 pp., 23x15 cm

This book is a French translation of seventeen papers by Donald Knuth on algorithms both in the field of analysis of algorithms and in the design of new algorithms. They cover fundamental concepts and techniques and numerous discrete problems such as...

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Africa

History

Africa as a Living Laboratory Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950

Tilley Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780226803470, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
520 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 2 halftones, 8 line drawings, 48 tables, 8 colour illus.

Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods".Africa as a Living Laboratory" is a far-reachi...

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History

Philosophy

Exploring the Scientific Method Cases and Questions

Gimbel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226294834, ISBN: HB: 9780226294810, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
424 pp., 22.4x15.2 cm, 4 tables

From their grade school classrooms forward, students of science are encouraged to memorize and adhere to the "scientific method" – a model of inquiry consisting of five to seven neatly laid-out steps, often in the form of a flowchart. But walk into t...

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Mathematics

Geometry, Rigidity, and Group Actions

Farb Benson, Fisher David

ISBN: HB: 9780226237886, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
600 pp., 23.1x16 cm, 1 halftone, 15 line illus.

The study of group actions is more than a hundred years old but remains to this day a vibrant and widely studied topic in a variety of mathematic fields. A central development in the last fifty years is the phenomenon of rigidity, whereby one can cla...

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