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Nature

Photography

Science on Ice Four Polar Expeditions

Linder Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780226482477, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
288 pp., 28x20 cm, 157 colour illus.

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised", wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar exp...

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Mathematics

California Dreaming Reforming Mathematics Education

Wilson Suzanne M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300183085, Yale University Press, November 2011
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

This compelling book tells the history of the past two decades of efforts to reform mathematics education in California. That history is a contentious one, full of such fervor and heat that participants and observers often refer to the "math wars". S...

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Earth Sciences

Quaker Experiences in International Conciliation

Yarrow C. H. Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780300183115, Yale University Press, November 2011
338 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

As far back as the early 1900s, the Quakers have been engaged in a program of quiet private diplomacy that won them a Nobel Peace Prize in 1947. During the turbulent 1960s, hey acted as unofficial conciliators in several tense situations. This compre...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Relics Travels in Nature's Time Machine

Naskrecki Piotr

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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History

Earth Sciences

British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment

Golinski Jan

ISBN: PB: 9780226302034, ISBN: HB: 9780226302058, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 halftones

Enlightenment inquiries into the weather sought to impose order on a force that had the power to alter human life and social conditions".British Weather and the Climate of Enlightenment" reveals how a new sense of the national climate emerged in the...

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History

Literary Criticism

Fictions of the Cosmos Science and Literature in the Seventeenth Century

Ait-Touati Frederique

ISBN: HB: 9780226011226, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
264 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 5 halftones, 2 line illus.

In today's academe, the fields of science and literature are considered unconnected, one relying on raw data and fact, the other focusing on fiction. During the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, however, the two fields were not so...

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Technology & Engineering

History

Enigma of the Aerofoil Rival Theories in Aerodynamics, 1909-1930

Bloor David

ISBN: PB: 9780226060958, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
608 pp., 23x15 cm, 97 halftones

Why do aircraft fly? How do their wings support them? In the early years of aviation, there was an intense dispute between British and German experts over the question of why and how an aircraft wing provides lift. The British, under the leadership o...

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Astronomy

Amazing Nature

Moon A Brief History

Brunner Bernd

ISBN: PB: 9780300177695, Yale University Press, October 2011
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 93 black&white illus.

Werewolves and Wernher von Braun, Stonehenge and the sex lives of sea corals, aboriginal myths, and an Anglican bishop: in his new book, "Moon", Bernd Brunner weaves variegated information into an enchanting glimpse of Earth's closest celestial neigh...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Deceptive Beauties The World of Wild Orchids

Ziegler Christian

ISBN: HB: 9780226982977, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
184 pp., 28x28 cm, 165 colour illus.

Confucius called them the "king of fragrant plants", and John Ruskin condemned them as "prurient apparitions". Across the centuries, orchids have captivated us with their elaborate exoticism, their powerful perfumes, and their sublime seductiveness....

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Evolution

Political Science

Man Is by Nature a Political Animal Evolution, Biology, and Politics

Hatemi Peter K., McDermott Rose

ISBN: PB: 9780226319100, ISBN: HB: 9780226319094, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 tables, 20 line illus.

In "Man Is by Nature a Political Animal", Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political beha...

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