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Ecology

Evolution

Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate

Brodie Jedediah F., Post Eric S., Doak Daniel F.

ISBN: PB: 9780226074634, ISBN: HB: 9780226074627, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 tables, 35 halftones, 37 line illus.

Human-induced climate change is emerging as one of the gravest threats to biodiversity in history, and while a vast amount of literature on the ecological impact of climate change exists, very little has been dedicated to the management of wildlife p...

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Nature

Sea Life

Underwater Eden Saving the Last Coral Wilderness on Earth

Stone Gregory S., Obura David

ISBN: HB: 9780226775609, University of Chicago Press, December 2012
184 pp., 25x20 cm, 2 tables, 91 colour illus.

"It was the first time I'd seen what the ocean may have looked like thousands of years ago". That's conservation scientist Gregory S. Stone talking about his initial dive among the corals and sea life surrounding the Phoenix Islands in the South Paci...

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Cartography

Painting a Map of Sixteenth-Century Mexico City Land, Writing, and Native Rule

Miller Mary E., Mundy Barbara E.

ISBN: HB: 9780300180718, Yale University Press, November 2012
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 277 colour images, 10 black&white illus.

In 1975, the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University acquired an exceptional mid-16th-century map of Mexico City, which, until 1521, had been the capital of the Aztecs, the Nahua-speaking people who dominated the Valley of Mexico...

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Literary Criticism

Popular Science

Loving Faster than Light Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

Price Katy

ISBN: HB: 9780226680736, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones, 9 line illus.

In November 1919, newspapers around the world alerted readers to a sensational new theory of the universe: Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Coming at a time of social, political, and economic upheaval, Einstein's theory quickly became a rich c...

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Nature

Ecology

World in One Cubic Foot Portraits of Biodiversity

Liittschwager David

ISBN: HB: 9780226481234, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
224 pp., 30x30 cm, 985 colour illus.

Twelve inches by twelve inches by twelve inches, the cubic foot is a relatively tiny unit of measure compared to the whole world. With every step, we disturb and move through cubic foot after cubic foot. But behold the cubic foot in nature – from cor...

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History

Physics

Elementary Particles

Fermi Enrico, Appelquist Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300183184, Yale University Press, October 2012
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

First published in 1951, Enrico Fermi's "Elementary Particles" continues to guide physicists and scholars. Fermi's descriptions of the then-known particle universe and its nascent conceptual framework allow readers to glimpse the foundations of the f...

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Evolution

Evolution of Primate Societies

Mitani John C., Call Josep, Kappeler Peter M., Palombit Ryne A., Silk Joan B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226531724, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
744 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 44 tables, 157 halftones, 34 line illus.

In 1987, the University of Chicago Press published "Primate Societies", the standard reference in the field of primate behavior for an entire generation of students and scientists. But in the twenty-five years since its publication, new theories and...

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Evolution

General

Fair Society The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice

Corning Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226004358, ISBN: HB: 9780226116273, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm

We've been told, again and again, that life is unfair. But what if we're wrong simply to resign ourselves to this situation? What if we have the power – and more, the duty – to change society for the better? We do. And our very nature inclines us t...

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Earth Sciences

Our Magnetic Earth The Science of Geomagnetism

Merrill Ronald T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226006598, ISBN: HB: 9780226520506, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 line drawings, 26 halftones

For the general public, magnetism often seems more the province of new age quacks, movie mad scientists, and grade-school teachers than an area of actual, ongoing scientific inquiry. But as Ronald Merrill reveals in "Our Magnetic Earth", geomagneti...

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Nature

Ecology

Rapid Biological Assessment of the Kwamalasamutu Region, Southwestern Suriname

O'Shea Brian J., Alonso Leeanne E., Larsen Trond H.

ISBN: PB: 9781934151501, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, October 2012
156 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 3 maps, 44 colour illus.

This report contains the findings from a Rapid Biological Assessment of the Kwamalasamutu region of southwestern Suriname. Focusing particularly on the plant and animal species important to the indigenous Trio people, this survey establishes baseline...

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