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Mammals

Evolution

First Domestication How Wolves and Humans Coevolved

Pierotti Raymond, Fogg Brandy R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300226164, Yale University Press, February 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

In this fascinating book, Raymond Pierotti and Brandy Fogg change the narrative about how wolves became dogs and in turn, humanity's best friend. Rather than describe how people mastered and tamed an aggressive, dangerous species, the authors describ...

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Mammals

Evolution

Great Apes A Short History

Herzfeld Chris, Goodall Jane, Frey Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9780300221374, Yale University Press, February 2018
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind's relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), from antiquity to the present. Replete with fascinating historical details and anecdotes, it traces...

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History

Artisanal Enlightenment Science and the Mechanical Arts in Old Regime France

Bertucci Paola

ISBN: HB: 9780300227413, Yale University Press, February 2018
312 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 37 black&white illus.

What would the Enlightenment look like from the perspective of artistes, the learned artisans with esprit, who presented themselves in contrast to philosophers, savants, and routine-bound craftsmen? Making a radical change of historical protagonists,...

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Popular Science

Astronomy

Aliens Among Us How Invasive Species are Transforming the Planet and Ourselves

Leslie Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300208900, Yale University Press, February 2018
400 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 45 black&white illus.

From an award-winning adventure and science journalist comes an eye-opening exploration of a burgeoning environmental phenomenon and the science coalescing around it. Leslie Anthony leads readers on adventures physical and philosophical as he explore...

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Popular Science

Origins of Everything in 100 Pages (More or Less)

Bercovici David

ISBN: PB: 9780300230505, Yale University Press, February 2018
152 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm, 12 black&white illus.

<p>With wonder, wit, and flair – and in record time and space – geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the formation of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, to...

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History

Restless Clock A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

Riskin Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780226528267, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 51 halftones

Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is...

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History

Ways of Making and Knowing The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge

Smith Pamela H., Meyers Amy R. W., Cook Harold J.

ISBN: PB: 9781941792117, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2018
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 91 colour plates, 2 tables

Although craftspeople and artists often work with natural materials, the notion that making art can constitute a means of knowing nature is a novel one. This book, with contributions from historians of science, medicine, art, and material culture, sh...

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Nature

Phylogeny and Evolution of the Angiosperms Revised and Updated Edition

Soltis Douglas, Soltis Pamela, Endress Peter, Chase Mark, Manchester Steven, Judd Walter, Majure Lucas, Mavrodiev Evgeny

ISBN: HB: 9780226383613, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
560 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 60 colour plates, 36 halftones, 129 line drawings, 18 tables

Although they are relative latecomers on the evolutionary scene, having emerged only 135-170 million years ago, angiosperms – or flowering plants – are the most diverse and species-rich group of seed-producing land plants, comprising more than 13,000...

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Entomology

Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Spiders

Spicer Rice Eleanor, Buddle Christopher M.,

ISBN: PB: 9780226332253, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
80 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 72 colour plates

Spiders have a problem, and it's us. Despite their magnificent talents for crafting webs, capturing mosquitoes, and camouflage, for millennia arachnophobia has hampered our ability to appreciate these eight-legged and -eyed marvels. No longer! In thi...

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Evolution

Darwin's Evolving Identity Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation

Sponsel Alistair

ISBN: HB: 9780226523118, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 27 halftones

Why – against his mentor's exhortations to publish – did Charles Darwin take twenty years to reveal his theory of evolution by natural selection? In "Darwin's Evolving Identity", Alistair Sponsel argues that Darwin adopted this cautious approach to a...

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