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History

Between Raphael and Galileo Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy

Marr Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226506289, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
384 pp., 25.9x18.5 cm, 25 halftones, 55 colour illus.

Although largely unknown today, during his lifetime Mutio Oddi of Urbino (1569-1639) was a highly esteemed scholar, teacher, and practitioner of a wide range of disciplines related to mathematics. A prime example of the artisan-scholar so prevalent i...

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America

Evolution

Banquet at Delmonico's The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America

Werth Barry

ISBN: PB: 9780226893846, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
400 pp., 22.8x15.8 cm

In "Banquet at Delmonico's", Barry Werth draws readers inside the circle of intellectuals, scientists, politicians, businessmen, and clergymen who brought Charles Darwin's controversial ideas to post-Civil-War America. Each chapter is dedicated to a...

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Evolution

Biology's First Law The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems

McShea Daniel W., Brandon Robert N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226562261, ISBN: HB: 9780226562254, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
184 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 line drawings, 1 table, 2 halftones

Life on earth is characterized by three striking phenomena that demand explanation: adaptation – the marvelous fit between organism and environment; diversity – the great variety of organisms; and complexity – the enormous intricacy of their internal...

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Evolution

Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins

Alexander Denis R., Numbers Ronald L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226608419, ISBN: HB: 9780226608402, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

Over the course of human history, the sciences, and biology in particular, have often been manipulated to cause immense human suffering. For example, biology has been used to justify eugenic programs, forced sterilization, human experimentation, and...

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Biography & Memoires

Mammals

Bear Wrangler Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist

Troyer Will

ISBN: PB: 9781602230446, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones

Beginning in 1951, Will Troyer embarked on a thirty-year career with the U. S. Department of the Interior that included positions such as fish and game warden and manager of the Kodiak Island brown bear preserve. Troyer's engaging prose affirms his p...

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