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Mammals

Evolution

Gruen Lori

ISBN: PB: 9780226355429, ISBN: HB: 9780226355399, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 figure, 1 table

Animal Studies is a rapidly growing interdisciplinary field devoted to examining, understanding, and critically evaluating the complex relationships between humans and other animals. Scholarship in Animal Studies draws on a variety of methodologies t...

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Mammals

Cow with Ear Tag #1389

Gillespie Kathryn

ISBN: PB: 9780226582856, ISBN: HB: 9780226582719, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 5 line drawings

To translate the journey from a living cow to a glass of milk into tangible terms, Kathryn Gillespie set out to follow the moments in the life cycles of individual animals – animals like the cow with ear tag #1389. She explores how the seemingly beni...

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Popular Science

Computer Science & Internet

Computer Book: From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence 250 Milestones in the History of Computer Science

Garfinkel Simson L., Grunspan Rachel H.

ISBN: HB: 9781454926214, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2018
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

This topical, illustrated addition to the 'Sterling Milestones' series takes readers on a chronological journey through the history and future of the cutting-edge field of computer science. Two expert authors, who work in computer research and innova...

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Earth Sciences

City Unseen New Visions of an Urban Planet

Seto Karen C., Reba Meredith, Sullivan Kathryn D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300221695, Yale University Press, September 2018
268 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 147 colour illus., 31 black&white illus.

Seeing cities around the globe in their larger environmental contexts, we begin to understand how the world shapes urban landscapes and how urban landscapes shape the world. Authors Karen Seto and Meredith Reba provide these revealing views to enhanc...

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Evolution

Culture and the Course of Human Evolution

Tomlinson Gary

ISBN: PB: 9780226548524, ISBN: HB: 9780226548494, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

The rapid evolutionary development of modern Homo sapiens over the past 200,000 years is a topic of fevered interest in numerous disciplines. How did humans, while undergoing few physical changes from their first arrival, so quickly develop the capac...

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Ecology

Earth Sciences

Climate in the Age of Empire Weather Observers in Colonial Canada

Slonosky Victoria C.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970208, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 16 halftones

Though efforts to understand human-caused climate change have intensified in recent decades, weather observers have been paying close attention to changes in climate for centuries. This book offers a close look at that work as it was practiced in Can...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia Fifth Edition

Swan Gerry, Wilson Steve

ISBN: PB: 9781925546026, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, December 2017
560 pp., 21x15 cm

"A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia" has been the most comprehensive field guide available for Australian reptiles since the first edition was published in 2003. As new species are discovered, known ranges extended and higher quality images be...

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Cartography

Travel

Captain Cook and the Pacific Art, Exploration and Empire

McAleer John, Rigby Nigel

ISBN: HB: 9780300207248, Yale University Press, September 2017
256 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 200 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.

British Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic, and geogr...

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Sea Life

Carnivore Minds Who These Fearsome Animals Really are

Bradshaw G. A.

ISBN: HB: 9780300218152, Yale University Press, May 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 44 black&white illus.

Myth and media typically cast animals we consider predators or carnivores as unthinking killers – dangerous, unpredictable, and devoid of emotion. But is this portrait valid? By exploring their inner lives, this pioneering book refutes the many mispe...

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Children's Books

Popular Science

Curious Jane Science + Design + Engineering for Inquisitive Girls

ISBN: PB: 9781454922353, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2017
128 pp., 27.9x21 cm, colour illus.

Calling all creative, curious, confident girls everywhere! If you're a girl who loves to get hands-on and tinker, here's your chance to create to your heart's content. Full of imaginative stuff to do and make, 'Curious Jane' offers plenty of spectacu...

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