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Courtiers' Anatomists Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris

Guerrini Anita

ISBN: HB: 9780226247663, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

"The Courtiers' Anatomists" is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris – and the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were connect...

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Cartography

Cartophilia Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland

Dunlop Catherine Tatiana

ISBN: HB: 9780226173023, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
280 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 71 halftones

The period between the French Revolution and World War II was a time of tremendous growth in both mapmaking and map reading throughout Europe. There is no better place to witness this rise of popular cartography than in Alsace-Lorraine, a disputed bo...

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Entomology

Cockroach Papers A Compendium of History and Lore

Schweid Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226260471, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
208 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 21 halftones

Skittering figures of urban legend – and a ubiquitous reality – cockroaches are nearly as abhorred as they are ancient. Even as our efforts to exterminate them have developed into ever more complex forms of chemical warfare, roaches' basic design of...

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Earth Sciences

Climate Conundrums What the Climate Debate Reveals About Us

Gail William B.

ISBN: PB: 9781935704744, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, October 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings

It is generally assumed that, in polite company, you don't talk politics, religion, or money. But in recent years, it seems "climate change"‌ needs to be added to that list. Incorporating all of the above, few topics can divide a dinner party faster....

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History

Commercial Visions Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age

Margocsy Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226117744, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour plates, 39 halftones, 3 tables

Entrepreneurial science is not new; business interests have strongly influenced science since the Scientific Revolution. In "Commercial Visions", Daniel Margocsy illustrates that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded na...

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Evolution

History

Cultural History of Heredity

Muller-Wille Staffan, Rheinberger Hans-Jorg

ISBN: PB: 9780226213484, ISBN: HB: 9780226545707, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones, 9 line illus.

It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger offer a suc...

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Philosophy

Curiosity How Science Became Interested in Everything

Ball Philip

ISBN: PB: 9780226211695, ISBN: HB: 9780226045795, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
480 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 5 line drawings

With the recent landing of the Mars rover "Curiosity", it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science that it's not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission. Yet the...

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Entomology

Chasing Monarchs Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage

Pyle Robert Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300203875, Yale University Press, May 2014
352 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Although no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there were well-accepted assumptions about the nature and form of the migration. But to Robert Michael Pyle,...

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Nature

Catching Nature in the Act Reaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century

Terrall Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226088600, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones

Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people – diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God's providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because...

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Physics

Condensed Course of Quantum Mechanics

Cejnar Pavel

ISBN: PB: 9788024623214, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2014
216 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 136 mathematical drawings

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This book represents a concise summary of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics for physics students at the university level. The text covers essential topics, from general mathematical formal...

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