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Ecology

Crown Jewels Five Great National Parks Around The World and The Challenges They Face

Delehanty Randolph

ISBN: PB: 9781933253732, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, May 2013
220 pp., 22.9x29.2 cm, 100 colour illus.

Since the establishment of Yellowstone National Park in 1872, the national park movement has spread quickly and internationally. There are now over seven thousand national parks in 140 countries, and these numbers continue to grow. But national parks...

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Sea Life

Common Edible Seaweeds in the Gulf of Alaska Second Edition

Garza Dolly

ISBN: PB: 9781566121682, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
61 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 44 halftones

Seaweed is fast becoming a new favorite snack, as eaters everywhere are realizing what Alaska Natives have known for millennia: seaweed can be a healthy and tasty treat. Found in abundance along Alaska's shores, it has been believed to do everything...

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Mathematics

California Dreaming Reforming Mathematics Education

Wilson Suzanne M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300183085, Yale University Press, November 2011
320 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, black&white illus.

This compelling book tells the history of the past two decades of efforts to reform mathematics education in California. That history is a contentious one, full of such fervor and heat that participants and observers often refer to the "math wars". S...

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Evolution

Comparative Approach in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology

Nunn Charles L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226608990, ISBN: HB: 9780226608983, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 20 halftones, 111 line illus.

Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to the performance of human children on the same tasks. And when new fossils are found,...

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Sea Life

Chasing Science at Sea Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts

Prager Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226678740, ISBN: HB: 9780226678702, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
178 pp., 23x15 cm, 28 halftones, 4 colour illus.

To the average office-dweller, marine scientists seem to have the good life: cruising at sea for weeks at a time, swimming in warm coastal waters, living in tropical paradises. But ocean scientists who go to sea will tell you that it is no vacation....

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Earth Sciences

Changing Arctic Landscape

Tape Ken

ISBN: HB: 9781602230804, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
56 pp., 23x28 cm, 30 halftones, 41 colour illus.

With this book, photographer Ken Tape sets changes in the landscape in stark relief, pairing decades-old photos of the arctic landscape of Alaska with photos of the same scenes taken in the present. The resulting volume is a stunning reminder of in...

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Cartography

Earth Sciences

Coast Lines How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: HB: 9780226534039, University of Chicago Press, May 2008
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 85 halftones

In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious cha...

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Cartography

Cartographies of Travel and Navigation

Akerman James R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226010748, University of Chicago Press, October 2006
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 colour plates, 81 halftones, 4 line drawings

Finding one's way with a map is a relatively recent phenomenon. In premodern times, maps were used, if at all, mainly for planning journeys in advance, not for guiding travelers on the road. With the exception of navigational sea charts, the use of m...

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Cartography

Cartographies of Danger Mapping Hazards in America

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534190, ISBN: HB: 9780226534183, University of Chicago Press, October 1998
378 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 16 line drawings, 97 maps

No place is perfectly safe, but some places are more dangerous than others. Whether we live on a floodplain or in "Tornado Alley", near a nuclear facility or in a neighborhood poorly lit at night, we all co-exist uneasily with natural and man-made ha...

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Cartography

Canada Gazetteer Atlas

ISBN: HB: 9780226092591, University of Chicago Press, August 1980
176 pp., 45.9x33.5 cm

This definitive work – Canada's official atlas – is the first to bring together from diverse official sources complete information on the populated places of the country. It consists of two parts: First, 48 double-page relief maps which are the mo...

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