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Mammals

Birds

Field Guide to Long Island Sound Coastal Habitats, Plant Life, Fish, Seabirds, Marine Mammals, and Other Wildlife

Lynch Patrick J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300220353, Yale University Press, March 2017
416 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 1200 colour illus.

A lavishly illustrated and long-overdue guidebook to the rich natural history of Long Island Sound and its coastlines, a region beloved by millions of people. Long Island Sound consists of a diverse collection of unique marine, estuarine, and terres...

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Evolution

Future Humans Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution

Solomon Scott

ISBN: HB: 9780300208719, Yale University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 21x14 cm

Are humans still subject to the forces of evolution? An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens In this intriguing book, evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon draws on the explosion of discoveries in recent...

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Mathematics

Fractal Worlds Grown, Built, and Imagined

Frame Michael, Urry Amelia

ISBN: PB: 9780300197877, Yale University Press, June 2016
512 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 328 black&white illus.

Fractal geometry is a uniquely fascinating area of mathematics, exhibited in a range of shapes that exist in the natural world, from a simple broccoli floret to a majestic mountain range. In this essential primer, mathematician Michael Frame – a clos...

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History

Entomology

Fine Lines Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Art

Blackwell Stephen H., Johnson Kurt

ISBN: HB: 9780300194555, Yale University Press, May 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 75 colour illus., 94 black&white illus.

This landmark book is the first full appraisal of Vladimir Nabokov's long-neglected contributions as a scientist. Although his literary achievements are renowned, until recently his scientific discoveries were ignored or dismissed by many. Nabokov cr...

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Evolution

From Eve to Evolution Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America

Hamlin Kimberly A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324777, ISBN: HB: 9780226134611, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

"From Eve to Evolution" provides the first full-length study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's rights movement. Kimberly A. Hamlin reveals how a number of ni...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

Field Guide to Reptiles of Queensland Second Edition

Wilson Steve

ISBN: PB: 9781921517488, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, August 2015
256 pp., 21x14.8 cm

"A Field Guide to Reptiles of Queensland" covers all of Queensland's 440 named species, including 135 that occur nowhere else. Colour photographs make for quick identification, aided by line drawings, keys, distribution maps and descriptions. Queens...

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Nature

Field Guide to California Lichens

Sharnoff Stephen, Raven Peter H.

ISBN: PB: 9780300195002, Yale University Press, July 2014
416 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 530 colour illus.

Lichens are among the most colourful and abundant organisms in the world. They provide food and nesting material for a wide variety of wildlife, contribute nutrients to the soil, and are indicators of both undisturbed ecosystems and clean air. They l...

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Biography & Memoires

Earth Sciences

Father Benito Vines The 19th-Century Life and Contributions of a Cuban Hurricane Observer and Scientist

Ramos Guadalupe Luis E.

ISBN: PB: 9781935704621, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, May 2014
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 5 halftones, 5 line drawings, 5 maps

Before Doppler radar and broadcast weather reports, Spanish-born Benito Vines (1837-1893) spent decades observing the skies at Belen Observatory in colonial Cuba, routinely issuing weather reports and forecasts to local newspapers. And before storm t...

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Physics

Biography & Memoires

Fermi Remembered

Cronin James W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226100883, ISBN: HB: 9780226121116, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 84 line drawings

Nobel laureate and scientific luminary Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was a pioneering nuclear physicist whose contributions to the field were numerous, profound, and lasting. Best known for his involvement with the Manhattan Project and his work at Los Al...

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Evolution

General

Fair Society The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice

Corning Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226004358, ISBN: HB: 9780226116273, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm

We've been told, again and again, that life is unfair. But what if we're wrong simply to resign ourselves to this situation? What if we have the power – and more, the duty – to change society for the better? We do. And our very nature inclines us t...

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