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Osiris, Volume 35 Food Matters: Critical Histories of Food and the Sciences
ISBN: PB: 9780226726861, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Since the early modern period, science has played an ever-growing role in healthcare, agriculture, the regulation of food and drink trades, and the standardization of nutrition guidelines. Yet until now, few studies had explored the historical proces...
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£28,00
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On the Backs of Tortoises Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden
ISBN: HB: 9780300232745, Yale University Press, January 2020
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.
The Galapagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. Th...
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£20,00
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Osiris, Volume 34 Presenting Futures Past: Science Fiction and the History of Science 
ISBN: PB: 9780226680415, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm
The role of fiction in both understanding and interpreting the world has recently become an increasingly important topic for many of the human sciences. This volume of "Osiris" focuses on the relationship between a particular genre of storytelling –...
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Oak Spring Herbaria Herbs and Herbals from the Fourteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries: A Selection of the Rare Books, Manuscripts and Works of Art in the Collection of Rachel Lambert Mellon
ISBN: HB: 9780965450812, Yale University Press, March 2019
456 pp., 29.1x25.3 cm
This magnificent compendium is the fourth in a series of catalogues describing selections of rare books and other material in the Oak Spring Garden Library, a collection assembled by Mrs. Rachel "Bunny" Lambert Mellon. Herbaria describes sixty-three...
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Osiris, Volume 33 Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories
ISBN: PB: 9780226602325, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm
The historical relationship between science and capitalism has long stood as a central question in science studies, at least since its foundations in the 1930s. Taking inspiration from the recent surge of scholarly interest in the "history of capital...
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£27,00
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Origins of Everything in 100 Pages (More or Less)
ISBN: PB: 9780300230505, Yale University Press, February 2018
152 pp., 19.7x15.2 cm, 12 black&white illus.
<p>With wonder, wit, and flair – and in record time and space – geophysicist David Bercovici explains how everything came to be everywhere, from the creation of stars and galaxies to the formation of Earth's atmosphere and oceans, to...
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£9,99
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Osiris, Volume 32 Data Histories
ISBN: PB: 9780226538778, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm
The history of data brings together topics and themes from a variety of perspectives in history of science: histories of the material culture of information and of computing, the history of politics on individual and global scales, gender and women's...
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£26,50
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Our Oldest Task Making Sense of Our Place in Nature
ISBN: HB: 9780226326399, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
"This is a book about nature and culture", Eric T. Freyfogle writes, "about our place and plight on earth, and the nagging challenges we face in living on it in ways that might endure". Challenges, he says, we are clearly failing to meet. Harking bac...
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£34,00
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Outward Mind Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature
ISBN: PB: 9780226462202, ISBN: HB: 9780226442112, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones
Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In "The Outward Mind", Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an impor...
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£84,00
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Our Wonderful Universe An Easy Introduction to the Study of the Heavens
ISBN: HB: 9781906506629, GMC Group, Papadakis, May 2017
192 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm
First published in 1928, this introduction to 'the study of the heavens' includes chapters on: 'The Celestial Sphere and its Motions';'The Sun and its Systems'; and 'The Universe of the Stars'. It also features an appendix of interesting astronomical...
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