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Scientific History Experiments in History and Politics from the Bolshevik Revolution to the End of the Cold War
ISBN: HB: 9780226761381, University of Chicago Press, March 2021
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones
Increasingly, scholars in the humanities are calling for a reengagement with the natural sciences. Taking their cues from recent breakthroughs in genetics and the neurosciences, advocates of "big history" are calling for a reassessment of long-held a...
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£36,00
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Spatial Webs Mapping Anatolian Pasts for Research and the Public
ISBN: PB: 9786057685377, University of Chicago Press, Koc University Press, March 2021
236 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 colour plates, 56 figures, 16 tables
Spatial Webs charts the cultural heritage and identity of Anatolia, focusing on projects that incorporate Geographic Information Systems and other analytical tools in spatially significant research into the past. An important new contribution to arch...
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£32,00
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Scientific Freedom under Attack Political Oppression, Structural Challenges, and Intellectual Resistance in Modern and Contemporary History
ISBN: PB: 9783593513119, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Recent years have seen an alarming rise in antiintellectual outbursts by politicians, documented threats against radical scholars across continents, and serious blows to the fundamental right of scientific freedom. Scientific Freedom under Attack is...
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Shaping Science Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA's Teams
ISBN: HB: 9780226691084, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones
In "Shaping Science", Janet Vertesi draws on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s. Although these missions appear to feature robotic expl...
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Spider Webs Behavior, Function, and Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780226534602, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
704 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 195 halftones, 97 line drawings
In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical...
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Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226752167, ISBN: HB: 9780226074726, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
345 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings, 31 halftones
The so-called "Bone Wars" of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinos...
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£36,00
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£51,00
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Science on a Mission How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the Ocean
ISBN: HB: 9780226732381, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
744 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 17 line drawings
What difference does it make who pays for science? Some might say none. If scientists seek to discover fundamental truths about the world, and they do so in an objective manner using well-established methods, then how could it matter who's footing th...
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Scientific Journal Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226752501, ISBN: HB: 9780226553238, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones
Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of ac...
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£34,00
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Standing between Life and Extinction Ethics and Ecology of Conserving Aquatic Species in North American Deserts
ISBN: PB: 9780226694474, ISBN: HB: 9780226694337, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 colour plates, 22 halftones
North American deserts – lands of little water – have long been home to a surprising diversity of aquatic life, from fish to insects and mollusks. But with European settlement, water extraction, resource exploitation, and invasive species set many of...
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£50,00
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£113,00
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Science Periodicals in Nineteenth-Century Britain Constructing Scientific Communities
ISBN: HB: 9780226676517, University of Chicago Press, March 2020
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones
Periodicals played a vital role in the developments in science and medicine that transformed nineteenth-century Britain. Proliferating from a mere handful to many hundreds of titles, they catered to audiences ranging from gentlemanly members of metro...
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£44,00
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