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Sport

Skijor with Your Dog

Kaynor Carol, Hoe-Raitto Mari

ISBN: PB: 9781602231863, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2012
318 pp., 25x15 cm

Skijoring, or being pulled on skis by a dog in harness, is a great sport in which almost everyone – and almost any breed of dog – can participate. It requires little beyond a pair of skis and a dog with a desire to pull. The second edition of this po...

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History

Philosophy

Structure of Scientific Revolutions 50th Anniversary Edition

Kuhn Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226458120, ISBN: HB: 9780226458113, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
264 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its i...

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Evolution

Archaeology & Paleontology

Stratigraphic Paleobiology Understanding the Distribution of Fossil Taxa in Time and Space

Patzkowsky Mark E., Holland Steven M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226649382, ISBN: HB: 9780226649375, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 colour illus., 31 halftones, 19 line illus.

Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late 1700s, Georges Cuvier argued for a literal interpretation, b...

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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter

Prager Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226678764, ISBN: HB: 9780226678726, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 colour illus.

When viewed from a quiet beach, the ocean, with its rolling waves and vast expanse, can seem calm, even serene. But hidden beneath the sea's waves are a staggering abundance and variety of active creatures, engaged in the never-ending struggles of li...

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Entomology

Spider Silk Evolution and 400 Million Years of Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and Mating

Brunetta Leslie, Craig Catherine L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300181463, Yale University Press, February 2012
248 pp., 22.7x14.8 cm, 12 colour illus.

Spiders, objects of eternal human fascination, are found in many places: on the ground, in the air, and even under water. Leslie Brunetta and Catherine Craig have teamed up to produce a substantive yet entertaining book for anyone who has ever wonder...

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History

Steam-Powered Knowledge William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820-1860

Fyfe Aileen

ISBN: HB: 9780226276519, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

With the overwhelming amount of new information that bombards us each day, it is perhaps difficult to imagine a time when the widespread availability of the printed word was a novelty. In early nineteenth-century Britain, print was not novel – Gutenb...

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Nature

Photography

Science on Ice Four Polar Expeditions

Linder Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780226482477, University of Chicago Press, December 2011
288 pp., 28x20 cm, 157 colour illus.

"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised", wrote Apsley Cherry-Garrard of his time with the 1910 Scott expedition to the South Pole. And that's how most of us still imagine polar exp...

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Physics

Philosophy

Scientific Perspectivism

Giere Ronald N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226292137, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
160 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 line drawings, 12 colour illus.

Many people assume that the claims of scientists are objective truths. But "Scientific Perspectivism" argues that the acts of observing and theorizing are both matters of perspective – which makes scientific knowledge contingent. Using the example of...

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Mathematics

Computer Science & Internet

Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: HB: 9781575865836, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
453 pp., 23x15 cm

Donald Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of methods for translating and defining programming languages to the creation of the TEX and METAFONT systems for desktop publishing. His award-winning textbooks have become class...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers & Other Unusual Relationships

Crump Marty

ISBN: HB: 9780226121857, University of Chicago Press, November 2009
232 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 120 line illus.

Vampire bats that regurgitate blood for roosting buddies. Mosquitoes that filch honeydew droplets from ants. Reptiles that enforce chastity on their lovers with copulatory plugs. Capuchin monkeys that use millipede secretions as mosquito repellent. T...

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