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Mammals

Law

Wildlife as Property Owners A New Conception of Animal Rights

Bradshaw Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226571362, ISBN: HB: 9780226571225, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumpt...

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Anthropology

Evolution

Why We Believe Evolution and the Human Way of Being

Fuentes Agustin

ISBN: HB: 9780300243994, Yale University Press, January 2020
280 pp., 21x14 cm, 8 black&white illus.

Why are so many humans religious? Why do we daydream, imagine, and hope? Philosophers, theologians, social scientists, and historians have offered explanations for centuries, but their accounts often ignore or even avoid human evolution. Evolutionary...

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History

Weak Knowledge Forms, Functions, and Dynamics

Epple Moritz, Imhausen Annette, Muller Falk

ISBN: HB: 9783593509778, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
620 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Many of us view the world of science as a firm bastion of knowledge, with each new discovery and further illumination adding to an unshakable foundation of natural truths. "Weak Knowledge" aims to rattle our faith, not in core certainties of scientif...

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Cartography

When Maps Become the World

Gronfeldt Winther Rasmus

ISBN: PB: 9780226674728, ISBN: HB: 9780226669670, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 37 halftones

Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our re...

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Sea Life

Why Study Biology by the Sea?

Matlin Karl S., Maienschein Jane, Ankeny Rachel A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226672939, ISBN: HB: 9780226672762, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones, 6 line drawings

For almost a century and a half, biologists have gone to the seashore to study life. The oceans contain rich biodiversity, and organisms at the intersection of sea and shore provide a plentiful sampling for research into a variety of questions at the...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

Amazing Nature

World of Reptiles

ISBN: HB: 9781925546538, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, September 2019
256 pp., 19.5x14.5 cm

The book explores reptiles living in a wide range of habitats. They come in all shapes and sizes and include crocodiles, snakes, lizards, turtles, and tortoises, all of which regularly shed the outer layer of their skin. Reptiles can be found on ever...

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Cartography

Why North is Up Map Conventions and Where They Came From

Ashworth Mick

ISBN: HB: 9781851245192, Bodleian Library Publishing, August 2019
224 pp., 22.8x17.6 cm, 108 colour illus.

Many people have a love of maps. But what lies behind the process of map-making? How have cartographers through the centuries developed their craft and established a language of maps which helps them to better represent our world and users to underst...

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Popular Science

We Made Uranium! And Other True Stories from the University of Chicago's Extraordinary Scavenger Hunt

Sales Leila

ISBN: PB: 9780226571843, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
248 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

Item #176: A fire drill. No, not an exercise in which occupants of a building practice leaving the building safely. A drill which safely emits a bit of fire, the approximate shape and size of a drill bit. Item #74: Enter a lecture class in street c...

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Entomology

Wings in the Light Wild Butterflies in North America

Lee Myers David, Pyle Robert Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300236132, Yale University Press, March 2019
288 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 430 colour illus.

See what it's like to stare a butterfly in the eyes. Lavishly illustrated and scientifically rigorous, this dazzling volume provides a comprehensive visual guide to the butterflies of North America. David Lee Myers's stunning photography captures the...

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Evolution

Anthropology

Where Are We Heading? The Evolution of Humans and Things

Hodder Ian

ISBN: HB: 9780300204094, Yale University Press, October 2018
200 pp., 21x14 cm, 20 black&white illus.

In this engaging exploration, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolution: the older idea of constant advancement toward a civilized ideal and the newer one of a directionless process of natural sel...

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