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Osiris, Volume 32 Data Histories

Aronova Elena, von Oertzen Christine, Sepkoski David

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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Making Time Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan

Frumer Yulia

ISBN: HB: 9780226516448, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings

What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything – it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In "Making Time", Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in...

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Pursuit of Harmony Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community

Rothman Aviva

ISBN: HB: 9780226496979, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

A committed Lutheran excommunicated from his own church, a friend to Catholics and Calvinists alike, a layman who called himself a "priest of God", a Copernican in a world where Ptolemy still reigned, a man who argued at the same time for the superio...

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From Sight to Light The Passage from Ancient to Modern Optics

Mark Smith A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226528571, ISBN: HB: 9780226174761, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones, 58 line drawings

From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the analytic focus of optics had shifted to light: its...

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Ecology

Evolution

Hierarchy Perspectives for Ecological Complexity

Allen T. F. H., Starr Thomas B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226489681, ISBN: HB: 9780226489544, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones, 28 line drawings, 2 tables

Although complexity surrounds us, its inherent uncertainty, ambiguity, and contradiction can at first make complex systems appear inscrutable. Ecosystems, for instance, are nonlinear, self-organizing, seemingly chaotic structures in which individuals...

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Popular Science

Final Story Science, Myth, and Beginnings

Zakariya Nasser

ISBN: HB: 9780226476124, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
608 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Popular science readers embrace epics – the sweeping stories that claim to tell the history of all the universe, from the cosmological to the biological to the social. And the appeal is understandable: in writing these works, authors such as E. O. Wi...

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Cartography

Red Atlas How the Soviet Union Secretly Mapped the World

Davies John, Kent Alexander J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226389578, University of Chicago Press, November 2017
272 pp., 25x15 cm, 282 colour plates

Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, its legacy and the accompanying Russian-American tension continues to loom large. Russia's access to detailed information on the United States and its allies may not seem so shocking in this day of d...

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Entomology

Dancing Bees Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language

Munz Tania

ISBN: PB: 9780226526508, ISBN: HB: 9780226020860, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones, 7 line drawings

We think of bees as being among the busiest workers in the garden, admiring them for their productivity. But amid their buzzing, they are also great communicators – and unusual dancers. As Karl von Frisch (1886-1982) discovered during World War II, b...

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Evolution

Planet of Microbes The Perils and Potential of Earth's Essential Life Forms

Anton Ted

ISBN: HB: 9780226353944, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We live in a time of unprecedented scientific knowledge about the origins of life on Earth. But if we want to grasp the big picture, we have to start small – very small. That's because the real heroes of the story of life on Earth are microbes, the t...

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Nature

Our Oldest Task Making Sense of Our Place in Nature

Freyfogle Eric T.

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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