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Birds

Welcome to Subirdia Sharing Our Neighborhoods With Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife

Marzluff John M., DeLap Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780300216875, ISBN: HB: 9780300197075, Yale University Press, December 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.

"Welcome to Subirdia" presents a surprising discovery: the suburbs of many large cities support incredible biological diversity. Populations and communities of a great variety of birds, as well as other creatures, are adapting to the conditions of ou...

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Evolution

Shaping Humanity How Science, Art, and Imagination Help Us Understand Our Origins

Gurche John

ISBN: PB: 9780300216844, ISBN: HB: 9780300182026, Yale University Press, December 2015
368 pp., 25.4x21.6 cm, 163 colour illus.

What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally-renowned paleo-artist John Gurche describes the extraordinary process by which he creates forensically accurat...

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Popular Science

Neuroimmunity A New Science That Will Revolutionize How We Keep Our Brains Healthy and Young

Schwartz Michal, London Anat, Lindvall Olle

ISBN: HB: 9780300203479, Yale University Press, November 2015
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 25 black&white illus.

In the past, the brain was considered an autonomous organ, self-contained and completely separate from the body's immune system. But over the past twenty years, neuroimmunologist Michal Schwartz, together with her research team, not only has overturn...

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Mathematics

Beautiful, Simple, Exact, Crazy Mathematics in the Real World

Khare Apoorva, Lachowska Anna

ISBN: PB: 9780300190892, Yale University Press, November 2015
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.

In this vibrant work, which is ideal for both teaching and learning, Apoorva Khare and Anna Lachowska explain the mathematics essential for understanding and appreciating our quantitative world. They show with examples that mathematics is a key tool...

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History

Naturalists at Sea Scientific Travellers from Dampier to Darwin

Williams Glyn

ISBN: PB: 9780300205404, Yale University Press, October 2015
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 36 colour illus.

On the great Pacific discovery expeditions of the "long eighteenth century", naturalists for the first time were commonly found aboard ships sailing forth from European ports. Lured by intoxicating opportunities to discover exotic and perhaps lucrati...

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Nature

Amazing Rare Things The Art of Natural History in the Age of Discovery

Attenborough Sir David, Owens Susan, Clayton Martin, Alexandratos Rea

ISBN: PB: 9780300215724, Yale University Press, September 2015
224 pp., 25.1x19.4 cm, 160 colour illus.

The Royal Collection, held at Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, and Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, has been shaped by the personal tastes of kings and queens for more than five hundred years. The Collection s exquisite natural history artworks in "Amazin...

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History

Private Doubt, Public Dilemma Religion and Science Since Jefferson and Darwin

Thomson Keith

ISBN: HB: 9780300203677, Yale University Press, July 2015
224 pp., 21x14 cm

Each age has its own crisis-our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears, Keith Thomson proposes in this thoughtful book. He considers the ideas and writings of Thomas Jefferson an...

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World

Power of Knowledge How Information and Technology Made the Modern World

Black Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9780300208672, ISBN: HB: 9780300167955, Yale University Press, June 2015
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country's ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Bla...

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Culture Studies

Ginkgo The Tree That Time Forgot

Crane Peter, Raven Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300213829, Yale University Press, May 2015
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 61 black&white illus.

Perhaps the world's most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when pe...

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Entomology

Dragonflies Magnificent Creatures of Water, Air, and Land

Van Dokkum Pieter

ISBN: HB: 9780300197082, Yale University Press, May 2015
176 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 172 colour illus.

Almost without our noticing, dragonflies dart through our world, flying, seeing, hunting, mating. Their lives are as mysterious as their gossamer wings are beautiful. In this book Pieter van Dokkum reveals many of the dragonfly's secrets, capturing t...

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