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Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower Artists' Books and the Natural World
ISBN: HB: 9780300204247, Yale University Press, May 2014
224 pp., 26x21 cm, 250 colour, black&white illus.
Highlighting an enduring interest in natural history from the 16th century to the present, this gorgeous book explores depictions of the natural world, from centuries-old manuscripts to contemporary artists' books. It examines the scientific pursuits...
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£50,00
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Liberty's Dawn A People's History of the Industrial Revolution
ISBN: PB: 9780300205251, Yale University Press, March 2014
320 pp., 19.8x12.9 cm, 16-page section of black&white illus.
This remarkable book looks at hundreds of autobiographies penned between 1760 and 1900 to offer an intimate firsthand account of how the Industrial Revolution was experienced by the working class. "The Industrial Revolution" brought not simply misery...
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£12,99
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All the Trees of the Forest Israel's Woodlands from the Bible to the Present
ISBN: HB: 9780300189506, Yale University Press, November 2013
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.
In this insightful and provocative book Alon Tal provides a detailed account of Israeli forests, tracing their history from the Bible to the present, and outlines the effort to transform drylands and degraded soils into prosperous parks, rangelands a...
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£65,00
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Galileo Watcher of the Skies
ISBN: PB: 9780300197297, ISBN: HB: 9780300125368, Yale University Press, October 2013
354 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet fo...
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£14,99
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£25,00
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Birds of New Zealand A Photographic Guide
ISBN: PB: 9780300196825, Yale University Press, October 2013
500 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1000 colour illus.
New Zealand's birdlife developed extraordinary diversity as a consequence of evolving on isolated islands without mammalian predators. For many years, habitat destruction brought on by humans posed a distinct threat to the wide variety of birdlife, b...
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£32,00
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Little History of Science
ISBN: PB: 9780300197136, Yale University Press, August 2013
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 40 black&white illus.
Science is fantastic. It tells us about the infinite reaches of space, the tiniest living organism, the human body, the history of Earth. People have always been doing science because they have always wanted to make sense of the world and harness its...
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£9,99
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Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine
ISBN: HB: 9780300186635, Yale University Press, July 2013
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.
A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter's contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work, Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual a...
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£53,00
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Realm of the Nebulae
ISBN: PB: 9780300187120, Yale University Press, April 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
In less than a century, the accepted picture of the universe transformed from a stagnant place, comprised entirely of our own Milky Way galaxy, to a realm inhabited by billions of individual galaxies, hurtling away from one another. We must thank, in...
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£26,00
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Mariposa Road The First Butterfly Big Year
ISBN: PB: 9780300190977, Yale University Press, April 2013
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 maps
With a love for adventure as great as his lifelong fascination with butterflies, America's best-known lepidopterist set himself an irresistible challenge: how many of the 800 species of butterflies known in the U.S. could he track down in a single ye...
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£19,00
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Truth or Beauty Science and the Quest for Order
ISBN: HB: 9780300186611, Yale University Press, January 2013
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 15 black&white illus.
In this sweeping book, applied mathematician and popular author David Orrell questions the promises and pitfalls of associating beauty with truth, showing how ideas of mathematical elegance have inspired – and have sometimes misled – scientists attem...
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£53,00
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