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Herbs and Roots A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace

Venit Shelton Tamara

ISBN: HB: 9780300243611, Yale University Press, January 2020
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

Chinese medicine has a long history in the United States, with written records dating back to the American colonial period. In this intricately crafted history, Tamara Venit Shelton chronicles the dynamic systems of knowledge, therapies, and materia...

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Evolution

On the Backs of Tortoises Darwin, the Galapagos, and the Fate of an Evolutionary Eden

Hennessy Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300232745, Yale University Press, January 2020
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

The Galapagos archipelago is often viewed as a last foothold of pristine nature. For sixty years, conservationists have worked to restore this evolutionary Eden after centuries of exploitation at the hands of pirates, whalers, and island settlers. Th...

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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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Popular Science

Falling Felines and Fundamental Physics

Gbur Gregory J.

ISBN: HB: 9780300231298, Yale University Press, December 2019
352 pp., 21x14 cm, 75 black&white illus.

The question of how falling cats land on their feet has long intrigued humans. In this playful and eye?opening history, physicist and cat parent Gregory Gbur explores how attempts to understand the cat?righting reflex have provided crucial insights i...

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Physics

Physics and Dance

Coates Emily, Demers Sarah

ISBN: PB: 9780300248371, ISBN: HB: 9780300195835, Yale University Press, November 2019
192 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 62 black&white illus.

From stepping out of our beds each morning to admiring the stars at night, we live in a world of motion, energy, space, and time. How do we understand the phenomena that shape our experience? How do we make sense of our physical realities? Two guides...

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Astronomy

Culture Studies

Star Stories Constellations and People

Aveni Anthony

ISBN: HB: 9780300241280, Yale University Press, November 2019
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 34 black&white illus.

We can see love, betrayal, and friendship in the heavens, if we know where to look. A world expert on cultural understandings of cosmology, Anthony Aveni provides an unconventional atlas of the night sky, introducing readers to tales beloved for gene...

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Sea Life

Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography

Macdougall Doug

ISBN: HB: 9780300232059, Yale University Press, October 2019
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 29 black&white illus.

From late 1872 to 1876, H.M.S. Challenger explored the world's oceans. Conducting deep sea soundings, dredging the ocean floor, recording temperatures, observing weather, and collecting biological samples, the expedition laid the foundations for mode...

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Physics

Fundamentals of Physics Volume I: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics (Expanded Edition)

Shankar Ramamurti

ISBN: PB: 9780300243772, Yale University Press, October 2019
528 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 123 black&white illus.

In this concise book, R. Shankar, a well?known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, explains the essential concepts of Newtonian mechanics, special relativity, waves, fluids, thermodynamics, and statistical mechanics. Now in an expanded...

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Evolution

Nature Strange and Beautiful How Living Beings Evolved and Made the Earth a Home

Leigh Egbert Giles, Ziegler Christian

ISBN: HB: 9780300244625, Yale University Press, October 2019
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 65 colour illus., 70 black&white illus.

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Astronomy

Biography & Memoires

Einstein on the Run How Britain Saved the World's Greatest Scientist

Robinson Andrew

ISBN: HB: 9780300234763, Yale University Press, September 2019
376 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 33 black&white illus.

In autumn 1933, Albert Einstein found himself living alone in an isolated holiday hut in rural England. There, he toiled peacefully at mathematics while occasionally stepping out for walks or to play his violin. But how had Einstein come to abandon h...

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