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Evolution

Nature

In Search of Mechanisms Discoveries across the Life Sciences

Craver Carl F., Darden Lindley

ISBN: PB: 9780226039794, ISBN: HB: 9780226039657, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 8 line drawings, 4 tables

Neuroscientists investigate the mechanisms of spatial memory. Molecular biologists study the mechanisms of protein synthesis and the myriad mechanisms of gene regulation. Ecologists study nutrient cycling mechanisms and their devastating imbalances i...

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History

Music

Osiris, Volume 28 Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750-1980

Hui Alexandra, Kursell Julia, Jackson Myles W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226053752, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The understanding of sound underwent profound changes with the advent of laboratory science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. New techniques of sound visualization and detection, the use of electricity to generate sound, and the emergence of...

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History

General

Putting Science in Its Place Geographies of Scientific Knowledge

Livingstone David N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102849, ISBN: HB: 9780226487229, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
244 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 31 halftones, 5 maps

We are accustomed to thinking of science and its findings as universal. After all, one atom of carbon plus two of oxygen yields carbon dioxide in Amazonia as well as in Alaska; a scientist in Bombay can use the same materials and techniques to challe...

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History

Osiris, Volume 27 Clio Meets Science: The Challenges of History

Kohler Robert E., Olesko Kathryn M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226450056, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
350 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The everyday practice of historical scholarship is by necessity small-scaled and specialized. This essential volume for historians of science reveals how scholars in their everyday practice can work to maintain a sense of a larger purpose. The contri...

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History

Media Studies

Science on American Television A History

Chotkowski LaFollette Marcel

ISBN: HB: 9780226921990, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
296 pp., 25x15 cm, 1 table, 23 halftones

As television emerged as a major cultural and economic force, many imagined that the medium would enhance civic education for topics like science. And, indeed, television soon offered a breathtaking banquet of scientific images and ideas – both factu...

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History

Science and the American Century Readings from "Isis"

Gregory Kohlstedt Sally, Kaiser David

ISBN: PB: 9780226925141, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
488 pp., 25.4x17 cm, 59 halftones, 10 line illus.

The twentieth century was one of astonishing change in science, especially as pursued in the United States. Against a backdrop of dramatic political and economic shifts brought by world wars, intermittent depressions, sporadic and occasionally massiv...

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History

Earth Sciences

Watching Vesuvius A History of Science and Culture in Early Modern Italy

Cocco Sean

ISBN: HB: 9780226923710, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

Mount Vesuvius has been famous ever since its eruption in 79 CE, when it destroyed and buried the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum. But less well-known is the role it played in the science and culture of early modern Italy, as Sean Cocco revea...

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Anthropology

History

Hawking Incorporated Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject

Mialet Helene

ISBN: PB: 9780226522289, ISBN: HB: 9780226522265, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones

These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. One wonders where the individual, the pe...

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History

Acolytes of Nature Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770-1850

Phillips Denise

ISBN: HB: 9780226667379, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Although many of the practical and intellectual traditions that make up modern science date back centuries, the category of "science" itself is a relative novelty. In the early eighteenth century, the modern German word that would later mean "science...

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America

History

American Sunshine Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light

Freund Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226262819, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
240 pp., 25x22 cm, 29 halftones

In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these...

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