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Birds

Flight of the Golden Plover The Amazing Migration Between Hawaii and Alaska

Miller Debbie S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602231511, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2011
32 pp., 20.5x25.5 cm, colour illus.

The remarkable story of the golden plover's annual migration, this beautifully illustrated nature title for young readers sees the small but mighty plover embark on a six-thousand-mile flight between the frozen Alaska tundra and gentle grassy slopes...

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Cartography

Public Health

Disease Maps Epidemics on the Ground

Koch Tom

ISBN: HB: 9780226449357, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
344 pp., 25.9x18.5 cm, 2 tables, 106 colour plates, 35 halftones, 6 line illus.

In the seventeenth century, a map of the plague suggested a radical idea – that the disease was carried and spread by humans. In the nineteenth century, maps of cholera cases were used to prove its waterborne nature. More recently, maps charting the...

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Evolution

Evidence for Evolution

Rogers Alan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226723822, ISBN: HB: 9780226723808, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
128 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 tables, 27 line illus.

According to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution is a real phenomenon. And it's no wonder that so many are skeptical: many of today's biology courses and textbooks dwell on the mechanisms of evolution – natural selection, genetic drift,...

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History

Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

Harrison Peter, Numbers Ronald L., Shank Michael H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226317830, ISBN: HB: 9780226317816, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
432 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 4 halftones

When and where did science begin? Historians have offered different answers to these questions, some pointing to Babylonian observational astronomy, some to the speculations of natural philosophers of ancient Greece. Others have opted for early moder...

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History

Between Raphael and Galileo Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy

Marr Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226506289, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
384 pp., 25.9x18.5 cm, 25 halftones, 55 colour illus.

Although largely unknown today, during his lifetime Mutio Oddi of Urbino (1569-1639) was a highly esteemed scholar, teacher, and practitioner of a wide range of disciplines related to mathematics. A prime example of the artisan-scholar so prevalent i...

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Mathematics

Groups of Circle Diffeomorphisms

Navas Andres

ISBN: HB: 9780226569512, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line illus.

In recent years scholars from a variety of branches of mathematics have made several significant developments in the theory of group actions".Groups of Circle Diffeomorphisms" systematically explores group actions on the simplest closed manifold, the...

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History

Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science

Livingstone David N., Withers Charles W. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226487267, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 halftones

In "Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science", David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority,...

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Evolution

Darwin's Finches Readings in the Evolution of a Scientific Paradigm

Donohue Kathleen

ISBN: PB: 9780226157719, ISBN: HB: 9780226157702, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
512 pp., 25x15 cm, 31 tables, 34 halftones, 70 line illus.

Two species come to mind when one thinks of the Galapagos Islands – the giant tortoises and Darwin's fabled finches. While not as immediately captivating as the tortoises, these little brown songbirds and their beaks have become one of the most famil...

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History

Europe

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty Science, Liberalism, and Private Life

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226111735, ISBN: HB: 9780226111728, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
392 pp., 24.1x15.5 cm, 22 halftones

"Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty" traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize-winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physici...

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Astronomy

Physical Processes in Circumstellar Disks around Young Stars

Garcia Paulo J. V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226282299, ISBN: HB: 9780226282282, University of Chicago Press, May 2011
440 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 5 tables, 15 halftones, 78 line illus., 12 colour illus.

Circumstellar disks are vast expanses of dust that form around new stars in the earliest stages of their birth. Predicted by astronomers as early as the eighteenth century, they weren't observed until the late twentieth century, when interstellar ima...

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