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Imperial Nature Joseph Hooker and the Practices of Victorian Science

Endersby Jim

ISBN: PB: 9780226207926, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 50 halftones

Joseph Dalton Hooker (1817-1911) was an internationally renowned botanist, a close friend and early supporter of Charles Darwin, and one of the first – and most successful – British men of science to become a full-time professional. He was also, Jim...

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Evolution

Nature

Orchard Invisible A Natural History of Seeds

Silvertown Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226757742, ISBN: HB: 9780226757735, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
224 pp., 21.5x13 cm, 21 halftones

The story of seeds, in a nutshell, is a tale of evolution. From the tiny sesame that we sprinkle on our bagels to the forty-five-pound double coconut borne by the coco de mer tree, seeds are a perpetual reminder of the complexity and diversity of lif...

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Evolution

Nature

Forest Primeval The Geologic History of Wood and Petrified Forests

Hickey Leo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780912532646, Yale University Press, August 2010
62 pp., 21x14 cm, 22 black&white illus.

Wood: perhaps no natural material has been used longer by man, and none seems more suited to human tastes and needs. Its properties are the result of a long evolutionary history as an integral part of the earth's forests. This story describes what it...

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Mammals

Ecology

Mind of the Chimpanzee Ecological and Experimental Perspectives

Lonsdorf Elizabeth V., Ross Stephen R., Matsuzawa Tetsuro

ISBN: PB: 9780226492797, University of Chicago Press, August 2010
464 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 31 line drawings, 19 tables, 144 halftones

Understanding the chimpanzee mind is akin to opening a window onto human consciousness. Many of our complex cognitive processes have origins that can be seen in the way that chimpanzees think, learn, and behave".The Mind of the Chimpanzee" brings tog...

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Evolution

Biology's First Law The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems

McShea Daniel W., Brandon Robert N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226562261, ISBN: HB: 9780226562254, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
184 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 line drawings, 1 table, 2 halftones

Life on earth is characterized by three striking phenomena that demand explanation: adaptation – the marvelous fit between organism and environment; diversity – the great variety of organisms; and complexity – the enormous intricacy of their internal...

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Evolution

Darwin's Pictures Views of Evolutionary Theory, 1837-1874

Voss Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780300141740, Yale University Press, June 2010
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 63 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.

In this first-ever examination of Charles Darwin's sketches, drawings, and illustrations, Julia Voss presents the history of evolutionary theory told in pictures. Darwin had a life-long interest in pictorial representations of nature, sketching out h...

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Anthropology

Plants That We Eat Nauriat Niginaqtaut: From the Traditional Wisdom of the Inupiat Elders of Northwest Alaska

Jones Anore

ISBN: PB: 9781602230743, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2010
241 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 60 halftones

"Plants That We Eat" is a handy, easy-to-use guide to the abundant edible plant life of Alaska. Drawing on centuries of knowledge that have kept the Inupiat people healthy, the book uses photographs and descriptions to teach newcomers to the north ho...

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Sea Life

Chasing Science at Sea Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts

Prager Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226678740, ISBN: HB: 9780226678702, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
178 pp., 23x15 cm, 28 halftones, 4 colour illus.

To the average office-dweller, marine scientists seem to have the good life: cruising at sea for weeks at a time, swimming in warm coastal waters, living in tropical paradises. But ocean scientists who go to sea will tell you that it is no vacation....

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Education

Nature

Teaching Children Science Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930

Kohlstedt Sally Gregory

ISBN: HB: 9780226449906, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
384 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

In the early twentieth century, a curriculum known as nature study flourished in major city school systems, streetcar suburbs, small towns, and even rural one-room schools. This object-based approach to learning about the natural world marked the fir...

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Evolution

Earth Sciences

Worlds Before Adam The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

Rudwick Martin J. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226731292, ISBN: HB: 9780226731285, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
648 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 40 line drawings, 125 halftones

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth – and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, many of whom were devout believers, agreed about...

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