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Nature

Evolution Made to Order Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America

Curry Helen Anne

ISBN: PB: 9780226790862, ISBN: HB: 9780226390086, University of Chicago Press, June 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones

In the mid-twentieth century, American plant breeders, frustrated by their dependence on natural variation in creating new crops and flowers, eagerly sought technologies that could extend human control over nature. Their search led them to celebrate...

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Evolution

Philosophy

Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death

Durand Pierre M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226747767, ISBN: HB: 9780226747620, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 3 tables

The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this question through close inspection of life and death in the earliest cellular life. As Durand shows us,...

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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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Birds

Amazing Nature

Empire of the Eagle An Illustrated Natural History

Unwin Mike, Tipling David

ISBN: HB: 9780300232899, Yale University Press, November 2018
288 pp., 28.9x23.5 cm, 400 colour illus.

Eagles hold a unique allure among birds for their combination of power, grace, and predatory prowess. Captivating the human imagination, these raptors have symbolized pride, freedom, and independence of spirit since humankind's earliest times. This b...

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Evolution

Evolutionary Theory A Hierarchical Perspective

Eldredge Niles, Pievani Telmo, Serrelli Emanuele, Temkin Ilya

ISBN: PB: 9780226426228, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 15 line drawings, 4 tables

The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organi...

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Mammals

Elephant Don The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse

O'Connell Caitlin

ISBN: PB: 9780226380056, ISBN: HB: 9780226106113, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

Meet Greg. He's a stocky guy with an outsized swagger. He's been the intimidating yet sociable don of his posse of friends – including Abe, Keith, Mike, Kevin, Torn Trunk, and Willie. But one arid summer the tide begins to shift and the third-ranking...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

Eye of Newt and Toe of Frog, Adder's Fork and Lizard's Leg The Lore and Mythology of Amphibians and Reptiles

Crump Marty

ISBN: HB: 9780226116006, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
304 pp., 25.4x20.3 cm, 155 colour plates, 1 table

Frogs are worshipped for bringing nourishing rains, but blamed for devastating floods. Turtles are admired for their wisdom and longevity, but ridiculed for their sluggish and cowardly behavior. Snakes are respected for their ability to heal and rest...

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Evolution

Evolution Myth or, The Genes Cry Out Their Urgent Song, Mister Darwin Got It Wrong

Mejsnar Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024625201, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2014
150 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 20 halftones, 8 charts

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! The origins of life, species, and man continue to interest scientists and stir debate among the general public more than one hundred and fifty years after Charles Darwin published "On the...

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Nature

Ecology

Extinct Madagascar Picturing the Island's Past

Goodman Steven M., Jungers William L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226143972, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
296 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 21 colour plates, 87 halftones, 12 tables

The landscapes of Madagascar have long delighted zoologists, who have discovered, in and among the island's baobab trees and thickets, a dizzying array of animals, including something approaching one hundred species of lemur. Madagascar's mammal faun...

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Nature

Essay on the Geography of Plants

Humboldt Alexander, Bonpland Aime

ISBN: PB: 9780226054735, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
296 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 7 tables, poster inside book, 9 halftones

The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aime Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth centu...

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