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Paws, Noses & People A History of Dogs for the Disabled and the Development of Assistance Dogs in the UK

Lane Dick

ISBN: PB: 9781861514875, Bookport, Memoirs Publishing, September 2015
284 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

In the past 30 years the use of assistance dogs for people with various difficulties and disabilities other than blindness and hearing loss has developed enormously, thanks to the inspiration, foresight and hard work of a few key people. Dick Lane, n...

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Entomology

Planet of the Bugs Evolution and the Rise of Insects

Shaw Scott Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226325750, ISBN: HB: 9780226163611, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 colour plates, 31 halftones

Dinosaurs, however toothy, did not rule the earth – and neither do humans. But what were and are the true potentates of our planet? Insects, says Scott Richard Shaw – millions and millions of insect species. Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient...

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Nature

Peru: Tapiche-Blanco Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report 27

Pitman Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9780982841952, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, August 2015
400 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour plates

In October 2014 an interdisciplinary team of geologists, biologists, and social scientists carried out a rapid inventory of the biological and cultural diversity of the remote Tapiche and Blanco watersheds of Amazonian Peru. This report summarizes th...

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Nature

Plant Sensing and Communication

Karban Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226264707, ISBN: HB: 9780226264677, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 9 line drawings, 6 tables

The news that a flowering weed – mousear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) – can sense the particular chewing noise of its most common caterpillar predator and adjust its chemical defenses in response led to headlines announcing the discovery of the first...

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Evolution

Plant Physics

Niklas Karl J., Spatz Hanns-Christof

ISBN: PB: 9780226150819, ISBN: HB: 9780226586328, University of Chicago Press, February 2014
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 9 tables, 44 halftones, 40 line illus.

From Galileo, who used the hollow stalks of grass to demonstrate the idea that peripherally located construction materials provide most of the resistance to bending forces, to Leonardo da Vinci, whose illustrations of the parachute are alleged to be...

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Evolution

Philosophy

Philosophy of Pseudoscience Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

Pigliucci Massimo, Boudry Maarten

ISBN: PB: 9780226051963, ISBN: HB: 9780226051796, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings

What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as "the demarcation problem". This issue has a long history in philos...

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Mammals

Ecology

Population Fluctuations in Rodents

Krebs Charles J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226010359, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 tables, 77 halftones, 62 line illus.

How did rodent outbreaks in Germany help to end World War I? What caused the destructive outbreak of rodents in Oregon and California in the late 1950s, the large population outbreak of lemmings in Scandinavia in 2010, and the great abundance of fiel...

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Nature

Peru: Yaguas-Cotuhe

Pitman Nigel, Vriesendorp Corine, Moskovits Debra K., May von Rudolf, Alvira Diana, Wachter Tatzyana, Stotz Douglas F., Campo del Alvaro

ISBN: PB: 9780982841914, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, April 2012
378 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour illus.

In October 2010, a team of experts from Peru, Colombia, and the United States conducted a rapid social and biological inventory of the Yaguas, Cotuhe, and the lower Putumayo watersheds of northeastern Peru. The social team assessed the strengths and...

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Nature

America

Paradise Found Nature in America at the Time of Discovery

Nicholls Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780226583419, ISBN: HB: 9780226583402, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm

The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter's dream, with populations of game too...

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Nature

Peru: Maijuna

Gilmore Michael P., Vriesendorp Corine, Alverson William S., Campo del Alvaro, May von Rudolf, Lopez Wong Cristina, Rios Ochoa Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9780982841907, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, August 2011
328 pp., 27.3x21 cm

In July of 2009 a team of socio-economic experts from the United States and Peru conducted a social asset inventory of the ancestral territory of the Maijuna indigenous people in northeastern Peru in order to identify patterns of social organization...

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