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Unearthing the Nation Modern Geology and Nationalism in Republican China

Yen Shen Grace

ISBN: HB: 9780226090405, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
307 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

Questions of national identity have long dominated China's political, social, and cultural horizons. So in the early 1900s, when diverse groups in China began to covet foreign science in the name of new technology and modernization, questions of nati...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Earth Sciences

Earth on Show Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856

O'Connor Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226103204, ISBN: HB: 9780226616681, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
542 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 89 halftones, 2 tables

At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology – and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history – was widely dismissed as dangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph...

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Gaia Hypothesis Science on a Pagan Planet

Ruse Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226731704, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 15 halftones, 5 line drawings

In 1965 English scientist James Lovelock had a flash of insight: the Earth is not just teeming with life; the Earth, in some sense, is life. He mulled this revolutionary idea over for several years, first with his close friend the novelist William Go...

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Earth Sciences

Novel Science Fiction and the Invention of Nineteenth-Century Geology

Buckland Adelene

ISBN: HB: 9780226079684, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
400 pp., 23x15 cm, 28 halftones, 9 colour illus.

"Novel Science" is the first in-depth study of the shocking, groundbreaking, and sometimes beautiful writings of the gentlemen of the "heroic age" of geology and of the contribution these men made to the literary culture of their day. For these men,...

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Business & Economics

Earth Sciences

Managing Natural Catastrophies Viable Systems to Prevent Human Tragedy – the Hawai'ian Example

Reissberg Anja Christina

ISBN: PB: 9783593396217, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 77 halftones

Natural disasters appear to be on the rise worldwide, their increasing frequency and far-reaching devastation demand the attention of society. But do natural disasters really occur more often than before? Globalization has led to more direct linkages...

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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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