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Nature Remade Engineering Life, Envisioning Worlds
ISBN: PB: 9780226783437, ISBN: HB: 9780226783260, University of Chicago Press, July 2021
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 2 tables
"Engineering" has firmly taken root in the entangled bank of biology even as proposals to remake the living world have sent tendrils in every direction, and at every scale. Nature Remade explores these complex prospects from a resolutely historical a...
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£36,00
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£108,00
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Evolution Made to Order Plant Breeding and Technological Innovation in Twentieth-Century America
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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Atlas of AI
ISBN: HB: 9780300209570, Yale University Press, March 2021
288 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 20 black&white illus.
What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? Drawing on more than a decade of original research, award-winning science and technology s...
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Rainbow Palate How Chemical Dyes Changed the West's Relationship with Food
ISBN: HB: 9780226727059, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 3 tables
We live in a world saturated by chemicals – our food, our clothes, and even our bodies play host to hundreds of synthetic chemicals that did not exist before the nineteenth century. By the 1900s, a wave of bright coal tar dyes had begun to transform...
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£32,00
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Scientific Journal Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226752501, ISBN: HB: 9780226553238, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones
Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of ac...
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£28,00
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Forests Adrift Currents Shaping the Future of Northeastern Trees
ISBN: HB: 9780300238297, Yale University Press, April 2020
240 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 23 black&white illus.
The northeastern United States is one of the most densely forested regions in the country, yet its history of growth, destruction, and renewal are for the most part poorly understood – even by specialists. In this engaging look at both the impermanen...
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£25,00
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Physics and Dance
ISBN: PB: 9780300248371, ISBN: HB: 9780300195835, Yale University Press, November 2019
192 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 62 black&white illus.
From stepping out of our beds each morning to admiring the stars at night, we live in a world of motion, energy, space, and time. How do we understand the phenomena that shape our experience? How do we make sense of our physical realities? Two guides...
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£14,99
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How Dogs Work
ISBN: PB: 9780226637761, ISBN: HB: 9780226128139, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 41 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables
How well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as "man's best friend", but what actually drives the things they do? What is going on in their fur-covered heads as they look at us with their big, expressive eyes? Raymond Copping...
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£14,00
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Dog's-Eye View Puppy Problems
ISBN: PB: 9781781453353, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, April 2019
128 pp., 23.4x17 cm, colour illus.
You just got home with your brand-new puppy: you walked in the door together, he peed a little on the floor, you mopped it up, and now you're sitting looking at each other. What next? If you've had the foresight to buy a copy of Puppy Problems you'll...
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Dog's-Eye View Dog Dilemmas
ISBN: PB: 9781781453360, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, April 2019
128 pp., 23.4x17 cm, colour illus.
Even the best relationships aren't always problem-free – and the one that you have with your dog is no exception. So when a dilemma arises, what you need is Dog Dilemmas. One of the first titles in the Dog's-Eye View series, it not only offers good,...
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