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Amazing Nature

Year with Nature An Almanac

Crump Marty

ISBN: HB: 9780226449708, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 150 halftones

"A Year with Nature" is an almanac like none you've ever seen: combining science and aesthetics, it is a daily affirmation of the extraordinary richness of biodiversity and our enduring beguilement by its beauty. With a text by herpetologist and natu...

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Biography & Memoires

Physics

Biographic: Einstein Great Lives in Graphic Form

Clegg Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781781453339, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2018
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all...

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Biography & Memoires

Physics

Biographic: Tesla Great Lives in Graphic Form

Clegg Brian

ISBN: HB: 9781781453537, GMC Group, Ammonite Press, October 2018
96 pp., 21x14.8 cm, colour illus.

The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all...

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History

Helmholtz A Life in Science

Cahan David

ISBN: HB: 9780226481142, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
944 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 40 halftones

Hermann von Helmholtz was a towering figure of nineteenth-century scientific and intellectual life. Best known for his achievements in physiology and physics, he also contributed to other disciplines such as ophthalmology, psychology, mathematics, ch...

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Evolution

History

House of Lost Worlds Dinosaurs, Dynasties, and the Story of Life on Earth

Conniff Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780300226928, Yale University Press, June 2017
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 97 colour illus.

This fascinating book tells the story of how one museum changed ideas about dinosaurs, dynasties, and even the story of life on earth. The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, now celebrating its 150th anniversary, has remade the way we see the wo...

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Astronomy

Our Wonderful Universe An Easy Introduction to the Study of the Heavens

Chant Clarence Augustus

ISBN: HB: 9781906506629, GMC Group, Papadakis, May 2017
192 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

First published in 1928, this introduction to 'the study of the heavens' includes chapters on: 'The Celestial Sphere and its Motions';'The Sun and its Systems'; and 'The Universe of the Stars'. It also features an appendix of interesting astronomical...

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Mammals

Evolution

Zebra Stripes

Caro Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780226411019, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 colour plates, 28 halftones, 55 tables

From eminent biologists like Alfred Russel Wallace and Charles Darwin to famous authors such as Rudyard Kipling in his "Just So Stories", many people have asked, "Why do zebras have stripes?" There are many explanations, but until now hardly any have...

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Dogs

What Is a Dog?

Coppinger Raymond, Coppinger Lorna

ISBN: PB: 9780226478227, ISBN: HB: 9780226127941, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 colour plates, 13 halftones, 4 line drawings

Of the world's dogs, less than two hundred million are pets, living with humans who provide food, shelter, squeaky toys, and fashionable sweaters. But roaming the planet are five times as many dogs who are their own masters – neighborhood dogs, dump...

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Mathematics

Studies in Weak Arithmetics Volume 3

Cegielski Patrick, Enayat Ali, Kossak Roman

ISBN: PB: 9781575869537, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, February 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The field of weak arithmetics is an application of logical methods to number theory that was developed by mathematicians, philosophers, and theoretical computer scientists. This third volume in the weak arithmetics collection contains nine substantiv...

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Popular Science

Intelligence in the Flesh Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than it Thinks

Claxton Guy

ISBN: PB: 9780300223477, Yale University Press, September 2016
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

An enthralling exploration that upends the prevailing view of consciousness and demonstrates how intelligence is literally embedded in the palms of our hands If you think that intelligence emanates from the mind and that reasoning necessitates the su...

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