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Ecology

Nature

Second Growth The Promise of Tropical Forest Regeneration in an Age of Deforestation

Chazdon Robin L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226118079, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 colour plates, 26 halftones, 31 line drawings, 22 tables

For decades, conservation and research initiatives in tropical forests have focused almost exclusively on old-growth forests because scientists believed that these "pristine" ecosystems housed superior levels of biodiversity. With "Second Growth", Ro...

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Physics

Condensed Course of Quantum Mechanics

Cejnar Pavel

ISBN: PB: 9788024623214, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2014
216 pp., 22.8x17.8 cm, 136 mathematical drawings

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This book represents a concise summary of nonrelativistic quantum mechanics for physics students at the university level. The text covers essential topics, from general mathematical formal...

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Children's Books

Popular Science

How Many Planets Circle the Sun? And Other Questions about Our Solar System

Carson Mary Kay

ISBN: PB: 9781454906698, GMC Group, Sterling, February 2014
32 pp., 24.2x24.2 cm, colour illus.

Why is there life on earth? How did Saturn get its rings? Which planet is biggest, which one's hottest and which has a cloud named Scooter? Take a trip into outer space to learn about the asteroid belt, Martian volcanoes, dwarf planets and other fasc...

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Mathematics

New Studies in Weak Arithmetics

Cegielski Patrick, Cornaros Charalampos, Dimitracopoulos Costas

ISBN: PB: 9781575867236, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, January 2014
221 pp., 22.8x15.2 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".New Studies in Weak Arithmetics" is dedicated to late Australian mathematicia...

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History

Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century

Collins Harry

ISBN: PB: 9780226052298, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 7 line drawings, 4 tables

"Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog" brings to life science's efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are predicted by general relativity, and their discovery will not only demonstrate the truth of Einstein's theories but a...

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Physics

Biography & Memoires

Fermi Remembered

Cronin James W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226100883, ISBN: HB: 9780226121116, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 84 line drawings

Nobel laureate and scientific luminary Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was a pioneering nuclear physicist whose contributions to the field were numerous, profound, and lasting. Best known for his involvement with the Manhattan Project and his work at Los Al...

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Evolution

Nature

In Search of Mechanisms Discoveries across the Life Sciences

Craver Carl F., Darden Lindley

ISBN: PB: 9780226039794, ISBN: HB: 9780226039657, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 8 line drawings, 4 tables

Neuroscientists investigate the mechanisms of spatial memory. Molecular biologists study the mechanisms of protein synthesis and the myriad mechanisms of gene regulation. Ecologists study nutrient cycling mechanisms and their devastating imbalances i...

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History

Writing History in the Age of Biomedicine

Cooter Roger, Stein Claudia

ISBN: HB: 9780300186635, Yale University Press, July 2013
384 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 7 black&white illus.

A collection of ten essays paired with substantial prefaces, this book chronicles and contextualizes Roger Cooter's contributions to the history of medicine. Through an analysis of his own work, Cooter critically examines the politics of conceptual a...

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Mammals

Evolution

Animal Personalities Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution

Carere Claudio, Maestripieri Dario

ISBN: PB: 9780226921976, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
520 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 tables, 12 halftones, 11 line illus.

Ask anyone who has owned a pet and they'll assure you that, yes, animals have personalities. And science is beginning to agree. Researchers have demonstrated that both domesticated and nondomesticated animals – from invertebrates to monkeys and apes...

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History

Media Studies

Science on American Television A History

Chotkowski LaFollette Marcel

ISBN: HB: 9780226921990, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
296 pp., 25x15 cm, 1 table, 23 halftones

As television emerged as a major cultural and economic force, many imagined that the medium would enhance civic education for topics like science. And, indeed, television soon offered a breathtaking banquet of scientific images and ideas – both factu...

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