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Entomology

Framenau Volker W., Baehr Barbara C., Zborowski Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781921517242, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, October 2015
448 pp., 21.1x17.2 cm

Few animals rival spiders in their diversity of forms and colour, ecological abundance and importance, and complexity of behaviours. Spiders have inspired awe amongst arachnologists and naturalists and at the same time are feared by many. The Austral...

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History

Limits of Matter Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment

Fors Hjalmar

ISBN: HB: 9780226194998, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, December 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans raised a number of questions about the nature of reality and found their answers to be different from those that had satisfied their forebears. They discounted tales of witches, trolls, magic...

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Mammals

Bats A World of Science and Mystery

Fenton M. Brock, Simmons Nancy B.

ISBN: HB: 9780226065120, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
240 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 342 colour plates, 29 line drawings

There are more than 1,300 species of bats – or almost a quarter of the world's mammal species. But before you shrink in fear from these furry "creatures of the night" consider the bat's fundamental role in our ecosystem. A single brown bat can eat se...

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Nature

Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower Artists' Books and the Natural World

Fairman Elisabeth R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300204247, Yale University Press, May 2014
224 pp., 26x21 cm, 250 colour, black&white illus.

Highlighting an enduring interest in natural history from the 16th century to the present, this gorgeous book explores depictions of the natural world, from centuries-old manuscripts to contemporary artists' books. It examines the scientific pursuits...

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Physics

Nanoscience Giants of the Infinitesimal

Forbes Peter, Grimsey Tom

ISBN: HB: 9781906506230, GMC Group, Papadakis, May 2014
192 pp., 24x21.5 cm, colour illus.

In NanoScience:Giants of the Infinitesimal, award-winning science writer Peter Forbes and sculptor Tom Grimsey explore the amazing possibilities that nanotechnology offers us, from clean harvesting solar energy and finding cost-effective methods to d...

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Ecology

Nature

Ornaments of Life Coevolution and Conservation in the Tropics

Fleming Theodore H., Kress W. John

ISBN: PB: 9780226253411, ISBN: HB: 9780226253404, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
616 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 98 colour plates, 2 halftones, 15 line drawings, 53 tables

The average kilometer of tropical rainforest is teeming with life; it contains thousands of species of plants and animals. As "The Ornaments of Life" reveals, many of the most colorful and eye-catching rainforest inhabitants – toucans, monkeys, leaf-...

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History

Physics

Elementary Particles

Fermi Enrico, Appelquist Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780300183184, Yale University Press, October 2012
144 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

First published in 1951, Enrico Fermi's "Elementary Particles" continues to guide physicists and scholars. Fermi's descriptions of the then-known particle universe and its nascent conceptual framework allow readers to glimpse the foundations of the f...

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America

History

American Sunshine Diseases of Darkness and the Quest for Natural Light

Freund Daniel

ISBN: HB: 9780226262819, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
240 pp., 25x22 cm, 29 halftones

In the second half of the nineteenth century, American cities began to go dark. Hulking new buildings overspread blocks, pollution obscured the skies, and glass and smog screened out the health-giving rays of the sun. Doctors fed anxities about these...

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History

Steam-Powered Knowledge William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820-1860

Fyfe Aileen

ISBN: HB: 9780226276519, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

With the overwhelming amount of new information that bombards us each day, it is perhaps difficult to imagine a time when the widespread availability of the printed word was a novelty. In early nineteenth-century Britain, print was not novel – Gutenb...

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Evolution

Dazzled and Deceived Mimicry and Camouflage

Forbes Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300178968, Yale University Press, September 2011
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 illus.

Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world – including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes – have honed and practised camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals or...

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