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Evolution

Anthropology

Where Are We Heading? The Evolution of Humans and Things

Hodder Ian

ISBN: HB: 9780300204094, Yale University Press, October 2018
200 pp., 21x14 cm, 20 black&white illus.

In this engaging exploration, archaeologist Ian Hodder departs from the two prevailing modes of thought about human evolution: the older idea of constant advancement toward a civilized ideal and the newer one of a directionless process of natural sel...

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History

Dreamers, Visionaries, and Revolutionaries in the Life Sciences

Harman Oren, Dietrich Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569901, ISBN: HB: 9780226569871, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 7 line drawings

What are the conditions that foster true novelty and allow visionaries to set their eyes on unknown horizons? What have been the challenges that have spawned new innovations, and how have they shaped modern biology? In "Dreamers, Visionaries, and Rev...

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Mammals

Evolution

Great Apes A Short History

Herzfeld Chris, Goodall Jane, Frey Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9780300221374, Yale University Press, February 2018
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind's relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), from antiquity to the present. Replete with fascinating historical details and anecdotes, it traces...

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Birds

Peregrine Returns The Art and Architecture of an Urban Raptor Recovery

Hennen Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226465425, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 159 colour plates

Peregrine falcons have their share of claims to fame. With a diving speed of over two hundred miles per hour, these birds of prey are the fastest animals on earth or in the sky, and they are now well known for adapting from life on rocky cliffs to a...

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Ecology

Evolution

Messages from Islands A Global Biodiversity Tour

Hanski Ilkka

ISBN: PB: 9780226406442, ISBN: HB: 9780226406305, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones, 2 tables

From a small island in the Baltic Sea to the large tropical islands of Borneo and Madagascar, "Messages from Islands" is a global tour of these natural, water-bound laboratories. In this career-spanning work, Ilkka Hanski draws upon the many islands...

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History

Territories of Science and Religion

Harrison Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780226478982, ISBN: HB: 9780226184487, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

The conflict between science and religion seems indelible, even eternal. Surely two such divergent views of the universe have always been in fierce opposition? Actually, that's not the case, says Peter Harrison: our very concepts of science and relig...

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Cartography

Picturing America The Golden Age of Pictorial Maps

Hornsby Stephen J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226386041, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
304 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 153 colour plates

Instructive, amusing, colorful – pictorial maps have been used and admired since the first medieval cartographer put pen to paper depicting mountains and trees across countries, people and objects around margins, and sea monsters in oceans. More rece...

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Earth Sciences

Weather in the Courtroom Memoirs from a Career in Forensic Meteorology

Haggard William H.

ISBN: PB: 9781940033952, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, February 2017
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 12 line drawings, 12 maps

As director of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National Climatic Data Center in the late 1960s and early '70s, William H. Haggard witnessed an explosion in the number of requests from attorneys needing weather data for their cas...

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Chemistry

Biography & Memoires

Making Marie Curie Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information

Hemmungs Wirten Eva

ISBN: PB: 9780226422503, ISBN: HB: 9780226235844, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 4 halftones

In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements – the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multipl...

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Cartography

Treasures from the Map Room A Journey through the Bodleian Collections

Hall Debbie

ISBN: HB: 9781851242504, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2016
224 pp., 27x27 cm, 120 colour illus.

This book explores the stories behind seventy-five extraordinary maps. It includes unique treasures such as the fourteenth-century Gough Map of Great Britain, exquisite portolan charts made in the fifteenth century, the Selden Map of China – the earl...

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