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Mammals

Wattana An Orangutan in Paris

Herzfeld Chris

ISBN: HB: 9780226168593, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

She likes tea, sews, draws on papers and is a self-taught master of tying and untying knots. But she is not a crafty woman of the DIY set: she is Wattana, an orangutan who lives in the Jardin des Plantes Zoo in Paris. And it is in Paris where Chris H...

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Birds

Search for the Rarest Bird in the World

Head Vernon R. L.

ISBN: HB: 9781909930315, Signal Books, October 2015
256 pp., 21.3x14 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1990 an expedition of Cambridge scientists arrived at the Plains of Nechisar, tucked between the hills of the Great Rift Valley in the Gamo Gofa province in the country of Ethiopia. On that expedition, 315 species of birds w...

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Evolution

From Eve to Evolution Darwin, Science, and Women's Rights in Gilded Age America

Hamlin Kimberly A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226324777, ISBN: HB: 9780226134611, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

"From Eve to Evolution" provides the first full-length study of American women's responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century women's rights movement. Kimberly A. Hamlin reveals how a number of ni...

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Evolution

Haeckel's Embryos Images, Evolution, and Fraud

Hopwood Nick

ISBN: HB: 9780226046945, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
392 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 202 colour plates, 2 tables

Pictures from the past powerfully shape current views of the world. In books, television programs, and websites, new images appear alongside others that have survived from decades ago. Among the most famous are drawings of embryos by the Darwinist Er...

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History

Global Communication Electric Business, News and Politics in the World of Telegraphy

Hampf M. Michaela, Muller-Pohl Simone

ISBN: PB: 9783593399539, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
386 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

As catalysts of our present global condition, telegraphs are emblems of modernity. The establishment of a worldwide network of landline and submarine cable connections in the mid-nineteenth century fostered the emergence of new structures and pattern...

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History

Outsider Scientists Routes to Innovation in Biology

Harman Oren, Dietrich Michael R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226078403, ISBN: HB: 9780226078373, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones, 4 line drawings

"Outsider Scientists" describes the transformative role played by "outsiders" in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and human sciences, has historically attracted many thinkers whose prim...

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History

Music

Osiris, Volume 28 Music, Sound, and the Laboratory from 1750-1980

Hui Alexandra, Kursell Julia, Jackson Myles W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226053752, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The understanding of sound underwent profound changes with the advent of laboratory science in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. New techniques of sound visualization and detection, the use of electricity to generate sound, and the emergence of...

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Nature

Essay on the Geography of Plants

Humboldt Alexander, Bonpland Aime

ISBN: PB: 9780226054735, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
296 pp., 23.4x15.5 cm, 7 tables, poster inside book, 9 halftones

The legacy of Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) looms large over the natural sciences. His 1799-1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aime Bonpland set the course for the great scientific surveys of the nineteenth centu...

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Astronomy

Realm of the Nebulae

Hubble Edwin, Kirshner Robert P., Carroll Sean M.

ISBN: PB: 9780300187120, Yale University Press, April 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In less than a century, the accepted picture of the universe transformed from a stagnant place, comprised entirely of our own Milky Way galaxy, to a realm inhabited by billions of individual galaxies, hurtling away from one another. We must thank, in...

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Nature

Land of Extremes A Natural History of the Arctic North Slope of Alaska

Huryn Alexander, Hobbie John

ISBN: PB: 9781602231818, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2012
311 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 maps, 620 colour illus.

This book is a comprehensive guide to the natural history of the North Slope, the only arctic tundra in the United States. The first section provides detailed information on climate, geology, landforms, and ecology. The second provides a guide to the...

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