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New England Wildflower Society's Flora Novae Angliae A Manual for the Identification of Native and Naturalized Vascular Plants of New England

Haines Arthur, Farnsworth Elizabeth

ISBN: HB: 9780300171549, Yale University Press, January 2012
992 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 1000 black&white illus.

This comprehensive manual offers accurate, up-to-date, and clear information for identifying New England's remarkable array of tracheophytes (vascular plants, excluding mosses). With fully researched entries on some 3,500 native and non-native specie...

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Evolution

Political Science

Man Is by Nature a Political Animal Evolution, Biology, and Politics

Hatemi Peter K., McDermott Rose

ISBN: PB: 9780226319100, ISBN: HB: 9780226319094, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 tables, 20 line illus.

In "Man Is by Nature a Political Animal", Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political beha...

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Astronomy

Earth Sciences

How We See the Sky A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night

Hockey Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226345772, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 66 halftones

Gazing up at the heavens from our backyards or a nearby field, most of us see an undifferentiated mess of stars – if, that is, we can see anything at all through the glow of light pollution. Today's casual observer knows far less about the sky than d...

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Sea Life

Entirely Synthetic Fish How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America and Overran the World

Halverson Anders

ISBN: PB: 9780300140880, Yale University Press, July 2011
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Anders Halverson provides an exhaustively researched and grippingly rendered account of the rainbow trout and why it has become the most commonly stocked and controversial freshwater fish in the United States. Discovered in the remote waters of north...

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History

Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

Harrison Peter, Numbers Ronald L., Shank Michael H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226317830, ISBN: HB: 9780226317816, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
432 pp., 22.6x15 cm, 4 halftones

When and where did science begin? Historians have offered different answers to these questions, some pointing to Babylonian observational astronomy, some to the speculations of natural philosophers of ancient Greece. Others have opted for early moder...

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Technology & Engineering

History

Fermilab Physics, the Frontier, and Megascience

Hoddeson Lillian, Kolb Adrienne W., Westfall Catherine

ISBN: PB: 9780226346243, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
520 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 65 halftones, 12 line illus.

Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, located in the western suburbs of Chicago, has stood at the frontier of high-energy physics for forty years".Fermilab" is the first history of this laboratory and of its powerful accelerators told from the point...

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Evolution

Nature

Forest Primeval The Geologic History of Wood and Petrified Forests

Hickey Leo J.

ISBN: PB: 9780912532646, Yale University Press, August 2010
62 pp., 21x14 cm, 22 black&white illus.

Wood: perhaps no natural material has been used longer by man, and none seems more suited to human tastes and needs. Its properties are the result of a long evolutionary history as an integral part of the earth's forests. This story describes what it...

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Earth Sciences

Weather on the Air A History of Broadcast Meteorology

Henson Robert

ISBN: HB: 9781878220981, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, July 2010
304 pp., 23x18 cm, 75 halftones, 16 colour illus.

From low humor to high drama, TV weather reporting has encompassed an enormous range of styles and approaches, triggering chuckles, infuriating the masses, and at times even saving lives. In "Weather on the Air", meteorologist and science journalist...

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Astronomy

Popular Science

Age of Everything How Science Explores the Past

Hedman Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226322933, University of Chicago Press, September 2008
264 pp., 22.7x16.5 cm, 58 halftones, 41 line illus.

Taking advantage of recent advances throughout the sciences, Matthew Hedman brings the distant past closer to us than it has ever been. Here, he shows how scientists have determined the age of everything from the colonization of the New World over 13...

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Cartography

Armenia A Historical Atlas

Hewsen Robert H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226332284, University of Chicago Press, May 2000
342 pp., 43.4x28 cm, 278 colour maps, 3 line drawings

From its conversion to Christianity to the Genocide during World War I, from the Soviet occupation to its recent independence, Armenia has seen a long and often turbulent history. In the magnificent "Armenia: A Historical Atlas", Robert H. Hewsen tra...

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