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Spanish Disquiet The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano

Portuondo Maria M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226592268, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 line drawing

In this book, historian Maria M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblical scholars. They shared what she calls the "Spanish Disquiet" – a preoccupation with the perceived sho...

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Biography & Memoires

History

Georg Forster Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary

Goldstein Jurgen

ISBN: HB: 9780226467351, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Georg Forster (1754-1794) was in many ways self-taught and rarely had two cents to rub together, but he became one of the most dynamic figures of the Enlightenment: a brilliant writer, naturalist, explorer, illustrator, translator – and a revolutiona...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

Les Amphibiens du Nord de Madagascar

Andreone Franco, Crottini Angelica, Rosa Goncalo M., Rakotoarison Andolalao, Scherz Mark D., Raselimanana Achille P.

ISBN: PB: 9782953892376, University of Chicago Press, Association Vahatra in Antananarivo, March 2019
355 pp., 20.9x14.6 cm, 327 colour plates

The island of Madagascar hosts a large number of frogs with at least 315 described species, and many others still to be named. Northern Madagascar is rich in species, due to the heterogeneity of landscapes, including a large number of habitat types a...

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Thrifty Science Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment

Werrett Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226610252, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

If the twentieth century saw the rise of "Big Science", then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett's new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as t...

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Inside Science Stories from the Field in Human and Animal Science

Kohler Robert E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226617985, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Context and situation always matter in both human and animal lives. Unique insights can be gleaned from conducting scientific studies from within human communities and animal habitats".Inside Science" is a novel treatment of this distinctive mode of...

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Life on Display Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century

Rader Karen A., Cain Victoria E. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598734, ISBN: HB: 9780226079660, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 2 line drawings

Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, "Life on Display" uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle p...

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Dogs

K9 Professional Training

K9 Obedience Training Reliable Obedience for The Thinking Dog

Bulanda Susan

ISBN: FLEXI: 9781550597912, Bookport, Dog Training Press, February 2019
144 pp., 38.1x14 cm

Obedience is the foundation of any reliable, well-trained dog. Without obedience, working dogs are ineffective in operations and pet dogs can be annoying and possibly a danger to themselves or others. In K9 Obedience Training, veteran search and resc...

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Nature

Culture Studies

Seeing Trees A History of Street Trees in New York City and Berlin

Dumpelmann Sonja

ISBN: HB: 9780300225785, Yale University Press, February 2019
328 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 20 colour illus., 120 black&white illus.

Today, cities around the globe are planting street trees to mitigate the effects of climate change. However, as landscape historian Sonja Dumpelmann explains, this is not a new phenomenon. In her eye-opening work, Dumpelmann shows how New York City a...

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Ancient World

History

Alchemy and Authority in the Holy Roman Empire

Nummedal Tara

ISBN: PB: 9780226639727, University of Chicago Press, February 2019
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

What distinguished the true alchemist from the fraud? This question animated the lives and labors of the common men – and occasionally women – who made a living as alchemists in the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Holy Roman Empire. As purveyors o...

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Children's Books

Popular Science

Amazing Pop Ups Space

Hawcock David

ISBN: HB: 9782889358229, Bookport, NuiNui, January 2019
10 pp., 20.5x20.5 cm, 10 pop-ups

What's a tuk-tuk? How many eggs does a hen lay? How do you live in a castle? What's a space station? You'll find the answers to these and many more questions in these 4 books, each one devoted to a different subject and containing 10 amazing pop ups....

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