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Cartography

Exploring and Mapping Alaska The Russian America Era, 1741-1867

Postnikov Alexey, Falk Marvin

ISBN: HB: 9781602232518, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2015
450 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 75 maps

Russia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire eighteenth century. For centuries since, cartographers have struggled to define and develop the enormous region comprising northeastern Asia,...

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Nature

Plant Sensing and Communication

Karban Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226264707, ISBN: HB: 9780226264677, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 9 line drawings, 6 tables

The news that a flowering weed – mousear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) – can sense the particular chewing noise of its most common caterpillar predator and adjust its chemical defenses in response led to headlines announcing the discovery of the first...

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Cartography

Worldly Consumers The Demand for Maps in Renaissance Italy

Carlton Genevieve

ISBN: HB: 9780226255316, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 4 line drawings

Though the practical value of maps during the sixteenth century is well documented, their personal and cultural importance has been relatively underexamined. In "Worldly Consumers", Genevieve Carlton explores the growing availability of maps to priva...

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Cartography

Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age

Sutton Elizabeth A.

ISBN: HB: 9780226254784, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones

"In Capitalism and Cartography in the Dutch Golden Age", Elizabeth A. Sutton explores the fascinating but previously neglected history of corporate cartography during the Dutch Golden Age, from ca. 1600 to 1650. She examines how maps were used as pro...

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Culture Studies

Ginkgo The Tree That Time Forgot

Crane Peter, Raven Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300213829, Yale University Press, May 2015
400 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 61 black&white illus.

Perhaps the world's most distinctive tree, ginkgo has remained stubbornly unchanged for more than two hundred million years. A living link to the age of dinosaurs, it survived the great ice ages as a relic in China, but it earned its reprieve when pe...

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Entomology

Dragonflies Magnificent Creatures of Water, Air, and Land

Van Dokkum Pieter

ISBN: HB: 9780300197082, Yale University Press, May 2015
176 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 172 colour illus.

Almost without our noticing, dragonflies dart through our world, flying, seeing, hunting, mating. Their lives are as mysterious as their gossamer wings are beautiful. In this book Pieter van Dokkum reveals many of the dragonfly's secrets, capturing t...

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History

Voyaging in Strange Seas The Great Revolution in Science

Knight David

ISBN: PB: 9780300212754, Yale University Press, May 2015
336 pp., 25x15 cm, 32 black&white illus.

In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed – Luther's Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the an...

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History

Courtiers' Anatomists Animals and Humans in Louis XIV's Paris

Guerrini Anita

ISBN: HB: 9780226247663, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

"The Courtiers' Anatomists" is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris – and the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were connect...

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Cartography

Cartophilia Maps and the Search for Identity in the French-German Borderland

Dunlop Catherine Tatiana

ISBN: HB: 9780226173023, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
280 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 16 colour plates, 71 halftones

The period between the French Revolution and World War II was a time of tremendous growth in both mapmaking and map reading throughout Europe. There is no better place to witness this rise of popular cartography than in Alsace-Lorraine, a disputed bo...

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Technology & Engineering

Physics

Probing the Sky with Radio Waves From Wireless Technology to the Development of Atmospheric Science

Yeang Chen-Pang

ISBN: PB: 9780226274393, ISBN: HB: 9780226015194, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones, 68 line illus.

By the late nineteenth century, engineers and experimental scientists generally knew how radio waves behaved, and by 1901 scientists were able to manipulate them to transmit messages across long distances. What no one could understand, however, was w...

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