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Ecology

Walden Warming Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods

Primack Richard B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226272290, ISBN: HB: 9780226682686, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May would be...

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History

Egyptian Oedipus Athanasius Kircher and the Secrets of Antiquity

Stolzenberg Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226273273, ISBN: HB: 9780226924144, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 46 halftones

A contemporary of Descartes and Newton, Athanasius Kircher, S. J. (1601/2-80), was one of Europe's most inventive and versatile scholars in the baroque era. He published more than thirty works in fields as diverse as astronomy, magnetism, cryptology,...

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History

Halle Orphanage as Scientific Community Observation, Eclecticism, and Pietism in the Early Enlightenment

Whitmer Kelly Joan

ISBN: HB: 9780226243771, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

Founded around 1700 by a group of German Lutherans known as Pietists, the Halle Orphanage became the institutional headquarters of a universal seminar that still stands largely intact today. It was the base of an educational, charitable, and scientif...

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Evolution

Snakes, Sunrises, and Shakespeare How Evolution Shapes Our Loves and Fears

Orians Gordon H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226271828, ISBN: HB: 9780226003238, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 55 halftones, 1 line drawing

Our breath catches and we jump in fear at the sight of a snake. We pause and marvel at the sublime beauty of a sunrise. These reactions are no accident; in fact, many of our human responses to nature are steeped in our deep evolutionary past – we fea...

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Popular Science

Technology & Engineering

Engineering Book: From the Catapult to the Curiosity Rover 250 Milestones in the History of Engineering

Brain Marshall

ISBN: HB: 9781454908098, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2015
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the wheel to the jet engine. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series and a professor at the Enginee...

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History

Recombinant University Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology

Yi Doogab

ISBN: HB: 9780226143835, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 10 line drawings

The advent of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s was a key moment in the history of both biotechnology and the commercialization of academic research. Doogab Yi's "The Recombinant University" draws us deeply into the academic community in the Sa...

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Sea Life

Ecology

Western Flyer Steinbeck's Boat, the Sea of Cortez, and the Saga of Pacific Fisheries

Bailey Kevin M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226116761, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
184 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 31 halftones

In January 2010, the Gemini was moored in the Swinomish Slough on a Native American reservation near Anacortes, Washington. Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the rusted and dilapidated boat was in fact the most famous fishing vessel ever to have sailed...

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Mammals

Mammals of South America, Volume 2 Rodents

Patton James L., Pardinas Ulyses F. J., D'Elia Guillermo

ISBN: HB: 9780226169576, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
1384 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 548 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

The second installment in a planned three-volume series, this book provides the first substantive review of South American rodents published in over fifty years. Increases in the reach of field research and the variety of field survey methods, the in...

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History

Stations in the Field A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930

De Bont Raf

ISBN: PB: 9780226142067, ISBN: HB: 9780226141879, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

When we think of sites of animal research that symbolize modernity, the first places that come to mind are grand research institutes in cities and near universities that house the latest in equipment and technologies, not the surroundings of the bird...

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Earth Sciences

Lost History of the New Madrid Earthquakes

Bolton Valencius Conevery

ISBN: PB: 9780226273754, ISBN: HB: 9780226053899, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
472 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 halftones

From December 1811 to February 1812, massive earthquakes shook the middle Mississippi Valley, collapsing homes, snapping large trees midtrunk, and briefly but dramatically reversing the flow of the continent's mightiest river. For decades, people puz...

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