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Earth Sciences

Hurricane Pioneer Memoirs of Bob Simpson

Simpson Robert H., Dorst Neal M.

ISBN: PB: 9781935704751, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, February 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

In 1951, Robert H. Simpson lifted off in a specially-equipped plane, flying directly into the path of a storm that would send most people running for cover. For more than four hours he observed Typhoon Marge from its eerily calm eye, later describing...

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History

Reference

Technical Image A History of Styles in Scientific Imagery

Bredekamp Horst, Dunkel Vera, Schneider Birgit

ISBN: HB: 9780226258843, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
208 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 93 colour plates, 92 halftones

In science and technology, the images used to depict ideas, data, and reactions can be as striking and explosive as the concepts and processes they embody – both works of art and generative forces in their own right. Drawing on a close dialogue betwe...

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History

Osiris, Volume 29 Chemical Knowledge in the Early Modern World

Eddy Matthew D., Mauskopf Seymour H., Newman William R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226158396, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
450 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The last twenty-five years have witnessed some provocative transmutations in our understanding of early modern chemistry. The alchemist, once marginalized as a quack, now joins the apothecary, miner, humanist, and natural historian as a practitioner...

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History

Alexandrian Epitomes of Galen Volume 1: On the Medical Sects for Beginners; The Small Art of Medicine; On the Elements According to the Opinion of Hippocrates. A Parallel English-Arabic Text

ISBN: HB: 9780842528405, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2015
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The second-century physician and philosopher Galen is not known for brevity. Although his writings on medicine are famously verbose and numerous, for centuries they constituted much of the standard syllabi for medical students. About fourteen hundred...

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Earth Sciences

Observer's Guide to Clouds and Weather A Northeastern Primer on Prediction

Carlson Toby, Knight Paul, Wyckoff Celia

ISBN: PB: 9781935704584, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, February 2015
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 colour plates, 10 halftones, 10 line drawings

Today, most people look down when they want to check the weather, peeking at cell phones or popping open a browser, instead of looking up at one of the most accessible weather predictors of all the sky. Knowing what the atmosphere has in store withou...

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Evolution

Archaeology & Paleontology

Rereading the Fossil Record The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline

Sepkoski David

ISBN: PB: 9780226272948, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 42 halftones

Although fossils have provided some of the most important evidence for evolution, the discipline of paleontology has not always had a central place in evolutionary biology. Beginning in Darwin's day, and for much of the twentieth century, paleontolog...

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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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Technology & Engineering

Everyday Technology Machines and the Making of India's Modernity

Arnold David

ISBN: PB: 9780226269375, ISBN: HB: 9780226922027, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
224 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 4 tables, 22 halftones

In 1909 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on his way back to South Africa from London, wrote his now celebrated tract "Hind Swaraj", laying out his vision for the future of India and famously rejecting the technological innovations of Western civilization....

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Popular Science

Biology Book: From the Origin of Life to Epigenetics 250 Milestones in the History of Biology

Gerald Michael C.

ISBN: HB: 9781454910688, GMC Group, Sterling, January 2015
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

From the emergence of life, to Leewenhoek's microscopic world, to GMO crops, "The Biology Book" presents 250 landmarks in the most widely studied scientific field. Brief, engaging, and colourfully illustrated synopses introduce readers to every major...

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