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Nature

Grasses, Sedges, Rushes An Identification Guide

Brown Lauren, Elliman Ted

ISBN: PB: 9780300236774, Yale University Press, October 2020
256 pp., 20.3x14.6 cm, 147 colour illus., 416 black&white illus.

This elegant and easy-to-use guide is an updated and amended revision of Lauren Brown's seminal "Grasses: An Identification Guide", which was first published in 1979. While maintaining the spirit and goals of the original edition – a portable, straig...

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Mathematics

Group Actions in Ergodic Theory, Geometry, and Topology Selected Papers

Zimmer Robert J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226568133, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
672 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm

Robert J. Zimmer is best known in mathematics for the highly influential conjectures and program that bear his name. "Group Actions in Ergodic Theory, Geometry, and Topology: Selected Papers" brings together some of the most significant writings by Z...

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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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Mammals

Evolution

Great Apes A Short History

Herzfeld Chris, Goodall Jane, Frey Kevin

ISBN: HB: 9780300221374, Yale University Press, February 2018
336 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

This insightful work is a compact but wide-ranging survey of humankind's relationship to the great apes (chimpanzees, bonobos, gorillas, orangutans), from antiquity to the present. Replete with fascinating historical details and anecdotes, it traces...

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History

Groovy Science Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture

Kaiser David, McCray W. Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226372914, ISBN: HB: 9780226372884, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 2 tables

In his 1969 book "The Making of a Counterculture", Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science "as if from a place inhabited by plague", and even seeking "subversion of the scientific worldview" itself. Roszak's view has...

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Entomology

Guide to Spiders of Australia

Framenau Volker W., Baehr Barbara C., Zborowski Paul

ISBN: PB: 9781921517242, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, October 2015
448 pp., 21.1x17.2 cm

Few animals rival spiders in their diversity of forms and colour, ecological abundance and importance, and complexity of behaviours. Spiders have inspired awe amongst arachnologists and naturalists and at the same time are feared by many. The Austral...

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History

Great Paleolithic War How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past

Meltzer David J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226293226, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
680 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 18 halftones, 9 tables

Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the Pleistocene era, scientists wondered whether North American prehistory might be just as ancient. And why not? The geologica...

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Evolution

Great Transformations in Vertebrate Evolution

Dial Kenneth P., Shubin Neil, Brainerd Elizabeth L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226268255, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
424 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 68 colour plates, 62 halftones, 14 line drawings, 12 tables

How did flying birds evolve from running dinosaurs, terrestrial trotting tetrapods evolve from swimming fish, and whales return to swim in the sea? These are some of the great transformations in the 500-million-year history of vertebrate life. And wi...

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Nature

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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History

Galileo's Idol Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge

Wilding Nick

ISBN: HB: 9780226166971, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 colour plates, 6 halftones

Galileo's Idol offers a vivid depiction of Galileo's friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571-1620). Sagredo's life, which has never before been studied in depth, brings to light the inextricable relationship between the production, d...

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