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Global Communication Electric Business, News and Politics in the World of Telegraphy

Hampf M. Michaela, Muller-Pohl Simone

ISBN: PB: 9783593399539, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2014
386 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

As catalysts of our present global condition, telegraphs are emblems of modernity. The establishment of a worldwide network of landline and submarine cable connections in the mid-nineteenth century fostered the emergence of new structures and pattern...

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History

Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century

Collins Harry

ISBN: PB: 9780226052298, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 7 line drawings, 4 tables

"Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog" brings to life science's efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are predicted by general relativity, and their discovery will not only demonstrate the truth of Einstein's theories but a...

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Biography & Memoires

Astronomy

Galileo Watcher of the Skies

Wootton David

ISBN: PB: 9780300197297, ISBN: HB: 9780300125368, Yale University Press, October 2013
354 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.

Galileo (1564-1642) is one of the most important and controversial figures in the history of science. A hero of modern science and key to its birth, he was also a deeply divided man: a scholar committed to the establishment of scientific truth yet fo...

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Earth Sciences

Gaia Hypothesis Science on a Pagan Planet

Ruse Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226731704, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 15 halftones, 5 line drawings

In 1965 English scientist James Lovelock had a flash of insight: the Earth is not just teeming with life; the Earth, in some sense, is life. He mulled this revolutionary idea over for several years, first with his close friend the novelist William Go...

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Mammals

Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska Fourth Edition

Wynne Kate

ISBN: PB: 9781566121675, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
80 pp., 21.6x15 cm

The authoritative book on Alaska marine life",Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska" is a clear and concise look at all twenty-nine of Alaska's mammal species, including whales, dolphins, seals, walrus, and polar bears. Now in its fourth edition, this aw...

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Anthropology

Birds

Global Pigeon

Jerolmack Colin

ISBN: PB: 9780226002088, ISBN: HB: 9780226001890, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 37 halftones, 10 colour illus.

The pigeon is the quintessential city bird. Domesticated thousands of years ago as a messenger and a source of food, its presence on our sidewalks is so common that people consider the bird a nuisance – if they notice it at all. Yet pigeons are also...

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Mathematics

Groups of Circle Diffeomorphisms

Navas Andres

ISBN: HB: 9780226569512, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 line illus.

In recent years scholars from a variety of branches of mathematics have made several significant developments in the theory of group actions".Groups of Circle Diffeomorphisms" systematically explores group actions on the simplest closed manifold, the...

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History

Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science

Livingstone David N., Withers Charles W. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226487267, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 halftones

In "Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science", David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority,...

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Mathematics

Geometry, Rigidity, and Group Actions

Farb Benson, Fisher David

ISBN: HB: 9780226237886, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
600 pp., 23.1x16 cm, 1 halftone, 15 line illus.

The study of group actions is more than a hundred years old but remains to this day a vibrant and widely studied topic in a variety of mathematic fields. A central development in the last fifty years is the phenomenon of rigidity, whereby one can cla...

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Physics

Gravity's Ghost Scientific Discovery in the Twenty-first Century

Collins Harry

ISBN: HB: 9780226113562, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 2 tables, 12 halftones

In theory, at least, gravitational waves do exist. We are constantly bathed in gravitational radiation, which is generated when stars explode or collide and a portion of their mass becomes energy that ripples out like a disturbance on the surface of...

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