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Physics

How to Find a Higgs Boson and Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small

van Vulpen Ivo

ISBN: HB: 9780300244182, Yale University Press, April 2020
272 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm, 18 black&white illus.

How did physicists combine talent and technology to discover the Higgs boson, the last piece in our inventory of the subatomic world? How did the Higgs change our understanding of the universe? And now, nearly a decade after its detection, what comes...

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History

Herbs and Roots A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace

Venit Shelton Tamara

ISBN: HB: 9780300243611, Yale University Press, January 2020
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 27 black&white illus.

Chinese medicine has a long history in the United States, with written records dating back to the American colonial period. In this intricately crafted history, Tamara Venit Shelton chronicles the dynamic systems of knowledge, therapies, and materia...

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Cartography

History of Cartography, Volume 4 Cartography in the European Enlightenment

Edney Matthew H., Sponberg Pedley Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226184753, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
1920 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 962 colour plates, 4 line drawings, 6 tables

Since its launch in 1987, the "History of Cartography" series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. "Cartography in the European Enlightenment", the highly anticipated fourth volume, offers a com...

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Birds

How to See Birds An Enthusiast's Guide

Stadlen Matthew

ISBN: HB: 9781906506698, GMC Group, Papadakis, October 2019
192 pp., 24.7x19 cm, colour illus.

When we see a bird, do we actually notice it? Many of us don't. But in Britain, there are more than a million members of the RSPB and, thanks to social media, there is also a growing number of bird photographers. From the giant raptors of our skies t...

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Dogs

How Dogs Work

Coppinger Raymond, Feinstein Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226637761, ISBN: HB: 9780226128139, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 41 halftones, 4 line drawings, 2 tables

How well do we really know dogs? People may enjoy thinking about them as "man's best friend", but what actually drives the things they do? What is going on in their fur-covered heads as they look at us with their big, expressive eyes? Raymond Copping...

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History

How Knowledge Moves Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology

Krige John

ISBN: PB: 9780226605999, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Knowledge matters, and states have a stake in managing its movement to protect a variety of local and national interests. The view that knowledge circulates by itself in a flat world, unimpeded by national boundaries, is a myth. The transnational mov...

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Evolution

Mammals

How to Tame a Fox (and Build a Dog) Visionary Scientists and a Siberian Tale of Jump-Started Evolution

Dugatkin Lee Alan, Trut Lyudmila

ISBN: PB: 9780226599717, ISBN: HB: 9780226444185, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 17 colour plates

Tucked away in Siberia, there are furry, four-legged creatures with wagging tails and floppy ears that are as docile and friendly as any lapdog. But, despite appearances, these are not dogs – they are foxes. They are the result of the most astonishin...

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History

Helmholtz A Life in Science

Cahan David

ISBN: HB: 9780226481142, University of Chicago Press, September 2018
944 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 40 halftones

Hermann von Helmholtz was a towering figure of nineteenth-century scientific and intellectual life. Best known for his achievements in physiology and physics, he also contributed to other disciplines such as ophthalmology, psychology, mathematics, ch...

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Cartography

How to Lie with Maps Third Edition

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226435923, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
256 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 110 halftones

An instant classic when first published in 1991, "How to Lie with Maps" revealed how the choices mapmakers make – consciously or unconsciously – mean that every map inevitably presents only one of many possible stories about the places it depicts. Th...

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Ecology

Evolution

Hierarchy Perspectives for Ecological Complexity

Allen T. F. H., Starr Thomas B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226489681, ISBN: HB: 9780226489544, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones, 28 line drawings, 2 tables

Although complexity surrounds us, its inherent uncertainty, ambiguity, and contradiction can at first make complex systems appear inscrutable. Ecosystems, for instance, are nonlinear, self-organizing, seemingly chaotic structures in which individuals...

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