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Scientific Peak How Boulder Became a World Center for Space and Atmospheric Science
ISBN: PB: 9781935704850, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, March 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones
Scroll through a list of the latest incredible scientific discoveries and you might find an unexpected commonality – Boulder, Colorado. Once a Wild West city tucked where the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains, it is now home to some of the bigges...
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£26,50
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Inventing Chemistry Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts
ISBN: PB: 9780226380360, ISBN: HB: 9780226677606, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2016
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones
In "Inventing Chemistry", historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteen...
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Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" at Fifty Reflections on a Science Classic
ISBN: PB: 9780226317205, ISBN: HB: 9780226317038, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 2 line drawings
Thomas S. Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the concept of the "paradigm...
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Legitimizing Science National and Global Public (1800-2010)
ISBN: PB: 9783593504872, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
300 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 8 halftones and 8 line drawings
Since the founding in 1660 of the Royal Society, London, scientists engaging in experimental research have sought to establish a base for exploratory work in communities and their political institutions. This connection between science and the nation...
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£44,50
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Race and Photography Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980
ISBN: PB: 9780226320885, ISBN: HB: 9780226320748, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 halftones
"Race and Photography" studies the changing function of photography from the 1870s to the 1940s within the field of the "science of race", what many today consider the paradigm of pseudo-science. Amos Morris-Reich looks at the ways photography enable...
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£24,50
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£78,00
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Localization and Its Discontents A Genealogy of Psychoanalysis and the Neuro Disciplines
ISBN: HB: 9780226288208, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 57 halftones
Psychoanalysis and neurological medicine have promoted contrasting and seemingly irreconcilable notions of the modern self. Since Freud, psychoanalysts have relied on the spoken word in a therapeutic practice that has revolutionized our understanding...
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Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger
ISBN: PB: 9780226320090, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
152 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 7 halftones, 75 line drawings
Galileo Galilei's Sidereus Nuncius is arguably the most dramatic scientific book ever published. It announced new and unexpected phenomena in the heavens, "unheard of through the ages", revealed by a mysterious new instrument. Galileo had ingeniously...
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How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
ISBN: PB: 9780226324159, ISBN: HB: 9780226046631, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 17 line drawings
In the United States at the height of the Cold War, roughly between the end of World War II and the early 1980s, a new project of redefining rationality commanded the attention of sharp minds, powerful politicians, wealthy foundations, and top milita...
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Great Paleolithic War How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past
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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Dreamscapes of Modernity Sociotechnical Imaginaries and the Fabrication of Power
ISBN: PB: 9780226276526, ISBN: HB: 9780226276496, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones
"Dreamscapes of Modernity" offers the first book-length treatment of sociotechnical imaginaries, a concept originated by Sheila Jasanoff and developed in close collaboration with Sang-Hyun Kim to describe how visions of scientific and technological p...
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