ledochowicz.com

Earth Sciences

Field Guide to Snow

Sturm Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9781602234147, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, December 2020
140 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 144 colour plates

People love snow. They love to ski and sled on it, snowshoe through it, and watch it fall from the sky. They love the way it blankets a landscape, making it look tranquil and beautiful. Few people, however, know how snow works. What makes it possible...

PB:

£20,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Cartography

Mantle of the Earth Genealogies of a Geographical Metaphor

della Dora Veronica

ISBN: HB: 9780226741291, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 71 halftones

The term mantle has inspired philosophers, geographers, and theologians, and shaped artists' and mapmakers' visual vocabularies for thousands of years. According to Veronica della Dora, mantle is the "metaphor par excellence, for it unfolds between t...

HB:

£52,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Cartography

Ecology

Mapping Nature across the Americas

Brosnan Kathleen A., Akerman James R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226696430, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 59 halftones, 2 tables

Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, maps are abstractions that capture someone's idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. It is these very...

HB:

£56,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Evolution

Dinner with Darwin Food, Drink, and Evolution

Silvertown Jonathan

ISBN: PB: 9780226760094, ISBN: HB: 9780226245393, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 maps, 6 line drawings

What do eggs, flour, and milk have in common? They form the basis of waffles, of course, but these staples of breakfast bounty also share an evolutionary function: eggs, seeds (from which we derive flour by grinding), and milk have each evolved to no...

PB:

£16,00

QTY:

HB:

£20,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Evolution

Archaeology & Paleontology

Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

Brinkman Paul D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226752167, ISBN: HB: 9780226074726, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
345 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings, 31 halftones

The so-called "Bone Wars" of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinos...

PB:

£36,00

QTY:

HB:

£51,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Cartography

Time in Maps From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era

Wigen Karen, Winterer Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9780226718590, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 80 maps

The new field of spatial history has been driven by digital mapping tools, which can readily show change over time in space. But long before this software was developed, mapmakers around the world represented time in sophisticated and nuanced ways in...

HB:

£36,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Mammals

Law

Wildlife as Property Owners A New Conception of Animal Rights

Bradshaw Karen

ISBN: PB: 9780226571362, ISBN: HB: 9780226571225, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumpt...

PB:

£22,00

QTY:

HB:

£76,00

QTY:

add books to the list

History

Lost Species Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums

Kemp Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226513706, ISBN: HB: 9780226386218, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

The tiny, lungless Thorius salamander from southern Mexico, thinner than a match and smaller than a quarter. The lushly white-coated Saki, an arboreal monkey from the Brazilian rainforests. The olinguito, a native of the Andes, which looks part mongo...

PB:

£17,00

QTY:

HB:

£22,50

QTY:

add books to the list

Mammals

Ecology

Yellowstone Wolves Science and Discovery in the World's First National Park

Smith Douglas W., Stahler Daniel R., MacNulty Daniel R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226728346, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 colour plates, 29 halftones, 24 line drawings

In 2020, it will have been twenty-five years since one of the greatest wildlife conservation and restoration achievements of the twentieth century took place: the reintroduction of wolves to the world's first national park, Yellowstone. Eradicated af...

HB:

£28,00

QTY:

add books to the list

Mammals

Chimpanzees in Context A Comparative Perspective on Chimpanzee Behavior, Cognition, Conservation, and Welfare

Hopper Lydia M., Ross Stephen R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226727981, ISBN: HB: 9780226727844, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
752 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 71 halftones, 44 tables

The study of the chimpanzee, one of the human species' closest relatives, has led scientists to exciting discoveries about evolution, behavior, and cognition over the past half century. In this book, rising and veteran scholars take a fascinating com...

PB:

£60,00

QTY:

HB:

£150,00

QTY:

add books to the list