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Manual of the Mammalia An Homage to Lawlor's "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals"
ISBN: HB: 9780226533001, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
544 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 513 halftones, 33 line drawings
The taxonomy of recent mammals has lately undergone tremendous revision, but it has been almost four decades since the last update to Timothy E. Lawlor's acclaimed identification guide the "Handbook to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals". Inte...
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£45,00
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All the Fish in the Sea Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management
ISBN: PB: 9780226701622, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 3 line drawings
Between 1949 and 1955, the State Department pushed for an international fisheries policy grounded in maximum sustainable yield (MSY). The concept is based on a confidence that scientists can predict, theoretically, the largest catch that can be taken...
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Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 1 A Critical Edition
ISBN: HB: 9780226651385, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
632 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 64 tables
Volume 1 of this critical edition includes a note on the text from the Humboldt in English team, an introduction by editors Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette, a preface to the first edition by Alexander von Humboldt, and the translation of Volumes 1...
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Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 2 A Critical Edition
ISBN: HB: 9780226651552, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 180 tables
Volume 2 of this critical edition includes the translation of Volumes 3 and 4 of the second, revised French edition of Alexander von Humboldt's "Essai politique sur le royaume de de Nouvelle Espagne" from 1825 to 1827 as well as notes, supplements, i...
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Weak Knowledge Forms, Functions, and Dynamics
ISBN: HB: 9783593509778, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, January 2020
620 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Many of us view the world of science as a firm bastion of knowledge, with each new discovery and further illumination adding to an unshakable foundation of natural truths. "Weak Knowledge" aims to rattle our faith, not in core certainties of scientif...
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New Prometheans Faith, Science, and the Supernatural Mind in the Victorian Fin de Siecle
ISBN: PB: 9780226635354, ISBN: HB: 9780226635217, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones
In a world increasingly shut in by the iron-clad determinism of Victorian physics, the Society for Psychical Research, founded in 1882, ­ tasked itself with finding scientific evidence for phenomena science had all but denied. The point was not to re...
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£79,00
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When Maps Become the World
ISBN: PB: 9780226674728, ISBN: HB: 9780226669670, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 37 halftones
Map making and, ultimately, map thinking is ubiquitous across literature, cosmology, mathematics, psychology, and genetics. We partition, summarize, organize, and clarify our world via spatialized representations. Our maps and, more generally, our re...
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Why Study Biology by the Sea?
ISBN: PB: 9780226672939, ISBN: HB: 9780226672762, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 33 halftones, 6 line drawings
For almost a century and a half, biologists have gone to the seashore to study life. The oceans contain rich biodiversity, and organisms at the intersection of sea and shore provide a plentiful sampling for research into a variety of questions at the...
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£36,00
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£102,00
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Osiris, Volume 34 Presenting Futures Past: Science Fiction and the History of Science 
ISBN: PB: 9780226680415, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm
The role of fiction in both understanding and interpreting the world has recently become an increasingly important topic for many of the human sciences. This volume of "Osiris" focuses on the relationship between a particular genre of storytelling –...
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Principles of Animal Behavior (4th Edition)
ISBN: PB: 9780226448381, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
576 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 529 colour plates, 31 halftones, 3 line drawings
Since the last edition of this definitive textbook was published in 2013, much has happened in the field of animal behavior. In this fourth edition, Lee Alan Dugatkin draws on cutting-edge new work not only to update and expand on the studies present...
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