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Evolution

History

Collecting Experiments Making Big Data Biology

Strasser Bruno J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226635040, ISBN: HB: 9780226634999, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 halftones

Databases have revolutionized nearly every aspect of our lives. Information of all sorts is being collected on a massive scale, from Google to Facebook and well beyond, to produce new knowledge. But as the amount of information in databases explodes,...

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History

Materials of the Mind Phrenology, Race, and the Global History of Science, 1815-1920

Poskett James

ISBN: HB: 9780226626758, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones

Phrenology was the most popular mental science of the Victorian age. From American senators to Indian social reformers, this new mental science found supporters around the globe".Materials of the Mind" tells the story of how phrenology changed the wo...

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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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Popular Science

We Made Uranium! And Other True Stories from the University of Chicago's Extraordinary Scavenger Hunt

Sales Leila

ISBN: PB: 9780226571843, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
248 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 10 halftones

Item #176: A fire drill. No, not an exercise in which occupants of a building practice leaving the building safely. A drill which safely emits a bit of fire, the approximate shape and size of a drill bit. Item #74: Enter a lecture class in street c...

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Photography

Mammals

Allowed to Grow Old Portraits of Elderly Animals from Farm Sanctuaries

Leshko Isa

ISBN: HB: 9780226391373, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 26x24.1 cm, 48 colour plates

There's nothing quite like a relationship with an aged pet – a dog or cat who has been at our side for years, forming an ineffable bond. Pampered pets, however, are a rarity among animals who have been domesticated. Farm animals, for example, are usu...

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Nature

Ecology

Terrestrial Protected Areas of Madagascar Their History, Description, and Biota

Goodman Steven M., Raherilalao Marie Jeanne, Wohlhauser Sebastien

ISBN: HB: 9782953892390, University of Chicago Press, Association Vahatra in Antananarivo, April 2019
1716 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, Set of 3 volumes, 804 figures, 392 tables

In 1989, a book written by Martin E. Nicoll and Olivier Langrand was published on the protected areas of Madagascar, which heralded in a new era of conservation for this island nation. In the subsequent three decades, there was an important increase...

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Evolution

History

Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose Natural History in Early America

Dugatkin Lee Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226639109, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 halftones

In the years after the Revolutionary War, the fledgling republic of America was viewed by many Europeans as a degenerate backwater, populated by subspecies weak and feeble. Chief among these naysayers was the French Count and world-renowned naturalis...

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Cartography

Cartography The Ideal and Its History

Edney Matthew H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226605685, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
296 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 65 halftones

Over the past four decades, the volumes published in the landmark History of Cartography series have both chronicled and encouraged scholarship about maps and mapping practices across time and space. As the current director of the project that has pr...

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History

Spanish Disquiet The Biblical Natural Philosophy of Benito Arias Montano

Portuondo Maria M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226592268, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
448 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones, 1 line drawing

In this book, historian Maria M. Portuondo takes us to sixteenth-century Spain, where she identifies a community of natural philosophers and biblical scholars. They shared what she calls the "Spanish Disquiet" – a preoccupation with the perceived sho...

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Biography & Memoires

History

Georg Forster Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary

Goldstein Jurgen

ISBN: HB: 9780226467351, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Georg Forster (1754-1794) was in many ways self-taught and rarely had two cents to rub together, but he became one of the most dynamic figures of the Enlightenment: a brilliant writer, naturalist, explorer, illustrator, translator – and a revolutiona...

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