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Alutiit/Sugpiat A Catalog of the Collections of the Kunstkamera
ISBN: HB: 9781602231771, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, October 2012
440 pp., 29x24 cm, 654 colour illus.
This beautifully photographed book catalogs the collection of nearly five hundred Alutiiq cultural items held by the Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography, or the Kunstkamera, in St. Petersburg, Russia. Gathered between 1780 and 1867...
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Bones, Clones, and Biomes The History and Geography of Recent Neotropical Mammals
ISBN: HB: 9780226649191, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 tables, 26 halftones, 13 line illus.
As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the Neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet's mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums to sloths and sakis. This biological bounty can be attrib...
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Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226734057, ISBN: HB: 9780226734040, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 63 halftones
Over the past few centuries, northern Europe's bogs have yielded mummified men, women, and children who were deposited there as sacrifices in the early Iron Age and kept startlingly intact by the chemical properties of peat. In this remarkable accoun...
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Stratigraphic Paleobiology Understanding the Distribution of Fossil Taxa in Time and Space
ISBN: PB: 9780226649382, ISBN: HB: 9780226649375, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 colour illus., 31 halftones, 19 line illus.
Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late 1700s, Georges Cuvier argued for a literal interpretation, b...
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Wondrous Curiosities Ancient Egypt at the British Museum
ISBN: PB: 9780226542102, ISBN: HB: 9780226542096, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
368 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 99 halftones, 13 colour illus.
When the British Museum opened its doors more than two centuries ago, scores of visitors waited eagerly outside for a first glimpse of ancient relics from Egypt, Greece, and Rome. Even today, in this age of satellite television and high-speed Interne...
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Archaeology of North Pacific Fisheries
ISBN: PB: 9781602231467, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, January 2012
312 pp., 25.5x18 cm
For thousands of years, fisheries were crucial to the sustenance of the First Peoples of the Pacific Coast. Yet human impact has left us with a woefully incomplete understanding of their histories prior to the industrial era. Covering Alaska, British...
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Protogaea
ISBN: PB: 9780226113012, ISBN: HB: 9780226112961, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
204 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones
"Protogaea", an ambitious account of terrestrial history, was central to the development of the earth sciences in the eighteenth century and provides key philosophical insights into the unity of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's thought and writings. In th...
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Star-Crossed Stone The Secret Life, Myths, and History of a Fascinating Fossil
ISBN: HB: 9780226514697, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 26 halftones
Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils, sea urchin fossils, or echinoids, have continually been among the most prized, from the Paleolithic era, when they decorated flint axes, to today, when paleobiologi...
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Echoes of the Past The Buddhist Cave Temples of Xiangtansgshan
ISBN: PB: 9780935573503, University of Chicago Press, Smart Museum of Art, October 2010
257 pp., 30.4x22.8 cm, 3 charts, 3 tables, 1 map, 160 colour illus.
Carved into the mountains of northern China, the Buddhist cave temples of Xiangtangshan were the crowning cultural achievement of the sixth-century Northern Qi dynasty. Once home to a magnificent array of limestone sculptures, the caves were heavily...
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Worlds Before Adam The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
ISBN: PB: 9780226731292, ISBN: HB: 9780226731285, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
648 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 40 line drawings, 125 halftones
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth – and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, many of whom were devout believers, agreed about...
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