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Ecology

Climate in Motion Science, Empire, and the Problem of Scale

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226398822, ISBN: PB: 9780226752334, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 45 halftones

Today, predicting the impact of human activities on the earth's climate hinges on tracking interactions among phenomena of radically different dimensions, from the molecular to the planetary".Climate in Motion" shows that this multiscalar, multicausa...

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Earth Sciences

History

Earthquake Observers Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226212050, ISBN: HB: 9780226111810, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones, 1 line illus.

Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs, but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteent...

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History

Europe

Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty Science, Liberalism, and Private Life

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226111735, ISBN: HB: 9780226111728, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
392 pp., 24.1x15.5 cm, 22 halftones

"Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty" traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize-winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physici...

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