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Stations in the Field A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930

De Bont Raf

ISBN: PB: 9780226142067, ISBN: HB: 9780226141879, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

When we think of sites of animal research that symbolize modernity, the first places that come to mind are grand research institutes in cities and near universities that house the latest in equipment and technologies, not the surroundings of the bird...

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Europe

Science and Emotions after 1945 A Transatlantic Perspective

Biess Frank, Gross Daniel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226126487, ISBN: HB: 9780226126340, University of Chicago Press, May 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Through the first half of the twentieth century, emotions were a legitimate object of scientific study across a variety of disciplines. After 1945, however, in the wake of Nazi irrationalism, emotions became increasingly marginalized and postwar rati...

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History

Secrets of Alchemy

Principe Lawrence M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226103792, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, November 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 12 colour plates, 23 halftones, 4 line illus.

Alchemy, the "Noble Art", conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stirring cauldrons. Though the history of alchemy is intricately linked to the history of chemistry, alchemy has nonetheless often been...

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Media Studies

Science on American Television A History

Chotkowski LaFollette Marcel

ISBN: HB: 9780226921990, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
296 pp., 25x15 cm, 1 table, 23 halftones

As television emerged as a major cultural and economic force, many imagined that the medium would enhance civic education for topics like science. And, indeed, television soon offered a breathtaking banquet of scientific images and ideas – both factu...

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Science and the American Century Readings from "Isis"

Gregory Kohlstedt Sally, Kaiser David

ISBN: PB: 9780226925141, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
488 pp., 25.4x17 cm, 59 halftones, 10 line illus.

The twentieth century was one of astonishing change in science, especially as pursued in the United States. Against a backdrop of dramatic political and economic shifts brought by world wars, intermittent depressions, sporadic and occasionally massiv...

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Philosophy

Structure of Scientific Revolutions 50th Anniversary Edition

Kuhn Thomas S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226458120, ISBN: HB: 9780226458113, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
264 pp., 21.8x14.2 cm

A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging its i...

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Steam-Powered Knowledge William Chambers and the Business of Publishing, 1820-1860

Fyfe Aileen

ISBN: HB: 9780226276519, University of Chicago Press, February 2012
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

With the overwhelming amount of new information that bombards us each day, it is perhaps difficult to imagine a time when the widespread availability of the printed word was a novelty. In early nineteenth-century Britain, print was not novel – Gutenb...

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