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Mapping Nature across the Americas
ISBN: HB: 9780226696430, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 59 halftones, 2 tables
Maps are inherently unnatural. Projecting three-dimensional realities onto two-dimensional surfaces, maps are abstractions that capture someone's idea of what matters within a particular place; they require selections and omissions. It is these very...
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£56,00
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Wildlife as Property Owners A New Conception of Animal Rights
ISBN: PB: 9780226571362, ISBN: HB: 9780226571225, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
152 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Humankind coexists with every other living thing. People drink the same water, breathe the same air, and share the same land as other animals. Yet, property law reflects a general assumption that only people can own land. The effects of this presumpt...
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Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226752167, ISBN: HB: 9780226074726, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
345 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 line drawings, 31 halftones
The so-called "Bone Wars" of the 1880s, which pitted Edward Drinker Cope against Othniel Charles Marsh in a frenzy of fossil collection and discovery, may have marked the introduction of dinosaurs to the American public, but the second Jurassic dinos...
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£36,00
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£51,00
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Earth Book: From the Beginning to the End of Our Planet 250 Milestones in the History of Earth Science
ISBN: HB: 9781454929109, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2020
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.
Spanning Earth's entire history, from its birth 4.6 billion years ago to its inevitable destruction billions of years into the future, this stunning volume chronicles the life of our home planet in 250 well-chosen milestones. Jim Bell leads us on a t...
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£25,00
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Grasses, Sedges, Rushes An Identification Guide
ISBN: PB: 9780300236774, Yale University Press, October 2020
256 pp., 20.3x14.6 cm, 147 colour illus., 416 black&white illus.
This elegant and easy-to-use guide is an updated and amended revision of Lauren Brown's seminal "Grasses: An Identification Guide", which was first published in 1979. While maintaining the spirit and goals of the original edition – a portable, straig...
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£18,00
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Canine Confidential Why Dogs Do What They Do
ISBN: PB: 9780226755694, ISBN: HB: 9780226433035, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
For all the love and attention we give dogs,  much of what they do remains mysterious. Just think about different behaviors you see at a dog park: We have a good understanding of what it means when dogs wag their tails – but what about when they snif...
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£15,00
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£19,50
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Polymath A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag
ISBN: HB: 9780300250022, Yale University Press, September 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 24 colour illus.
From Leonardo da Vinci and John Dee to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge. Nonetheless, in our current age of specialization, polymaths are often remembered for only one part of their varied achievements....
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Making Modern Science Second Edition
ISBN: PB: 9780226365763, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
608 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 93 halftones, 14 line drawings
In this new edition of the top-selling coursebook, seasoned historians Peter J. Bowler and Iwan Rhys Morus expand on their authoritative survey of how the development of science has shaped our world. Exploring both the history of science and its infl...
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Time Travelers Victorian Encounters with Time and History
ISBN: PB: 9780226676791, ISBN: HB: 9780226676654, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of la...
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£22,00
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£66,00
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Blooming Flowers A Seasonal History of Plants and People
ISBN: HB: 9780300243338, Yale University Press, April 2020
256 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 64 colour illus.
The bright yellow of a marigold and the cheerful red of a geranium, the evocative fragrance of a lotus or a saffron-infused paella – there is no end of reasons to love flowers. Ranging through the centuries and across the globe, Kasia Boddy looks at...
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