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Black Hole How an Idea Abandoned by Newtonians, Hated by Einstein, and Gambled on by Hawking Became Loved

Bartusiak Marcia

ISBN: PB: 9780300219661, Yale University Press, May 2016
256 pp., 21x14 cm, 27 black&white illus.

For more than half a century, physicists and astronomers engaged in heated dispute over the possibility of black holes in the universe. The weirdly alien notion of a space-time abyss from which nothing escapes-not even light-seemed to confound all lo...

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Entomology

Fine Lines Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Art

Blackwell Stephen H., Johnson Kurt

ISBN: HB: 9780300194555, Yale University Press, May 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 75 colour illus., 94 black&white illus.

This landmark book is the first full appraisal of Vladimir Nabokov's long-neglected contributions as a scientist. Although his literary achievements are renowned, until recently his scientific discoveries were ignored or dismissed by many. Nabokov cr...

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Entomology

Infested How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World

Borel Brooke

ISBN: PB: 9780226361086, ISBN: HB: 9780226041933, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones, 6 line drawings

Bed bugs. Few words strike such fear in the minds of travelers. In cities around the world, lurking beneath the plush blankets of otherwise pristine-looking hotel beds are tiny bloodthirsty beasts just waiting for weary wanderers to surrender to a vu...

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Scientific Peak How Boulder Became a World Center for Space and Atmospheric Science

Bassi Joseph P.

ISBN: PB: 9781935704850, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, March 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

Scroll through a list of the latest incredible scientific discoveries and you might find an unexpected commonality – Boulder, Colorado. Once a Wild West city tucked where the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains, it is now home to some of the bigges...

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Nature

Ecology

Killing the Koala and Poisoning the Prairie Australia, America, and the Environment

Bradshaw Corey J. A., Ehrlich Paul R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226316987, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 2 maps, 1 line drawing

Though separated by thousands of miles, the United States and Australia have much in common. Geographically both countries are expansive – the United States is the fourth largest in land mass and Australia the sixth – and both possess a vast amount o...

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Nature's Ghosts Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology

Barrow Mark V.

ISBN: PB: 9780226323657, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 62 halftones

The rapid growth of the American environmental movement in recent decades obscures the fact that long before the first Earth Day and the passage of the Endangered Species Act, naturalists and concerned citizens recognized – and worried about – the pr...

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History

Making "Nature" The History of a Scientific Journal

Baldwin Melinda

ISBN: HB: 9780226261454, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 3 tables

"Making 'Nature'" is the first book to chronicle the foundation and development of Nature, one of the world's most influential scientific institutions. Now nearing its hundred and fiftieth year of publication, Nature is the international benchmark fo...

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World

Power of Knowledge How Information and Technology Made the Modern World

Black Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9780300208672, ISBN: HB: 9780300167955, Yale University Press, June 2015
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country's ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Bla...

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Technology & Engineering

Engineering Book: From the Catapult to the Curiosity Rover 250 Milestones in the History of Engineering

Brain Marshall

ISBN: HB: 9781454908098, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2015
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the wheel to the jet engine. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series and a professor at the Enginee...

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Sea Life

Ecology

Western Flyer Steinbeck's Boat, the Sea of Cortez, and the Saga of Pacific Fisheries

Bailey Kevin M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226116761, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
184 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 31 halftones

In January 2010, the Gemini was moored in the Swinomish Slough on a Native American reservation near Anacortes, Washington. Unbeknownst to almost everyone, the rusted and dilapidated boat was in fact the most famous fishing vessel ever to have sailed...

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