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Inside Science Stories from the Field in Human and Animal Science

Kohler Robert E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226617985, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Context and situation always matter in both human and animal lives. Unique insights can be gleaned from conducting scientific studies from within human communities and animal habitats".Inside Science" is a novel treatment of this distinctive mode of...

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History

How Knowledge Moves Writing the Transnational History of Science and Technology

Krige John

ISBN: PB: 9780226605999, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
408 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 halftones

Knowledge matters, and states have a stake in managing its movement to protect a variety of local and national interests. The view that knowledge circulates by itself in a flat world, unimpeded by national boundaries, is a myth. The transnational mov...

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Earth Sciences

Natural Resources and the New Frontier Constructing Modern China's Borderlands

Kinzley Judd C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226492292, ISBN: HB: 9780226492155, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 8 tables

China's westernmost province of Xinjiang has experienced escalating cycles of violence, interethnic strife, and state repression since the 1990s. In their search for the roots of these growing tensions, scholars have tended to focus on ethnic clashes...

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Children's Books

Popular Science

My First Book of Quantum Physics

Kaid-Salah Ferron Sheddad, Altarriba Eduard

ISBN: HB: 9781787080102, GMC Group, Button Books, April 2018
48 pp., 24.8x24.8 cm, colour illus.

The world of quantum physics is an amazing place, where quantum particles can do weird and wonderful things, acting totally unlike the objects we experience in day-to-day life. How can atoms exist in two places at once? And just how can a cat be dead...

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Mammals

Ecology

Personalities on the Plate The Lives and Minds of Animals We Eat

King Barbara J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226195186, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

In recent years, scientific advances in our understanding of animal minds have led to major changes in how we think about, and treat, animals in zoos and aquariums. The general public, it seems, is slowly coming to understand that animals like apes,...

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Cartography

Art and Optics in the Hereford Map An English Mappa Mundi, c. 1300

Kupfer Marcia

ISBN: HB: 9780300220339, Yale University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.

A single, monumental mappa mundi (world map), made around 1300 for Hereford Cathedral, survives intact from the Middle Ages. As Marcia Kupfer reveals in her arresting new study, this celebrated testament to medieval learning has long been profoundly...

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History

Groovy Science Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture

Kaiser David, McCray W. Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226372914, ISBN: HB: 9780226372884, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 2 tables

In his 1969 book "The Making of a Counterculture", Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science "as if from a place inhabited by plague", and even seeking "subversion of the scientific worldview" itself. Roszak's view has...

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Mathematics

Quantifying Life A Symbiosis of Computation, Mathematics, and Biology

Kondrashov Dmitry A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226371764, ISBN: HB: 9780226371627, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 halftones

Since the time of Isaac Newton, physicists have used mathematics to describe the behavior of matter of all sizes, from subatomic particles to galaxies. In the past three decades, as advances in molecular biology have produced an avalanche of data, co...

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Birds

Project Puffin The Improbable Quest to Bring a Beloved Seabird Back to Egg Rock

Kress Stephen W., Jackson Derrick Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780300219791, ISBN: HB: 9780300204810, Yale University Press, July 2016
376 pp., 21x14 cm, 8-page colour illus., 30 black&white images

"Project Puffin" is the inspiringstory of how a beloved seabird was restored to long-abandoned nesting colonies off the Maine coast. As a young ornithology instructor at the Hog Island Audubon Camp, Dr. Stephen W. Kress learned that puffins had neste...

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Birds

Ecology

Snowbird Integrative Biology and Evolutionary Diversity in the Junco

Ketterson Ellen D., Atwell Jonathan W.

ISBN: HB: 9780226330778, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 colour plates, 20 halftones, 14 line drawings, 6 tables

At birdfeeders and in backyards across North America, the dark-eyed junco, or snowbird, can be found foraging for its next meal. With an estimated population of at least 630 million, juncos inhabit forests, parks, and even suburban habitats, making t...

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