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Ecology

Costa Rican Ecosystems

Kappelle Maarten

ISBN: PB: 9780226278933, ISBN: HB: 9780226121505, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
744 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 244 colour plates, 82 halftones, 10 line drawings, 25 tables

In the more than thirty years since the publication of Daniel H. Janzen's classic "Costa Rican Natural History", research in this small but astonishingly biodiverse, well-preserved, and well-studied Latin-American nation has evolved from a species-le...

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Mathematics

Beautiful, Simple, Exact, Crazy Mathematics in the Real World

Khare Apoorva, Lachowska Anna

ISBN: PB: 9780300190892, Yale University Press, November 2015
480 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 72 black&white illus.

In this vibrant work, which is ideal for both teaching and learning, Apoorva Khare and Anna Lachowska explain the mathematics essential for understanding and appreciating our quantitative world. They show with examples that mathematics is a key tool...

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Nature

Plant Sensing and Communication

Karban Richard

ISBN: PB: 9780226264707, ISBN: HB: 9780226264677, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 9 line drawings, 6 tables

The news that a flowering weed – mousear cress (Arabidopsis thaliana) – can sense the particular chewing noise of its most common caterpillar predator and adjust its chemical defenses in response led to headlines announcing the discovery of the first...

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History

Voyaging in Strange Seas The Great Revolution in Science

Knight David

ISBN: PB: 9780300212754, Yale University Press, May 2015
336 pp., 25x15 cm, 32 black&white illus.

In 1492 Columbus set out across the Atlantic; in 1776 American colonists declared their independence. Between these two events old authorities collapsed – Luther's Reformation divided churches, and various discoveries revealed the ignorance of the an...

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Cartography

Sidewalk City Remapping Public Space in Ho Chi Minh City

Kim Annette Miae

ISBN: HB: 9780226119229, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
264 pp., 22.8x21.5 cm, 32 colour plates, 14 halftones, 7 line drawings

For most, the term "public space" conjures up images of large, open areas: community centers for meetings and social events; the ancient Greek agora for political debates; green parks for festivals and recreation. In many of the world's major cities,...

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Nature

Birthright People and Nature in the Modern World

Kellert Stephen R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205794, ISBN: HB: 9780300176544, Yale University Press, July 2014
288 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

Human health and wellbeing is inextricably linked to nature; our connection to the natural world is part of our biological inheritance. In this engaging book, a pioneer in the field of biophilia – the study of human beings' inherent affinity for natu...

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Mammals

How Animals Grieve

King Barbara J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226155203, ISBN: HB: 9780226436944, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 halftones

From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of ot...

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Sea Life

Biology of Sharks and Rays

Klimley A. Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780226442495, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
528 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 57 colour plates, 87 halftones, 103 line drawings, 12 tables

"The Biology of Sharks and Rays" is a comprehensive resource on the biological and physiological characteristics of the cartilaginous fishes: sharks, rays, and chimaeras. In sixteen chapters, organized by theme, A. Peter Klimley covers a broad spectr...

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Mammals

Ecology

Population Fluctuations in Rodents

Krebs Charles J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226010359, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 20 tables, 77 halftones, 62 line illus.

How did rodent outbreaks in Germany help to end World War I? What caused the destructive outbreak of rodents in Oregon and California in the late 1950s, the large population outbreak of lemmings in Scandinavia in 2010, and the great abundance of fiel...

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History

Osiris, Volume 27 Clio Meets Science: The Challenges of History

Kohler Robert E., Olesko Kathryn M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226450056, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
350 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The everyday practice of historical scholarship is by necessity small-scaled and specialized. This essential volume for historians of science reveals how scholars in their everyday practice can work to maintain a sense of a larger purpose. The contri...

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