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Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science

Livingstone David N., Withers Charles W. J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226487267, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm, 41 halftones

In "Geographies of Nineteenth-Century Science", David N. Livingstone and Charles W. J. Withers gather essays that deftly navigate the spaces of science in this significant period and reveal how each is embedded in wider systems of meaning, authority,...

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Astronomy

Geographies of Mars Seeing and Knowing the Red Planet

Lane K. Maria D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226470788, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings, 39 halftones

One of the first maps of Mars, published by an Italian astronomer in 1877, with its pattern of canals, fueled belief in intelligent life forms on the distant red planet – a hope that continued into the 1960s. Although the Martian canals have long sin...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Nature's Palette The Science of Plant Color

Lee David

ISBN: PB: 9780226470535, ISBN: HB: 9780226470528, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
426 pp., 23x15 cm, 31 halftones, 83 line drawings, 438 colour illus.

Though he didn't realize it at the time, David Lee began this book twenty-five years ago as he was hiking in the mountains outside Kuala Lumpur. Surrounded by the wonders of the jungle, Lee found his attention drawn to one plant in particular, a spec...

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Birds

American Bird Conservancy Guide to Bird Conservation

Lebbin Daniel J., Parr Michael J., Fenwick George H.

ISBN: HB: 9780226647272, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
456 pp., 22.8x16 cm, 600 colour illus.

Whether we live in cities, in the suburbs, or in the country, birds are ubiquitous features of daily life, so much so that we often take them for granted. But even the casual observer is aware that birds don't fill our skies in the number they once d...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Earth Sciences

Protogaea

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm

ISBN: PB: 9780226113012, ISBN: HB: 9780226112961, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
204 pp., 23x15 cm, 15 halftones

"Protogaea", an ambitious account of terrestrial history, was central to the development of the earth sciences in the eighteenth century and provides key philosophical insights into the unity of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz's thought and writings. In th...

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Mammals

Ecology

Mind of the Chimpanzee Ecological and Experimental Perspectives

Lonsdorf Elizabeth V., Ross Stephen R., Matsuzawa Tetsuro

ISBN: PB: 9780226492797, University of Chicago Press, August 2010
464 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 31 line drawings, 19 tables, 144 halftones

Understanding the chimpanzee mind is akin to opening a window onto human consciousness. Many of our complex cognitive processes have origins that can be seen in the way that chimpanzees think, learn, and behave".The Mind of the Chimpanzee" brings tog...

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History

Victorian Popularizers of Science Designing Nature for New Audiences

Lightman Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780226481197, ISBN: HB: 9780226481180, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 68 halftones

The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time "The Origin of Species" was published in 1859, the British public looked not to practicing scientists but to a growing gro...

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Cartography

Things Maps Don't Tell Us An Adventure into Map Interpretation

Lobeck Armin K.

ISBN: PB: 9780226488776, University of Chicago Press, June 1993
174 pp., 26.2x18.9 cm, line drawings throughout

Foreword to the 1993 Edition Introduction I. Coast Lines 1. Distorted Coast Lines. A Map of the World of 1589 2. Projections and Protuberances. Gulf of Mexico 3. Peninsulas. The Peninsula of Denmark 4. Peninsulas. The Peninsula of Florida 5. Peninsu...

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