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Astronomy

Long Space Age The Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War

MacDonald Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780300219326, Yale University Press, May 2017
272 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

An economic historian argues that privately funded space exploration is not a new development, but a trend beginning with the astronomical observatories of the nineteenth century. Over the last half-century there has been a rapid expansion in commer...

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Literary Criticism

History

Outward Mind Materialist Aesthetics in Victorian Science and Literature

Morgan Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780226462202, ISBN: HB: 9780226442112, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

Though underexplored in contemporary scholarship, the Victorian attempts to turn aesthetics into a science remain one of the most fascinating aspects of that era. In "The Outward Mind", Benjamin Morgan approaches this period of innovation as an impor...

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History

Osiris, Volume 30 Scientific Masculinities

Milam Erika Lorraine, Nye Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226267616, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

This volume of "Osiris" integrates gender analysis with the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusing on masculinity. The premise is that social constructions of masculinity function simultaneously as...

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Birds

Spare the Birds! George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society

Merchant Carolyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300215458, Yale University Press, August 2016
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.

An engaging history of the founding of one of the world's most popular environmental organizations, the Audubon Society In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. T...

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Birds

Welcome to Subirdia Sharing Our Neighborhoods With Wrens, Robins, Woodpeckers, and Other Wildlife

Marzluff John M., DeLap Jack

ISBN: PB: 9780300216875, ISBN: HB: 9780300197075, Yale University Press, December 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 41 black&white illus.

"Welcome to Subirdia" presents a surprising discovery: the suburbs of many large cities support incredible biological diversity. Populations and communities of a great variety of birds, as well as other creatures, are adapting to the conditions of ou...

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History

Anthropology

Race and Photography Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980

Morris-Reich Amos

ISBN: PB: 9780226320885, ISBN: HB: 9780226320748, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 halftones

"Race and Photography" studies the changing function of photography from the 1870s to the 1940s within the field of the "science of race", what many today consider the paradigm of pseudo-science. Amos Morris-Reich looks at the ways photography enable...

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History

Great Paleolithic War How Science Forged an Understanding of America's Ice Age Past

Meltzer David J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226293226, University of Chicago Press, October 2015
680 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm, 18 halftones, 9 tables

Following the discovery in Europe in the late 1850s that humanity had roots predating known history and reaching deep into the Pleistocene era, scientists wondered whether North American prehistory might be just as ancient. And why not? The geologica...

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Cartography

Rome Measured and Imagined Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City

Maier Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780226127637, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 12 colour plates, 84 halftones

At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a "crumbling city" populated by "broken ruins" into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists,...

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Mammals

Wolves on the Hunt The Behavior of Wolves Hunting Wild Prey

Mech L. David, Smith Douglas W., MacNulty Daniel R.

ISBN: HB: 9780226255149, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
208 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 28 colour plates, 44 halftones, 3 line drawings, 6 tables

The interactions between apex predators and their prey are some of the most awesome and meaningful in nature – displays of strength, endurance, and a deep coevolutionary history. And there is perhaps no apex predator more impressive and important in...

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Nature

Life and Times of a Big River An Uncommon Natural History of Alaska's Upper Yukon

Marchand Peter J.

ISBN: PB: 9781602232471, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2015
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

When Richard Nixon signed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act in 1971, eighty million acres were flagged as possible national park land. Field expeditions were tasked with recording what was contained in these vast acres. Under this decree, five...

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