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Ecology

Managing the Wild Stories of People and Plants and Tropical Forests

Peters Charles M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300229332, Yale University Press, April 2018
208 pp., 21x14 cm, 23 black&white illus.

Drawn from ecologist Charles M. Peters's thirty-five years of fieldwork around the globe, these absorbing stories argue that the best solutions for sustainably managing tropical forests come from the people who live in them. As Peters says, "Local pe...

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Mammals

Evolution

First Domestication How Wolves and Humans Coevolved

Pierotti Raymond, Fogg Brandy R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300226164, Yale University Press, February 2018
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 25 black&white illus.

In this fascinating book, Raymond Pierotti and Brandy Fogg change the narrative about how wolves became dogs and in turn, humanity's best friend. Rather than describe how people mastered and tamed an aggressive, dangerous species, the authors describ...

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Popular Science

Psychology

Psychology Book 250 Milestones in the History of Psychology (New Edition)

Pickren Wade E.

ISBN: HB: 9781454927884, GMC Group, Sterling, August 2017
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

What could be more fascinating than the workings of the human mind? This stunningly illustrated survey in Sterling's Milestones series chronicles the history of psychology through 250 landmark events, theories, publications, experiments and discoveri...

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Earth Sciences

Volcanoes Encounters Through the Ages

Pyle David M.

ISBN: PB: 9781851244591, Bodleian Library Publishing, February 2017
224 pp., 22.4x22.4 cm, 83 colour illus.

For centuries, volcanic eruptions have captured our imaginations. Whether as signposts to an underworld, beacons to ancient mariners, or as an extraordinary manifestation of the natural world, volcanoes have intrigued many people, who have left recor...

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Mathematics

Inferences with Ignorance Logics of Questions

Pelis Michal

ISBN: PB: 9788024631813, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2017
100 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! "Inferences with Ignorance" focuses on two formal logic systems that employ the type of inferences in which questions are used in addition to statements. Not merely capturing questions as...

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Cartography

Medieval Islamic Maps An Exploration

Pinto Karen C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226126968, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 162 colour plates

Hundreds of exceptional cartographic images are scattered throughout medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of copies created around the Islamic world over the course of eight centuries testifies t...

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Philosophy

Dogs

Run, Spot, Run The Ethics of Keeping Pets

Pierce Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780226209890, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we're providing them with a safe, healthy life. But there's another emotion, less often acknowledged, that can be nearly as po...

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Chemistry

History

Inventing Chemistry Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts

Powers John C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226380360, ISBN: HB: 9780226677606, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2016
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

In "Inventing Chemistry", historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteen...

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Mammals

Lions in the Balance Man-Eaters, Manes, and Men with Guns

Packer Craig

ISBN: HB: 9780226092959, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
440 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 29 halftones

If you are a morani (warrior), you have your spear at the ready – you could be the hero, but you will have to wait until the morning light before you can go out and prove yourself. If it is a lion, you want to be the first to spear it – and if the li...

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Nature

Peru: Tapiche-Blanco Rapid Biological and Social Inventories Report 27

Pitman Nigel

ISBN: PB: 9780982841952, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, August 2015
400 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour plates

In October 2014 an interdisciplinary team of geologists, biologists, and social scientists carried out a rapid inventory of the biological and cultural diversity of the remote Tapiche and Blanco watersheds of Amazonian Peru. This report summarizes th...

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