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Entomology

Mariposa Road The First Butterfly Big Year

Pyle Robert Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300190977, Yale University Press, April 2013
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 maps

With a love for adventure as great as his lifelong fascination with butterflies, America's best-known lepidopterist set himself an irresistible challenge: how many of the 800 species of butterflies known in the U.S. could he track down in a single ye...

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Cartography

Astronomy

Secret Science Spanish Cosmography and the New World

Portuondo Maria M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226055404, ISBN: HB: 9780226675343, University of Chicago Press, April 2013
352 pp., 25x15 cm, 5 tables, 10 colour plates, 14 halftones, 5 line illus.

The discovery of the New World raised many questions for early modern scientists: What did these lands contain? Where did they lie in relation to Europe? Who lived there, and what were their inhabitants like? Imperial expansion necessitated changes i...

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Literary Criticism

Popular Science

Loving Faster than Light Romance and Readers in Einstein's Universe

Price Katy

ISBN: HB: 9780226680736, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
280 pp., 23x15 cm, 6 halftones, 9 line illus.

In November 1919, newspapers around the world alerted readers to a sensational new theory of the universe: Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. Coming at a time of social, political, and economic upheaval, Einstein's theory quickly became a rich c...

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Popular Science

History

Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine

Pickover Clifford A.

ISBN: HB: 9781402785856, GMC Group, Sterling, September 2012
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Following his hugely successful "The Math Book" and "The Physics Book", Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology,...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Mammals

Bones, Clones, and Biomes The History and Geography of Recent Neotropical Mammals

Patterson Bruce D., Costa Leonora P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226649191, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 17 tables, 26 halftones, 13 line illus.

As explorers and scientists have known for decades, the Neotropics harbor a fantastic array of our planet's mammalian diversity, from capybaras and capuchins to maned wolves and mouse opossums to sloths and sakis. This biological bounty can be attrib...

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History

Acolytes of Nature Defining Natural Science in Germany, 1770-1850

Phillips Denise

ISBN: HB: 9780226667379, University of Chicago Press, June 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm

Although many of the practical and intellectual traditions that make up modern science date back centuries, the category of "science" itself is a relative novelty. In the early eighteenth century, the modern German word that would later mean "science...

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Evolution

Archaeology & Paleontology

Stratigraphic Paleobiology Understanding the Distribution of Fossil Taxa in Time and Space

Patzkowsky Mark E., Holland Steven M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226649382, ISBN: HB: 9780226649375, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 colour illus., 31 halftones, 19 line illus.

Whether the fossil record should be read at face value or whether it presents a distorted view of the history of life is an argument seemingly as old as many fossils themselves. In the late 1700s, Georges Cuvier argued for a literal interpretation, b...

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Nature

Peru: Yaguas-Cotuhe

Pitman Nigel, Vriesendorp Corine, Moskovits Debra K., May von Rudolf, Alvira Diana, Wachter Tatzyana, Stotz Douglas F., Campo del Alvaro

ISBN: PB: 9780982841914, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, April 2012
378 pp., 27.3x21 cm, 24 colour illus.

In October 2010, a team of experts from Peru, Colombia, and the United States conducted a rapid social and biological inventory of the Yaguas, Cotuhe, and the lower Putumayo watersheds of northeastern Peru. The social team assessed the strengths and...

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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter

Prager Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226678764, ISBN: HB: 9780226678726, University of Chicago Press, April 2012
200 pp., 23x15 cm, 26 colour illus.

When viewed from a quiet beach, the ocean, with its rolling waves and vast expanse, can seem calm, even serene. But hidden beneath the sea's waves are a staggering abundance and variety of active creatures, engaged in the never-ending struggles of li...

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Popular Science

Mathematics

Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics

Pickover Clifford A.

ISBN: HB: 9781402788291, GMC Group, Sterling, January 2012
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Math's infinite mysteries and beauty unfold in this brand-new paperback edition of the bestselling "The Math Book". Beginning millions of years ago with ancient "ant odometers" and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions, proli...

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