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Dogs

Cat Speak Recognising and Understanding Behaviour

Rauth-Widmann Brigitte

ISBN: PB: 9781845843854, Bookport, Hubble & Hattie, July 2019
80 pp., 22x17 cm, 153 colour illus.

"I just do not know what my cat wants from me!"; If you feel like this at times, then this is the book for you! Concise information and lots of pictures make for an extremely informative and invaluable guide to how we humans can understand our cats p...

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Evolution

Popular Science

Nature's Giants The Biology and Evolution of the World's Largest Lifeforms

Ruxton Graeme D., Owen-Smith Norman

ISBN: HB: 9780300239881, Yale University Press, April 2019
224 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 350 colour illus.

The colossal plants and animals of our world – dinosaurs, whales, and even trees – are a source of unending fascination, and their sheer scale can be truly impressive. Size is integral to the way that organisms experience the world: a puddle that a h...

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History

Life on Display Revolutionizing U.S. Museums of Science and Natural History in the Twentieth Century

Rader Karen A., Cain Victoria E. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598734, ISBN: HB: 9780226079660, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
456 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 23 halftones, 2 line drawings

Rich with archival detail and compelling characters, "Life on Display" uses the history of biological exhibitions to analyze museums' shifting roles in twentieth-century American science and society. Karen A. Rader and Victoria E. M. Cain chronicle p...

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Cartography

Anthropology

Lost Maps of the Caliphs Drawing the World in Eleventh-Century Cairo

Rapoport Yossef, Savage-Smith Emilie

ISBN: HB: 9781851244911, Bodleian Library Publishing, December 2018
368 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 25 colour illus., 69 black&white illus.

About a millennium ago, in Cairo, someone completed a large and richly illustrated book. In the course of thirty-five chapters, our unknown author guided the reader on a journey from the outermost cosmos and planets to Earth and its lands, islands, f...

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History

Osiris, Volume 33 Science and Capitalism: Entangled Histories

Rieppel Lukas, Deringer William, Lean Eugenia

ISBN: PB: 9780226602325, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
352 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The historical relationship between science and capitalism has long stood as a central question in science studies, at least since its foundations in the 1930s. Taking inspiration from the recent surge of scholarly interest in the "history of capital...

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Cartography

After the Map Cartography, Navigation, and the Transformation of Territory in the Twentieth Century

Rankin William

ISBN: PB: 9780226600536, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
416 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 13 colour plates, 144 halftones

For most of the twentieth century, maps were indispensable. They were how governments understood, managed, and defended their territory, and during the two world wars they were produced by the hundreds of millions. Cartographers and journalists predi...

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Physics

Tunnel Visions The Rise and Fall of the Superconducting Super Collider

Riordan Michael, Hoddeson Lillian, Kolb Adrienne W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226598901, ISBN: HB: 9780226294797, University of Chicago Press, August 2018
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones

Starting in the 1950s, US physicists dominated the search for elementary particles; aided by the association of this research with national security, they held this position for decades. In an effort to maintain their hegemony and track down the elus...

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History

Third Lens Metaphor and the Creation of Modern Cell Biology

Reynolds Andrew S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226563268, ISBN: HB: 9780226563121, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Does science aim at providing an account of the world that is literally true or objectively true? Understanding the difference requires paying close attention to metaphor and its role in science. In "The Third Lens", Andrew S. Reynolds argues that me...

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Ecology

Earth Sciences

Weather: An Illustrated History From Cloud Atlases to Climate Change

Revkin Andrew, Mechaley Lisa

ISBN: HB: 9781454921400, GMC Group, Sterling, June 2018
224 pp., 22.2x17.2 cm, illus.

Colourful and captivating, "Weather: An Illustrated History" traces the history of weather and meteorology from prehistory to today's headlines in accessible, bite-sized stories. The descriptions touch on such varied topics as Earth's first atmospher...

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Dogs

Secrets of the Snout The Dog's Incredible Nose

Rosell Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780226536361, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

Dogs and humans have worked side by side for thousands of years, and over the millennia we've come to depend upon our pooches as hunters, protectors, and faithful companions. But when it comes to the extraordinary quality of man's best friend which w...

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