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Restless Clock A History of the Centuries-Long Argument over What Makes Living Things Tick

Riskin Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780226528267, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
544 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 colour plates, 51 halftones

Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is...

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History

Pursuit of Harmony Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community

Rothman Aviva

ISBN: HB: 9780226496979, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

A committed Lutheran excommunicated from his own church, a friend to Catholics and Calvinists alike, a layman who called himself a "priest of God", a Copernican in a world where Ptolemy still reigned, a man who argued at the same time for the superio...

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Popular Science

Law

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

Roffer Michael H.

ISBN: HB: 9781454927877, GMC Group, Sterling, August 2017
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Join author Michael H. Roffer as he explores 250 of the most fundamental, far-reaching and often controversial cases, laws and trials that have profoundly changed our world – for good or bad. Offering authoritative context to ancient documents, as we...

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Evolution

Darwin and the Making of Sexual Selection

Richards Evelleen

ISBN: HB: 9780226436906, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
672 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 48 halftones

Darwin's concept of natural selection has been exhaustively studied, but his secondary evolutionary principle of sexual selection remains largely unexplored and misunderstood. Yet sexual selection was of great strategic importance to Darwin because i...

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Evolution

Anthropology

Synthetic How Life Got Made

Roosth Sophia

ISBN: PB: 9780226440460, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 16 halftones

In the final years of the twentieth century, emigres from engineering and computer science devoted themselves to biology and resolved that if the aim of biology is to understand life, then making life would yield better theories than experimentation....

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Earth Sciences

Earth's Deep History How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters

Rudwick Martin J. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421971, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 halftones, 5 line drawings

Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it all. But how wa...

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Evolution

Chance in Evolution

Ramsey Grant, Pence Charles H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226401881, ISBN: HB: 9780226401744, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 5 line drawings

Humans, however much we would care to think otherwise, do not represent the fated pinnacle of ape evolution. The diversity of life, from single-celled organisms to multicellular animals and plants, is the result of a long, complex, and highly chancy...

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Evolution

Debating Darwin

Richards Robert J., Ruse Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226384429, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Charles Darwin is easily the most famous scientist of the modern age, and his theory of evolution is constantly referenced in many contexts by scientists and nonscientists alike. And yet, despite how frequently his ideas are evoked, there remains a s...

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History

Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" at Fifty Reflections on a Science Classic

Richards Robert J., Daston Lorraine

ISBN: PB: 9780226317205, ISBN: HB: 9780226317038, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 2 line drawings

Thomas S. Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the concept of the "paradigm...

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Astronomy

Coloring the Universe An Insider's Look at Making Spectacular Images of Space

Rector Travis, Arcand Kimberly, Watzke Megan

ISBN: HB: 9781602232730, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2015
200 pp., 26.7x26.7 cm, 200 colour plates

With a fleet of telescopes in space and giant observatories on the ground, professional astronomers produce hundreds of spectacular images of space every year. These colorful pictures have become infused into popular culture and can found everywhere,...

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