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Law Book: From Hammurabi to the International Criminal Court 250 Milestones in the History of Law

Roffer Michael H.

ISBN: HB: 9781454901686, GMC Group, Sterling, October 2015
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 w...

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Cartography

Historical Atlas of Tibet

Ryavec Karl E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226732442, University of Chicago Press, May 2015
216 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 121 colour plates, 36 halftones, 2 tables

Cradled among the world's highest mountains – and sheltering one of its most devout religious communities – Tibet is, for many of us, an ultimate destination, a place that touches the heavens, a place only barely in our world, at its very end. In rec...

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Biography & Memoires

Earth Sciences

Father Benito Vines The 19th-Century Life and Contributions of a Cuban Hurricane Observer and Scientist

Ramos Guadalupe Luis E.

ISBN: PB: 9781935704621, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, May 2014
160 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 5 halftones, 5 line drawings, 5 maps

Before Doppler radar and broadcast weather reports, Spanish-born Benito Vines (1837-1893) spent decades observing the skies at Belen Observatory in colonial Cuba, routinely issuing weather reports and forecasts to local newspapers. And before storm t...

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Physics

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Large Hadron Collider Pop-Up Book Voyage to the Heart of Matter

Radevsky Anton, Sanders Emma

ISBN: HB: 9781906506414, GMC Group, Papadakis, November 2013
8 pp., 22.9x20.3 cm, colour illus.

In this unique collaboration between CERN and renowned paper engineer Anton Radevsky, 7000 tonnes of metal, glass, plastic, cables and computer chips leap from the page in miniature pop-up, to tell the story of CERN's quest to understand the birth of...

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Evolution

Was Hitler a Darwinian? Disputed Questions in the History of Evolutionary Theory

Richards Robert J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226058931, ISBN: HB: 9780226058764, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 colour plates, 33 halftones, 7 line drawings

In tracing the history of Darwin's accomplishment and the trajectory of evolutionary theory during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, most scholars agree that Darwin introduced blind mechanism into biology, thus banishing moral values...

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Earth Sciences

Gaia Hypothesis Science on a Pagan Planet

Ruse Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226731704, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
272 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 15 halftones, 5 line drawings

In 1965 English scientist James Lovelock had a flash of insight: the Earth is not just teeming with life; the Earth, in some sense, is life. He mulled this revolutionary idea over for several years, first with his close friend the novelist William Go...

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Business & Economics

Earth Sciences

Managing Natural Catastrophies Viable Systems to Prevent Human Tragedy – the Hawai'ian Example

Reissberg Anja Christina

ISBN: PB: 9783593396217, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 77 halftones

Natural disasters appear to be on the rise worldwide, their increasing frequency and far-reaching devastation demand the attention of society. But do natural disasters really occur more often than before? Globalization has led to more direct linkages...

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Physics

Radioactive Transformations

Rutherford Ernest, Wilczek Frank

ISBN: PB: 9780300181302, Yale University Press, September 2012
320 pp., 21.5x14 cm

Originally published over one hundred years ago, "Radioactive Transformations" describes Ernest Rutherford's Nobel Prize-winning research on radioactive matter. Rutherford outlines the scientific investigations that led to and coincided with Rutherfo...

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Evolution

Evidence for Evolution

Rogers Alan R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226723822, ISBN: HB: 9780226723808, University of Chicago Press, June 2011
128 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 tables, 27 line illus.

According to polling data, most Americans doubt that evolution is a real phenomenon. And it's no wonder that so many are skeptical: many of today's biology courses and textbooks dwell on the mechanisms of evolution – natural selection, genetic drift,...

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Nature

Ambonese Herbal Volume 1

Rumphius Georgius Everhardus

ISBN: HB: 9780300153705, Yale University Press, May 2011
544 pp., 28.8x20 cm, 124 black&white illus., 3 colour illus.

Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and their multiple us...

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