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Discover Our Solar System

Stuart Colin

ISBN: HB: 9781787080164, GMC Group, Button Books, October 2018
48 pp., 24.8x24.8 cm, colour illus.

Sit back and enjoy a cosmic tour of our awe-inspiring solar system with this illuminating illustrated guide. Aimed at children aged 8+, this exciting book makes learning a complex subject fun and accessible. Gaze at the beauty of our planets, Sun and...

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Earth Sciences

City Unseen New Visions of an Urban Planet

Seto Karen C., Reba Meredith, Sullivan Kathryn D.

ISBN: HB: 9780300221695, Yale University Press, September 2018
268 pp., 25.4x22.9 cm, 147 colour illus., 31 black&white illus.

Seeing cities around the globe in their larger environmental contexts, we begin to understand how the world shapes urban landscapes and how urban landscapes shape the world. Authors Karen Seto and Meredith Reba provide these revealing views to enhanc...

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Cartography

Map Men Transnational Lives and Deaths of Geographers in the Making of East Central Europe

Seegel Steven

ISBN: HB: 9780226438498, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 20 halftones

More than just colorful clickbait or pragmatic city grids, maps are often deeply emotional tales: of political projects gone wrong, budding relationships that failed, and countries that vanished. In "Map Men", Steven Seegel takes us through some of t...

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Ecology

Earth Sciences

Climate in the Age of Empire Weather Observers in Colonial Canada

Slonosky Victoria C.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970208, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 16 halftones

Though efforts to understand human-caused climate change have intensified in recent decades, weather observers have been paying close attention to changes in climate for centuries. This book offers a close look at that work as it was practiced in Can...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

Field Guide to Reptiles of New South Wales Third Edition

Swan Gerry, Shea Glenn, Sadlier Ross

ISBN: PB: 9781925546088, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, March 2018
256 pp., 21x14.8 cm

In "A Field Guide to Reptiles of New South Wales" you will find every gecko, flap-footed lizard, goanna, dragon, skink, snake and turtle known to live throughout the state's many habitats. The guide narrows down the field of species identification to...

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History

Ways of Making and Knowing The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge

Smith Pamela H., Meyers Amy R. W., Cook Harold J.

ISBN: PB: 9781941792117, University of Chicago Press, Bard Graduate Center, February 2018
430 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 91 colour plates, 2 tables

Although craftspeople and artists often work with natural materials, the notion that making art can constitute a means of knowing nature is a novel one. This book, with contributions from historians of science, medicine, art, and material culture, sh...

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Nature

Phylogeny and Evolution of the Angiosperms Revised and Updated Edition

Soltis Douglas, Soltis Pamela, Endress Peter, Chase Mark, Manchester Steven, Judd Walter, Majure Lucas, Mavrodiev Evgeny

ISBN: HB: 9780226383613, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
560 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 60 colour plates, 36 halftones, 129 line drawings, 18 tables

Although they are relative latecomers on the evolutionary scene, having emerged only 135-170 million years ago, angiosperms – or flowering plants – are the most diverse and species-rich group of seed-producing land plants, comprising more than 13,000...

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Entomology

Dr. Eleanor's Book of Common Spiders

Spicer Rice Eleanor, Buddle Christopher M.,

ISBN: PB: 9780226332253, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
80 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 72 colour plates

Spiders have a problem, and it's us. Despite their magnificent talents for crafting webs, capturing mosquitoes, and camouflage, for millennia arachnophobia has hampered our ability to appreciate these eight-legged and -eyed marvels. No longer! In thi...

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Evolution

Darwin's Evolving Identity Adventure, Ambition, and the Sin of Speculation

Sponsel Alistair

ISBN: HB: 9780226523118, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 13 colour plates, 27 halftones

Why – against his mentor's exhortations to publish – did Charles Darwin take twenty years to reveal his theory of evolution by natural selection? In "Darwin's Evolving Identity", Alistair Sponsel argues that Darwin adopted this cautious approach to a...

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Reptiles & Amphibians

Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia Fifth Edition

Swan Gerry, Wilson Steve

ISBN: PB: 9781925546026, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, December 2017
560 pp., 21x15 cm

"A Complete Guide to Reptiles of Australia" has been the most comprehensive field guide available for Australian reptiles since the first edition was published in 2003. As new species are discovered, known ranges extended and higher quality images be...

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