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History

Romantic Machine Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon

Tresch John

ISBN: PB: 9780226214801, ISBN: HB: 9780226812205, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
450 pp., 23x15 cm, 46 halftones

In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's e...

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History

Jefferson's Shadow The Story of His Science

Thomson Keith

ISBN: PB: 9780300205930, ISBN: HB: 9780300184037, Yale University Press, June 2014
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Hundreds, even thousands, of books have been written about Thomas Jefferson's many accomplishments as statesman, leader of men, country farmer, inventor, lawyer, architect, and philosopher. But until now, no author has focused on the important role o...

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Cartography

Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus

Tsutsiev Arthur, Seligman Favorov Nora

ISBN: HB: 9780300153088, Yale University Press, May 2014
208 pp., 31.8x24.1 cm, 57 colour maps

"The Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus" is a magnificent collection of fifty-six original maps with commentaries that detail the ethnic, religious, and linguistic makeup of the Caucasus – the region located between the Black and Ca...

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Nature

Catching Nature in the Act Reaumur and the Practice of Natural History in the Eighteenth Century

Terrall Mary

ISBN: HB: 9780226088600, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 halftones

Natural history in the eighteenth century was many things to many people – diversion, obsession, medically or economically useful knowledge, spectacle, evidence for God's providence and wisdom, or even the foundation of all natural knowledge. Because...

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Ecology

Nature

All the Trees of the Forest Israel's Woodlands from the Bible to the Present

Tal Alon

ISBN: HB: 9780300189506, Yale University Press, November 2013
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 35 black&white illus.

In this insightful and provocative book Alon Tal provides a detailed account of Israeli forests, tracing their history from the Bible to the present, and outlines the effort to transform drylands and degraded soils into prosperous parks, rangelands a...

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Evolution

Relentless Evolution

Thompson John N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226018751, ISBN: HB: 9780226018614, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
512 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 64 halftones, 25 line illus.

At a glance, most species seem adapted to the environment in which they live. Yet species relentlessly evolve, and populations within species evolve in different ways. Evolution, as it turns out, is much more dynamic than biologists realized just a f...

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Biography & Memoires

Physics

Pontecorvo Affair A Cold War Defection and Nuclear Physics

Turchetti Simone

ISBN: HB: 9780226816647, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 halftones

In the fall of 1950, newspapers around the world reported that the Italian-born nuclear physicist Bruno Pontecorvo and his family had mysteriously disappeared while returning to Britain from a holiday trip. Because Pontecorvo was known to be an exper...

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Africa

History

Africa as a Living Laboratory Empire, Development, and the Problem of Scientific Knowledge, 1870-1950

Tilley Helen

ISBN: PB: 9780226803470, University of Chicago Press, April 2011
520 pp., 22.9x15.9 cm, 2 halftones, 8 line drawings, 48 tables, 8 colour illus.

Tropical Africa was one of the last regions of the world to experience formal European colonialism, a process that coincided with the advent of a range of new scientific specialties and research methods".Africa as a Living Laboratory" is a far-reachi...

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Earth Sciences

Changing Arctic Landscape

Tape Ken

ISBN: HB: 9781602230804, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
56 pp., 23x28 cm, 30 halftones, 41 colour illus.

With this book, photographer Ken Tape sets changes in the landscape in stark relief, pairing decades-old photos of the arctic landscape of Alaska with photos of the same scenes taken in the present. The resulting volume is a stunning reminder of in...

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Biography & Memoires

Mammals

Bear Wrangler Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist

Troyer Will

ISBN: PB: 9781602230446, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones

Beginning in 1951, Will Troyer embarked on a thirty-year career with the U. S. Department of the Interior that included positions such as fish and game warden and manager of the Kodiak Island brown bear preserve. Troyer's engaging prose affirms his p...

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