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Entomology

Dragonflies Magnificent Creatures of Water, Air, and Land

Van Dokkum Pieter

ISBN: HB: 9780300197082, Yale University Press, May 2015
176 pp., 25.4x19 cm, 172 colour illus.

Almost without our noticing, dragonflies dart through our world, flying, seeing, hunting, mating. Their lives are as mysterious as their gossamer wings are beautiful. In this book Pieter van Dokkum reveals many of the dragonfly's secrets, capturing t...

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Astronomy

Technology & Engineering

Seeing Like a Rover How Robots, Teams, and Images Craft Knowledge of Mars

Vertesi Janet

ISBN: HB: 9780226155968, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 52 colour plates, 29 halftones, 4 line drawings

In the years since the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and Rover first began transmitting images from the surface of Mars, we have become familiar with the harsh, rocky, rusty-red Martian landscape. But those images are much less straightforward than t...

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Nature

Life of a Leaf

Vogel Steven

ISBN: PB: 9780226104775, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 47 colour plates, 18 halftones, 10 line illus.

In its essence, science is a way of looking at and thinking about the world. In "The Life of a Leaf", Steven Vogel illuminates this approach, using the humble leaf as a model. Whether plant or person, every organism must contend with its immediate ph...

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Business & Economics

Mathematics

Mathematics for Economists Made Simple

Vinogradov Viatcheslav V.

ISBN: PB: 9788024616575, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, October 2010
364 pp., 23x15 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! As the field of economics becomes ever more specialized and complicated, so does the mathematics required of economists. With "Mathematics for Economists", expert mathematician Viatcheslav...

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Evolution

Darwin's Pictures Views of Evolutionary Theory, 1837-1874

Voss Julia

ISBN: HB: 9780300141740, Yale University Press, June 2010
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 63 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.

In this first-ever examination of Charles Darwin's sketches, drawings, and illustrations, Julia Voss presents the history of evolutionary theory told in pictures. Darwin had a life-long interest in pictorial representations of nature, sketching out h...

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Nature

Ecuador Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual

Vriesendorp Corine, Alverson William S., del Campo Alvaro, Stotz Douglas F., Moskovits Debra K., Caceres Segundo Fuentes, Tapia Byron Coronel, Anderson Elizabeth P.

ISBN: PB: 9780914868736, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, February 2010
318 pp., 27.3x20.7 cm, 4 maps, 8 graphs, 12 tables, 20 colour illus.

The remote, rugged Cabeceras Cofanes-Chingual is one of the last intact mountainous regions in Ecuador and serves as the most important remaining refuge for endangered, range-restricted flora and fauna of the Ecuadorian Andes. In October 2008 scienti...

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