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Gardening

Nature

Northern Garden Symphony Combining Hardy Perennials for Blooms All Season

Warbelow Cyndie

ISBN: PB: 9781602234413, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, May 2021
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Put the power of a garden planning pro to work for you! Northern Garden Symphony offers explanations and illustrations of the sequential blooms of ornamental perennials as a tool for garden design. The idea of sequential blooming, Fairbanks-famous au...

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History

America

Restricted Data The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States

Wellerstein Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780226020389, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 7 line drawings, 3 tables

The American atomic bomb was born in secrecy. From the moment scientists first conceived of its possibility to the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and beyond, there were efforts to control the spread of nuclear information and the newly discovered...

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Cartography

Time in Maps From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era

Wigen Karen, Winterer Caroline

ISBN: HB: 9780226718590, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 80 maps

The new field of spatial history has been driven by digital mapping tools, which can readily show change over time in space. But long before this software was developed, mapmakers around the world represented time in sophisticated and nuanced ways in...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Bark A Field Guide to Trees of the Northeast

Wojtech Michael

ISBN: PB: 9781684580316, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, September 2020
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 283 colour plates, 151 halftones, 65 maps

What kind of tree is that? Whether you're hiking in the woods or simply sitting in your backyard, from Maine to New York you'll never be without an answer to that question, thanks to this handy companion to the trees of the Northeast. Featuring detai...

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History

Aesthetic Science Representing Nature in the Royal Society of London, 1650-1720

Wragge-Morley Alexander

ISBN: PB: 9780226680866, ISBN: HB: 9780226680729, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones

The scientists affiliated with the early Royal Society of London have long been regarded as forerunners of modern empiricism, rejecting the symbolic and moral goals of Renaissance natural history in favor of plainly representing the world as it reall...

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Design

Architecture

Data from Nature Nature, Digitisation and Design

Weston Richard

ISBN: PB: 9788832080025, Bookport, ListLab, July 2019
224 pp., 23x16 cm, colour illus.

A fascinating exploration of exquisite images captured from natural materials, and of their applications in fashion, environmental design, and apps that anticipate a new era of digitally-driven individual creativity. "Data From Nature" begins with th...

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Dogs

Canine Communciation How to Read Your Dog

Wimpole Justin, Patterson Kate

ISBN: PB: 9781760790806, Bookport, New Holland Publishers, July 2019
186 pp., 23.5x18.2 cm

Includes canine behaviour and body language, illness,aggression and anxiety,barking and socialising and toilet training. "Canine Communication" will improve your relationship with your dog.

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History

Thrifty Science Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment

Werrett Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226610252, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

If the twentieth century saw the rise of "Big Science", then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett's new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as t...

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History

Aesthetics, Industry, and Science Hermann von Helmholtz and the Berlin Physical Society

Wise M. Norton

ISBN: HB: 9780226531359, University of Chicago Press, June 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 colour plates, 73 halftones, 6 tables

On January 5, 1845, the Prussian cultural minister received a request by a group of six young men to form a new Physical Society in Berlin. In fields from thermodynamics, mechanics, and electromagnetism to animal electricity, ophthalmology, and psych...

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Popular Science

Void The Strange Physics of Nothing

Weatherall James Owen

ISBN: PB: 9780300230734, Yale University Press, November 2017
224 pp., 21x14 cm

The rising star author of The Physics of Wall Street explores why "nothing" may hold the key to the next era of theoretical physics James Owen Weatherall's previous book, "The Physics of Wall Street", was a New York Times best-seller and named one of...

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