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Dogs

Secrets of the Snout The Dog's Incredible Nose

Rosell Frank

ISBN: HB: 9780226536361, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables

Dogs and humans have worked side by side for thousands of years, and over the millennia we've come to depend upon our pooches as hunters, protectors, and faithful companions. But when it comes to the extraordinary quality of man's best friend which w...

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History

Epochs of Nature

Leclerc Georges-Louis

ISBN: HB: 9780226395432, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 halftones

Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffon's "The Epochs of Nature", originally published as "Les Epoques de la Nature" in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of R...

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Cartography

How to Lie with Maps Third Edition

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226435923, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
256 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 110 halftones

An instant classic when first published in 1991, "How to Lie with Maps" revealed how the choices mapmakers make – consciously or unconsciously – mean that every map inevitably presents only one of many possible stories about the places it depicts. Th...

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Earth Sciences

America

Taken by Storm, 1938 A Social and Meteorological History of the Great New England Hurricane

Aviles Lourdes B.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970246, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
384 pp., 22.9x17.8 cm, 3 maps, 30 halftones

On September 21, 1938, one of the most powerful storms of the twentieth century came unannounced into the lives of New Yorkers and New Englanders, leaving utter devastation in its wake. The Great Hurricane, as it came to be known, changed everything,...

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Ecology

Earth Sciences

Ice Formation and Evolution in Clouds and Precipitation Measurement and Modeling Challenges

Baumgardner Darrel, McFarquhar Greg M., Heymsfield Andrew J.

ISBN: HB: 9781944970260, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
320 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm

Background and Overview Chapter 1. Overview of Ice Nucleating Particles – Zamin A. Kanji, Luis A. Ladino, Heike Wex, Yvonne Boose, Monika Burkert-Kohn, Daniel J. Cziczo, and Martina Krنmer Chapter 2. Cirrus Clouds – Andrew J. Heymsfield, Martina Krنm...

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Biography & Memoires

Earth Sciences

Verner Suomi The Life and Work of the Founder of Satellite Meteorology

Lewis John M.

ISBN: PB: 9781944970222, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2018
168 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 30 line drawings

As the space age got underway in the wake of Sputnik, one of the earliest areas of science to take advantage of the new observational opportunities it afforded was the study of climate and weather. This book tells the story of Finnish-American educat...

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Birds

Ecology

Moral Entanglements Conserving Birds in Britain and Germany

Bargheer Stefan

ISBN: PB: 9780226543826, ISBN: HB: 9780226376639, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones, 1 line drawing

At the center of Stefan Bargheer's account of bird watching, field ornithology, and nature conservation in Britain and Germany stands the question of how values change over time and how individuals develop moral commitments. Using life history data d...

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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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Children's Books

Popular Science

My First Book of Quantum Physics

Kaid-Salah Ferron Sheddad, Altarriba Eduard

ISBN: HB: 9781787080102, GMC Group, Button Books, April 2018
48 pp., 24.8x24.8 cm, colour illus.

The world of quantum physics is an amazing place, where quantum particles can do weird and wonderful things, acting totally unlike the objects we experience in day-to-day life. How can atoms exist in two places at once? And just how can a cat be dead...

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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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