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Anthropology

Plants That We Eat Nauriat Niginaqtaut: From the Traditional Wisdom of the Inupiat Elders of Northwest Alaska

Jones Anore

ISBN: PB: 9781602230743, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2010
241 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 60 halftones

"Plants That We Eat" is a handy, easy-to-use guide to the abundant edible plant life of Alaska. Drawing on centuries of knowledge that have kept the Inupiat people healthy, the book uses photographs and descriptions to teach newcomers to the north ho...

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Physics

Philosophy

Scientific Perspectivism

Giere Ronald N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226292137, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
160 pp., 23x15 cm, 29 line drawings, 12 colour illus.

Many people assume that the claims of scientists are objective truths. But "Scientific Perspectivism" argues that the acts of observing and theorizing are both matters of perspective – which makes scientific knowledge contingent. Using the example of...

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Sea Life

Chasing Science at Sea Racing Hurricanes, Stalking Sharks, and Living Undersea with Ocean Experts

Prager Ellen

ISBN: PB: 9780226678740, ISBN: HB: 9780226678702, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
178 pp., 23x15 cm, 28 halftones, 4 colour illus.

To the average office-dweller, marine scientists seem to have the good life: cruising at sea for weeks at a time, swimming in warm coastal waters, living in tropical paradises. But ocean scientists who go to sea will tell you that it is no vacation....

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Earth Sciences

On Sea Ice

Weeks Willy

ISBN: HB: 9781602230798, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2010
664 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 354 graphs and figures

Covering more than seven percent of the earth's surface, sea ice is crucial to the functioning of the biosphere – and is a key component in our attempts to understand and combat climate change. With "On Sea Ice", geophysicist W. F. Weeks delivers a n...

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Earth Sciences

Culture Studies

Authors of the Storm Meteorologists and the Culture of Prediction

Fine Gary Alan

ISBN: PB: 9780226249537, ISBN: HB: 9780226249520, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
312 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 map, 3 halftones

Whether it is used as an icebreaker in conversation or as the subject of serious inquiry, "the weather" is one of the few subjects that everyone talks about. And though we recognize the faces that bring us the weather on television, how government me...

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Education

Nature

Teaching Children Science Hands-On Nature Study in North America, 1890-1930

Kohlstedt Sally Gregory

ISBN: HB: 9780226449906, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
384 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

In the early twentieth century, a curriculum known as nature study flourished in major city school systems, streetcar suburbs, small towns, and even rural one-room schools. This object-based approach to learning about the natural world marked the fir...

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Chemistry

Image and Reality Kekule, Kopp, and the Scientific Imagination

Rocke Alan J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226723327, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, May 2010
416 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 line drawings, 44 halftones

Nineteenth-century chemists were faced with a particular problem: how to depict the atoms and molecules that are beyond the direct reach of our bodily senses. In visualizing this microworld, these scientists were the first to move beyond high-level p...

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Cartography

No Dig, No Fly, No Go How Maps Restrict and Control

Monmonier Mark

ISBN: PB: 9780226534688, ISBN: HB: 9780226534671, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
242 pp., 23x15 cm, 19 line drawings, 63 halftones

Some maps help us find our way; others restrict where we go and what we do. These maps control behavior, regulating activities from flying to fishing, prohibiting students from one part of town from being schooled on the other, and banishing certain...

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Evolution

Earth Sciences

Worlds Before Adam The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform

Rudwick Martin J. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226731292, ISBN: HB: 9780226731285, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
648 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 40 line drawings, 125 halftones

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, scientists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth – and the relatively recent arrival of human life. The geologists of the period, many of whom were devout believers, agreed about...

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Mammals

Wild Justice The Moral Lives of Animals

Bekoff Marc, Pierce Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780226041636, ISBN: HB: 9780226041612, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 halftones

Scientists have long counseled against interpreting animal behavior in terms of human emotions, warning that such anthropomorphizing limits our ability to understand animals as they really are. Yet what are we to make of a female gorilla in a German...

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