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Sea Life

Ark and Beyond The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation

Minteer Ben A., Maienschein Jane, Collins James P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226538464, ISBN: HB: 9780226538327, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
528 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones, 2 line drawings, 6 tables

Scores of wild species and ecosystems around the world face a variety of human-caused threats, from habitat destruction and fragmentation to rapid climate change. But there is hope, and it, too, comes in a most human form: zoos and aquariums. Gatheri...

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History

Osiris, Volume 32 Data Histories

Aronova Elena, von Oertzen Christine, Sepkoski David

ISBN: PB: 9780226538778, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

The history of data brings together topics and themes from a variety of perspectives in history of science: histories of the material culture of information and of computing, the history of politics on individual and global scales, gender and women's...

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Philosophy

Cartography

Blinding Polyphemus Geography and the Models of the World

Farinelli Franco

ISBN: HB: 9780857423788, Seagull Books, February 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Today, we believe that the map is a copy of the Earth, without realizing that the opposite is true: in our culture the Earth has assumed the form of a map. In "Blinding Polyphemus", Franco Farinelli elucidates the philosophical correlation between cu...

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Biography & Memoires

Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla Barnes & Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection

Tesla Nikola

ISBN: HB: 9781435167957, GMC Group, Barnes & Noble, February 2018
512 pp., 27.6x21.6 cm

"The Inventions, Researches and Writings of Nikola Tesla" is the definitive record of the pioneering work of one of the modern world's most groundbreaking inventors. During the early twentieth century, Tesla blazed the trail that electrical technolog...

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History

Making Time Astronomical Time Measurement in Tokugawa Japan

Frumer Yulia

ISBN: HB: 9780226516448, University of Chicago Press, January 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 colour plates, 40 halftones, 5 line drawings

What is time made of? We might balk at such a question, and reply that time is not made of anything – it is an abstract and universal phenomenon. In "Making Time", Yulia Frumer upends this assumption, using changes in the conceptualization of time in...

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History

Longing for Wide and Unknown Things The Life of Alexander von Humboldt

Meinhardt Maren

ISBN: HB: 9781849048903, Hurst Publishers, January 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Alexander von Humboldt was the most admired scientist of his day. But the achievements for which he was most celebrated in his lifetime always fell short of perfection. When he climbed the Chimborazo, then believed to be the hi...

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