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Evolution

Biology and Ideology from Descartes to Dawkins

Alexander Denis R., Numbers Ronald L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226608419, ISBN: HB: 9780226608402, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
448 pp., 23x15 cm, 30 halftones

Over the course of human history, the sciences, and biology in particular, have often been manipulated to cause immense human suffering. For example, biology has been used to justify eugenic programs, forced sterilization, human experimentation, and...

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History

Victorian Popularizers of Science Designing Nature for New Audiences

Lightman Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780226481197, ISBN: HB: 9780226481180, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
568 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 68 halftones

The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time "The Origin of Species" was published in 1859, the British public looked not to practicing scientists but to a growing gro...

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Evolution

Natural History of Time

Richet Pascal

ISBN: PB: 9780226712888, ISBN: HB: 9780226712871, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
481 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 line drawings, 3 tables, 12 halftones

For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide an answer to the pressing question of the earth's age, even though nature abounds with clues. In "A Natural History of Time", geophysicist Pascal Richet tells the fascinating story...

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Mathematics

Computer Science & Internet

Selected Papers on Design of Algorithms

Knuth Donald E.

ISBN: HB: 9781575865836, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, April 2010
453 pp., 23x15 cm

Donald Knuth's influence in computer science ranges from the invention of methods for translating and defining programming languages to the creation of the TEX and METAFONT systems for desktop publishing. His award-winning textbooks have become class...

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Earth Sciences

Adaptive Governance and Climate Change

Brunner Ronald D., Lynch Amanda H.

ISBN: PB: 9781878220974, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, April 2010
404 pp., 23x15 cm, 23 halftones

While recent years have seen undeniable progress in international acknowledgement both of the dangers of climate change and the importance of working to mitigate it, little has actually been done. Emissions continue to rise, and even the ambitious ta...

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Ecology

Nature

Vanishing Present Wisconsin's Changing Lands, Waters, and Wildlife

Waller Donald M., Rooney Thomas P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226871738, University of Chicago Press, April 2010
522 pp., 23x15 cm, 43 halftones, 16 colour illus.

Straddling temperate forests and grassland biomes and stretching along the coastline of two Great Lakes, Wisconsin contains tallgrass prairie and oak savanna, broadleaf and coniferous forests, wetlands, natural lakes, and rivers. But, like the rest o...

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Earth Sciences

Changing Arctic Landscape

Tape Ken

ISBN: HB: 9781602230804, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, April 2010
56 pp., 23x28 cm, 30 halftones, 41 colour illus.

With this book, photographer Ken Tape sets changes in the landscape in stark relief, pairing decades-old photos of the arctic landscape of Alaska with photos of the same scenes taken in the present. The resulting volume is a stunning reminder of in...

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Sea Life

Amazing Nature

Fishes of the Open Ocean A Natural History and Illustrated Guide

Pepperell Julian

ISBN: HB: 9780226655390, University of Chicago Press, March 2010
272 pp., 28x23 cm, 370 colour illus.

Between the surface of the sea and depths of two hundred meters lies a remarkable range of fish, generally known as pelagics, or open-ocean dwellers. These creatures are among the largest, fastest, highest-leaping, and most migratory fish on the enti...

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Mammals

Recent Mammals of Alaska

Cook Joseph A., MacDonald Stephen O.

ISBN: PB: 9781602230729, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
399 pp., 25.5x17 cm, 110 maps, 50 line illus.

From the polar bear and the gray wolf to the walrus and river otter, there are 115 species of mammals in Alaska that have never been fully catalogued until now. Biologists Joseph A. Cook and Stephen O. MacDonald have compiled here the first comprehen...

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Biography & Memoires

Mammals

Bear Wrangler Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist

Troyer Will

ISBN: PB: 9781602230446, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 25 halftones

Beginning in 1951, Will Troyer embarked on a thirty-year career with the U. S. Department of the Interior that included positions such as fish and game warden and manager of the Kodiak Island brown bear preserve. Troyer's engaging prose affirms his p...

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