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America

Paradise Found Nature in America at the Time of Discovery

Nicholls Steve

ISBN: PB: 9780226583419, ISBN: HB: 9780226583402, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
536 pp., 23x15 cm

The first Europeans to set foot on North America stood in awe of the natural abundance before them. The skies were filled with birds, seas and rivers teemed with fish, and the forests and grasslands were a hunter's dream, with populations of game too...

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Astronomy

Earth Sciences

How We See the Sky A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night

Hockey Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226345772, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 66 halftones

Gazing up at the heavens from our backyards or a nearby field, most of us see an undifferentiated mess of stars – if, that is, we can see anything at all through the glow of light pollution. Today's casual observer knows far less about the sky than d...

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Popular Science

Physics

Physics Book: From the Big Bang to Quantum Resurrection 250 Milestones in the History of Physics

Pickover Clifford A.

ISBN: HB: 9781402778612, GMC Group, Sterling, October 2011
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Following the hugely successful "The Math Book" is a richly illustrated chronology of physics, containing 250 short, entertaining and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Dop...

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Evolution

Dazzled and Deceived Mimicry and Camouflage

Forbes Peter

ISBN: PB: 9780300178968, Yale University Press, September 2011
304 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 16 illus.

Nature has perfected the art of deception. Thousands of creatures all over the world – including butterflies, moths, fish, birds, insects and snakes – have honed and practised camouflage over hundreds of millions of years. Imitating other animals or...

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Technology & Engineering

History

Tenth of a Second A History

Canales Jimena

ISBN: PB: 9780226093192, ISBN: HB: 9780226093185, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 33 halftones

In the late fifteenth century, clocks acquired minute hands. A century later, second hands appeared. But it wasn't until the 1850s that instruments could recognize a tenth of a second, and, once they did, the impact on modern science and society was...

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Evolution

Knowledge and Representation

Newen Albert, Bartels Andreas, Jung Eva-Maria

ISBN: PB: 9781575866307, ISBN: HB: 9781575866314, University of Chicago Press, Center for the Study of Language and Information, September 2011
242 pp., 23x15 cm

This compilation of cutting-edge philosophical and scientific research comprises a survey of recent neuroscientific research on representational systems in animals and humans. Representational systems provide their owners with useful information abou...

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Evolution

Comparative Approach in Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology

Nunn Charles L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226608990, ISBN: HB: 9780226608983, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
424 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 20 halftones, 111 line illus.

Comparison is fundamental to evolutionary anthropology. When scientists study chimpanzee cognition, for example, they compare chimp performance on cognitive tasks to the performance of human children on the same tasks. And when new fossils are found,...

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Earth Sciences

History

Osiris, Volume 26 Klima

Fleming James Rodger, Jankovic Vladimir

ISBN: PB: 9780226253374, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
350 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

"Climate is a rather elusive entity", wrote Helmut Landsberg in 1950 as he sorted out some twenty or so competing definitions. This volume of "Osiris" explores the complexities in understanding what climate means from a historical perspective. The vo...

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Nature

Hybrid The History and Science of Plant Breeding

Kingsbury Noel

ISBN: PB: 9780226437132, ISBN: HB: 9780226437040, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
512 pp., 23x15 cm

Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from the vine, gleaming orange carrot...

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Peru: Maijuna

Gilmore Michael P., Vriesendorp Corine, Alverson William S., Campo del Alvaro, May von Rudolf, Lopez Wong Cristina, Rios Ochoa Sebastian

ISBN: PB: 9780982841907, University of Chicago Press, Field Museum of Natural History, August 2011
328 pp., 27.3x21 cm

In July of 2009 a team of socio-economic experts from the United States and Peru conducted a social asset inventory of the ancestral territory of the Maijuna indigenous people in northeastern Peru in order to identify patterns of social organization...

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