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Limits of Matter Chemistry, Mining, and Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780226194998, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, December 2014
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones
During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Europeans raised a number of questions about the nature of reality and found their answers to be different from those that had satisfied their forebears. They discounted tales of witches, trolls, magic...
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£32,00
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Journey of the Universe
ISBN: PB: 9780300209433, ISBN: HB: 9780300171907, Yale University Press, November 2014
192 pp., 25x15 cm
Today we know what no previous generation knew: the history of the universe and of the unfolding of life on Earth. Through the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars...
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£11,99
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£20,00
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Darwin's Orchids Then and Now
ISBN: HB: 9780226044910, University of Chicago Press, November 2014
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 colour plates, 33 halftones, 14 line drawings, 14 tables
For biologists, 2009 was an epochal year: the bicentennial of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of a book now known simply as "The Origin of Species". But for many botanists, Darwin's true legacy starts with the 1862...
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£44,00
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Towards a New Cultural Cartography
ISBN: PB: 9789948207825, DAP, Sharjah Art Foundation, November 2014
275 pp., 20.3x13.3 cm, illustrated throughout
Not for sale in Estonia! In this volume, curators, theorists, artists and writers argue for methods of map-making that go beyond geographic representation. The artist emerges as a new cartographer, who intervenes in existing maps to reveal the know...
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£17,50
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Romantic Machine Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon
ISBN: PB: 9780226214801, ISBN: HB: 9780226812205, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
450 pp., 23x15 cm, 46 halftones
In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's e...
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£22,50
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£39,00
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Climate Conundrums What the Climate Debate Reveals About Us
ISBN: PB: 9781935704744, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, October 2014
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings
It is generally assumed that, in polite company, you don't talk politics, religion, or money. But in recent years, it seems "climate change"‌ needs to be added to that list. Incorporating all of the above, few topics can divide a dinner party faster....
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£22,50
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Reforming Philosophy A Victorian Debate on Science and Society
ISBN: PB: 9780226214320, ISBN: HB: 9780226767338, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
386 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones
The Victorian period in Britain was an "age of reform". It is therefore not surprising that two of the era's most eminent intellects described themselves as reformers. Both William Whewell and John Stuart Mill believed that by reforming philosophy –...
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£24,00
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£49,00
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Commercial Visions Science, Trade, and Visual Culture in the Dutch Golden Age
ISBN: HB: 9780226117744, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 colour plates, 39 halftones, 3 tables
Entrepreneurial science is not new; business interests have strongly influenced science since the Scientific Revolution. In "Commercial Visions", Daniel Margocsy illustrates that product marketing, patent litigation, and even ghostwriting pervaded na...
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£30,00
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Cultural History of Heredity
ISBN: PB: 9780226213484, ISBN: HB: 9780226545707, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
288 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 halftones, 9 line illus.
It was only around 1800 that heredity began to enter debates among physicians, breeders, and naturalists. Soon thereafter it evolved into one of the most fundamental concepts of biology. Here Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger offer a suc...
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£20,50
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£47,00
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Bats A World of Science and Mystery
ISBN: HB: 9780226065120, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
240 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 342 colour plates, 29 line drawings
There are more than 1,300 species of bats – or almost a quarter of the world's mammal species. But before you shrink in fear from these furry "creatures of the night" consider the bat's fundamental role in our ecosystem. A single brown bat can eat se...
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£26,50
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