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Baroque Science

Gal Ofer, Chen-Morris Raz

ISBN: PB: 9780226212982, ISBN: HB: 9780226923987, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 51 halftones

In "Baroque Science", Ofer Gal and Raz Chen-Morris present a radically new perspective on the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. Instead of celebrating the triumph of reason and rationality, they study the paradoxes and anxieties that...

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Earth Sciences

History

Earthquake Observers Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226212050, ISBN: HB: 9780226111810, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones, 1 line illus.

Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs, but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteent...

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Birds

Double-Crested Cormorant Plight of a Feathered Pariah

Wires Linda R., Mackay Barry Kent

ISBN: HB: 9780300187113, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 33 black&white illus.

The double-crested cormorant, found only in North America, is an iridescent black waterbird superbly adapted to catch fish. It belongs to a family of birds vilified since biblical times and persecuted around the world. Thus it was perhaps to be expec...

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Travel

Nature

My Backyard Jungle The Adventures of an Urban Wildlife Lover Who Turned His Yard into Habitat and Learned to Live with It

Barilla James

ISBN: PB: 9780300205664, ISBN: HB: 9780300184013, Yale University Press, June 2014
320 pp., 21x14 cm

For James Barilla and his family, the dream of transforming their Columbia, South Carolina backyard into a haven for wildlife evoked images of kids catching grasshoppers by day and fireflies at night, of digging up potatoes and picking strawberries....

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Nature

Incidental Steward Reflections on Citizen Science

Busch Akiko

ISBN: PB: 9780300205671, ISBN: HB: 9780300178791, Yale University Press, June 2014
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 11 black&white illus.

A search for a radio-tagged Indiana bat roosting in the woods behind her house in New York's Hudson Valley led Akiko Busch to assorted other encounters with the natural world – local ecological monitoring projects, community-organized cleanup efforts...

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History

Jefferson's Shadow The Story of His Science

Thomson Keith

ISBN: PB: 9780300205930, ISBN: HB: 9780300184037, Yale University Press, June 2014
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.

Hundreds, even thousands, of books have been written about Thomas Jefferson's many accomplishments as statesman, leader of men, country farmer, inventor, lawyer, architect, and philosopher. But until now, no author has focused on the important role o...

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Evolution

Subjects of the World Darwin's Rhetoric and the Study of Agency in Nature

Davies Paul Sheldon

ISBN: PB: 9780226137636, ISBN: HB: 9780226137629, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

Being human while trying to scientifically study human nature confronts us with our most vexing problem. Efforts to explicate the human mind are thwarted by our cultural biases and entrenched infirmities; our first-person experiences as practical age...

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Cartography

Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus

Tsutsiev Arthur, Seligman Favorov Nora

ISBN: HB: 9780300153088, Yale University Press, May 2014
208 pp., 31.8x24.1 cm, 57 colour maps

"The Atlas of the Ethno-Political History of the Caucasus" is a magnificent collection of fifty-six original maps with commentaries that detail the ethnic, religious, and linguistic makeup of the Caucasus – the region located between the Black and Ca...

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Entomology

Chasing Monarchs Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage

Pyle Robert Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300203875, Yale University Press, May 2014
352 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Although no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there were well-accepted assumptions about the nature and form of the migration. But to Robert Michael Pyle,...

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Nature

Of Green Leaf, Bird, and Flower Artists' Books and the Natural World

Fairman Elisabeth R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300204247, Yale University Press, May 2014
224 pp., 26x21 cm, 250 colour, black&white illus.

Highlighting an enduring interest in natural history from the 16th century to the present, this gorgeous book explores depictions of the natural world, from centuries-old manuscripts to contemporary artists' books. It examines the scientific pursuits...

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