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Monkeytalk Inside the Worlds and Minds of Primates
ISBN: HB: 9780226124247, University of Chicago Press, December 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 2 line drawings
Monkey see, monkey do – or does she? Can the behavior of non-human primates – their sociality, their intelligence, their communication – really be chalked up to simple mimicry? Emphatically, absolutely: no. And as famed primatologist Julia Fischer re...
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£19,00
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All These Worlds are Yours The Scientific Search for Alien Life
ISBN: HB: 9780300208696, Yale University Press, November 2016
232 pp., 21x14 cm
Where would you look for alien life? An astronomer and science popularizer explains the basics of astrobiology to outline five plausible scenarios for finding extraterrestrials Long before space travel was possible, the idea of life beyond Earth tran...
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Earth's Deep History How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780226421971, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 halftones, 5 line drawings
Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it all. But how wa...
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Huxley's Church and Maxwell's Demon From Theistic Science to Naturalistic Science
ISBN: PB: 9780226422336, ISBN: HB: 9780226164878, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones
During the Victorian period, the practice of science shifted from a religious context to a naturalistic one. It is generally assumed that this shift occurred because naturalistic science was distinct from and superior to theistic science. As Huxley's...
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£36,00
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Making Marie Curie Intellectual Property and Celebrity Culture in an Age of Information
ISBN: PB: 9780226422503, ISBN: HB: 9780226235844, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
248 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 4 halftones
In many ways, Marie Curie represents modern science. Her considerable lifetime achievements – the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, the only woman to be awarded the Prize in two fields, and the only person to be awarded Nobel Prizes in multipl...
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£17,00
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£28,00
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Art and Optics in the Hereford Map An English Mappa Mundi, c. 1300
ISBN: HB: 9780300220339, Yale University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 28x21.6 cm, 50 colour illus., 50 black&white illus.
A single, monumental mappa mundi (world map), made around 1300 for Hereford Cathedral, survives intact from the Middle Ages. As Marcia Kupfer reveals in her arresting new study, this celebrated testament to medieval learning has long been profoundly...
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£60,00
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Future Humans Inside the Science of Our Continuing Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300208719, Yale University Press, October 2016
240 pp., 21x14 cm
Are humans still subject to the forces of evolution? An evolutionary biologist provides surprising insights into the future of Homo sapiens In this intriguing book, evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon draws on the explosion of discoveries in recent...
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To Save the Phenomena An Essay on the Idea of Physical Theory from Plato to Galileo
ISBN: PB: 9780226169217, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
152 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
Duhem's 1908 essay questions the relation between physical theory and metaphysics and, more specifically, between astronomy and physics-an issue still of importance today. He critiques the answers given by Greek thought, Arabic science, medieval Chri...
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Making Jet Engines in World War II Britain, Germany, and the United States
ISBN: HB: 9780226388595, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 halftones, 2 line drawings, 3 tables
Our stories of industrial innovation tend to focus on individual initiative and breakthroughs. With "Making Jet Engines in World War II", Hermione Giffard uses the case of the development of jet engines to offer a different way of understanding techn...
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£34,00
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Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey
ISBN: HB: 9780226375656, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones
The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place them in sanctuaries. This significant decision comes after a lengthy process of examination and deba...
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