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Evolution

Chance in Evolution

Ramsey Grant, Pence Charles H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226401881, ISBN: HB: 9780226401744, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 5 line drawings

Humans, however much we would care to think otherwise, do not represent the fated pinnacle of ape evolution. The diversity of life, from single-celled organisms to multicellular animals and plants, is the result of a long, complex, and highly chancy...

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Nature

Microbes from Hell

Forterre Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780226265827, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones

At the close of the 1970s, the two-domain classification scheme long used by most biologists – prokaryotes versus eukaryotes – was upended by the discovery of an entirely new group of organisms: archaea. Initially thought to be bacteria, these single...

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Popular Science

Intelligence in the Flesh Why Your Mind Needs Your Body Much More Than it Thinks

Claxton Guy

ISBN: PB: 9780300223477, Yale University Press, September 2016
344 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 11 black&white illus.

An enthralling exploration that upends the prevailing view of consciousness and demonstrates how intelligence is literally embedded in the palms of our hands If you think that intelligence emanates from the mind and that reasoning necessitates the su...

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Cartography

Treasures from the Map Room A Journey through the Bodleian Collections

Hall Debbie

ISBN: HB: 9781851242504, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2016
224 pp., 27x27 cm, 120 colour illus.

This book explores the stories behind seventy-five extraordinary maps. It includes unique treasures such as the fourteenth-century Gough Map of Great Britain, exquisite portolan charts made in the fifteenth century, the Selden Map of China – the earl...

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Evolution

Evolutionary Theory A Hierarchical Perspective

Eldredge Niles, Pievani Telmo, Serrelli Emanuele, Temkin Ilya

ISBN: PB: 9780226426228, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 15 line drawings, 4 tables

The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organi...

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History

Osiris, Volume 30 Scientific Masculinities

Milam Erika Lorraine, Nye Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226267616, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

This volume of "Osiris" integrates gender analysis with the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusing on masculinity. The premise is that social constructions of masculinity function simultaneously as...

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Evolution

Debating Darwin

Richards Robert J., Ruse Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226384429, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Charles Darwin is easily the most famous scientist of the modern age, and his theory of evolution is constantly referenced in many contexts by scientists and nonscientists alike. And yet, despite how frequently his ideas are evoked, there remains a s...

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Astronomy

Moon 1968-1972

White E. B., Kennedy John F.

ISBN: HB: 9781942884057, DAP, T. Adler Books, September 2016
48 pp., 20.6x15.5 cm, 34 colour illus., 8 black&white illus.

Not for sale in Estonia! NASA's Apollo program landed the first humans on the moon in 1969. In the next three years, Apollo sent 10 more men to the moon in five subsequent missions. The first moon landing in particular is a legendarily well-documen...

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Philosophy

Philosophy Book: From the Rigveda to the New Atheism 250 Milestones in the History of Philosophy

Bassham Gregory

ISBN: HB: 9781454918479, GMC Group, Sterling, September 2016
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Philosophy explores the deepest, most fundamental questions of reality – and this accessible and entertaining chronology presents 250 of the most important theories, events, and seminal publications in the field. Brief, enaging and beautifully illust...

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Birds

Where Song Began Australia's Birds and How They Changed the World

Low Tim

ISBN: HB: 9780300221664, Yale University Press, August 2016
424 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 28 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.

An authoritative and entertaining exploration of Australia's distinctive birds and their unheralded role in global evolution. Renowned for its gallery of unusual mammals, Australia is also a land of extraordinary birds. But unlike the mammals, the bi...

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