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Birds

Spare the Birds! George Bird Grinnell and the First Audubon Society

Merchant Carolyn

ISBN: HB: 9780300215458, Yale University Press, August 2016
344 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 24 colour illus., 24 black&white illus.

An engaging history of the founding of one of the world's most popular environmental organizations, the Audubon Society In 1887, a year after founding the Audubon Society, explorer and conservationist George Bird Grinnell launched Audubon Magazine. T...

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Mathematics

Quantifying Life A Symbiosis of Computation, Mathematics, and Biology

Kondrashov Dmitry A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226371764, ISBN: HB: 9780226371627, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 halftones

Since the time of Isaac Newton, physicists have used mathematics to describe the behavior of matter of all sizes, from subatomic particles to galaxies. In the past three decades, as advances in molecular biology have produced an avalanche of data, co...

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Cartography

Medieval Islamic Maps An Exploration

Pinto Karen C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226126968, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 162 colour plates

Hundreds of exceptional cartographic images are scattered throughout medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of copies created around the Islamic world over the course of eight centuries testifies t...

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History

Groovy Science Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture

Kaiser David, McCray W. Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226372914, ISBN: HB: 9780226372884, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 2 tables

In his 1969 book "The Making of a Counterculture", Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science "as if from a place inhabited by plague", and even seeking "subversion of the scientific worldview" itself. Roszak's view has...

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Chemistry

History

Radium and the Secret of Life

Campos Luis A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226418742, ISBN: HB: 9780226238272, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 halftones

Before the hydrogen bomb indelibly associated radioactivity with death, many chemists, physicians, botanists, and geneticists believed that radium might hold the secret to life. Physicists and chemists early on described the wondrous new element in l...

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Nature

Plant Evolution An Introduction to the History of Life

Niklas Karl J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226342146, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 144 colour plates, 16 halftones, 24 line drawings, 20 tables

Although plants comprise more than 90% of all visible life, and land plants and algae collectively make up the most morphologically, physiologically, and ecologically diverse group of organisms on earth, books on evolution instead tend to focus on an...

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Birds

Ecology

Why Birds Matter Avian Ecological Function and Ecosystem Services

Sekercioglu Cagan H., Wenny Daniel G., Whelan Christopher J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226382630, ISBN: HB: 9780226382463, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 halftones, 6 line drawings, 8 tables

For over one hundred years, ornithologists and amateur birders have jointly campaigned for the conservation of bird species, documenting not only birds' beauty and extraordinary diversity, but also their importance to ecosystems worldwide. But while...

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Mammals

Elephant Don The Politics of a Pachyderm Posse

O'Connell Caitlin

ISBN: PB: 9780226380056, ISBN: HB: 9780226106113, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 44 halftones

Meet Greg. He's a stocky guy with an outsized swagger. He's been the intimidating yet sociable don of his posse of friends – including Abe, Keith, Mike, Kevin, Torn Trunk, and Willie. But one arid summer the tide begins to shift and the third-ranking...

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Anthropology

History

Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange A Financial History of Victorian Science

Flandreau Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780226360447, ISBN: HB: 9780226360300, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

Uncovering strange plots by early British anthropologists to use scientific status to manipulate the stock market, "Anthropologists in the Stock Exchange" tells a provocative story that marries the birth of the social sciences with the exploits of gl...

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Ecology

Earth Sciences

Stormwater A Resource for Scientists, Engineers, and Policy Makers

Wilson William G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226365008, ISBN: HB: 9780226364957, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 277 halftones

As cities grow and climates change, precipitation increases, and with every great storm – from record-breaking Boston blizzards to floods in Houston – come buckets of stormwater and a deluge of problems. In "Stormwater", William G. Wilson brings us t...

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