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Entomology

Infested How the Bed Bug Infiltrated Our Bedrooms and Took Over the World

Borel Brooke

ISBN: PB: 9780226361086, ISBN: HB: 9780226041933, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 halftones, 6 line drawings

Bed bugs. Few words strike such fear in the minds of travelers. In cities around the world, lurking beneath the plush blankets of otherwise pristine-looking hotel beds are tiny bloodthirsty beasts just waiting for weary wanderers to surrender to a vu...

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America

History

Open Mind Cold War Politics and the Sciences of Human Nature

Cohen-Cole Jamie

ISBN: PB: 9780226361901, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 3 line drawings

"The Open Mind" chronicles the development and promulgation of a scientific vision of the rational, creative, and autonomous self, demonstrating how this self became a defining feature of Cold War culture. Jamie Cohen-Cole illustrates how from 1945 t...

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History

Scientific Peak How Boulder Became a World Center for Space and Atmospheric Science

Bassi Joseph P.

ISBN: PB: 9781935704850, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, March 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones

Scroll through a list of the latest incredible scientific discoveries and you might find an unexpected commonality – Boulder, Colorado. Once a Wild West city tucked where the Rocky Mountains meet the Great Plains, it is now home to some of the bigges...

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Chemistry

History

Inventing Chemistry Herman Boerhaave and the Reform of the Chemical Arts

Powers John C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226380360, ISBN: HB: 9780226677606, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2016
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 halftones

In "Inventing Chemistry", historian John C. Powers turns his attention to Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738), a Dutch medical and chemical professor whose work reached a wide, educated audience and became the template for chemical knowledge in the eighteen...

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Nature

Ecology

Costa Rican Ecosystems

Kappelle Maarten

ISBN: PB: 9780226278933, ISBN: HB: 9780226121505, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
744 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 244 colour plates, 82 halftones, 10 line drawings, 25 tables

In the more than thirty years since the publication of Daniel H. Janzen's classic "Costa Rican Natural History", research in this small but astonishingly biodiverse, well-preserved, and well-studied Latin-American nation has evolved from a species-le...

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Cartography

Cartographic Japan A History in Maps

Wigen Karen, Sugimoto Fumiko, Karacas Cary

ISBN: HB: 9780226073057, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
336 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, 111 colour plates, 1 table

Miles of shelf space in contemporary Japanese bookstores and libraries are devoted to travel guides, walking maps, and topical atlases. Young Japanese children are taught how to properly map their classrooms and schoolgrounds. Elderly retirees pore o...

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History

Kuhn's "Structure of Scientific Revolutions" at Fifty Reflections on a Science Classic

Richards Robert J., Daston Lorraine

ISBN: PB: 9780226317205, ISBN: HB: 9780226317038, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 halftones, 2 line drawings

Thomas S. Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" was a watershed event when it was published in 1962, upending the previous understanding of science as a slow, logical accumulation of facts and introducing, with the concept of the "paradigm...

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Political Science

History

Legitimizing Science National and Global Public (1800-2010)

Franzmann Andreas, Munte Peter, Jansen Axel

ISBN: PB: 9783593504872, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
300 pp., 20.3x13.9 cm, 8 halftones and 8 line drawings

Since the founding in 1660 of the Royal Society, London, scientists engaging in experimental research have sought to establish a base for exploratory work in communities and their political institutions. This connection between science and the nation...

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Popular Science

Chemistry

Chemistry Book: From Gunpowder to Graphene 250 Milestones in the History of Chemistry

Lowe Derek B.

ISBN: HB: 9781454911807, GMC Group, Sterling, February 2016
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

From atoms and fluorescent pigments to sulfa drug synthesis and buckyballs, this lush and authoritative chronology presents 250 milestones in the world of chemistry. As the "central science" that bridges biology and physics, chemistry plays an import...

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