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Evolution

Haeckel's Embryos Images, Evolution, and Fraud

Hopwood Nick

ISBN: HB: 9780226046945, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
392 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 202 colour plates, 2 tables

Pictures from the past powerfully shape current views of the world. In books, television programs, and websites, new images appear alongside others that have survived from decades ago. Among the most famous are drawings of embryos by the Darwinist Er...

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Nature

How the Earth Turned Green A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants

Armstrong Joseph E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226069777, ISBN: HB: 9780226069630, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
576 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 121 halftones, 31 line drawings, 4 tables

On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for...

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Mammals

How Animals Grieve

King Barbara J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226155203, ISBN: HB: 9780226436944, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
208 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 halftones

From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of ot...

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Children's Books

Popular Science

How Many Planets Circle the Sun? And Other Questions about Our Solar System

Carson Mary Kay

ISBN: PB: 9781454906698, GMC Group, Sterling, February 2014
32 pp., 24.2x24.2 cm, colour illus.

Why is there life on earth? How did Saturn get its rings? Which planet is biggest, which one's hottest and which has a cloud named Scooter? Take a trip into outer space to learn about the asteroid belt, Martian volcanoes, dwarf planets and other fasc...

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Anthropology

History

Hawking Incorporated Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject

Mialet Helene

ISBN: PB: 9780226522289, ISBN: HB: 9780226522265, University of Chicago Press, July 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones

These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. One wonders where the individual, the pe...

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Astronomy

Earth Sciences

How We See the Sky A Naked-Eye Tour of Day and Night

Hockey Thomas

ISBN: PB: 9780226345772, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
224 pp., 23x15 cm, 66 halftones

Gazing up at the heavens from our backyards or a nearby field, most of us see an undifferentiated mess of stars – if, that is, we can see anything at all through the glow of light pollution. Today's casual observer knows far less about the sky than d...

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Nature

Hybrid The History and Science of Plant Breeding

Kingsbury Noel

ISBN: PB: 9780226437132, ISBN: HB: 9780226437040, University of Chicago Press, September 2011
512 pp., 23x15 cm

Disheartened by the shrink-wrapped, Styrofoam-packed state of contemporary supermarket fruits and vegetables, many shoppers hark back to a more innocent time, to visions of succulent red tomatoes plucked straight from the vine, gleaming orange carrot...

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History

Histories of Scientific Observation

Daston Lorraine, Lunbeck Elizabeth

ISBN: PB: 9780226136783, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
480 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 42 halftones, 5 colour illus.

Observation is the most pervasive and fundamental practice of all the modern sciences, both natural and human. Its instruments include not only the naked senses but also tools such as the telescope and microscope, the questionnaire, the photographic...

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Cartography

History of Cartography, Volume 3 Cartography in the European Renaissance

Woodward David

ISBN: HB (SET): 9780226907321, University of Chicago Press, September 2007
2272 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 80 colour plates, 815 halftones, 150 line drawings, 20 tables

When the University of Chicago Press launched the landmark "History of Cartography" series nearly thirty years ago, founding editors J. B. Harley and David Woodward hoped to create a new basis for map history. They did not, however, anticipate the la...

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Nature

Amazing Nature

Headless Males Make Great Lovers And Other Unusual Natural Histories

Crump Marty

ISBN: PB: 9780226122021, ISBN: HB: 9780226121994, University of Chicago Press, May 2007
212 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 108 line illus.

The natural world is filled with diverse – not to mention quirky and odd – animal behaviors. Consider the male praying mantis that continues to mate after being beheaded; the spiders, insects, and birds that offer gifts of food in return for sex; the...

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