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Managing Natural Catastrophies Viable Systems to Prevent Human Tragedy – the Hawai'ian Example

Reissberg Anja Christina

ISBN: PB: 9783593396217, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2013
288 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 77 halftones

Natural disasters appear to be on the rise worldwide, their increasing frequency and far-reaching devastation demand the attention of society. But do natural disasters really occur more often than before? Globalization has led to more direct linkages...

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History

Medical Book: From Witch Doctors to Robot Surgeons 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine

Pickover Clifford A.

ISBN: HB: 9781402785856, GMC Group, Sterling, September 2012
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Following his hugely successful "The Math Book" and "The Physics Book", Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology,...

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Earth Sciences

Midlatitude Synoptic Meteorology Dynamics, Analysis, and Forecasting

Lackmann Gary

ISBN: HB: 9781878220103, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, January 2012
345 pp., 25.2x20 cm, colour illus.

The past decade has been characterized by remarkable advances in meteorological observation, computing techniques, and data-visualization technology. However, the benefit of these advances can only be fully realized with the introduction of a systema...

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Evolution

Metaphysics, Materialism, and the Evolution of Mind The Early Writings of Charles Darwin

Darwin Charles

ISBN: PB: 9780226136592, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
252 pp., 22x14 cm, 9 halftones

First published in 1974 as a companion volume to "Darwin on Man" by Howard E. Gruber, Paul Barrett's transcriptions of Darwin's M and N notebooks served to shed new light on the evolutionist's methods and motivation. According to Stephen Jay Gould...

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Mathematics

More Concise Algebraic Topology Localization, Completion, and Model Categories

May J. P., Ponto K.

ISBN: HB: 9780226511788, University of Chicago Press, January 2012
544 pp., 23x15 cm

With firm foundations dating only from the 1950s, algebraic topology is a relatively young area of mathematics. There are very few textbooks that treat fundamental topics beyond a first course, and many topics now essential to the field are not treat...

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Mathematics

Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics

Pickover Clifford A.

ISBN: HB: 9781402788291, GMC Group, Sterling, January 2012
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Math's infinite mysteries and beauty unfold in this brand-new paperback edition of the bestselling "The Math Book". Beginning millions of years ago with ancient "ant odometers" and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions, proli...

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Astronomy

Amazing Nature

Moon A Brief History

Brunner Bernd

ISBN: PB: 9780300177695, Yale University Press, October 2011
304 pp., 21x14 cm, 93 black&white illus.

Werewolves and Wernher von Braun, Stonehenge and the sex lives of sea corals, aboriginal myths, and an Anglican bishop: in his new book, "Moon", Bernd Brunner weaves variegated information into an enchanting glimpse of Earth's closest celestial neigh...

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Evolution

Political Science

Man Is by Nature a Political Animal Evolution, Biology, and Politics

Hatemi Peter K., McDermott Rose

ISBN: PB: 9780226319100, ISBN: HB: 9780226319094, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 tables, 20 line illus.

In "Man Is by Nature a Political Animal", Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political beha...

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Cartography

Mapping Latin America A Cartographic Reader

Dym Jordana, Offen Karl

ISBN: PB: 9780226618227, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
360 pp., 25x15 cm, 12 halftones, 118 colour illus.

For many, a map is nothing more than a tool used to determine the location or distribution of something – a country, a city, or a natural resource. But maps reveal much more: to really read a map means to examine what it shows and what it doesn't, an...

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Europe

History

Martian Stranded on Earth Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science

Krementsov Nikolai

ISBN: HB: 9780226454122, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
192 pp., 23x15 cm, 11 halftones

Much like Vladimir Lenin, his onetime rival for the leadership of the Bolshevik party during its formative years, Alexander Bogdanov (1873-1928) was a visionary. In two science fiction novels set on Mars, Bogdanov imagined a future in which the worke...

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