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History

Reckoning with Matter Calculating Machines, Innovation, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage

Jones Matthew L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226411460, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 54 halftones, 1 table

From Blaise Pascal in the 1600s to Charles Babbage in the first half of the nineteenth century, inventors struggled to create the first calculating machines. All failed – but that does not mean we cannot learn from the trail of ideas, correspondence,...

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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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Philosophy

Dogs

Run, Spot, Run The Ethics of Keeping Pets

Pierce Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780226209890, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

A life shared with pets brings many emotions. We feel love for our companions, certainly, and happiness at the thought that we're providing them with a safe, healthy life. But there's another emotion, less often acknowledged, that can be nearly as po...

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Anthropology

Race and Photography Racial Photography as Scientific Evidence, 1876-1980

Morris-Reich Amos

ISBN: PB: 9780226320885, ISBN: HB: 9780226320748, University of Chicago Press, December 2015
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 halftones

"Race and Photography" studies the changing function of photography from the 1870s to the 1940s within the field of the "science of race", what many today consider the paradigm of pseudo-science. Amos Morris-Reich looks at the ways photography enable...

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Cartography

Rome Measured and Imagined Early Modern Maps of the Eternal City

Maier Jessica

ISBN: HB: 9780226127637, University of Chicago Press, June 2015
264 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 12 colour plates, 84 halftones

At the turn of the fifteenth century, Rome was in the midst of a dramatic transformation from what the fourteenth-century poet Petrarch had termed a "crumbling city" populated by "broken ruins" into a prosperous Christian capital. Scholars, artists,...

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History

Recombinant University Genetic Engineering and the Emergence of Stanford Biotechnology

Yi Doogab

ISBN: HB: 9780226143835, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, March 2015
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 10 line drawings

The advent of recombinant DNA technology in the 1970s was a key moment in the history of both biotechnology and the commercialization of academic research. Doogab Yi's "The Recombinant University" draws us deeply into the academic community in the Sa...

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Evolution

Archaeology & Paleontology

Rereading the Fossil Record The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline

Sepkoski David

ISBN: PB: 9780226272948, University of Chicago Press, February 2015
440 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 42 halftones

Although fossils have provided some of the most important evidence for evolution, the discipline of paleontology has not always had a central place in evolutionary biology. Beginning in Darwin's day, and for much of the twentieth century, paleontolog...

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History

Romantic Machine Utopian Science and Technology after Napoleon

Tresch John

ISBN: PB: 9780226214801, ISBN: HB: 9780226812205, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
450 pp., 23x15 cm, 46 halftones

In the years immediately following Napoleon's defeat, French thinkers in all fields set their minds to the problem of how to recover from the long upheavals that had been set into motion by the French Revolution. Many challenged the Enlightenment's e...

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History

Reforming Philosophy A Victorian Debate on Science and Society

Snyder Laura J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226214320, ISBN: HB: 9780226767338, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
386 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 8 halftones

The Victorian period in Britain was an "age of reform". It is therefore not surprising that two of the era's most eminent intellects described themselves as reformers. Both William Whewell and John Stuart Mill believed that by reforming philosophy –...

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Evolution

Relentless Evolution

Thompson John N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226018751, ISBN: HB: 9780226018614, University of Chicago Press, May 2013
512 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 64 halftones, 25 line illus.

At a glance, most species seem adapted to the environment in which they live. Yet species relentlessly evolve, and populations within species evolve in different ways. Evolution, as it turns out, is much more dynamic than biologists realized just a f...

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