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Transmutations of Chymistry Wilhelm Homberg and the Academie Royale des Sciences
ISBN: HB: 9780226700786, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
504 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 halftones, 6 line drawings
This book reevaluates the changes to chemistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) and the changing fortunes of his discipline at the Academie Royale des Sciences, France's official scien...
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£36,00
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Time in Maps From the Age of Discovery to Our Digital Era
ISBN: HB: 9780226718590, University of Chicago Press, November 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 25 colour plates, 80 maps
The new field of spatial history has been driven by digital mapping tools, which can readily show change over time in space. But long before this software was developed, mapmakers around the world represented time in sophisticated and nuanced ways in...
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£36,00
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Tongass Odyssey Seeing the Forest Ecosystem through the Politics of Trees
ISBN: PB: 9781602234260, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, September 2020
350 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 82 colour plates, 3 graphs, 3 maps
Tongass Odyssey is a biologist's memoir of personal experiences over the past four decades studying brown bears, deer, and mountain goats and advocating for conservation of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The largest national forest in the nation,...
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£24,00
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Time Travelers Victorian Encounters with Time and History
ISBN: PB: 9780226676791, ISBN: HB: 9780226676654, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 24 halftones
The Victorians, perhaps more than any Britons before them, were diggers and sifters of the past. Though they were not the first to be fascinated by history, the intensity and range of Victorian preoccupations with the past was unprecedented and of la...
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£22,00
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£66,00
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True Creator of Everything How the Human Brain Shaped the Universe as We Know It
ISBN: HB: 9780300244632, Yale University Press, February 2020
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 39 black&white illus.
Renowned neuroscientist Miguel Nicolelis introduces readers to a revolutionary new theory of how the human brain evolved to become an organic computer without rival in the known universe. Nicolelis undertakes the first attempt to explain the entirety...
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£20,00
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Talking Maps
ISBN: HB: 9781851245154, Bodleian Library Publishing, July 2019
224 pp., 27x27 cm, 100 colour illus.
Every map tells a story. Some provide a narrative for travellers, explorers and surveyors or offer a visual account of changes to people's lives, places and spaces, while others tell imaginary tales, transporting us to fictional worlds created by wri...
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£35,00
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Thinking Like a Parrot Perspectives from the Wild
ISBN: HB: 9780226248783, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 35 halftones, 6 line drawings
People form enduring emotional bonds with other animal species, such as dogs, cats, and horses. For the most part, these are domesticated animals, with one notable exception: Many people form close and supportive relationships with parrots, even thou...
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£27,00
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Three Laws of Nature A Little Book on Thermodynamics
ISBN: HB: 9780300238785, Yale University Press, May 2019
184 pp., 21x14 cm, 22 black&white illus.
A romantic description of the second law of thermodynamics is that the universe becomes increasingly disordered. But what does that actually mean? Starting with an overview of the three laws of thermodynamics, MacArthur "genius grant" winner R. Steph...
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£16,99
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Terrestrial Protected Areas of Madagascar Their History, Description, and Biota
ISBN: HB: 9782953892390, University of Chicago Press, Association Vahatra in Antananarivo, April 2019
1716 pp., 29.8x20.9 cm, Set of 3 volumes, 804 figures, 392 tables
In 1989, a book written by Martin E. Nicoll and Olivier Langrand was published on the protected areas of Madagascar, which heralded in a new era of conservation for this island nation. In the subsequent three decades, there was an important increase...
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£150,00
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Thrifty Science Making the Most of Materials in the History of Experiment
ISBN: HB: 9780226610252, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 halftones
If the twentieth century saw the rise of "Big Science", then the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were surely an age of thrift. As Simon Werrett's new history shows, frugal early modern experimenters transformed their homes into laboratories as t...
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£34,00
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