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Mammals

Voracious Science and Vulnerable Animals A Primate Scientist's Ethical Journey

Gluck John P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226375656, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

The National Institute of Health recently announced its plan to retire the fifty remaining chimpanzees held in national research facilities and place them in sanctuaries. This significant decision comes after a lengthy process of examination and deba...

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Evolution

Chance in Evolution

Ramsey Grant, Pence Charles H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226401881, ISBN: HB: 9780226401744, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 5 line drawings

Humans, however much we would care to think otherwise, do not represent the fated pinnacle of ape evolution. The diversity of life, from single-celled organisms to multicellular animals and plants, is the result of a long, complex, and highly chancy...

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Nature

Microbes from Hell

Forterre Patrick

ISBN: HB: 9780226265827, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 45 halftones

At the close of the 1970s, the two-domain classification scheme long used by most biologists – prokaryotes versus eukaryotes – was upended by the discovery of an entirely new group of organisms: archaea. Initially thought to be bacteria, these single...

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Evolution

Evolutionary Theory A Hierarchical Perspective

Eldredge Niles, Pievani Telmo, Serrelli Emanuele, Temkin Ilya

ISBN: PB: 9780226426228, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones, 15 line drawings, 4 tables

The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organi...

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History

Osiris, Volume 30 Scientific Masculinities

Milam Erika Lorraine, Nye Robert A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226267616, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
368 pp., 25.5x17.5 cm

This volume of "Osiris" integrates gender analysis with the global history of science and medicine from the late Middle Ages to the present by focusing on masculinity. The premise is that social constructions of masculinity function simultaneously as...

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Evolution

Debating Darwin

Richards Robert J., Ruse Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780226384429, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 21 halftones

Charles Darwin is easily the most famous scientist of the modern age, and his theory of evolution is constantly referenced in many contexts by scientists and nonscientists alike. And yet, despite how frequently his ideas are evoked, there remains a s...

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Mathematics

Quantifying Life A Symbiosis of Computation, Mathematics, and Biology

Kondrashov Dmitry A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226371764, ISBN: HB: 9780226371627, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 halftones

Since the time of Isaac Newton, physicists have used mathematics to describe the behavior of matter of all sizes, from subatomic particles to galaxies. In the past three decades, as advances in molecular biology have produced an avalanche of data, co...

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Cartography

Medieval Islamic Maps An Exploration

Pinto Karen C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226126968, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
384 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 162 colour plates

Hundreds of exceptional cartographic images are scattered throughout medieval and early modern Arabic, Persian, and Turkish manuscript collections. The plethora of copies created around the Islamic world over the course of eight centuries testifies t...

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History

Groovy Science Knowledge, Innovation, and American Counterculture

Kaiser David, McCray W. Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226372914, ISBN: HB: 9780226372884, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones, 2 tables

In his 1969 book "The Making of a Counterculture", Theodore Roszak described the youth of the late 1960s as fleeing science "as if from a place inhabited by plague", and even seeking "subversion of the scientific worldview" itself. Roszak's view has...

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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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