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Cartography

Exploring and Mapping Alaska The Russian America Era, 1741-1867

Postnikov Alexey, Falk Marvin

ISBN: HB: 9781602232518, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, June 2015
450 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 75 maps

Russia first encountered Alaska in 1741 as part of the most ambitious and expensive expedition of the entire eighteenth century. For centuries since, cartographers have struggled to define and develop the enormous region comprising northeastern Asia,...

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Nature

Ecology

Walden Warming Climate Change Comes to Thoreau's Woods

Primack Richard B.

ISBN: PB: 9780226272290, ISBN: HB: 9780226682686, University of Chicago Press, April 2015
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 15 halftones

In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11, 1853. If he were to look for the first blueberry flowers in Concord today, mid-May would be...

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Mammals

Mammals of South America, Volume 2 Rodents

Patton James L., Pardinas Ulyses F. J., D'Elia Guillermo

ISBN: HB: 9780226169576, University of Chicago Press, March 2015
1384 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 548 halftones, 1 line drawing, 1 table

The second installment in a planned three-volume series, this book provides the first substantive review of South American rodents published in over fifty years. Increases in the reach of field research and the variety of field survey methods, the in...

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Entomology

Chasing Monarchs Migrating with the Butterflies of Passage

Pyle Robert Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780300203875, Yale University Press, May 2014
352 pp., 21x14 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Although no one had ever followed North American monarch butterflies on their annual southward journey to Mexico and California, in the 1990s there were well-accepted assumptions about the nature and form of the migration. But to Robert Michael Pyle,...

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Dogs

Last Walk Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives

Pierce Jessica

ISBN: PB: 9780226151007, ISBN: HB: 9780226668468, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
272 pp., 23x15 cm

From the moment when we first open our homes – and our hearts – to a new pet, we know that one day we will have to watch this beloved animal age and die. The pain of that eventual separation is the cruel corollary to the love we share with them, and...

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Popular Science

History

Medical Book 250 Milestones in the History of Medicine (New Edition)

Pickover Clifford A.

ISBN: HB: 9781435148048, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2014
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

The history of medicine is as old as the history of human civilization. In "The Medical Book", popular science writer Clifford A. Pickover explores 250 milestone discoveries in medicine that span more than 12,000 years. Whether writing on "hard scien...

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Popular Science

Psychology

Psychology Book: From Shamanism to Cutting-Edge Neuroscience 250 Milestones in the History of Psychology

Pickren Wade E.

ISBN: HB: 9781402784811, GMC Group, Sterling, April 2014
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

What could be more fascinating than the workings of the human mind? This stunningly illustrated survey in Sterling's Milestones series chronicles the history of psychology through 250 landmark events, theories, publications, experiments and discoveri...

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Chemistry

History

Secrets of Alchemy

Principe Lawrence M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226103792, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, November 2013
288 pp., 25x15 cm, 12 colour plates, 23 halftones, 4 line illus.

Alchemy, the "Noble Art", conjures up scenes of mysterious, dimly lit laboratories populated with bearded old men stirring cauldrons. Though the history of alchemy is intricately linked to the history of chemistry, alchemy has nonetheless often been...

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Sea Life

Sharks and People Exploring Our Relationship with the Most Feared Fish in the Sea

Peschak Thomas P.

ISBN: HB: 9780226047898, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
256 pp., 30.5x25.4 cm, 188 colour plates

At once feared and revered, sharks have captivated people since our earliest human encounters. Children and adults alike stand awed before aquarium shark tanks, fascinated by the giant teeth and unnerving eyes. And no swim in the ocean is undertaken...

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Evolution

Philosophy

Philosophy of Pseudoscience Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem

Pigliucci Massimo, Boudry Maarten

ISBN: PB: 9780226051963, ISBN: HB: 9780226051796, University of Chicago Press, July 2013
480 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings

What sets the practice of rigorously tested, sound science apart from pseudoscience? In this volume, the contributors seek to answer this question, known to philosophers of science as "the demarcation problem". This issue has a long history in philos...

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