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Earth Sciences

Science on a Mission How Military Funding Shaped What We Do and Don't Know about the Ocean

Oreskes Naomi

ISBN: HB: 9780226732381, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
744 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 73 halftones, 17 line drawings

What difference does it make who pays for science? Some might say none. If scientists seek to discover fundamental truths about the world, and they do so in an objective manner using well-established methods, then how could it matter who's footing th...

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Dogs

Canine Confidential Why Dogs Do What They Do

Bekoff Marc

ISBN: PB: 9780226755694, ISBN: HB: 9780226433035, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones

For all the love and attention we give dogs, much of what they do remains mysterious. Just think about different behaviors you see at a dog park: We have a good understanding of what it means when dogs wag their tails – but what about when they snif...

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History

Anthropology

Polymath A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag

Burke Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300250022, Yale University Press, September 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 24 colour illus.

From Leonardo da Vinci and John Dee to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge. Nonetheless, in our current age of specialization, polymaths are often remembered for only one part of their varied achievements....

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Nature

Cultural Studies

Botany of Gin

Thorogood Chris, Hiscock Simon

ISBN: HB: 9781851245536, Bodleian Library Publishing, September 2020
112 pp., 21x14.8 cm, 35 colour illus.

From its roots in ancient Greek herbal medicine, the popular spirit we now know as gin was established by the Dutch in the sixteenth century as a juniper-infused tincture to cure fevers. It gained notoriety during the London 'gin craze' in the eighte...

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Mammals

Nature's Mirror How Taxidermists Shaped America's Natural History Museums and Saved Endangered Species

Andrei Mary Anne

ISBN: HB: 9780226730318, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 60 halftones

It may be surprising to us now, but the taxidermists who filled the museums, zoos, and aquaria of the twentieth century were also among the first to become aware of the devastating effects of careless human interaction with the natural world. Witne...

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Cartography

Dislocating the Orient British Maps and the Making of the Middle East, 1854-1921

Foliard Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9780226755724, ISBN: HB: 9780226451336, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
320 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 45 halftones, 2 line drawings

While the twentieth century's conflicting visions and exploitation of the Middle East are well documented, the origins of the concept of the Middle East itself have been largely ignored. With "Dislocating the Orient", Daniel Foliard tells the story o...

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Chemistry

Rainbow Palate How Chemical Dyes Changed the West's Relationship with Food

Cobbold Carolyn

ISBN: HB: 9780226727059, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 halftones, 3 tables

We live in a world saturated by chemicals – our food, our clothes, and even our bodies play host to hundreds of synthetic chemicals that did not exist before the nineteenth century. By the 1900s, a wave of bright coal tar dyes had begun to transform...

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History

Forbidden Knowledge Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy

Marcus Hannah

ISBN: HB: 9780226736587, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
360 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones, 2 tables

Forbidden Knowledge explores the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation. How and why did books banned in Italy in the sixteenth century end up back on libra...

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History

Scientific Journal Authorship and the Politics of Knowledge in the Nineteenth Century

Csiszar Alex

ISBN: PB: 9780226752501, ISBN: HB: 9780226553238, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 41 halftones

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of ac...

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Archaeology & Paleontology

Evolution

Standing between Life and Extinction Ethics and Ecology of Conserving Aquatic Species in North American Deserts

Propst David, Williams Jack, Bestgen Kevin, Hoagstrom Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9780226694474, ISBN: HB: 9780226694337, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
496 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 colour plates, 22 halftones

North American deserts – lands of little water – have long been home to a surprising diversity of aquatic life, from fish to insects and mollusks. But with European settlement, water extraction, resource exploitation, and invasive species set many of...

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