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History

Scientific Freedom under Attack Political Oppression, Structural Challenges, and Intellectual Resistance in Modern and Contemporary History

Roth Ralf, Vatansever Asli

ISBN: PB: 9783593513119, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, February 2021
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Recent years have seen an alarming rise in antiintellectual outbursts by politicians, documented threats against radical scholars across continents, and serious blows to the fundamental right of scientific freedom. Scientific Freedom under Attack is...

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Astronomy

Shaping Science Organizations, Decisions, and Culture on NASA's Teams

Vertesi Janet

ISBN: HB: 9780226691084, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 halftones

In "Shaping Science", Janet Vertesi draws on a decade of immersive ethnography with NASA's robotic spacecraft teams to create a comparative account of two great space missions of the early 2000s. Although these missions appear to feature robotic expl...

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Sea Life

Rapid Marine Biological Assessment of the Bird's Head Seascape, Indonesia RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, Volume 68

Turak Emre, Katz Laure

ISBN: PB: 9781934151587, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, January 2021
110 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, Illustrated throughout

This report contains the findings from a rapid marine biological assessment of Bird's "Head Seascape" in western Indonesia. The scientists researching the area offer detailed accounts of reef communities, as well as information on the flora and fauna...

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History

Poison Trials Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science

Rankin Alisha

ISBN: PB: 9780226744858, ISBN: HB: 9780226744711, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 1 table

In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived – the other died in agony. In...

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Rapid Marine Biological Assessment of Anambas Islands, Indonesia RAP Bulletin of Biological Assessment, Volume 69

Kusuma Mustika Putu Liza, Suharsono, Soemodinoto Arisetiarso, Basuki Riyanto

ISBN: PB: 9781934151594, University of Chicago Press, Conservation International, January 2021
120 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, illustrated throughout

This report contains the findings from a rapid marine biological assessment of the Anambas Islands in western Indonesia conducted in May 2012. The scientists researching the area offer detailed accounts of reef communities, as well as information on...

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Entomology

Spider Webs Behavior, Function, and Evolution

Eberhard William

ISBN: HB: 9780226534602, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
704 pp., 27.9x21.5 cm, 195 halftones, 97 line drawings

In this lavishly illustrated, first-ever book on how spider webs are built, function, and evolved, William Eberhard provides a comprehensive overview of spider functional morphology and behavior related to web building, and of the surprising physical...

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Transmutations of Chymistry Wilhelm Homberg and the Academie Royale des Sciences

Principe Lawrence M.

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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History

Experimental Fire Inventing English Alchemy, 1300-1700

Rampling Jennifer M.

ISBN: HB: 9780226710709, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
416 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 19 halftones, 2 tables

In medieval and early modern Europe, the practice of alchemy promised extraordinary physical transformations. Who would not be amazed to see base metals turned into silver and gold, hard iron into soft water, and deadly poison into elixirs that could...

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Philosophy

History

Cosmic Zoom Scale, Knowledge, and Mediation

Horton Zachary

ISBN: PB: 9780226742441, ISBN: HB: 9780226742304, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 halftones

The Powers of Ten by Charles and Ray Eames announces itself as "A film dealing with the relative size of things in the universe", and in it, we see two people enjoying a picnic on a sunny day before the view zooms up and away to show the park where t...

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Evolution

Philosophy

Evolutionary Origins of Life and Death

Durand Pierre M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226747767, ISBN: HB: 9780226747620, University of Chicago Press, December 2020
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones, 3 tables

The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this question through close inspection of life and death in the earliest cellular life. As Durand shows us,...

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