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Incarnations of the Aztec Supernatural: The Image of Huitzilopochtli in Mexico and Europe
This publication discusses various iconographic representations of Huitzilopochtli, the patron god of the Aztecs and their capital city, in both Mexico and Europe. Weaving various preconquest and postconquest sources, this book deftly analyzes representations in native contexts and explores how E...
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 13, Part 3, 1869
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Siwalik Mammals in the American Museum of Natural History
This is a print on demand publication. The American Museum of Natural History collection of fossil vertebrates from the Siwalik beds of northern India was made during the year of 1922 by Dr. Barnum Brown. Contents of this vol.: (I) Introduction: Previous Publications Dealing with American Museum ...
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The Discoveries of Antarctica within the American Sector, as Revealed by MAmerican Philosophical Society and Documents
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Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit (Series A, Vol. 3)
This installment of the “Census” provides all available biblio. info. concerning works in jyotihsastra & related fields & bio. info. concerning their authors. Jyotihsastra is traditionally divided into 3 skandhas or branches: hora or genethlialogy & other forms of horoscopic astrology...
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Survey of Islamic Astronomical Tables
The source material for the study of medieval oriental astronomy consists of Byzantine Greek, Sanscrit, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, and Turkish astronomical and astrological manuscripts. If one desires to build up a detailed picture of Islamic astronomy, one can choose material from these available ...
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The Beginnings of Social Behavior in Unicellular Organisms
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Introduction to the Systematics and Biology of Megadrile Oligochaetes with Special Reference to Southeast Asia
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Elements of Vision
The mathematical, medical, and physical-philosophical traditions of medieval visual theory provide important insights and arguments in response to very specific questions defined by the respective interests of these traditions. Each of these three traditions also appears to have a larger framewor...
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Properties of Double Stars
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniv...
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Scent of Time. A Study of the Use of Fire and Incense for Time Measurement in Oriental Countries
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Origin and Evolution of the Elephantidae
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Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit (Series A, Vol. 4)
This fourth volume of the “Census” provides all available bibliographical info. concerning works in jyotihsastra & related fields & biographical info. concerning their authors. Jyotihsastra is traditionally divided into 3 skandhas or branches: hora or genethlialogy & other forms of ho...
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Ptolemy's First Commentator
This is a print on demand publication. The early recognition of Ptolemy’s major astronomical writings, the “Almagest” (or “Syntaxis”) & the later “Handy Tables,” has become a commonplace in histories of ancient astronomy. But the crucial century & a half between Ptolemy & the commenta...
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Methods and Styles in the Development of Chemistry
Chemistry as it is known today is deeply rooted in a variety of thought & action, dating back at least as far as the fifth century B.C. In this book, Joseph Fruton weaves together the history of scientific investigation with social, religious, philosophical, & other events & practices...
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The American Development of Biology
Selected as one of the Best "Sci-Tech" Books of 1988 by Library JournalThe essays in this volume represent original work to celebrate the centenary of the American Society of Zoologists. They illustrate the impressive nature of historical scholarship that has subsequently focused on the developme...
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Mechanical Universe
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Old Babylonian Inscriptions Chiefly from Nippur. Part II
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Freezing of Supercooled Water
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The Variation in the Silicate Content of the Water in Monterey Bay, California, during 1932, 1933, and 1934
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Old Babylonian Inscriptions Chiefly from Nippur
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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The Mammalian Fauna of the White River Oligocene: Part IV. Artiodactyla
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Magnetic Fever
Explores the links between science and empire in the 19th cent\ury, focusing on the mutual interactions of British imperialism and geophysical empiricism. The 19th century was a time when science was becoming global, in part due to European colonial and imperial expansion. Colonies became not jus...
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 3, 1830
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Construction of Isobaric Charts for High Levels in the Earth’s Atmosphere and Their Dynamic Significance
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Paleocene Pantodonta
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Pathways into the Study of Ancient Sciences
These essays offer a sampling of the incredible wealth of knowledge and expertise of David E. Pingree (1933-2005), Brown Univ. Professor of the History of Math. and Classics. His contributions to the history of science are immeasurable. Pingree defined science as “a systematic explanation of perc...
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Paleocene Faunas of the San Juan Basin, New Mexico
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The Literary Structure of Scientific Argument
In this volume, seven historians of science examine the historical creation and meaning of a range of scientific textual forms from the seventeenth to the late nineteenth centuries. They consider examples from the fields of chemistry, medicine, physics, zoology, physiology, and mathematics, expos...
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Hydrography of Monterey Bay, California.Thermal Conditions, 1929-1933
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Semiconductor Surface Physics
Proceedings of the Conference on the Physics of Semiconductor Surfaces, June 1956.
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Circling the Square
Since antiquity, time in the West has been represented in circular form, the gear wheels of time churning out duration in endless years. At the time of the Spanish conquest, dials on round clock faces looked down from facades of cathedrals, their tones chiming out the hours that directed people’s...
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Studies on Chromosomes and Nuclear Division
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William Croone, on The Reason of the Movement of the Muscles
When William Croone published his small treatise, “De ratione motus musculorum” in 1664, it represented one of the earliest attempts to explicate muscle contraction in terms of the then current mechanical & chemical concepts. The work is significant not only because it provides an informative...
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Crystals and Compounds
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Exploring the Borderlands
This study reproduces one “Report of Meetings” & six “Bulletins” from the Committee on Common Problems of Genetics, Paleontology, & Systematics. This Committee operated as an administrative unit of the National Research Council, part of the U.S. Nat. Acad. of Science. It was launched in 1...
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The Mammalian Fauna of the White River Oligocene: Part II. Rodentia
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Electrical Signs of Nervous Activity
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Copepodologist's Cabinet
Copepod crustaceans are the most numerous multicellular animals on earth. They occur in every free-living and parasitic aquatic niche. Copepods have been known since the time of Aristotle, yet there has never been a history of the study of copepods. This volume, the first in a planned three-volum...
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Illumination and Polarization of the Sunlit Sky On Rayleigh Scattering
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 17, Part 3, 1893
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Astronomy and the Geophysical Tradition in the United States in the 19th Century
This bibliography was compiled by Frederik Nebeker, Mellon Fellow in Bibliography for 1988-89, who unearthed a wealth of material in the manuscript collections and archives of the APS documenting the life and work of 181 American scientists in the fields of astronomy and the “geophysical traditio...
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Old Series, Vol 4, 1799
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Old Series, Vol. 1-6, 1769-1809
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The Tribute Roll of Montezuma
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Census of the Exact Sciences in Sanskrit (Series A, Vol. 1 and 2)
The first installment: provides all available biblio. info. concerning works in Jyotihsastra & related fields & bio. info. concerning their authors. Jyotihsastra is traditionally divided into 3 skandhas or branches: hora or genethlialogy and other forms of horoscopic astrology, ganita or ...
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Oligocene Rodents of North America
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The Aftermath of the Jameson Raid and American Decision Making in Foreign Affairs, 1896
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Color Changes of Animals in Relation to Nervous Activity
The relation of the central nervous system and neurohumors as factors in the chromatophore reactions of the Dogfish and the Killfish, revealing the two functions are interdependent.
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 2, 1825
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Autobiographical Ana of Robley Dunglison, M.D.
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 15, Part 2, 1875
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Dissertations on the Mechanics of Effervescence and Fermentation, and on the Mechanics of the Movement of the Muscles by Johan Bernoulli
The two “physico-mechanical” dissertations by the Swiss mathematician Johan Bernoulli, “On Effervescence and Fermentation” and “On the Movement of Muscles,” published here for the first time in English translation by Paul Maquet, are treatises belonging to the 17th century European academic tradi...
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Contrasts in Scientific Style
Recounts the various styles of leadership shown by several prominent German chemists and biochemists during the period 1830 to 1914. Featured particularly are chemists Liebig, Baeyer and Emil Fischer and biochemists Hoppe-Seyler, Kuhne and Hofmeister. In a final chapter, Fruton considers the rele...
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Passion of George Sarton
George Sarton animated the discipline of history of science (HoS) in America. This vol. traces his youth & educ. in Belgium, & his marriage to Mabel Elwes. It follows the Sarton’s in their path from idealistic refugees fleeing the invasion of Belgium in 1914 to destitute intellectuals at ...
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Velocity of Light
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Northern Light and Northern Times
Swedish biomedical researchers were important in the early development of the study of biological rhythms in the mid-20th century. This study looks at the foundation of biological-rhythm research (today called “chronobiology”). The first international society (Society for the Study of Biological ...
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Descended from Darwin
This vol. has its origins in a conference, held October 22-23, 2004, at the Amer. Philosophical Society (APS) Library, Phila. The main focus was on evolutionary studies in America before, during, and after the famous “synthesis” period of the 1930s and 1940s. The synthesis period has been the foc...
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The Carcasses of the Mammoth and Rhinoceros Found in the Frozen Ground of Siberia
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Antonius de Carlenis, O.P.
Examines the theory of subalternation as it was developed by one of Paul of Venice’s readers shortly before the mid-15th cent., the archbishop of Amalfi, Antonius de Carlenis de Neapoli. Contents: Intro.; Observations on the Manuscripts; Antonius de Carlenis de Neapoli, “Questiones in IV libros S...
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Old Series, Vol 1, 1769-1771 (Corrected Edition)
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Old Series, Vol. 1-6, 1769-1809
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Geology of the Coastal Plain of North Carolina
Deals with the geology of the Coastal Plain of North Carolina, which covers the area east of the “Fall Line” or, approx., east of a line through Roanoke Rapids, Raleigh, Southern Pines, and Rockingham. Covers all the formations of the Coastal Plain from the Cretaceous to the Recent. The major par...
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History of Ideas About the Prolongation of Life
This study aims to trace the origin and evolution of the idea of prolongevity: the belief that it is possible and desirable to extend significantly the length of life by human action. Primary attention is given to developments before the end of the 18th century. There are, however, numerous refer...
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Supplement to the Tuckerman Tables
This is a supplement to the planetary, lunar and solar tables produced by Bryant Tuckerman (1962, 1964). These tables have proved an invaluable aid to historians of astronomy. An important usage is the dating of ancient and medieval astronomical observations, but the tables also have wide applica...
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Old Series, Vol 2, 1786
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Old Series, Vol. 1-6, 1769-1809
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Astronomy in the Maya Codices
The Precolumbian Maya were closely attuned to the movements of the Sun and the Moon, the stars and the planets. Their rituals and daily tasks were performed according to a timetable established by these celestial bodies, a timetable based on a highly complex calendar system. Agriculture provided ...
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The Feeding Habits of Pseudomyrmine and Other Ants
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Tertiary Vertebrate Faunas of the North Coalinga Region of California. A Contribution to the Study of Palæontologic Correlation in the Great Basin and Pacific Coast Provinces
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The Peccary
Three living species of peccary inhabit a vast area of the New World, between roughly 35 degrees of latitude north and south of the equator. They are primarily forest or woodland animals, but two species (one of them only recently discovered) have adapted to scrub-dominated ecosystems, both natur...
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Choosing Selection
Describes the hypothesis that Darwin’s “natural selection,” reformulated by R.A. Fisher, J.B.S. Haldane, and S. Wright in the light of Mendelian genetics, is the exclusive mechanism for biological evolution. During the 1930s, alternatives such as Lamarchism, macromutations, and orthogenesis were ...
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Royal Funding of the Parisian Academie Royale des Sciences During the 1690s
The scientific revolution of the 17th century engendered diverse & prolific offspring, among which were the scientific societies. The French Academie Royale des Sciences, founded in 1666 by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Louis XIV’s minister of finance, was the beneficiary of the most generous patron...
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 16, Part 2, 1888
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Planetary, Lunar, and Solar Positions, A.D. 2 to A.D. 1649, at Five-Day and Ten-Day Intervals
These tables for A.D. 2 to A.D. 1649 are an extension, with some improvements, of earlier ones for 601 B.C. to A.D. 1. As before, they give the geocentric positions (tropic celestial longitudes & latitudes, i.e. with respect to the mean equinox of date), in units of 0 degrees.01 for the Sun &...
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Documentary History of the Problem of Fall From Kepler to Newton
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Guide to Francis Galton’s English Men of Science
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History of the Pelycosauria, with a Description of the Genus Dimetrodon, Cope
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 14, Part 3, 1871
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Studies on the Marine Pleistocene
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Saros Cycle Dates and Related Babylonian Astronomical Texts
These texts are probably from Babylon, although their exact provenance is unknown. All concern luni-solar phenomena with the exception of a text on the last visibility of Mercury, which is found on one side of a tablet whose other side deals with lunar eclipse magnitudes & longitudes. The tex...
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Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol 9, 1845-1846
From the first publications of the Transaction of the American Philosophical society, Vol. 1-20, 1818-1902
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Collection Boulliau (BN, FF. 13019-13059)
The life & career of Ismael Boulliau virtually spanned the century of genius. An accomplished astronomer, mathematician, & classical scholar, Boulliau was an activist in the cause of Scientific Revolution. His voluminous correspondence placed him at the heart of one of the largest intelli...
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Greek Horoscopes
This is a print on demand publication. What we know about Greek astronomy is dominated by Ptolemy’s “Almagest” (written c. 140 A.D.) & closely related works like Theon’s “Handy Tables” (end of 4th C.) but we have only very little info. about the practice of computing the positions of sun, moo...
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Early History of the Idea of the Inheritance of Acquired Characters and of Pangenesis
This is a print on demand publication. Contents: Introduction; (I) The inheritance of acquired characters: From the beginning to the 16th century; 16th century records; 17th century records; 18th century records; Some 19th century records to the time of Charles Darwin; (II) Pangenesis: Records fr...
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Climate Change
Climate change affects us all, but it can be a confusing business. In this book, three scientists with several decades of experience in assessing the potential effects of climate change for the southern African region share their insights. Complex issues are dealt with in plain language, without ...
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Molecular Medicine for Clinicians
The insights following the wake of the Human Genome project are radically influencing our understanding of the molecular basis of life, health and disease. The improved accuracy and precision of clinical diagnostics is also beginning to have an impact on therapeutics in a fundamental way. This bo...
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Teaching Tomorrow's Medicine Today
From Mount Sinai Department of Surgery chairman Arthur H. Afuses, Jr. and archivist Barbara Nuss, an instructional account of Mount Sinai's teaching methodsThe Mount Sinai Hospital was founded in 1852 as the Jews’ Hospital in the City of New York, but more than a century would pass before a schoo...
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Dance of the Dung Beetles
The sweeping scientific and social history of the humble dung beetle The humble and industrious dung beetle is a marvelous beast: the 6,000 species identified so far are intricately entwined with human history and scientific endeavor. These night-soil collectors of the planet have been worshipped...
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Skin Theory
Honorable Mention, Rachel Carson Prize, given by the Society for the Social Studies of ScienceFinalist, 2023 ASAP Book Award, given by the Association for the Study of the Arts of the PresentStudies the intersections of incarceration, medical science, and race in postwar AmericaIn February 1966, ...
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Bats of Southern and Central Africa
This revised edition of a book first published in 2010 supplements the original account of the 116 bat species then known to be found in Southern and Central Africa with an additional eight newly described species.The chapters on evolution, biogeography, ecology and echolocation have been updated...
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The Ecological Rift
Humanity in the twenty-first century is facing what might be described as its ultimate environmental catastrophe: the destruction of the climate that has nurtured human civilization and with it the basis of life on earth as we know it. All ecosystems on the planet are now in decline. Enormous rif...
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Elephant management
Elephants are among the most magnificent – but also most problematic –members of South Africa's wildlife population. While they are sought after by South African and foreign tourists alike, they also have a major impact on their environment. As a result, elephant management has become a highly com...
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Fundamentals of Human Embryology
The Fundamentals of Human Embryology covers embryonic development, with a unique focus on adult anatomy. Its goal is to impart to students a comprehensive overview of how the human embryo forms, not only as a basis for the student of human anatomy, but also as a link to abnormalities they may enc...
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The Vulnerable Planet
The Vulnerable Planet has won respect as the best single-volume introduction to the global economic crisis. With impressive historical and economic detail, ranging from the Industrial Revolution to modern imperialism, The Vulnerable Planet explores the reasons why a global economic system geared ...
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