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From the time of our earliest childhood encounters with animals, we casually ascribe familiar emotions to them. But scientists have long cautioned against such anthropomorphizing, arguing that it limits our ability to truly comprehend the lives of...
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Philosophical esotericismÔÇöthe practice of communicating oneÔÇÖs unorthodox thoughts ÔÇ£between the linesÔÇØÔÇöwas a common practice until the end of the eighteenth century. The famous *Encyclop├®die* of Diderot, for instance, n...
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""Part of a series sponsored by the Science Education Partnership Award (SEPA) to help support educational outreach to students, [*A Planet of Viruses*] packs into 109 pages just about everything youÔÇÖve always wanted to knowÔ...
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"""Certain to be the standard reference for all subsequent scholarship.""ÔÇöJohn Noble Wilford, *New York Times Book Review*, on the *History of Cartography* series
""The maps in this book provide an evocative picture of how indigenou...
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Written by one of todayÔÇÖs most highly respected astrophysicists, *Foundations of High-Energy Astrophysics* is an introduction to the mathematical and physical techniques used in the study of high-energy astrophysics. Here, Mario Vietri approa...
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A comprehensive summary of progress made during the past decade on the theory of black holes and relativistic stars, this collection includes discussion of structure and oscillations of relativistic stars, the use of gravitational radiation detect...
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SUMMARY: Modern Rome is a city rife with contradictions. Once the seat of ancient glory, it is now often the object of national contempt. It plays a significant part on the world stage, but the concerns of its residents are often deeply parochial....
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Without our consent and often without our knowledge, the government can constantly monitor many of our daily activities, using closed circuit TV, global positioning systems, and a wide array of other sophisticated technologies. With just a few key...
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A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted, and we forget how provocative and challenging it...
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*Global Sex* is the first major work to take on the globalization of sexuality, examining the ways in which desire and pleasureÔÇöas well as ideas about gender, political power, and public healthÔÇöare framed, shaped, or commodified by a glo...
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Arthur Goldhammer is an award-winning translator who has translated books by Georges Duby, Jacques Le Goff, and Jean Starobi...
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In *The Birth of Purgatory*, Jacques Le Goff, the brilliant medievalist and renowned *Annales* historian, is concerned not with theological discussion but with the growth of an idea, with the relation between belief and society, with mental struct...
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From its inception in Greek antiquity, the science of optics was aimed primarily at explaining sight and accounting for why things look as they do. By the end of the seventeenth century, however, the analytic focus of optics had shifted to light: ...
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The building and management of public housing is often seen as a signal failure of American public policy, but this is a vastly oversimplified view. In *Purging the Poorest*, Lawrence J. Vale offers a new narrative of the seventy-five-year str...
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Certain questions are basic to the human condition: how we imagine the world, and ourselves and others within it; how we confront the constraints of language and the limits of our own minds; and how we use imagination to give meaning to past exper...
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*From Eve to Evolution* provides the first full-length study of American womenÔÇÖs responses to evolutionary theory and illuminates the role science played in the nineteenth-century womenÔÇÖs rights movement. Kimberly A. Hamlin reveals how a...
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The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary ...
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Breathtaking in its historical and geographical scope, this book provides a sweeping examination of the construction of male and female homosexualities, stressing both the variability of the forms same-sex desire can take and the key recurring pat...
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"[Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work *Comment on ecrit l'histoire*; and he declares that its aim was to provoke reflection on the way our conception of truth is built up and changes over the centuries. . . ....
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In the 1960s and 1970s, a popular diagnosis for AmericaÔÇÖs problems was that society was becoming a madhouse. In this intellectual and cultural history, Michael E. Staub examines a time when many believed insanity was a sane reaction to obscen...
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Gardening can be frustratingly shrouded in secrecy. Fickle plants make seemingly spontaneous decisions to bloom or bust, seeds sprout magically in the blink of an eye, and deep-rooted mysteries unfold underground and out of sight. Understanding ba...
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An important part of the New Deal, the Modernization Credit Plan helped transform urban business districts and small-town commercial strips across 1930s America, but it has since been almost completely forgotten. In *Modernizing Main Street*, Gabr...
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One of the most admired artists of the twentieth century, Max Ernst was a proponent of Dada and founder of surrealism, known for his strange, evocative paintings and drawings. In Prehistoric Future, Ralph Ubl approaches Ernst like no one else has,...
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Scholars of politics have sought in recent years to make the discipline more hospitable to qualitative methods of research. Lauding the results of this effort and highlighting its potential for the future, Political Ethnography makes a compelling ...
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How did slavery and race impact American literature in the nineteenth century? In this ambitious book, Michael T. Gilmore argues that they were the carriers of linguistic restriction, and writers from Frederick Douglass to Stephen Crane wrestled w...
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There are more than 1,300 species of batsÔÇöor almost a quarter of the worldÔÇÖs mammal species. But before you shrink in fear from these furry ÔÇ£creatures of the night,ÔÇØ consider the batÔÇÖs fundamental role in our ecosystem. A ...
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*Outsider Scientists* describes the transformative role played by ÔÇ£outsidersÔÇØ in the growth of the modern life sciences. Biology, which occupies a special place between the exact and human sciences, has historically attracted many thinke...
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In 1838 Charles Darwin jotted in a notebook, ÔÇ£He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.ÔÇØ *Baboon Metaphysics *is Dorothy┬áL.┬áCheney and Robert M.┬áSeyfarthÔÇÖs fascinating response to DarwinÔÇ...
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*The Courtiers' Anatomists* is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were conne...
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