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Cat Musculature

A Photographic Atlas

by Gordon Greenblatt
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2012

This series of brilliant photographs shows the dissection of the cat musculature. It is designed for use in conjunction with the third edition of Hyman's Comparative Vertebrate Anatomy, edited by Marvalee Wake, although it can be used with other textbooks. Every possible step has been taken to make...
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by Thomas Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015

Once interested in the air, science soon began to take up that commonplace but baffling phase of it called the weather. Now, of all matters under the sun the weather was the deepest intrenched in superstition and hearsay. From the era of Noah it had been made the subject of more remarks unrelieved...
Cover of Geology & Mineralogy, Considered with Reference to Natural Theology, Volume I, 1836
by William Buckland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004

Moving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, this volume shows how Buckland envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human occupation. Extinct creatures did not die out because they were poorly designed; God loved the dinosaurs and had adapted them to their various circumstances.
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How to be Human

Consciousness, Language and 48 More Things that Make You You

by New Scientist
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017

If you thought you knew who you were, THINK AGAIN. Gat to REALLY know yourself with How to be Human. Did you know that half your DNA isn't human? That somebody, somewhere has exactly the same face? Or that most of your memories are fiction? What about the fact that you are as hairy as...
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Darwin on Evolution

Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution

by Charles Darwin
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015

The father of evolution imbibed history with his controversial book On the Origin of Species. As a young scientist studying natural history, Charles Darwin set out on the HMS Beagle for a five-year voyage that would bring him in contact with animal species, plant species, and rock formations all over...
Cover of Alfred Russell Wallace Contributions to the theory of Natural Selection, 1870, and Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace , 'On the Tendency of Species to form Varieties' (Papers presented to the Linnean Society 30th June 1858)
by Noel Thompson
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004

Wallace noticed on expeditions to the Amazon and the Malay archipelego that mammals in Southeast Asia are more advanced than their Australian cousins. His suggestion was that the two continents had split before the better adapted mammals had evolved in Asia. The isolated Australian marsupials were...
Cover of Glacial Epochs and Warm Polar Climates
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016

This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1879 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Glacial Epochs and Warm Polar Climates' is an essay on various geological ages in the earth's history. Alfred Russel Wallace was born on 8th January 1823...
Cover of Domesticity in the Making of Modern Science
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2016

The history of the modern sciences has long overlooked the significance of domesticity as a physical, social, and symbolic force in the shaping of knowledge production. This book provides a welcome reorientation to our understanding of the making of the modern sciences globally by emphasizing the centrality of domesticity in diverse scientific enterprises.
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Global Weirdness

Severe Storms, Deadly Heat Waves, Relentless Drought, Rising Seas and the Weather of the Future

by Climate Central
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012

Produced by Climate Central—a highly regarded independent, nonprofit journalism and research foundation founded in 2008—and reviewed by scientists at major educational and research institutions the world over, Global Weirdness summarizes, in clear and accessible prose, everything we know about...
Cover of Storytelling in Science and Literature
by Mieke Bal, Roald Hoffmann, Evelyn Fox Keller
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2014

In this book a gathering of exceptional thinkers from the sciences and the humanities engage a common theme: In what ways do language, and storytelling in particular, deal with ethics in science, in literature, or in other art forms? Evelyn Fox Keller, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Mieke Bal, and Roald Hoffmann...
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by Marwa Elshakry
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014

In Reading Darwin in Arabic, Marwa Elshakry questions current ideas about Islam, science, and secularism by exploring the ways in which Darwin was read in Arabic from the late 1860s to the mid-twentieth century. Borrowing from translation and reading studies and weaving together the history of science...
Cover of Views of Nature
by Alexander von Humboldt
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014

While the influence of Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859) looms large over the natural sciences, his legacy reaches far beyond the field notebooks of naturalists. Humboldt’s 1799–1804 research expedition to Central and South America with botanist Aimé Bonpland not only set the course for the...
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Spare Parts

In Praise of Your Appendix and Other Unappreciated Organs

by Carol Ann Rinzler
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

A tribute to the parts that aren’t so spare after all . . . “A mesmerizing perspective . . . unparalleled information, both arcane and titillating” (Manhattan Book Review).   This book sheds light on human body parts once considered extraneous, but now proven to play an important role...
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Characterizing the Robustness of Science

After the Practice Turn in Philosophy of Science

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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2012

Mature sciences have been long been characterized in terms of the “successfulness”, “reliability” or “trustworthiness” of their theoretical, experimental or technical accomplishments. Today many philosophers of science talk of “robustness”, often without specifying in a precise way...
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