Mathematica
A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity
ISBN: HB: 9780300270884,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
336 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 40 black&white illus.
A fascinating look into how the transformative joys of mathematical experience are available to everyone, not just specialists.
Math has a reputation for being inaccessible. People think that it requires a special gift or that comprehension is a ma...
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£25.00
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Smithsonian Trees of North America
ISBN: HB: 9780300185218,
Yale University Press,
August 2024
800 pp., 26,7x19,1 cm, 3626 colour illus.
800 pp., 26,7x19,1 cm, 3626 colour illus.
An indispensable illustrated source of information for hundreds of species of North American trees.
This authoritative reference on native and non-native trees of North America, by Smithsonian veteran W. John Kress, provides an unprecedented apprai...
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£60.00
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As If Human
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
ISBN: HB: 9780300268294,
Yale University Press,
May 2024
272 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
272 pp., 21,6x13,5 cm
A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being.
Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition softwa...
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£20.00
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Field Guide to the Connecticut River
From New Hampshire to Long Island Sound
ISBN: FLEXI: 9780300264203,
Yale University Press,
April 2024
448 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 752 colour illus.
448 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 752 colour illus.
The first comprehensive natural history guide to the Connecticut River and its environs, with more than 750 illustrations.
The Connecticut River, New England's longest and most historic river, originates in northern New Hampshire and wends more tha...
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£25.00
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Tyranny of the Straight Line
Mapping Modern Paris
ISBN: HB: 9780300267648,
Yale University Press,
March 2024
208 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 42 colour illus., 101 black&white illus.
208 pp., 27,9x21,6 cm, 42 colour illus., 101 black&white illus.
A revolutionary study of nineteenth-century Parisian cartography and its role in shaping a modern conception of space.
Maps are rarely given the same attention as other print media or art forms in urban history. Author Min Kyung Lee shows their ric...
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£50.00
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Born of Ice and Fire
How Glaciers and Volcanoes (with a Pinch of Salt) Drove Animal Evolution
ISBN: HB: 9780300242591,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 27 black&white illus.
352 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 27 black&white illus.
An exploration of how the Cryogenian Period, when our planet was covered in ice for millions of years, created today's remarkable biodiversity.
More than half a billion years ago, our world was completely covered by glaciers, a "Snowball Earth" tha...
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£20.00
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Curious Species
How Animals Made Natural History
ISBN: HB: 9780300266184,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 14 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
328 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 14 colour illus., 65 black&white illus.
A compelling and innovative exploration of how animals shaped the field of natural history and its ecological afterlives.
Can corals build worlds? Do rattlesnakes enchant? What is a raccoon, and what might it know? Animals and the questions they ra...
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£30.00
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Unity of Science
Exploring Our Universe, from the Big Bang to the Twenty-First Century
ISBN: HB: 9780300253610,
Yale University Press,
January 2024
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 74 black&white illus.
376 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 74 black&white illus.
A journey guided by science that explores the universe, the earth, and the story of life.
For Irwin Shapiro, science starts with questions. This book provides a broad and entertaining survey of major scientific discoveries that have changed our vie...
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£20.00
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Wingsnappers
Lessons from an Exuberant Tropical Bird
ISBN: HB: 9780300269413,
Yale University Press,
November 2023
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.
248 pp., 21,6x13,8 cm, 16 colour illus., 14 black&white illus.
Birds, hormones, and extraordinary behavior: The story of the tiny but mighty golden-collared manakin of Panama.
This book is the story of a remarkable bird, the golden-collared manakin (Manacus vitellinus) of Panama. Males of this species perform...
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£30.00
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Lab for All Seasons
The Laboratory Revolution in Modern Botany and the Rise of Physiological Plant Ecology
ISBN: PB: 9780300267211,
ISBN: HB: 9780300267228,
Yale University Press,
September 2023
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
392 pp., 23,4x15,6 cm, 11 black&white illus.
The first book to chronicle how innovation in laboratory designs for botanical research energized the emergence of physiological plant ecology as a vibrant subdiscipline.
Laboratory innovation since the mid-twentieth century has powered advances in...
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£30.00
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£65.00
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