SCIENCE 2021-2022
New and Forthcoming Titles
CO LU M BIA UN IVERSI T Y P R ESS C U P. C O L U M B I A . E D U
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Thank you for picking up the Columbia University Press science catalog and for supporting our mission to share scientific knowledge. As we live through a second year of this pandemic, I’ve found a lot of comfort and meaning in publishing books that inspire and delight general readers, help educate students, and advance specialized knowledge. I’m grateful for our dedicated authors, peer reviewers, and other supporters who’ve faced great hurdles to doing this important work. Please allow me to highlight some of what they’ve accomplished. It is, of course, an honor to publish a new memoir by Columbia neuroscientist Eric Kandel. There Is Life After the Nobel Prize reveals his further contributions to science after receiving the Nobel Prize. Also in neuroscience, we have Stephanie D. Preston’s The Altruistic Urge, which argues that evolution gave us, and other caregiving mammals, a built-in need to help the vulnerable. She offers a new model for understanding situations that trigger that urge-or don’t. For pain sufferers and others looking for a better understanding of what physically hurts us, The Brain and Pain by Columbia expert Richard Ambron offers sorely needed scientific explanations of how the brain processes pain and of research-backed remedies, including both meditation and medication. Also in the life sciences, it’s a joy to publish on the subjects of nature, natural history, and paleontology. Chimpanzee Memoirs collects stories and insights from a group of researchers whose careers have grown in parallel with the founding of primatology as a field, including Jane Goodall and Frans de Waal, as well as a newer generation of scientists from around the world who study the lives of chimpanzees. Looking back in time just a little-a few hundred million years or so-we’re excited to present a new book on trilobites from one of the foremost private collectors in the world. Travels with Trilobites is a journey through some of the best fossil-hunting locations, fossil shows, natural history museums, and more. And it’s filled with hundreds of exclusive color photos, some of which show species that have never been seen before by the public. Lastly, for enthusiasts of all career stages who want to become paleontologists when they grow up, Roy Plotnick’s Explorers of Deep Time is an indispensable portrait of this extraordinary field and its wide range of practitioners and career paths. In the earth sciences, we’re pleased to publish three new titles in our Earth Institute Sustainability Primers series: Climate Change Science, Sustainable Food Production, and Managing Environmental Conflict. Also increasingly relevant is Gonzalo Lizarralde’s Unnatural Disasters, which reveals which kinds of responses to climate change actually work, which don’t, and how the lives of real people are affected. Thank you for reading Miranda Martin Editor, Physical and Life Sciences 2
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CONTENTS
LIFE SCIENCES
There Is Life After the Nobel Prize
Life Sciences...........................................................3 Earth Sciences.......................................................8
Eric R. Kandel
Of Related Interest..............................................10 New in Paperback................................................14 Best of the Backlist...............................................15
Ordering Information..........................................17
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Neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel recounts his remarkable career since receiving the Nobel in 2000. He takes readers through his lab’s scientific advances as well as his efforts to promote public understanding of science and to put brain science and art into conversation. $19.95 /£14.99 cloth 978-0-231-20014-1 December 2021 120 pages 11 illus.
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Great Minds Don’t Think Alike
Debates on Consciousness, Reality, Intelligence, Faith, Time, AI, Immortality, and the Human Edited and with commentary by Marcelo Gleiser
Leading scientists, philosophers, historians, and public intellectuals debate the big questions. These public dialogues model constructive engagement between the sciences and the humanities—and show why intellectual cooperation is necessary to shape our collective future. $19.95 / £14.95 paper 978-0-231-20411-8 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20410-1 February 2022 280 pages
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LIFE SCIENCES
Bernoulli's Fallacy
What Are the Chances?
Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science
Why We Believe in Luck
Aubrey Clayton
Barbara Blatchley
$27.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19868-4
Aubrey Clayton traces the history of the flaw that underlies modern statistics, beginning with the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli’s Fallacy explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data—and how to fix it.
2021 248 pages 9 illus.
$34.95 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19994-0
2021 368 pages 12 illus.
What Are the Chances? reveals how psychology and neuroscience explain the significance of the idea of luck. Barbara Blatchley explores how people react to random events in a range of circumstances, examining the evidence that the belief in luck helps us cope with a lack of control.
Racism, Not Race
Partial Truths
Answers to Frequently Asked Questions
How Fractions Distort Our Thinking
Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman
James C. Zimring
In this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman show readers why antiracist principles are both just and backed by sound science. $27.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-20066-0 December 2021 320 pages 17 illus.
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James C. Zimring argues that many of the mistakes that the human mind consistently makes boil down to misperceiving fractions. Blending key scientific research in cognitive psychology with accessible real-life examples, Partial Truths helps readers spot the fallacies lurking in everyday information, from politics to the criminal justice system, from religion to science, from business strategies to New Age culture. $30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-20138-4 April 2022 248 pages
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The Altruistic Urge
The Carriers
Why We’re Driven to Help Others
What the Fragile X Gene Reveals About Family, Heredity, and Scientific Discovery
Stephanie D. Preston
Anne Skomorowsky
The Carriers investigates a common but still little-known genetic condition and its lifealtering consequences. Anne Skomorowsky reveals how fragile X syndrome afflicts families across generations, telling the stories of the mothers and grandparents of fragile X patients and considering how genes interact with family dynamics.
Stephanie D. Preston explores how and why we developed a surprisingly powerful drive to help the vulnerable. She argues that the neural and psychological mechanisms that evolved to safeguard offspring also motivate people to save strangers in need of immediate aid.
$28.00 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19766-3
April 2022 264 pages 10 illus.
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-20440-8 May 2022 312 pages 20 illus.
The Brain and Pain
Artificial Intimacy
Breakthroughs in Neuroscience
Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers
Richard Ambron
Rob Brooks
Illustrated by Ahmet Sinav
The Brain and Pain explores the present and future of pain management, providing a comprehensive understanding based on the latest discoveries from many branches of neuroscience. Current and thorough, it will be invaluable for a range of people seeking to understand their options for treatment as well as students in neuroscience and medicine.
The evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks explores the latest research on intimacy and desire to consider how new technologies and fundamental human behaviors interact. He details how existing artificial intelligences can already learn and exploit human social needs—and are getting better at what they do.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20487-3
2021 304 pages 2 illus.
$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20486-6 March 2022 216 pages 41 illus.
$32.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-20094-3
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LIFE SCIENCES
Chimpanzee Memoirs
Travels with Trilobites Adventures in the Paleozoic
Stories of Studying and Saving Our Closest Living Relatives
Andy Secher
Forewords by Niles Eldredge,
Edited by Stephen Ross and Lydia Hopper
Mark Norell, and Kirk Johnson
Illustrations by Dawn Shuerman
This book brings together a range of chimpanzee experts who tell powerful personal stories about their lives and careers. It features some of the world’s preeminent primatologists— including Jane Goodall and Frans de Waal—as well as representatives of a new generation from varied backgrounds. All are united by a common purpose: to study and understand chimpanzees in order to protect them in the wild and care for them in zoos and sanctuaries. $19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19929-2 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-19928-5
In Travels with Trilobites, Andy Secher invites readers to come along in search of the fossilized remains of ancient arthropods. The book features hundreds of photographs of unique specimens drawn from Secher’s private collection, showcasing stunning fossil finds that highlight the diversity, complexity, and beauty of trilobites. $44.95 / £35.00 cloth 978-0-231-20096-7 February 2022 392 pages 298 illus.
April 2022 216 pages 15 illus.
Explorers of Deep Time
The Botany of Beer
Roy Plotnick
Giuseppe Caruso
An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 Plants Used in Brewing
Paleontologists and the History of Life
$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19534-8
This book is a comprehensive and beautifully illustrated compendium of the characteristics and properties of the plants used in making beer around the world. The botanical expert Giuseppe Caruso presents scientifically rigorous descriptions, accompanied by his own handdrawn ink images, of more than 500 species.
January 2022 344 pages 20 illus.
$39.95 / £34.00 cloth 978-0-231-20158-2
July 2022 576 pages
Roy Plotnick provides a behind-the-scenes look at paleontology as it exists today in all its complexity. He explores the field’s aims, methods, and possibilities, with an emphasis on the compelling personal stories of the scientists who have made it a career.
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Sex in City Plants, Animals, Fungi, and More
Microbial Biotechnology in the Laboratory and Practice
A Guide to Reproductive Diversity
Theory, Exercises, and Specialist Laboratories
Kenneth D. Frank
Edited by Jerzy Długoński
Foreward by Jonathan
Silvertown
Kenneth D. Frank offers a guide to urban reproductive diversity across a range of conditions, showing how understanding of sex and mating furthers the appreciation of biodiversity. He presents reproductive diversity as elegant but vulnerable, underscoring the consequences of human activity. Featuring compelling photographs of a multitude of life forms in their city habitats, this book provides a new lens on urban natural history. $35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20607-5 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20606-8 March 2022 216 pages 258 illus.
This book examines fundamental issues in microbial biotechnology, such as microorganism culturing and uses in industry and environmental protection. It details modern analytical techniques, known as omics, as well as digital techniques used to record adverse changes in the environment resulting from the harmful activity of bacteria and fungi. $60.00 / £48.00 paper 978-83-2334-984-6 February 2022 580 pages 176 illus.
JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Dinosaurs
A Primer in Biological Data Analysis and Visualization Using R
The Textbook
Seventh Edition
Second Edition
Spencer G. Lucas
Gregg Hartvigsen
Geared toward a broad variety of students, Dinosaurs: The Textbook offers a concise and lucid presentation of the core biological and geological concepts of dinosaur science. This seventh edition of the leading text for introductory courses on dinosaurs has been revised throughout based on recent fossil discoveries and the latest research.
This text is an engaging, practical, and laboriented introduction to R for students in the life sciences. This second edition has been revised to be current with the versions of R software released since the book’s original publication. It features updated terminology, sources, and examples throughout.
$90.00 / £74.00 paper 978-0-231-2060-3
$150.00 / £116.00 cloth 978-0-231-2021-1
$180.00 / £148.00 cloth 978-0-231-20600-6
2021 216 pages 65 illus.
April 2022 416 pages 311 illus.
$38.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20213-8
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EARTH SCIENCES
Managing Environmental Conflict
Unnatural Disasters
Why Most Responses to Risk and Climate Change Fail but Some Succeed
An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer
Gonzalo Lizarralde
Unnatural Disasters offers a new perspective on our most pressing environmental and social challenges, revealing the gaps between abstract concepts like sustainability, resilience, and innovation and the real-world experiences of the people living at risk. $35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19810-3 2021 328 pages 24 illus.
Joshua D. Fisher
Conflicts frequently arise over environmental issues such as land use, natural resource management, and laws and regulation. This book is a primer on causes of and solutions to such conflicts. Joshua D. Fisher provides a foundational overview of the theory and practice of collaborative approaches to managing environmental disputes. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19687-1 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-19686-4 February 2022 216 pages 23 illus.
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Climate Change Science
Sustainable Food Production
John C. Mutter
Shahid Naeem, Suzanne Lipton, and Tiff van Huysen
A Primer for Sustainable Development
This book is a primer on the essential science for grasping the workings of climate change and climate prediction. It is accessible for readers with little to no background in science, with an emphasis on the needs of those studying sustainable development. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19223-1 $60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19222-4 2020 208 pages
This concise text offers an overview of the key issues in sustainable food production for all readers interested in the ecology and environmental impact of agriculture. It details the ecological foundations of farming and food systems, showing how to create sustainable alternatives to the industrial production methods used today. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-18965-1
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An Earth Institute Sustainability Primer
$60.00 / £48.00 cloth 978-0-231-18964-4 November 2021 224 pages 23 illus.
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Political Exercise
Active Living, Public Policy, and the Built Environment Lawrence D. Brown
At the intersection of public health and urban planning, Political Exercise offers a framework for scholars, policy makers, and reformers to more productively address both the rationales behind active living and the political strategies that spur change. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-17351-3 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-17350-6 February 2022 296 pages
Rivalling Disaster Experiences
The Case of the SeismoVolcanic Crisis of El Hierro, Canary Islands Benedikt M. Orlowski
People experience disasters very differently. Conflicts about a “correct” interpretation of the risks might arise. The side-by-side of different truths lead to people seeing mismanagement and disinformation. The volcanic crisis of El Hierro shows how rivalling interpretations amongst affected islanders, the media, sciences, and disaster response institutions cause great social tensions and scepticism towards scientific information $75.00 paper 978-3-8376-5512-4 2021 310 pages
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The Membranes
The Best American Magazine Writing 2021
Chi Ta-wei
Edited by Sid Holt for the American Society of Magazine Editors
A Novel
Translated by Ari Larissa Heinrich
First published in Taiwan in 1995, The Membranes is a classic of queer speculative fiction in Chinese. Chi Ta-wei weaves dystopian tropes—heirloom animals, radiation-proof combat drones, sinister surveillance technologies—into a sensitive portrait of one young woman’s quest for selfunderstanding. $17.00 / £13.99 paper 978-0-231-19571-3 $65.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19570-6 2021 168 pages
MODERN CHINESE LITERATURE FROM TAIWAN
The Best American Magazine Writing 2021 presents outstanding journalism and commentary that reckon with urgent topics, including COVID-19 and entrenched racial inequality. In “The Plague Year,” Lawrence Wright details how responses to the pandemic went astray (New Yorker). Lizzie Presser reports on “The Black American Amputation Epidemic” (ProPublica). The novelist Jesmyn Ward processes her grief over her husband’s death against the backdrop of the pandemic and antiracist uprisings (Vanity Fair), and the poet Elizabeth Alexander considers “The Trayvon Generation” (New Yorker). $19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19803-5 December 2021 544 pages
Earthlings
The Long Year
Imaginative Encounters with
A 2020 Reader
the Natural World Adrian Parr
Edited by Thomas J. Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom
In The Long Year, some of the world’s most incisive thinkers excavate 2020’s buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future. $22.95 / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-20453-8 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-20452-1
December 2021 560 pages PUBLIC BOOKS SERIES
Amid environmental catastrophe, it is vital to recall what unites all forms of life. We share characteristics and genetic material extending back billions of years. Adrian Parr calls on us to understand ourselves as existing with and among the many forms of life. She argues that human survival requires us to recognize our interdependent relationships with the other species and systems that make up life on Earth. $22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-20549-8 $90.00 / £72.00 cloth 978-0-231-20548-1
May 2022 224 pages 19 illus.
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Camp Century
The Pivot
The Untold Story of America's Secret Arctic Military Base Under the Greenland Ice Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen
At the height of the Cold War, the United States Army secretly began work on a base embedded deep in the Greenland ice cap. This book is the first comprehensive account of Camp Century. Kristian H. Nielsen and Henry Nielsen unravel the extraordinary history of this clandestine installation. $30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20177-3 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20176-6 2021 352 pages
Addressing Global Problems Through Local Action Steve Hamm
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, a global volunteer collaboration called Pivot Projects was formed to rethink how the world works. Some members are experts in the sciences and the humanities; others are environmental activists or regular people who see themselves as world citizens. In The Pivot, the journalist Steve Hamm—who embedded in the enterprise from the start— explores their efforts and shows how their approach provides a model for achieving systemic change. $24.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-20090-5 November 2021 304 pages 36 illus.
COLUMBIA BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING
Music, Math, and Mind
The Wuhan Lockdown
The Physics and Neuroscience of Music
Guobin Yang
David Sulzer
David Sulzer offers a lively exploration of the mathematics, physics, and neuroscience that underlie music. Written for musicians and music lovers with any level of science and math proficiency–(including none), Music, Math, and Mind demystifies how music works while testifying to its beauty and wonder. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-19379-5 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-19378-8 2021 272 pages
This book tells the dramatic story of the Wuhan lockdown in the voices of the city’s own people. Using a vast archive of more than 6,000 diaries, sociologist Guobin Yang vividly depicts how the city coped during the crisis. $28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20047-9 $115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-20046-2
February 2022 304 pages
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Spin Doctors
Psychiatric Casualties
Nora Loreto
Mark C. Russell and Charles Figley
How and Why the Military Ignores the Full Cost of War
How Media and Politicians Misdiagnosed the COVID-19 Pandemic
Spin Doctors meticulously documents the root causes of the struggles amplified by the COVID-19 pandemic and challenges media and politicians who justify the status quo. $35.00 paper 978-1-77363-487-6
November 2021 368 pages FERNWOOD PUBLISHING
The trauma experts Mark C. Russell and Charles Figley offer an impassioned and meticulous critique of the systemic failures in military mental health care in the United States. They examine the persistent disconnect between war culture, which valorizes an appearance of strength and seeks to purge weakness, and the science and treatment of trauma. $40.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-18777-0 $160.00 / £125.00 cloth 978-0-231-18776-3 2021 464 pages
Perilous Medicine
Unnerved
The Struggle to Protect Health Care from the Violence of War
Anxiety, Social Change, and the Transformation of Modern Mental Health Jason Schnittker
Leonard Rubenstein
Leonard Rubenstein—a human rights lawyer who has investigated atrocities around the world—offers a gripping and powerful account of the dangers health workers face during conflict and the legal, political, and moral struggle to protect them. He shares the stories of people who have been attacked while seeking to serve patients.
Jason Schnittker investigates the social, cultural, medical, and scientific underpinnings of the modern mental state. He explores how anxiety has been understood from the late nineteenth century to the present day and why it has assumed a more central position in how we think about mental health.
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2021 416 pages
2021 280 pages
$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20035-6
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The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush
From Scalpel to Spade A Surgeon’s Road to Ithaka
Edited by G. Pascal Zachary
Arthur van Langenberg
This collection presents more than fifty of Vannevar Bush’s most important works across four decades. Here are his thoughts on the management of innovation, the politics of science, research and national security, technology in public life, and the relationship of scientific advancement to human flourishing. Together, this collection reveals Bush as a major figure in the history of science, computerization, and technological development and a prophet of the information age.
Arthur van Langenberg offers his recollections of significant events that steered the course of his surgical career, citing reports of cases and operations that remain firmly in his consciousness. The book encapsulates his perspective on how medical practice deals with the grim reality of being sick and how practice has evolved over the years.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-11643-5
THE CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG PRESS
$120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-11642-8 January 2022 384 pages
$35.00 cloth 978-988-237-228-3 December 2021 250 pages 30 illus.
Ethical Challenges of Organ Transplantation
Trans Health
Global Perspectives on Care for Trans Communities Edited by Max Nicolai Appenroth and María do Mar Castro Varela
This anthology addresses trans people’s access to health care from a transnational perspective, and offers courses of action to improve nursing, medical, therapeutic, and social care for trans persons. Many contributions of this book are written from a lived trans experience. $40.00 paper 978-3-8376-5082-2
Current Debates and International Perspectives Edited by Solveig Lena Hansen and Silke Schicktanz
This collection features comprehensive overviews of the various ethical challenges in organ transplantation. It covers core issues in the global ethical debate such as donating, procuring, allocating, and receiving organs, as well as considering alternatives. $45.00 paper 978-3-8376-4643-6 November 2021 320 pages
December 2021 400 pages
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Mind Beyond Brain
The Story of the Dinosaurs in 25 Discoveries
Buddhism, Science, and the Paranormal
Amazing Fossils and the People Who Found Them
David E. Presti
Donald R. Prothero
CHOICE OUTSTANDING ACADEMIC TITLE $25.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18957-6
$26.00 / £21.00 paper 978-0-231-18603-2
2021 240 pages
2021 488 pages 227 illus.
Morphing Intelligence
Cook, Taste, Learn
How the Evolution of Science Transformed the Art of Cooking
From IQ Measurement to Artificial Brains Catherine Malabou Translated by Carolyn Shread
Guy Crosby
$20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19293-4 2021 208 pages 39 illus.
$22.00 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-18737-4 2021 224 pages
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Live Sustainably Now A Low-Carbon Vision of the Good Life Karl Coplan
$22.00 / £18.00 paper 978-0-231-19091-6 2021 224 pages 16 illus.
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Rethinking Readiness
Renewable Energy
A Brief Guide to Twenty-First-Century Megadisasters
A Primer for the TwentyFirst Century Bruce Usher
Jeff Schlegelmilch
Foreword by Irwin Redlener
Rethinking Readiness offers an expert introduction to human-made threats and vulnerabilities, with a focus on opportunities to reimagine how we approach disaster preparedness. Jeff Schlegelmilch identifies and explores the most critical threats facing the world today, detailing the dangers of pandemics, climate change, infrastructure collapse, cyberattacks, and nuclear conflict. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19041-1 $60.00 / £50.00 cloth 978-0-231-19040-4 2020 200 pages
This book is a primer for readers of all levels on the coming energy transition and its global consequences. Bruce Usher provides a concise yet comprehensive explanation for the growth in wind and solar energy; the trajectory of the transition from fossil fuels to renewables; and the implications for industries, countries, and the climate. $20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-18785-5 $65.00 / £47.00 cloth 978-0-231-18784-8 2019 224 pages 34 illus.
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Reductionism in Art and Brain Science
Bad Advice
Or Why Celebrities, Politicians, and Activists Aren't Your Best Source of Health Information
Bridging the Two Cultures Eric R. Kandel
Paul A. Offit, M.D.
The Nobel Prize–winning neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel shows how science can inform the way we experience a work of art and seek to understand its meaning. He illustrates how reductionism—the distillation of larger scientific or aesthetic concepts into smaller components—has been used by scientists and artists alike to pursue their respective truths. $22.95 / £18.99 paper 978-0-231-17963-8 $29.95 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-17962-1
In Bad Advice, Paul A. Offit shares hard-earned wisdom on the dos and don’ts of battling misinformation. For the past twenty years, Offit has been on the front lines in the fight for sound science and public heath, stepping into the media spotlight as few scientists have done. Bad Advice discusses science and its adversaries: not just the manias stoked by slick charlatans and their miracle cures but also corrosive, dangerous ideologies such as Holocaust and climate-change denial.
2016 240 pages 105 illus.
$16.95 / £12.99 paper 978-0-231-18699-5
$24.95 / £20.00 cloth 978-0-231-18698-8 2018 272 pages
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The Bearded Lady Project
Vanishing Ice
Glaciers, Ice Sheets, and Rising Seas
Challenging the Face of Science
Vivien Gornitz
Edited by Lexi Jamieson Marsh and Ellen Currano
Challenging persistent gender biases in the sciences, The Bearded Lady Project puts the spotlight on underrepresented geoscientists in the field and in the lab. This book pairs portraits of these scientists after donning fake beards with personal essays in which they tell their stories. $40.00 / £34.00 cloth 978-0-231-19804-2 2020 208 pages 11 illus.-
Delving into the major components of the cryosphere, including ice sheets, valley glaciers, permafrost, and floating ice, Vivien Gornitz gives an up-to-date explanation of key current trends in the decline of ice mass. Drawing on a long-term perspective gained by examining changes in the cryosphere and corresponding variations in sea level over millions of years, she demonstrates the link between thawing ice and sea-level rise to point to the social and economic challenges on the horizon. $35.00 / £30.00 cloth 978-0-231-16824-3 2019 400 pages 55 illus.
Drought
Mouthfeel
Benjamin I. Cook
Ole G. Mouritsen and Klavs Styrbæk
An Interdisciplinary Perspective
How Texture Makes Taste
Translated by Mariela
Johansen
Benjamin I. Cook brings together climate science, hydrology, and ecology to provide a synthetic overview of drought and its environmental and social consequences. Drought is a critical interdisciplinary text that will be essential reading for a broad range of students in earth science and environmental and sustainability studies.
Why is chocolate melting on the tongue such a decadent sensation? Why do we love crunching on bacon? Our sense of taste produces physical and emotional reactions that cannot be explained by chemical components alone. Collaborating in the laboratory and the kitchen, Ole G. Mouritsen and Klavs Styrbæk investigate the multiple ways in which food texture influences taste.
$40.00 / £34.00 paper 978-0-231-17689-7
$29.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18077-1
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$35.00 / £27.00 cloth 978-0-231-18076-4
2019 232 pages 57 illus.
2018 376 pages 148 illus.
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