SCIENCE & NATURE Spring 2020
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An Ecology of Knowledges
Avian Reservoirs
Virus Hunters and Birdwatchers in Chinese Sentinel Posts Frédéric Keck
Fear, Love, and Technoscience in Guatemalan Forest Conservation Micha Rahder
Experimental Futures February 2020 264pp 14 illus. 9781478006985 £21.99/$26.95 PB 9781478006138 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Experimental Futures May 2020 320pp 28 illus. 9781478006916 £22.99/$27.95 PB 9781478006107 £90.00/$104.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Frédéric Keck traces how the anticipation of bird flu pandemics has changed relations between birds and humans in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Taiwan, showing that humans’ reliance on birds is key to mitigating future pandemics.
Explores how ways of knowing the forest of Guatemala’s Maya Biosphere Reserve shape conservation practice and local livelihoods
Dinosaurs of Darkness, Second Edition
Eastbound through Siberia
In Search of the Lost Polar World Thomas Rich & Patricia Vickers-Rich
Observations from the Great Northern Expedition Georg Wilhelm Steller Translated by Margritt A. Engel & Karen E. Willmore
Life of the Past March 2020 336pp 9780253047397 £28.99/$35.00 PB 9780253029409 £65.00/$75.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
June 2020 264pp 9780253047786 £25.99/$32.00 PB 9780253047779 £67.00/$78.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Updated second edition of Dinosaurs of Darkness, exploring how the polar dinosaurs were discovered and what we know about them.
Observations from George Steller’s secret expedition to the far reaches of Siberia.
How the World Looks to a Bee
How to Be Depressed George Scialabba
March 2020 224pp 9780812252019 £22.99/$27.50 HB UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA PRESS
And Other Moments of Science Edited by Don Glass
March 2020 224pp 9780253046260 £11.99/$15.00 PB 9780253046253 £52.00/$60.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
In How to Be Depressed, essayist George Scialabba collects decades of his own mental health records—along with an Written for readers of all ages with no introduction, an interview, and a glossary of background in science required, How the World terms—to form an unusual, searching, and Looks to a Bee is the perfect armchair companion poignant hybrid of essay and memoir that strives for curious people who want to know more about to make sense of the baffling disease that is the science of everyday life but have only a clinical depression. moment to spare.
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Life through the Ages II
Living with Tiny Aliens
Twenty-First Century Visions of Prehistory Mark P. Witton
The Image of God for the Anthropocene Adam Pryor
Life of the Past April 2020 224pp 9780253048110 £22.99/$28.00 HB INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Groundworks: Ecological Issues in Philosophy and Theology May 2020 240pp 9780823287710 £23.99/$30.00 PB 9780823288311 £87.00/$105.00 HB FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS
What was life like on our planet long before the early humans emerged? Paleontologist Dr. Mark P. Witton draws on the latest twenty-first century discoveries to re-create the appearances and lifestyles of extinct, fascinating species, the environments they inhabited, and the challenges they faced living on an ever-changing planet.
Living with Tiny Aliens imagines in theological terms how an individuals’ meaningful existence persists within a cosmos pregnant with livingpossibilities. In doing so, it works to articulate an astrobiological humanities.
Nature beyond Solitude
Texas Snakes
Notes from the Field John Seibert Farnsworth Foreword by Thomas Lowe Fleischner
A Field Guide James R. Dixon, John E. Werler & Michael Forstner Illustrated by Regina Levoy
March 2020 222pp 9781501747281 £16.99/$19.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
July 2020 400pp 9781477320419 £20.99/$24.95 PB UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS
John Seibert Farnsworth’s delightful field notes are not only about nature, but from nature as well. In Nature Beyond Solitude, he lets us peer over his shoulder as he takes his notes. Excludes ANZ
Written by two of the state’s most respected herpetologists and updated by their student and later colleague, gives you the most current and complete information to identify and understand all 111 species and subspecies.
The Experimental Imagination
Literary Knowledge and Science in the British Enlightenment Tita Chico
March 2020 256pp 9781503613591 £21.99/$26.00 NIP STANFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
This book shows how British Enlightenment writers and thinkers used science as a metaphor to reconfigure evidence and authority, to reimagine the self and society, and to present literary knowledge as a form of truth.
The Impossible Clinic
A Critical Sociology of Evidence-Based Medicine Ariane Hanemaayer
April 2020 256pp 9780774862080 £19.99/$32.95 NIP UBC PRESS
The Impossible Clinic explores the conundrum of evidence-based medicine’s (EBM) attempt to translate evidence from medical research into recommendations for practice. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
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Thinking Differently about HIV/AIDS
Contributions from Critical Social Science Edited by Eric Mykhalovskiy & Viviane Namaste
January 2020 372pp 9780774860710 £22.99/$37.95 NIP UBC PRESS
Almost four decades after the discovery of HIV/AIDS, this title demonstrates the essential role of critical social science in helping us understand the complexity of the epidemic. Excludes SE Asia, Indian sc & ANZ
Untangling Twinning
What Science Tells Us about the Nature of Human Embryos Maureen L. Condic
Notre Dame Studies in Medical Ethics and Bioethics February 2020 176pp 9780268107055 £35.00/$45.00 HB UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME PRESS
Looks at the questions raised by human twinning based on a unique synthesis of molecular developmental biology and Aristotelian philosophy.
Vital Decomposition
Wild Urban Plants of the Northeast
Soil Practitioners and Life Politics Kristina M. Lyons
April 2020 248pp 42 illus., incl. 8 in color 9781478008163 £20.99/$25.95 PB 9781478007692 £86.00/$99.95 HB DUKE UNIVERSITY PRESS
In Vital Decomposition Kristina M. Lyons presents an ethnography of human-soil relations. The author follows state soil scientists and peasants across labs, greenhouses, and farms.
A Field Guide Peter Del Tredici Foreword by Steward T. A. Pickett
March 2020 428pp 965 color photos, 1 b&w halftone, 1 map, 1 chart 9781501740442 £28.99/$34.95 PB CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS
Unveils the plants that will become even more dominant in urban environments under projected future environmental conditions. Excludes ANZ
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