History & Philosophy of Science

Science, Medicine, and the Urge to Eat, 1750–1950

Elizabeth A. Williams

“This fascinating book, magisterial and yet accessible, opens up broad questions about human life and culture through a careful focus on the meaning of appetite as a central, albeit often ill examined, ‘natural’ human drive.”—Choice

2020 416 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones 391 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-69304-0 $35.00

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Poisonous Skies

Acid Rain and the Globalization of Pollution

Rachel Emma Rothschild

“Sometimes you need to pay attention to history in order to better understand the present. Rothschild looks at the history of acid rain to explore what happened, how countries fought about it, how scientists led the charge against it, and how all of that offers lessons for the modern world of climate change. Essential reading.”—The Revelator

2019 336 p. 6 x 9 14 halftones 392 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-63471-5 $45.00

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Catastrophic Thinking

Extinction and the Value of Diversity from Darwin to the Anthropocene

David Sepkoski

“Timely and fascinating. . . . Sepkoski takes readers on an eyeopening journey into a history that remains surprisingly little known despite its obvious importance given the catastrophic biodiversity crisis we currently face. It’s an absolute pleasure to read.” —New Books Network “Catastrophic Thinking is essential reading for those seeking to understand the origin of one of the most powerful concepts under consideration today.”—Science

2020 360 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones 393 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-34861-2 $35.00

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Curiosity

How Science Became Interested in Everything

Philip Ball

“Accurate, witty, and reliable, the book ably shows modern readers how we got to be modern. Ball adeptly sketches the virtuoso sensibility: a combination of intellectual nosiness and experimental dexterity plus the belief that, as he writes, ‘to understand everything, you could start from anywhere.’” —Wall Street Journal

2013 480 p. 6 x 9 38 halftones, 5 line drawings 394 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04579-5 $35.00

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“Well informed, persistently rigorous, and inventive in his thinking, and unfailingly compassionate, Wallace was the prototypical socially engaged scientist. He is—or at least should be—an inspiration to us all.”—Current Biology

“A kaleidoscopic treatment befitting a kaleidoscopic life.”—Isis

2019 416 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones 395 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-62210-1 $60.00

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Georg Forster

Voyager, Naturalist, Revolutionary

Jürgen Goldstein

“Marvelous. . . . Goldstein is a wonderfully imaginative biographer. In sparkling prose he captures the highs and, even more memorably, the lows of Forster’s short life.” —Wall Street Journal

“Goldstein’s goal is to connect the thought of Forster the observant voyager and naturalist who accompanied Cook on his second voyage, and Forster the German revolutionary who died in exile in Paris in 1794.”—Choice

2019 240 p. 6 x 9 396 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-46735-1 $48.00

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Benjamin Smith Barton

Naturalist and Physician in Jeffersonian America

Joseph Ewan and Nesta Dunn Ewan

Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815) was trained as a physician but is best known as the first professional naturalist in the United States. His wide-ranging interests were equaled by his voluminous correspondence to contemporaries including Thomas Jefferson, Alexander von Humboldt, and Thomas Pennant.

Distributed for Missouri Botanical Garden Press

2007 1127 p. 7 x 10 95 halftones 397 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-930723-35-1 $20.00

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The Scientific Life

A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

Steven Shapin

“Remarkably rich in detail and revelation. . . . Shapin may not be doing a conventional history of the ‘scientific life,’ but what he has done is both novel and provocative.”—New York Review of Books

“Shapin has produced a work of exceptional originality, power and significance.” —London Review of Books

2010 486 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones, 2 line drawings 398 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-75025-5 $20.00

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The Lost Species

Great Expeditions in the Collections of Natural History Museums

Christopher Kemp

“An unexpectedly delightful and rewarding jaunt into once-cherished, now-decaying living history.” —Wall Street Journal

“Essential for anyone with even a passing interest in biology (crypto- or otherwise). . . . The Lost Species is a compelling, fascinating, accessible, yet scientifically robust book that I can’t recommend too highly.” —Fortean Times

“This engaging book is a compelling argument for the overall value of natural history museums, and for the importance of studying these collections.”— Forbes

2020 256 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones 399 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-51370-6 $21.00

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The Dancing Bees

Karl von Frisch and the Discovery of the Honeybee Language

Tania Munz

“Intraspecies communication is a hot research topic, but Karl von Frisch was decoding honeybee messages long before most of today’s scientists were born. Set against the backdrop of the Third Reich, Munz chronicles the Austrian ethologist’s life and his Nobel-winning study of one of the animal kingdom’s most intriguing forms of interpretive dance.”—Discover

2016 296 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones, 7 line drawings 401 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-02086-0 $30.00

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Darwin Deleted

Imagining a World without Darwin

Peter J. Bowler

“Darwin Deleted offers a journey into the history of evolutionism well worth taking. Through his scenario in which the Origin never appeared, Bowler improves our ability to think about the assumptions underlying contemporary debates.”—Science

2013 328 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones, 4 line drawings 402 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-06867-1 $30.00

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