Science, Medicine, and Technology
FROM CHICAGO
Battle of the Big Bang
The New Tales of Our Cosmic Origins
Niayesh Afshordi and Phil Halper
A thrilling exploration of competing cosmological origin stories, comparing new scientific ideas that upend our very notions of space, time, and reality.
2025 360 p. 6 x 9 14 color plates, 24 halftones, 1 table
1 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83047-6 $32.50
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Sand, Snow, and Stardust
How US Military Engineers Conquered
Extreme Environments
Gretchen Heefner
A vivid tour of US military efforts to understand, survive, and command harsh environments worldwide—and beyond.
2025 400 p. 6 x 9 52 halftones
3 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83159-6 $37.50
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Einstein
and the Quantum Revolutions
Alain
Aspect
A Nobel laureate offers a brief lesson on physics’ biggest mystery, accessibly explaining the two quantum revolutions that changed our understanding of reality.
2024 112 p. 5 x 8 7 halftones
2 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83201-2 $16.00
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Decoding the Hand
A History of Science, Medicine, and Magic Alison Bashford
The astonishing story of palmistry—from occultists to the very foundations of modern science and medicine.
2025 400 p. 6 x 9 75 halftones
4 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83115-2 $35.00
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Bacteria to AI
Human Futures with our Nonhuman Symbionts
N. Katherine Hayles
A new theory of mind that includes nonhuman and artificial intelligences.
2025 304 p. 6 x 9 3 halftones, 3 tables
5 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83747-5 $27.50
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The Neural Mind
How Brains Think
George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan
Offers an expansive, unified theory of thought that brings together the vast resources of neuroscience, computation, and cognitive linguistics.
2025 384 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones, 11 tables
7 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83588-4 $35.00
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The Trouble with Ancient DNA
Telling Stories of the Past with Genomic Science
Anna Källén
A thoughtful consideration of the storytelling and science behind ancient DNA discoveries.
2025 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 halftones
6 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83557-0 $20.00
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The
Arrival of the Fittest Biology’s Imaginary Futures, 1900–1935
Jim Endersby
In the early twentieth century, varied audiences took biology out of the hands of specialists and transformed it into mass culture, transforming our understanding of heredity in the process.
2025 400 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones, 2 tables
8 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83756-7 $37.50
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Sensations
French Archaeology between Science and Spectacle, 1890–1940
Daniel J. Sherman
Delves into two controversies from the French archaeological world to illuminate the tension between the discipline’s scientific ambitions and its hunger for media attention.
2025 288 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 40 halftones
9 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83537-2 $47.50
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Fossils
An Essential Guide
Paul D. Taylor
With stunning images and an expert guide, explore the world of fossils to uncover the story of life on Earth, from the origins of new life to mass extinctions.
2025 224 p. 7 x 10 230 color plates
11 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83939-4 $26.00
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Ghosts Behind Glass
Encountering
Extinction in Museums
Dolly Jørgensen
How museums display extinct species—and what these exhibits say about us.
2025 320 p. 51/2 x 81/2 80 color plates
10 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84230-1 $20.00
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A Little Queer Natural History
Josh L. Davis
Beautifully illustrated and scientifically informed, a celebration of the astonishing diversity of sexual behavior and biology found in nature.
2024 125 p. 63/4 x 71/2 65 color illustrations
12 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83703-1 $16.00
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Eating and Being
A History of Ideas about Our Food and Ourselves
Steven Shapin
What we eat, who we are, and the relationship between the two.
2024 560 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones
13 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83221-0 $35.00
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Riverine Dreams
Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America
George Frazier
The inspirational story of grassland rivers—and the people who paddle and protect them.
2025 296 p. 6 x 9 24 halftones, 1 table
15 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83879-3 $26.00
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Unrefined
How Capitalism Reinvented Sugar
David Singerman
A surprising look at how modern capitalism changed sugar from a natural food to a scientific commodity.
Synthesis
2025 352 p. 6 x 9 49 halftones
14 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83737-6 $35.00
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Fifth Business
A Life of the Chemist and Educationist
Henry Edward Armstrong
William H. Brock
A biography of Henry Edward Armstrong, an underappreciated maverick in the history of chemistry.
Synthesis
2025 352 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
16 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83958-5 $45.00
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Intimate Subjects
Touch and Tangibility in Britain’s Cerebral Age
Simeon Koole
An insightful history of nineteenth- and twentiethcentury Britain told through a single sense: touch.
2024 336 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones
17 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83434-4 $35.00
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The Book of Minds
How to Understand Ourselves and Other Beings, from Animals to AI to Aliens
Philip Ball
Popular science writer Philip Ball explores a range of sciences to map our answers to a huge, philosophically rich question: How do we even begin to think about minds that are not human?
2022 512 p. 6 x 9
19 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-79587-4 $26.00
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The Cambridge Cockpit and the Paradoxes of Fatigue, 1940–1977
David Bloor
The story of a unique and controversial wartime study of pilot fatigue.
2025 320 p. 6 x 9 31 halftones, 4 tables
18 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84234-9 $35.00
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Madness and Enterprise
Psychiatry, Economic Reason, and the Emergence of Pathological Value
Nima Bassiri
Uncovers a powerful relationship between pathology and money: beginning in the nineteenth century, the severity of mental illness was measured against a patient’s economic productivity.
2024 352 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones
20 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83089-6 $35.00
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Dr. Calhoun’s Mousery
The Strange Tale of a Celebrated Scientist, a Rodent Dystopia, and the Future of Humanity
Lee Alan Dugatkin
A bizarre and compelling biography of a scientist and his work, using rodent cities to question the potential catastrophes of human overpopulation.
2024 240 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones, 2 line drawings
21 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82785-8 $27.50
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New in Paperback The Huxleys
An Intimate History of Evolution
Alison Bashford
Two hundred years of modern science and culture told through one family history.
2024 576 p. 6 x 9 69 halftones
23 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83661-4 $24.00
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New in Paperback Beauty and the Brain
The Science of Human Nature in Early America
Rachel E. Walker
Examining the history of phrenology and physiognomy, Beauty and the Brain proposes a bold new way of understanding the connection between science, politics, and popular culture in early America.
2025 288 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones
22 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83678-2 $30.00
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Born This Way
Science, Citizenship, and Inequality in the American LGBTQ+ Movement
Joanna Wuest
The story of how a biologically driven understanding of gender and sexuality became central to US LGBTQ+ political and legal advocacy.
2023 304 p. 6 x 9
24 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82753-7 $32.50
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6 History of Science
Enlightenment Biopolitics
A History of Race, Eugenics, and the Making of Citizens
William Max Nelson
A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath.
The Life of Ideas
2024 336 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
25 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82558-8 $35.00
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Disputed Inheritance
The Battle over Mendel and the Future of Biology
Gregory Radick
A root-and-branch rethinking of how history has shaped the science of genetics.
2023 576 p. 6 x 9 60 halftones, 2 tables
27 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82272-3 $37.50
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New in Paperback
The Science of Reading Information, Media, and Mind in Modern America
Adrian Johns
For the first time, the story of how and why we have plumbed the mysteries of reading, and why it matters today.
2024 504 p. 6 x 9 45 halftones
26 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83673-7 $25.00
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The Science of Life and Death in “Frankenstein”
Sharon Ruston
The first book to compile the historical scientific and medical thought that influenced Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein . Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing
2022 192 p. 61/4 x 91/4 32 color plates, 16 halftones
28 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-557-4 $40.00
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The Varnish and the Glaze
Painting Splendor with Oil, 1100–1500
Marjolijn Bol
A new history of the techniques, materials, and aesthetic ambitions that gave rise to the radiant verisimilitude of Jan van Eyck’s oil paintings on panel.
2023 336 p. 6 x 9 80 color plates, 10 halftones
29 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82036-1 $55.00
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Reading Practice
The Pursuit of Natural Knowledge from Manuscript to Print
Melissa Reynolds
Through portraits of readers and their responses to texts, Reading Practice reconstructs the contours of the knowledge economy that shaped medicine and science in early modern England.
2024 304 p. 6 x 9 22 halftones, 4 tables
31 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83489-4 $35.00
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Botanical Icons
Critical Practices of Illustration in the Premodern Mediterranean
Andrew Griebeler
A richly illustrated account of how premodern botanical illustrations document evolving knowledge about plants and the ways they were studied in the past.
2024 344 p. 7 x 10 96 color plates
30 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82679-0 $55.00
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The Experimental Fire
Inventing English Alchemy, 1300–1700
Jennifer M. Rampling
A 400-year history of the development of alchemy in England that brings to light the evolution of the practice.
Synthesis
2023 416 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 2 tables
32 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82654-7 $28.00
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8 History of Science
Fluid Geographies
Water, Science, and Settler Colonialism in New Mexico
K. Maria D. Lane
An unprecedented analysis of the origin story of New Mexico’s modern water management system.
2024 304 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones, 9 tables
33 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83395-8 $35.00
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The Mistral
A Windswept History of Modern France
Catherine Tatiana Dunlop
An in-depth look at the hidden power of the mistral wind and its effect on modern French history.
2024 192 p. 6 x 9 8 color plates, 40 halftones
35 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82754-4 $32.50
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Liberty’s Grid
A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America
Amir Alexander
The surprising history behind a ubiquitous facet of the United States: the gridded landscape.
2024 304 p. 6 x 9 26 halftones, 6 line drawings
34 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82072-9 $30.00
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Einstein in Oxford
Andrew Robinson
An intimate account of Albert Einstein’s visit to Oxford in the 1930s, casting new light on why he continues to be the world’s most famous scientist. Distributed for Bodleian Library Publishing
2024 96 p. 5.08 x 7.8 18 halftones
36 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-85124-638-0 $25.00
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Restricted Data
The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States
Alex Wellerstein
The first full history of US nuclear secrecy, from its origins in the late 1930s to our post–Cold War present.
2024 528 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones, 7 line drawings, 3 tables
37 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83344-6 $25.00
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Nuclear Minds
Cold War Psychological Science and the Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Ran Zwigenberg
How researchers understood the atomic bomb’s effects on the human psyche before the recognition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
2023 304 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
39 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82676-9 $35.00
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Soda Science
Making the World Safe for Coca-Cola
Susan Greenhalgh
Takes readers deep inside the secret world of corporate science, where powerful companies and allied academic scientists mold research to meet industry needs.
2024 352 p. 6 x 9 18 halftones, 7 tables
38 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83473-3 $25.00
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Serving the Reich
The Struggle for the Soul of Physics under Hitler
Philip Ball
The compelling story of leading physicists in Germany—including Peter Debye, Max Planck, and Werner Heisenberg—and how they accommodated themselves to working within the Nazi state in the 1930s and ’40s.
2023 320 p. 6 x 9 6 halftones
40 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82934-0 $25.00
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10 History of Science
Interspecies Communication
Sound and Music beyond Humanity
Gavin Steingo
A surprising study reveals a plethora of attempts to communicate with non-humans in the modern era.
2024 240 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
41 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83136-7 $27.50
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Thinking with Sound
A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900
Viktoria Tkaczyk
Thinking with Sound traces the formation of auditory knowledge in the sciences and humanities in the decades around 1900.
2023 304 p. 6 x 9 58 halftones
43 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82328-7 $55.00
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Tuning the World
The Rise of 440 Hertz in Music, Science, and Politics, 1859–1955
Fanny Gribenski
Tuning the World tells the unknown story of how the musical pitch A 440 became the global norm. New Material Histories of Music
2023 280 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones
42 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82326-3 $55.00
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Media and the Mind
Art, Science, and Notebooks as Paper Machines, 1700-1830
Matthew Daniel Eddy
A beautifully illustrated argument that reveals notebooks as extraordinary paper machines that transformed knowledge on the page and in the mind.
2023 512 p. 6 x 9 137 halftones, 2 tables
44 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-18386-2 $65.00
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Carbon Technocracy
Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Victor Seow
A forceful reckoning with the relationship between energy and power through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine. Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute 2023 376 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones
45 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82655-4 $27.50
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Quantum Legacies
Dispatches from an Uncertain World
David Kaiser
A series of engaging essays that explore iconic moments of discovery and debate in physicists’ ongoing quest to understand the quantum world.
2022 360 p. 51/2 x 81/2 47 halftones
47 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-81999-0 $20.00
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A Global Enlightenment
Western Progress and Chinese Science
Alexander Statman
A revisionist history of the idea of progress reveals an unknown story about European engagement with Chinese science.
The Life of Ideas
2023 320 p. 6 x 9 27 halftones
46 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82576-2 $45.00
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Unearthing Fermi’s Geophysics
Gino C. Segrè and John D. Stack
Follow—for the first time—Nobel laureate and legendary teacher Enrico Fermi’s lost course on geophysics.
2022 208 p. 51/2 x 81/2 44 halftones, 12 tables
48 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-80514-6 $38.00
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12 History of Science
Vector
A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation
Robyn Arianrhod
A celebration of the seemingly simple idea that allowed us to imagine the world in new dimensions—sparking both controversy and discovery.
2024 376 p. 51/2 x 81/2 13 halftones, 39 line drawings
49 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82110-8 $28.00
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Reactionary Mathematics
A Genealogy of Purity
Massimo Mazzotti
A forgotten episode of mathematical resistance reveals the rise of modern mathematics and its cornerstone, mathematical purity, as political phenomena.
2023 352 p. 6 x 9 5 halftones, 2 line drawings
51 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82674-5 $37.50
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Uncountable
A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present David Nirenberg and Ricardo L. Nirenberg
Ranging from math to literature to philosophy, Uncountable explains how numbers triumphed as the basis of knowledge—and compromise our sense of humanity.
2024 432 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone
50 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82836-7 $22.50
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Axiomatics
Mathematical Thought and High Modernism
Alma Steingart
The first history of postwar mathematics, offering a new interpretation of the rise of abstraction and axiomatics in the twentieth century.
2023 272 p. 6 x 9 12 halftones
52 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82420-8 $35.00
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Starved for Light
The Long Shadow of Rickets and Vitamin D Deficiency
Christian Warren
A wide-ranging history of rickets tracks the disease’s emergence, evolution, and eventual treatment—and exposes the backstory behind contemporary worries about vitamin D deficiency.
2024 288 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones
53 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-15193-9 $30.00
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Tools and the Organism
Technology and the Body in Ancient Greek and Roman Medicine
Colin Webster
The first book to show how the concept of bodily organs emerged and how ancient tools influenced conceptualizations of human anatomy and its operations.
2023 320 p. 6 x 9 23 halftones
55 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82877-0 $45.00
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Maraña
War and Disease in the Jungles of Colombia
Lina Pinto-García
Delves into the relationship between war and disease, focusing on Colombian armed conflict and the skin disease known as cutaneous leishmaniasis
2025 240 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones
54 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83934-9 $35.00
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Forbidden Knowledge
Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy
Hannah Marcus
An exploration of the censorship of medical books from their proliferation in print through the prohibitions placed on them during the Counter-Reformation.
2023 360 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones, 2 tables
56 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82947-0 $28.00
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William James, MD
Philosopher, Psychologist, Physician
Emma K. Sutton
The first book to map William James’s preoccupation with medical ideas, concerns, and values across the breadth of his work.
2023 240 p. 6 x 9 10 halftones
57 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82898-5 $30.00
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Addiction Becomes Normal
On the Late-Modern American Subject
Jaeyoon Park
Addiction is now seen as an ordinary feature of human nature, an idea that introduces new doubts about the meaning of our desires.
2024 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2
59 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83276-0 $27.50
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From Skepticism to Competence
How American Psychiatrists Learn Psychotherapy
Mariana
Craciun
An examination of how novice psychiatrists come to understand the workings of the mind. Ethnographic Encounters and Discoveries
2024 256 p. 6 x 9
58 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83391-0 $30.00
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Lab Dog
What Global Science Owes American Beagles
Brad Bolman
Tracing over a century of transformation in the relationship between humans and our “best friend,” from hunting companion to laboratory commodity to modern pet.
2025 384 p. 6 x 9 7 halftones
60 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83974-5 $32.50
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Performance All the Way
Down
Genes, Development, and Sexual Difference
Richard O. Prum
An award-winning biologist and writer applies queer feminist theory to developmental genetics, arguing that individuals are not essentially male or female. science.culture
2023 368 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones
61 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82978-4 $22.50
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Sexualizing Cancer
HPV and the Politics of Cancer Prevention
Laura Mamo
The virus that changed how we think about cancer and its culprits—and the vaccine that changed how we talk about sex and its risks.
2023 368 p. 6 x 9 2 line drawings, 2 tables
63 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82929-6 $35.00
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Looking through the Speculum
Examining the Women’s Health Movement
Judith A. Houck
Highlights local history to tell a national story about the evolution of the women’s health movement, illuminating the struggles and successes of bringing feminist dreams into clinical spaces.
2024 384 p. 6 x 9 16 halftones
62 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83086-5 $35.00
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Birth Figures
Early Modern Prints and the Pregnant Body
Rebecca Whiteley
The first full study of “birth figures,” sets of illustrations which were widely reproduced in early modern books on childbirth and midwifery.
2023 312 p. 6 x 9 6 color plates, 55 halftones
64 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82312-6 $49.00
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Borders of Care
Immigrants, Migrants, and the Fight for Health Care in the United States
Beatrix Hoffman
Probes the relationship between the immigration and health care systems in the United States.
2025 288 p. 6 x 9 24 halftones
65 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-82086-6 $25.00
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The Elephant in the Room
How to Stop Making Ourselves and Other Animals Sick
Liz Kalaugher
A healthier future starts with seeing the human causes of wildlife diseases.
2025 288 p. 6 x 9 20 color plates
67 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-84090-1 $30.00
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American Eldercide
How It Happened, How to Prevent It
Margaret Morganroth Gullette
A bracing spotlight on the avoidable causes of the COVID-19 eldercide in the United States.
2024 328 p. 6 x 9 1 halftone
66 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82776-6 $30.00
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Emergency
COVID-19 and the Uneven Valuation of Life
Claire Laurier Decoteau
A forceful critique of how and why states failed to protect marginalized communities in their responses to the COVID-19 pandemic and the implications of ignoring the existing emergencies that exacerbated the pandemic’s devastating effects.
2024 272 p. 6 x 9 17 halftones, 7 tables
68 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83688-1 $27.50
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Nonadaptive Selection
An Evolutionary Source of Ecological Laws
John Damuth and Lev R. Ginzburg
The first comprehensive explanation of a widely applicable but underappreciated mechanism of evolution operating at higher levels of organization than the individual.
2025 240 p. 6 x 9 25 line drawings
69 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83857-1 $35.00
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Apes on the Edge
Chimpanzee Life on the West African
Savanna
Jill Pruetz
A moving story of survival and an eye-opening introduction to an extraordinary community of chimps and people.
Animal Lives
2025 160 p. 51/2 x 81/2 8 color plates, 25 halftones,
1 line drawing
71 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83751-2 $25.00
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The Ellesmere Wolves
Behavior and Ecology in the High Arctic L. David Mech, Morgan Anderson, and H. Dean Cluff
In a fascinating story of discovery and science, we meet a remote population of wolves unafraid of humans.
2025 208 p. 6 x 9 20 color plates, 20 halftones, 19 tables 70 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83374-3 $32.00
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The Way of Coyote
Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds
Gavin Van Horn
Blending travelogue and philosophical reflection, Van Horn embarks on a quest for a new urban land ethic that reveals how urban animals can expand how we care for and understand place.
2025 224 p. 6 x 9 9 halftones
72 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-84011-6 $22.50
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18 Conservation and Environment
Solvable
How We Healed the Earth, and How We Can Do It Again
Susan Solomon
A compelling and pragmatic argument: Solutions to yesterday’s environmental problems reveal today’s path forward.
2024 312 p. 5 x 8 14 halftones, 7 line drawings
73 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82793-3 $26.00
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Extinctions
From Dinosaurs to You
Charles Frankel
A compelling answer to an important question: Can past mass extinctions teach us how to avoid future planetary disaster?
2024 288 p. 6 x 9 25 halftones, 6 line drawings
75 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-74101-7 $26.00
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Sea Level
A History
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
Traces a commonplace average—sea level—from its origins in charting land to its emergence as a symbol of global warming.
Oceans in Depth
2024 200 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones
74 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-83183-1 $27.50
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Saving the World
How Forests Inspired Global Efforts to Stop Climate Change
Brett M. Bennett and Gregory A. Barton
An illuminating history of the forgotten concept of climatic botany that underscores how vital forests are to our future.
Distributed for Reaktion Books
2024 256 p. 5.43 x 8.5
76 Cloth ISBN: 978-1-78914-874-9 $25.00
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Is Anyone Listening?
What Animals Are Saying to Each Other and to Us
Denise L. Herzing
From a leading researcher on dolphin communication, a deep dive into the many ways animal species communicate with their kin, their neighboring species, and us.
2024 232 p. 51/2 x 81/2 30 halftones
77 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-35749-2 $28.00
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The Well-Connected Animal
Social Networks and the Wondrous Complexity of Animal Societies
Lee Alan Dugatkin
An engaging exploration of the wondrous social webs that permeate life in animal societies around the world.
2024 264 p. 51/2 x 81/2 10 color plates, 6 halftones, 1 table
79 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81878-8 $29.00
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Bad Nature
How Rat Control Shapes Human and Nonhuman Worlds
Andrew McCumber
Offers insights into the social and cultural implications of humans’ relationships with rats and the natural world.
2025 224 p. 51/2 x 81/2 6 halftones, 1 table
78 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-83898-4 $27.50
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Ocean Bestiary
Meeting Marine Life from Abalone to Orca to Zooplankton
Written and illustrated by Richard J. King
A delightful A-to-Z menagerie of the sea— whimsically illustrated, authoritative, and thought-provoking.
Oceans in Depth
2023 320 p. 51/2 x 8 93 halftones
80 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-81803-0 $22.50
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Oak Origins
From Acorns to Species and the Tree of Life
Andrew L. Hipp
From ancient acorns to future forests, the story of how oaks evolved and the many ways they shape our world.
2024 288 p. 6 x 9 43 halftones
81 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-82357-7 $35.00
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Conserving Nature in Greater Yellowstone
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Beginning to End the Climate Crisis
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Amazing Worlds of Science Fiction and Science Fact
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Novel Ecologies
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An Artificial History of Natural Intelligence
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