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  • Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial
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    Law, Visual Culture, and the Show Trial

    Addressing the relationship between law and the visual, this book examines the importance of photography in Central, East, and Southeast European show trials.The dispensation of justice during...
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  • Time of Infection
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    Time of Infection

    This book contributes to the exploration of the concept of time in the social sciences and philosophy, by reflecting on the ontological presuppositions of medical science and what this means for the...
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  • Creation-Evolution Debates
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    Creation-Evolution Debates

    Originally published in 1995, Creation-Evolution Debates is the second volume in the series, Creationism in Twentieth Century America, reissued in 2021. The volume comprises eight debates from the...
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  • Art, Representation, and Make-Believe
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    Art, Representation, and Make-Believe

    This is the first collection of essays focused on the many-faceted work of Kendall L. Walton. Walton has shaped debate about the arts for the last 50 years. He provides a comprehensive framework for...
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  • Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening
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    Nineteenth-Century Gardens and Gardening

    This volume is the fourth in a six volume collection that brings together primary sources on gardens and gardening across the long nineteenth-century. Economic expansion, empire, the growth of the...
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  • Technologies of Knowledge
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    Technologies of Knowledge

    This book traces the role of technology in shaping, curating, disseminating, and archiving knowledge and life in South Asia. It focuses on empirical studies of transformative social processes...
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  • World Without War
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    World Without War

    J. D. Bernal was a scientist who helped to pioneer the use of x-ray crystallography and was a founder of the science of molecular biology. He was also well-known as a communist and closely associated...
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  • Philosophy and Science of Risk
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    Philosophy and Science of Risk

    What is risk? How do we assess risk? What are the ethical implications of risk? The concept of risk is important – sometimes even crucial – for many philosophical domains, from philosophy of science...
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  • Philosophy and Science of Risk
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    Philosophy and Science of Risk

    What is risk? How do we assess risk? What are the ethical implications of risk? The concept of risk is important – sometimes even crucial – for many philosophical domains, from philosophy of science...
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  • Animal Agriculture
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    Animal Agriculture

    First published in 1980. Animal agriculture serves human needs. Three-fourths of the protein, one-third of the energy, most of the calcium and phosphorus and substantial amounts of essential vitamins...
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  • Applied Myrmecology
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    Applied Myrmecology

    Ants have always fascinated the nature observer. Reports from ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia indicate that ants interested humans long ago. Myrmecology as a science had its beginning in the last...
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  • Meteorology of Posidonius
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    Meteorology of Posidonius

    This volume describes the meteorology of the Stoic philosopher Posidonius from the existing fragments, and discusses his relation to earlier thinkers on this subject, as well as the methods he used...
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  • Like
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    Like

    A riveting, insider's look at the creation and evolution of the like button, and what it reveals about business, technology, and innovation – and us.Over seven billion times a day, someone taps a...
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  • Tomoko Fuse's Amazing Kusudama Origami
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    Tomoko Fuse's Amazing Kusudama Origami

    This incredible book by Tomoko Fuse, Japan's most famous living origami artist, shows you how to create dozens of amazing geometric kusudama spheres using many small paper squares that are folded...
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  • Peat and Whisky
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    Peat and Whisky

    "Outstanding ... among the most important books about whisky ever written." Charles MacLeanBringing together landscapes, geology, history, people, and their whisky, and addressing the key role of...
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  • The Graft
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    The Graft

    The first human organ transplant in 1950 at a suburban hospital is the focus of The Graft: How a Pioneering Operation Sparked the Modern Age of Organ Transplants. The book examines the controversies...
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  • Invisible Rainbows
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    Invisible Rainbows

    What if the world around us is far richer than we can perceive?In Invisible Rainbows, astrophysicist and science communicator Dr Alfredo Carpineti reveals the extraordinary hidden universe beyond the...
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  • Archimedes
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    Archimedes

    A bold reimagining of the Greek mathematician’s singular life as a truly modern scientist.Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, and Tesla revered him: Archimedes of Syracuse – an engineer who single-handedly...
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  • Climate Uncertainty and Risk
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    Climate Uncertainty and Risk

    World leaders have made a forceful statement that climate change is the greatest challenge facing humanity in the 21st century. However, little progress has been made in implementing policies to...
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  • The Best Australian Science Writing 2026
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    The Best Australian Science Writing 2026

    Why should we care about a failed Soviet mission to Venus at the height of the cold war? Can mathematics teach us about drug cartels? And what is life – do we even know?The best science writing...
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  • The Best Australian Science Writing 2025
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    The Best Australian Science Writing 2025

    Why do we like robots that act like humans? What kind of inner life does an insect have? And can exoplanets offer us a better home?The best science writing doesn’t just answer questions, it cracks...
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  • The Algorithm
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    The Algorithm

    Artificial intelligence is being used, on a massive scale, to decide who gets hired, fired and promoted. Through whistleblower exclusives, leaked internal documents and astonishing real-world...
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  • (Be)wilder
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    (Be)wilder

    Can our interactions with wildlife help answer life’s big questions?In (Be)wilder, acclaimed urban ecologist Darryl Jones explores how people around the world interact with wildlife. He spends time...
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  • Atomic Days
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    Atomic Days

    Once home to the United States's largest plutonium production site, the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Washington state is laced with 56 million gallons of radioactive waste. The threat of an...
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  • An Anthropogenic Table of Elements
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    An Anthropogenic Table of Elements

    With stories of life in the Anthropocene, this book places Dmitri Mendeleev’s periodic table of elements and his groundbreaking theory of elementality into modern context.An Anthropogenic Table of...
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  • The Double Helix
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    The Double Helix

    'It is a strange model and embodies several unusual features. However, since DNA is an unusual substance, we are not hesitant in being bold.'By elucidating the structure of DNA, the molecule...
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  • Spark
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    Spark

    When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic devices — or perhaps we envision the lightning-streaked clouds of a stormy...
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  • Wonderstruck
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    Wonderstruck

    A philosopher explores the transformative role of wonder and awe in an uncertain world. Wonder and awe lie at the heart of life’s most profound questions. Wonderstruck shows how these emotions...
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  • The Empire of Climate
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    The Empire of Climate

    How the specter of climate has been used to explain history since antiquity.Scientists, journalists, and politicians increasingly tell us that human impacts on climate constitute the single greatest...
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  • Virtual You
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    Virtual You

    Virtual You is a panoramic account of efforts by scientists around the world to build digital twins of human beings, from cells and tissues to organs and whole bodies. These virtual copies will usher...
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  • A Series of Fortunate Events
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    A Series of Fortunate Events

    Longlisted for the PEN America Literary Awards 2021: PEN/E.O Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardWaterstone's Best Books of 2020: Popular ScienceAmerican Scientist's 2020 Science Book Gift GuideWhy...
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  • How Progress Ends
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    How Progress Ends

    **Longlisted for the Financial Times and Schroders Business Book of the Year Award**How 1,000 years of global history show why technological and economic progress is often followed by stagnation and...
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  • Natural Magic
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    Natural Magic

    Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests, and schoolgirls. The world began...
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  • Dark Data
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    Dark Data

    A practical guide to making good decisions in a world of missing data In the era of big data, it is easy to imagine that we have all the information we need to make good decisions. But in fact the...
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  • The Whole Truth
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    The Whole Truth

    A century ago, thoughtful people questioned how reality could agree with physical theories that keep changing, from a mechanical model of the ether to electric and magnetic fields, and from...
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  • The World as We Know It
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    The World as We Know It

    From the award-winning author of Revolutionizing the Sciences, a monumental historical account of how we came to see the world through the lens of scienceScience is the basis of our assumptions about...
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  • The Wake of HMS Challenger
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    The Wake of HMS Challenger

    A scientific adventure story that dramatises how profoundly our oceans have changed over the past 150 years.In December 1872, HMS Challenger embarked on the first round-the-world oceanographic...
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  • Nano Comes to Life
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    Nano Comes to Life

    Nano Comes to Life opens a window onto the nanoscale — the infinitesimal realm of proteins and DNA where physics and cellular and molecular biology meet — and introduces readers to the rapidly...
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  • Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons
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    Hot Molecules, Cold Electrons

    An entertaining mathematical exploration of the heat equation and its role in the triumphant development of the trans-Atlantic telegraph cableHeat, like gravity, shapes nearly every aspect of our...
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  • Cosmology’s Century
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    Cosmology’s Century

    Modern cosmology began a century ago with Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity and his notion of a homogenous, philosophically satisfying cosmos. Cosmology's Century is the story of how...
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  • The Language of Mathematics
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    The Language of Mathematics

    A marvellous compendium of mathematical symbols and their fascinating histories.Galileo famously wrote that the book of nature is written in mathematical language. The Language of Mathematics is a...
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  • On the Future
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    On the Future

    A provocative and inspiring look at the future of humanity and science from world-renowned scientist and bestselling author Martin ReesHumanity has reached a critical moment. Our world is unsettled...
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  • At the Edge of Time
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    At the Edge of Time

    Scientists in recent decades have made crucial discoveries about how our cosmos evolved over the past 13.8 billion years. But we still know little about what happened in the first seconds after the...
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  • Spark
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    Spark

    When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic devices — or perhaps we envision the lightning-streaked clouds of a stormy...
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