Chicago Sciences Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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What Is a Dog?
Raymond CoppingerChicago SciencesCan you teach your old dog new tricks? Is your old dog even a dog? Not really, say Raymond and Lorna Coppinger in this adapted excerpt of What Is a #Dog? @UChicagoPress, reprinted in the latest @NautilusMag issue #Quandary. https://t.co/oIm4iLqNia
Hardcover, 2016
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Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization
Eileen CristChicago SciencesA @UChicagoPress two-for @Rewilding: an incredibly engaged review of @hhansman's Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West citing the theoretical framework of Eileen Crist's Abundant Earth: Toward an Ecological Civilization, https://t.co/F1COsomRzu. https://t.co/yC1wF2JfQR
Paperback, 2019
$38.00Member price:$38.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Science on American Television: A History
Marcel Chotkowski LaFolletteChicago SciencesMarcel Chotkowski Lafollette @SmithsonianArch, author of "Science on the Air" and "Science on American Television" @UChicagoPress, talks to @JohnsHopkins Magazine about Hopkins's "path-making" TV show Science Review https://t.co/Cn728cgXzp via @HubJHU
Hardcover, 2012
$56.00Member price:$56.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
The Book of Eggs: A Lifesize Guide to the Eggs of Six Hundred of the World's Bird Species
Mark E. HauberChicago SciencesA @FieldMuseum collection w/ a gorgeous #book accompaniment, to boot! We're forever agog @UChicagoPress at The Book of #Eggs: A Life-Size Guide to the🥚s of 600 of the World’s #Bird Species https://t.co/mCbYMm0fp4. Stoked to be agog at the collection on #BrainScoop, too, @ehmee! https://t.co/BkTsUNVgax
Hardcover, 2014
$55.00Member price:$52.25 + Free shipping5% off
Running Science: Optimizing Training and Performance
John BrewerChicago SciencesHappy @bostonmarathon #BostonMarathon #Boston2019 day! Curious what's actually going on in these extraordinary athletes' bodies as they take on @CityOfBoston's hills? @UChicagoPress has the #SportScience #book for you: John Brewer's #Running #Science https://t.co/xfJ6lZjUo2
Hardcover, 2017
$33.00Member price:$33.00 + Free shipping0% off(Limited Discount Book)
Science on the Air: Popularizers and Personalities on Radio and Early Television
Marcel Chotkowski LaFolletteChicago SciencesMarcel Chotkowski Lafollette @SmithsonianArch, author of "Science on the Air" and "Science on American Television" @UChicagoPress, talks to @JohnsHopkins Magazine about Hopkins's "path-making" TV show Science Review https://t.co/Cn728cgXzp via @HubJHU
Hardcover, 2008
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The Demon in the Machine: How Hidden Webs of Information Are Solving the Mystery of Life
Paul DaviesChicago SciencesPaul Davies's The Demon in the Machine is coming to the US this fall @UChicagoPress, @philipcball! Along with another goody... https://t.co/WOzBqcCOiN https://t.co/a6YTQjJWYd
Hardcover, 2019
$30.00Member price:$28.50 + Free shipping5% off
Ahab's Rolling Sea: A Natural History of Moby-Dick
Richard J. KingChicago SciencesAnd speaking of #whales, that beautiful sea-blue cover comes from Richard J. King's #Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of #MobyDick, setting sail this October. Quoth @philipwhale, "A contemporary, witty, almost postmodern field guide.” https://t.co/FPwh5FoC1W https://t.co/I1k6NM18zx
Hardcover, 2019
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The Devil's Cormorant: A Natural History
Richard J. KingChicago SciencesAnd speaking of #whales, that beautiful sea-blue cover comes from Richard J. King's #Ahab’s Rolling Sea: A Natural History of #MobyDick, setting sail this October. Quoth @philipwhale, "A contemporary, witty, almost postmodern field guide.” https://t.co/FPwh5FoC1W https://t.co/I1k6NM18zx
Paperback, 2014
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Redefining Success in America: A New Theory of Happiness and Human Development
Michael KaufmanChicago SciencesAs #Harvard (coincidentally) trends, over at the @UChicagoPress blog read an excerpt from #pyschology, #humandevelopment & #happiness scholar Michael B. Kaufman's Redefining #Success in America --a timely and rigorous extension of the legendary @Harvard Student Study. https://t.co/MiIqifPTLW
Paperback, 2019
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