Environmental & Earth Sciences
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Transplanting Modernity?: New Histories of Poverty, Development, and Environment [Hardback]
Jenny Leigh Smith (Editor); Tom Robertson (Editor)
£39.00ISBN: 9780822946397
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment
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Linking Up Los Angeles: How the Telephone Built a City [Hardback]
Emily Bills (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9780822946342
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Pittsburgh Hist Urban Environment
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Correspondence of John Tyndall, Volume 9, The: The Correspondence, November 1865–March 1868 [Hardback]
Iwan Rhys Morus (Editor); Geoffrey Belknap (Editor); James C. Ungureanu (Editor)
£115.00ISBN: 9780822946083
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: The Correspondence of John Tyndall
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Krakow: An Ecobiography [Hardback]
Adam Izdebski (Author)
£28.50ISBN: 9780822946137
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Russian and East European Studies
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Like most cities, Poland's Krakow developed around and because of its favorable geography. Before Warsaw, Krakow served as Poland's capital for half a millennium. It has functioned as a cultural center, an industrial center, a center of learning, ... .... Learn More -
A Tale of Two Viruses: The Parallel Research Trajectories of Tumor and Bacterial Viruses [Hardback]
Neeraja Sankaran (Author)
£43.00ISBN: 9780822946304
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
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In 1965, French microbiologist André Lwoff was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on lysogeny - one of the two types of viral life cycles - which resolved a contentious debate among scientists about the nature of viruse... .... Learn More -
Explorations in the Icy North: How Travel Narratives Shaped Arctic Science in the Nineteenth Century [Hardback]
Nanna Katrine Luders Kaalund (Author)
£31.00ISBN: 9780822946595
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: Sci & Culture in the Nineteenth Century
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Science in the Arctic changed dramatically over the course of the nineteenth century, when early, scattered attempts in the region to gather knowledge about all aspects of the natural world transitioned to a more unified Arctic science under the F... .... Learn More -
Far Beyond the Moon: A History of Life Support Systems in the Space Age [Hardback]
Kärin Nickelsen (Author); David P. D. Munns (Author)
£25.50ISBN: 9780822946540
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment
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From the beginning of the space age, scientists and engineers have worked on systems to help humans survive for the astounding 28,500 days (78 years) needed to reach another planet. They've imagined and tried to create a little piece of Earth in a... .... Learn More -
Nature's Diplomats: Science, Internationalism, and Preservation, 1920-1960 [Hardback]
Raf De Bont (Author)
£43.00ISBN: 9780822946618
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: INTERSECTIONS: Histories of Environment
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Nature’s Diplomats explores the development of science-based and internationally conceived nature protection in its foundational years before the 1960s, the decade when it launched from obscurity onto the global stage. Raf De Bont studies... .... Learn More -
Cultural Landscapes of India: Imagined, Enacted, and Reclaimed [Hardback]
Amita Sinha (Author)
£39.00ISBN: 9780822946427
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Most people view cultural heritage sites as static places, frozen in time. In Cultural Landscapes in India, Amita Sinha subverts the idea of heritage as static and examines the ways that landscapes influence culture and that culture influ... .... Learn More -
Coastal Metropolis: Environmental Histories of Modern New York City [Hardback]
Carl A. Zimring (Editor); Steven H. Corey (Editor)
£35.00ISBN: 9780822946526
Published by : University of Pittsburgh Press
Series: History of the Urban Environment
Built on an estuary, New York City is rich in population and economic activity but poor in available land to manage the needs of a modern city. Since consolidation of the five boroughs in 1889, New York has faced innumerable challenges, from compl... .... Learn More
