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  • Melzak, ZA. 2007. Companion to concrete mathematics. Dover ed. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications.
  • Mrowka, Tomasz, and Peter Steven Ozsváth, eds. 2009. Low dimensional topology. Providence, R.I. Princeton, N.J.: American Mathematical Society ; Institute for Advanced Study.
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  • Adelman, Larry, Llewellyn Smith, Vital Pictures, National Minority Consortia, and California Newsreel, eds. 2008. Unnatural causes [videorecording] : Is inequality making us sick?. Widescreen format ed. San Francisco, Calif.: California Newsreel.
  • Armstrong, F. A., and Katherine M. Blundell, eds. 2007. Energy– beyond oil. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Clover, Charles. 2006. The end of the line : How overfishing is changing the world and what we eat. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Creighton, Sarah Hammond. 1998. Greening the ivory tower : Improving the environmental track record of universities, colleges and other institutions. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
  • Jeans, Christopher,Producer., Julian Sabath Editor., Television Trust for the Environment, United Nations Environment Programme, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences, eds. 2006. H₂O [videorecording] : Hilltops-2-oceans. Princeton, NJ: Films for the Humanities & Sciences.
  • Opie, John. 1998. Nature’s nation : An environmental history of the United States. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.
  • Roberts, Peter, Joe Ravetz, and Clive George, eds. 2009. Environment and the city. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Santiago, Myrna I. 2006. The ecology of oil : Environment, labor, and the mexican revolution, 1900-1938. Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Schnaiberg, Allan, and Kenneth Alan Gould, eds. 2000. Environment and society : The enduring conflict. Caldwell, N.J.: Blackburn Press.
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  • Cruz, Martín de la. 2000. An Aztec herbal : The classic codex of 1552. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications.
  • Fields, Sherry. 2008. Pestilence and headcolds : Encountering illness in colonial Mexico. New York: Columbia University Press.
  • Largent, Mark A. 2008. Breeding contempt : The history of coerced sterilization in the United States. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press.
  • Nasr, Seyyed Hossein, and Roland Michaud, eds. 1976. Islamic science : An illustrated study. S.l.: Kazi Publications.
  • Opie, John. 1998. Nature’s nation : An environmental history of the United States. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers.
  • Roberts, Peter, Joe Ravetz, and Clive George, eds. 2009. Environment and the city. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Rudwick, Martin JS. 2005. Bursting the limits of time : The reconstruction of geohistory in the age of revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Segerstråle, Ullica. 2000. Defenders of the truth : The battle for science in the sociobiology debate and beyond. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Theon, of Smyrna, Christos Toulis, Robert Lawlor Translator., and Deborah Lawlor Translator., eds. 1979. Mathematics useful for understanding Plato. San Diego: Wizards Bookshelf.
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  • Ehrman, Jonathan K., ed. 2009. Clinical exercise physiology. 2nd ed. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics.
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  • Allen, Larry Glenn, Daniel J. Pondella, and Michael H. Horn, eds. 2006. Ecology of marine fishes : California and adjacent waters. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Burns, Kate, Nick Kolias, Rhoda Olenick, Arleen Prairie, and Magna Systems, eds. 2005. Heredity and the environment [videorecording] : The beginnings of a baby. Barrington, IL: Magna Systems Inc.
  • Evans, Charles, and foreword D. Michael Stoddart. 2003. Vomeronasal chemoreception in vertebrates : A study of the second nose. London River Edge, N.J.: Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub.
  • Light, Sol Felty,  and James T. Carlton, eds. 2007. The Light and Smith manual : Intertidal invertebrates from central California to Oregon. 4 , completely rev. and expand ed. Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press.
  • Murray, Steven N., Richard F. Ambrose, and Megan Nichols Dethier, eds. 2006. Monitoring rocky shores. Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Pearse, Vicki, ed. 1987. Living invertebrates. Palo Alto, Calif. Pacific Grove, Calif.: Blackwell Scientific Publications.
  • Pollan, Michael. 2002. The botany of desire : A plant’s-eye view of the world.  New York: Random House.
  • Rilov, Gil, and Jeffrey A. Crooks, eds. 2009. Biological invasions in marine ecosystems : Ecological, management, and geographic perspectives. Berlin: Springer.
  • Segerstråle, Ullica. 2000. Defenders of the truth : The battle for science in the sociobiology debate and beyond. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Williams, Travis. 2009. The Willamette river field guide. Portland: Timber Press.
  • Yoshioka, Keiko, and Kazuo Shinozaki, eds. 2009. Signal crosstalk in plant stress responses. Ames, Iowa: Wiley-Blackwell.
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  • Enders, Jim. 2008. Imperial nature : Joseph Hooker and the practices of Victorian science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Grosholz, Emily R. 2007. Representation and productive ambiguity in mathematics and the sciences. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
  • LaFollette, Marcel Chotkowski. 2008. Science on the air : Popularizers and personalities on radio and early television. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Sessler, A. M., and E. J. N. Wilson, eds. 2007. Engines of discovery : A century of particle accelerators. New Jersey: World Scientific.
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  • Kenyon, IR. 2008. The light fantastic : A modern introduction to classical and quantum optics. New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Kitchin, Chris. 2007. Galaxies in turmoil : The active and starburst galaxies and the black holes that drive them. London: Springer.
  • Nelson, Jenny. 2003. The physics of solar cells. London: Imperial College Press.
  • Nolas, G. S., J. Sharp, and H. J. Goldsmid, eds. 2001. Thermoelectrics : Basic principles and new materials developments. New York: Springer.
  • Rowe, David Michael, ed. 2006. Thermoelectrics handbook : Macro to nano. Boca Raton: CRC/Taylor & Francis.
  • Schlosshauer, Maximilian. 2007. Decoherence and the quantum-to-classical transition. New York: Springer.
  • Sessler, A. M., and E. J. N. Wilson, eds. 2007. Engines of discovery : A century of particle accelerators. New Jersey: World Scientific.
  • Tolstikhin, I. N., and Jan Kramers, eds. 2008. The evolution of matter : From the big bang to the present day earth. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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  • Hawthorne, F. C., ed. 2006. Landmark papers : Structure topology. London: Mineralogical Society of Great Britain & Ireland.
  • London, David. 2008. Pegmatites. Ottawa, Ontario: Mineralogical Association of Canada.
  • Ogg, James G., Gabi Ogg, and F. M. Gradstein, eds. 2008. The concise geologic time scale. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Rice, Stephen P., André G. Roy, and Bruce L. Rhoads, eds. 2008. River confluences, tributaries, and the fluvial network. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
  • Tolstikhin, I. N., and Jan Kramers, eds. 2008. The evolution of matter : From the big bang to the present day earth. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Vernon, R. H., and G. L. Clarke, eds. 2008. Principles of metamorphic petrology. New York: Cambridge University Press.
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  • Craig, Robin Kundis, and Environmental Law Institute, eds. 2009. The Clean Water Act and the Constitution : Legal structure and the public’s right to a clean and healthy environment. 2nd ed. Washington, D.C.: Environmental Law Institute.
  • Mills, Robin M. 2008. The myth of the oil crisis : Overcoming the challenges of depletion, geopolitics, and global warming. Westport, Conn.: Praeger.
  • Radkau, Joachim, and Thomas Dunlap, eds. 2008. Nature and power : A global history of the environment. 1st English ed. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Saha, Kshudiram. 2008. The earth’s atmosphere : Its physics and dynamics. Berlin: Springer.
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  • Abelson, John, and Philip Hauge Abelson, eds. 2008. Uncle Phil and the atomic bomb. Greenwood Village, Colo.: Roberts and Co.
  • Barnes, Linda L. 2005. Needles, herbs, gods, and ghosts : China, healing, and the west to 1848. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press.
  • Barrow, John D. 2008. Cosmic imagery : Key images in the history of science. 1st Amer. ed. New York: W.W. Norton.
  • Deibert, Ronald, ed. 2008. Access denied : The practice and policy of global internet filtering. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
  • Donald, Diana, and Jane Munro, eds. 2009. Endless forms : Charles Darwin, natural science and the visual arts. Cambridge, UK New Haven Conn.: Fitzwilliam Museum ; Yale Center for British Art in association with Yale University Press.
  • Greenberg, Daniel S. 2007. Science for sale : The perils, rewards, and delusions of campus capitalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Harkness, Deborah E. 2007. The jewel house : Elizabethan London and the scientific revolution. New Haven: Yale University Press.
  • Hess, David J. 1991. Spirits and scientists : Ideology, spiritism, and brazilian culture. University Park Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press.
  • Jacobsen, Rowan. 2008. Fruitless fall : The collapse of the honey bee and the coming agricultural crisis. 1st U.S. ed. New York: Bloomsbury.
  • Jones, Sheilla. 2008. The quantum ten : A story of passion, tragedy, ambition and science. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press.
  • Kagan, Jerome. 2009. The three cultures : Natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities in the 21st century. New York: Cambridge University Press.
  • Lightman, Bernard. 2007. Victorian popularizers of science : Designing nature for new audiences. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Shank, JB. 2008. The Newton wars and the beginning of the French Enlightenment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Shapin, Steven. 2008. The scientific life : A moral history of a late modern vocation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Shore, Steven N. 2008. Forces in physics : A historical perspective. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press.
  • Turnbull, David. 2003. Masons, tricksters and cartographers : Comparative studies in the sociology of scientific and indigenous knowledge. New York: Routledge.
  • Weyl, Hermann. 2009. Philosophy of mathematics and natural science. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
  • Williams, F. Mary, and Carolyn J. Emerson, eds. 2008. Becoming leaders : A practical handbook for women in engineering, science, and technology. Reston, Va.: ASCE Press.
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