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Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux, March 2013. Hardcover. Winner of 2014 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Best Young Adult Science Book Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award One of Nature's Summer Book Picks One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring 2013 Science Books For centuries, we've.....
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Mariner Books, June 2023. Trade Paperback. By the author of the acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, a "brilliant" and "beautifully told" new natural history of mammals, illuminating the lost story of the extraordinary family tree that led to us [New Scientist; The Times UK] National Bestseller.....
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Oxford University Press, October 1990. Trade Paperback.
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Henry Holt and Co., December 1998. Hardcover. "Despite the efforts of many earnest and life-affirming people to persuade me that the vampire bat is our friend and that Native Americans enjoyed true harmony with Brother Wolf, I have never quite overcome the gut feeling that fear of nature is normal....It.....
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, June 2017. Hardcover. A trailblazing biologist grapples with her role in the biggest scientific discovery of our era: a cheap, easy way of rewriting genetic code, with nearly limitless promise and peril. Not since the atomic bomb has a technology so alarmed its inventors that they warned.....
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Vintage, February 2025. Trade Paperback. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION FINALIST - THE REAL ORIGIN OF OUR SPECIES: a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, and.....
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Riverhead Books, December 2025. Trade Paperback. NOW IN PAPERBACK - THE MILLION COPY NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, FEATURING NEW MATERIAL "I highly recommend this book." --Wim Hof "A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe--and how we've all been doing it wrong for a long.....
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Yale University Press, October 2025. Trade Paperback. From a renowned biologist and best-selling author, a whole new way of looking at living organisms: reading them as documents describing ancient worlds A Financial Times Best Book of 2024: Science - Named Science Book of the Year by Times (UK) - A......
New York University Press, January 1977. Hardcover. A bit yellowed. Jacket has some edgewear, but is now in a protective mylar cover. A bit yellowed. Jacket has some edgewear, but is now in a protective mylar cover.
Garnstone P. Hardcover.
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W.H. Freeman & Company, October 1999. Hardcover. This text is an accessible overview of how the natural world works, seen in the context of how we - humans - fit into it. It begins with the micro issues, a close-up of DNA, genes, viruses and cells, and then moves out.....
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Yale University Press, October 1999. Hardcover. During the past ten years, there has been a revolution in our understanding of developmental biology, as scientists apply the ideas and techniques of genetics and embryology to the processes of development. In this book, John Maynard Smith gives an account of the progress.....
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Simon & Schuster, April 2021. Trade Paperback. A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A "remarkable" (Los Angeles Times), "seductive" (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don't Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of.....
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Penguin Publishing Group, October 2024. Trade Paperback. The instant New York Times bestseller "Excellent . . . Outstanding for its breadth of research, the liveliness of the writing, and the depth of humanity it conveys." -Wall Street Journal One of our great behavioral scientists, the bestselling author of Behave, mounts.....
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, November 2018. Trade Paperback. In a stirring exploration of human nature recalling his foundational work Consilience, Edward O. Wilson offers a "luminous" (Kirkus Reviews) reflection on the humanities and their integral relationship to science. Both endeavors, Wilson argues, have their roots in human creativity--the defining trait of.....
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Penguin Books, May 2018. Trade Paperback. New York Times bestseller - Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize - One of the Washington Post's 10 Best Books of the Year "It's no exaggeration to say that Behave is one of the best nonfiction books I've ever read." --David P......
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Hyperion Books, June 1996. Hardcover. Burr's 1993 cover story in the Atlantic Monthly, Homosexuality and Biology, introduced many readers to the often astonishing research being conducted on the question of what--at the biological level--made a person either heterosexual or homosexual. With this book, Burr expands his investigation into a full-length.....
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Pegasus Books, September 2024. Hardcover. **An Amazon Best Science Book of 2024** An expansive investigation into the most unifying and enduring structure in the history of life--and a story of biological richness at a moment when so much of our precious biodiversity hangs in the balance. Eggs are the origins.....
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Picador, October 2021. Trade Paperback. "Enthralling . . . breathtaking . . . Metazoa brings an extraordinary and astute look at our own mind's essential link to the animal world." --The New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) "A great book . . . [Godfrey-Smith is] brilliant at describing just.....
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux, September 2024. Hardcover. One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024 The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet. If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise.....
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W. W. Norton & Company, June 2016. Trade Paperback. The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex life is the way it is, or, for that matter, how life first.....
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Vintage, November 1996. Paperback. Finalist for Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction Finalist for National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Pronged ants, horned humans, a landscape carved on a fruit pit--some of the displays in David Wilson's Museum of Jurassic Technology are hoaxes. But which ones? As he guides readers.....
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Simon & Schuster, August 2019. Trade Paperback. In this New York Times bestseller and longlist nominee for the National Book Award, "our greatest living chronicler of the natural world" (The New York Times), David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology affect our understanding of evolution and life's history.....
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Oxford University Press, February 2009. Trade Paperback. In The Origin of Species (1859) Darwin challenged many of the most deeply-held beliefs of the Western world. Arguing for a material, not divine, origin of species, he showed that new species are achieved by "natural selection." The Origin communicates the enthusiasm of.....
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Signet, September 2003. Mass Market Paperback. Charles Darwin's classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world. Few other books have created such a lasting storm of controversy as The Origin of Species. Darwin's theory that species derive from.....
