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1. Why We Do It: Rethinking Sex and the Selfish Gene

   Niles Eldredge

   A major refutation of the almighty status of genes in evolution and human behavior.More

2. The Doctors' Plague: Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis

   Sherwin B. Nuland

   "Riveting" (Houston Chronicle), "captivating" (Discover), and "compulsively readable" (San Francisco Chronicle).More

3. Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome

   Henry Gee

   What makes us as humans all alike and yet as individuals so different?More

4. Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough

   Rebecca Stott

   Reprint

   "In Darwin and the Barnacle...ideas light up like matches on each page."—John Leonard, Harper's
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5. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

   Mary Roach

   "One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment WeeklyMore

6. Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville: A Lifelong Passion for Baseball

   Stephen Jay Gould, David Halberstam

   "Scientific analysis intersects with flat-out fandom. [Gould] could write, he was funny, and he loved, loved baseball."—BooklistMore

7. Federal Bodysnatchers and the New Guinea Virus: Tales of Parasites, People, and Politics

   Robert S. Desowitz

   "[Desowitz's] stories...rank among the best current examples of medical detective prose."—BooklistMore

8. Of Moths and Men: An Evolutionary Tale: The Untold Story of Science and the Peppered Moth

   Judith Hooper

   "An engrossing narrative" (Wall Street Journal) that does for evolutionary biology what The Double Helix did for DNA.More

9. Principles of Developmental Biology

   Sarah Hake, Fred Wilt

   Fred Wilt and Sarah Hake’s Principles of Developmental Biology is a modern new text for the undergraduate course in developmental biology, informed by the molecular and cell biology revolutions that have changed the field over the last fifteen years.More

10. The Earth Policy Reader

    Earth Policy Institute, Lester R. Brown, Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts, Et Al.

    Award-winning environmental analyst Lester R. Brown and his colleagues chart progress in building the eco-economy, an economy that is compatible with the earth's ecosystem.More

11. The Evolution Explosion: How Humans Cause Rapid Evolutionary Change

    Stephen R. Palumbi

    "Palumbi has hit upon...one of the most important but widely neglected issues of our time."—Edward O. WilsonMore

12. The Origin of Species

    Charles Darwin, Philip Appleman

    Revised Edition

    Here is the revised edition of Charles Dawrin's The Origin of Species, introduced and abridged by Philip Appleman, published by W. W. Norton.More

13. Shots in the Dark: The Wayward Search for an AIDS Vaccine

    Jon Cohen

    "[A]n important book not only for the now but for the future of this epidemic and those to come."—Dr. Robert GalloMore

14. The Book of Life: An Illustrated History of the Evolution of Life on Earth

    Stephen Jay Gould

    Second Edition

    A new edition of the beautifully illustrated depiction of the dramatic story of survival and extinction.More

15. Something New Under the Sun: An Environmental History of the Twentieth-Century World

    J. R. McNeill

    "Refreshingly unpolemical and at times even witty, McNeill's book brims with carefully sifted statistics and brilliant details."—Washington Post Book WorldMore