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1. The Earth Policy Reader

   Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Darwin

   Charles Darwin, Philip Appleman

   Third Edition

   "The best Darwin anthology on the market" (Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard) has just become better, in this newly revised version of the now classic Norton Critical Edition, first published in 1970.More

8. Rosalind Franklin and DNA

   Anne Sayre

   Rosalind Franklin's research was central to the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA. She never received the credit she was due during her lifetime.
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9. Cats' Paws and Catapults: Mechanical Worlds of Nature and People

   Steven Vogel, Kathryn K. Davis

   "Full of ideas and well-explained principles that will bring new understanding of everyday things to both scientists and non-scientists alike."—R. McNeill Alexander, NatureMore

10. Clones and Clones: Facts and Fantasies About Human Cloning

    Martha C. Nussbaum, Cass R. Sunstein

    "These two dozen essays by experts ranging from Stephen Jay Gould to Andrea Dworkin are an excellent guide to the post-Dolly world." --Chicago Tribune, Choice Selections of 1998More

11. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies

    Jared Diamond

    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize.More

12. Life Out of Bounds: Bioinvasion in a Borderless World

    Chris Bright

    The first general-interest study of the global spread of alien, "exotic" organisms and how they are undermining the world's ecosystems and societies.More

13. The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain

    Terrence W. Deacon

    "A work of enormous breadth, likely to pleasantly surprise both general readers and experts."—New York Times Book ReviewMore

14. Climbing Mount Improbable

    Richard Dawkins, Lalla Ward

    A brilliant book celebrating improbability as the engine that drives life, by the acclaimed author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker.More

15. In a Desert Garden: Love and Death Among the Insects

    John Alcock, Turid Forsyth

    An elegant combination of meticulous science and nature reverie that draws its reader into the diverse, competitive, and even seductive world of desert plants and insects.More