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1. 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

2. Vaccine: The Controversial Story of Medicine's Greatest Lifesaver

   Arthur Allen

   "A timely, fair-minded and crisply written account."—New York Times Book ReviewMore

3. Evolution

   Carl T. Bergstrom, Lee Alan Dugatkin

   Written by active researchers to present a contemporary view of the field.More

4. 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

5. 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

6. Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization

   Lester R. Brown

   Substantially Revised

   “[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington PostMore

7. Discover Biology

   Michael L. Cain, Carol Kaesuk Yoon, Anu Singh-Cundy

   Full Fourth Edition

   Discover Biology helps students become biologically literate students—to progress from science to scientific literacy.More

8. Discover Biology

   Michael L. Cain, Carol Kaesuk Yoon, Anu Singh-Cundy

   Core Topics Fourth Edition

   Discover Biology helps students become biologically literate students—to progress from science to scientific literacy.More

9. If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Save the Earth

   Helen Caldicott

   Revised and updated

   “Helen Caldicott has the rare ability to combine science with passion, logic with love, and urgency with humor.” —Naomi KleinMore

10. The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution

    Sean B. Carroll

    DNA evidence not only solves crimes—in Sean Carroll's hands it will now end the Evolution Wars.More

11. Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

    Sean B. Carroll

    “A beautiful and very important book.”—Lewis Wolpert, American ScientistMore

12. 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

13. Swimming with Piranhas at Feeding Time: My Life Doing Dumb Stuff with Animals

    Richard Conniff

    “Hilariously informative. . . . This book will remind you why you always wanted to be a naturalist.”—OutsideMore

14. Human Biology and Ecology

    Albert Damon, W. W. Howells, Romayne Timms

    This book is designed for introductory courses in physical anthropology or human biology where the emphasis is on human variation.More

15. 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