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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. 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

4. 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

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

   Sean B. Carroll

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

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

   Sean B. Carroll

   Throw out your fossils—the best evidence for evolution is now found in DNA.More

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. The Darwin Reader

    Charles Darwin, Mark Ridley

    Second Edition

11. 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

12. The Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882

    Charles Darwin, Nora Barlow

    The only complete edition.More

13. From So Simple a Beginning: Darwin's Four Great Books

    Charles Darwin, E. O. Wilson

    A gorgeous gift and a landmark work that is an essential addition to everyone's personal library.More

14. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

    Richard Dawkins

    "The best general account of evolution I have read in recent years."--E. O. Wilson. With a new introduction.More

15. 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