Heather McKillop
"Comprehensive…clearly written…Highly recommended."—ChoiceMore
Pat Shipman
A bold, illuminating new take on the love of animals that drove human evolution.More
A. Roger Ekirch
"Remarkable….Ekirch has emptied night's pockets, and laid the contents out before us."—Arthur Krystal, The New YorkerMore
Charles Darwin, Nora Barlow
The only complete edition.More
Richard Dawkins
"The best general account of evolution I have read in recent years."--E. O. Wilson. With a new introduction.More
Stephen Jay Gould
Second Edition
A new edition of the beautifully illustrated depiction of the dramatic story of survival and extinction.More
Michael Cook
"Enthralling....If so compact a book can be magisterial, [this] is it.—Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World... "A smart, literate survey of human life from paleolithic times until 9/11."—Edward Rothstein, The New York TimesMore
Stephen Jay Gould
"Provocative and delightfully discursive essays on natural history. . . . Gould is the Stan Musial of essay writing. He can work himself into a corkscrew of ideas and improbable allusions paragraph after paragraph and then, uncoiling, hit it with such power that his fans know they are experiencing the game of essay writing at its best."--John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review
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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
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
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
Patrick Tierney
The explosive and highly controversial National Book Award finalist that has forever changed the discipline of anthropology.More
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
Charles Darwin, Mark Ridley
Second Edition
"Here is Darwin in his own words, at once accessible and profound, ranging widely over many problems that fascinated him and through which he made discoveries that changed the world." —From the First EditionMore
Adrian Desmond, James Moore
"Unquestionably the finest [biography] ever written about Darwin. . . . Darwin has now become, and properly, the quintessentially socially embedded scientist. Desmond and Moore are brilliant in their pursuit of this truly unifying theme."—Stephen Jay GouldMore