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Analysis of Vertebrate Structureby Milton Hildebrand, G. E. GoslowISBN 0471295051 (0-471-29505-1)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Analysis of Vertebrate Structure'Book summary:This Third Edition of the widely-used text retains the logical organization and clear, lively style that have made previous editions so popular. It begins with a thorough overview of the field, including its evolution, its theoretical and conceptual underpinnings, significant recent findings, and areas open to further research. Its three-part structure--a survey of vertebrates, organ systems, and structural adaptation--provides a comprehensive treatment of this discipline. Coverage includes the latest information on the systematics of extinct groups, extended discussions of reproduction and growth, respiratory and circulatory systems of vertebrates, and their skeletal and anatomical characteristics. There is also discussion of homology/analogy, parallelism/convergence, cladistics, classification, and ancestry, thermoregulation and energy storage, and much more. Features superb illustrations and a glossary of over 500 terms. [via]
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- Analysis of Vertebrate Structure: ISBN 0471090581 (0-471-09058-1)
Hardcover, Wiley - Analysis of Vertebrate Structure: ISBN 0471308234 (0-471-30823-4)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc - Analysis of Vertebrate Structure: ISBN 0471395803 (0-471-39580-3)
Hardcover, Wiley - Analysis of Vertebrate Structure: ISBN 0471825689 (0-471-82568-9)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc - Analysis of Vertebrate Structure: ISBN 0471295051 (0-471-29505-1)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Analysis of Vertebrate Structure: ISBN 0471090581 (0-471-09058-1)
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Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environmentby Knut Schmidt-NielsenISBN 0521570980 (0-521-57098-0)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment'Book summary:hardcover animal physiology college textbook [via]
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- Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment: ISBN 0521259738 (0-521-25973-8)
Hardcover, Cambridge University Press - Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment: ISBN 0521381967 (0-521-38196-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr - Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment: ISBN 0521570980 (0-521-57098-0)
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- Animal Physiology: Adaptation and Environment: ISBN 0521259738 (0-521-25973-8)
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Biochemistry/Biochemistry Now With Infotracby Reginald H. Garrett, Charles M. GrishamISBN 0534490336 (0-534-49033-6)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Biochemistry/Biochemistry Now With Infotrac'Book summary:In Biochemistry, the questions can be more revealing than the answers. This Third Edition offers a unique conceptual and organizing framework, "Essential Questions." Guiding students through the density of the material by the use of section head questions, supporting concept statements, and summaries, this focused approach is supported by unparalleled text/media integration through BiochemistryNow, providing students with a seamless learning system. Beautifully and consistently illustrated, the Third Edition gives science majors the most current presentation of biochemistry available. Written by a chemist and a biologist, the book presents biochemistry from balanced perspectives. [via]
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Biological Sequence Analysis: Probabilistic Models of Proteins and Nucleic Acidsby Graeme Mitchison, Richard Durbin, Anders Krogh, R. EddyISBN 0521629713 (0-521-62971-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Biologyby William A. JensenISBN 0534006213 (0-534-00621-3)
Hardcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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Biology by Numbers: An Encouragement to Quantitative Thinkingby Richard F. BurtonISBN 0521576989 (0-521-57698-9)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Biology: Concepts and Applicationsby Cecie StarrISBN 0534563260 (0-534-56326-0)
Hardcover, Brooks/Cole Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Biology: Concepts and Applications'Book summary:Written for a general biology course for non-majors, this second edition can be tailored to the topics covered in any course. In addition to the full-length, hardcover book, the reader can now choose from two paperback bindings of selected chapters. One book focuses on basic concepts and includes a brief survey of diversity. The other book has a human emphasis. The book focuses on basic principles: basic chemistry, cellular organization and function, metabolism, inheritance, evolution and ecology. [via]
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Hardcover, Wadsworth Pub Co - Biology: Concepts and Applications: ISBN 053417616X (0-534-17616-X)
Hardcover, Wadsworth Pub Co - Biology: Concepts and Applications: ISBN 053450440X (0-534-50440-X)
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Biology: With Info Trac Concepts and Applicationsby StarrISBN 0534563228 (0-534-56322-8)
Hardcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Biology: With Info Trac Concepts and Applications'Book summary:This book is a coherent account of the sweep of life's diversity and its underlying unity, although we structured it in such a way that teachers can easily and selectively assign chapters from it. The book highlights concepts, current understandings, and research trends for all major fields of inquiry. [via]
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Biology With Infotrac: Concepts and ApplicationsISBN 0534563252 (0-534-56325-2)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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The Brainby Richard M. RestakISBN 0553353071 (0-553-35307-1)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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A Brand-New Bird: How Two Amateur Scientists Created the First Genetically Engineered Animalby Tim BirkheadISBN 0465006655 (0-465-00665-5)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Brand-New Bird: How Two Amateur Scientists Created the First Genetically Engineered Animal'Book summary:Long before Dolly the Sheep or bioengineered corn, there was the Red Canary-the first organism to be manipulated by genetic technology, back in the 1920s. The effort to produce a red canary invoked all of the deep issues that troubled genetic engineering decades later: the nature of genes and how they work, the specter of eugenics, and the relative roles of nature and nurture in determining what an organism is. Behavioral ecologist Tim Birkhead describes how a sweet-voiced green bird discovered by Spanish explorers in the 1300s became a craze in Renaissance Europe, how breeders gradually turned its green plumage to yellow, and how a pair of German scientists used the first bit of gene technology in the 1920s to produce an almost-red canary. But the true red canary would not come until the 1960s, when British scientists successfully bred one, and genes alone would not be sufficient to create one. A Brand New Bird is a compelling tale of a fascinating episode in the history of genetics.[via]More editions of A Brand-New Bird: How Two Amateur Scientists Created the First Genetically Engineered Animal:
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The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolutionby Robert D. Martin, Steve Jones, David Pilbeam, Sarah BunneyISBN 0521467861 (0-521-46786-1)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Human Evolution'Book summary:This is a new and refreshing introduction to the human species that places modern humans squarely in evolutionary perspective and treats evolution itself as a continuing genetic process in which every one of us is involved. Over seventy scholars worldwide have collaborated on the Encyclopedia, which is divided into ten main sections. Following a keynote introduction asking simply "What makes us human?", the coverage ranges widely: from genetics, primatology and fossil origins to human biology and ecology, brain function and behavior, and demography and disease. Emphasis is placed throughout on the biological diversity of modern people and the increasing convergence of the fossil and genetic evidence for human evolution that has emerged in recent years. Because of the need to look at humankind in the context of our closest relatives, the Encyclopedia also pays particular attention to the evolution and ecology of the living primates--lemurs, lorises, monkeys and apes. It deals with the evolution and ecology of human society, as reconstructed from archaeological remains, and from studies of indigenous peoples and living primates today. It considers the biology of uniquely human abilities such as language and upright walking, and it reviews the biological future of humankind in the face of challenges greater than those ever before experienced. Boxes highlighting key issues and techniques are provided throughout the text, and there are numerous maps, photographs, diagrams, and ready-reference tables--all the reader needs in a single volume to acquire a comprehensive knowledge of how humankind has developed and how scientists set about investigating the origin of our species. [via]
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Cephalopod Behaviourby Johnson, Rodney Lee, Sr., John B. Messenger, Roger T. HanlonISBN 0521645832 (0-521-64583-2)
Softcover, Cambridge University Press
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The Curves of Life: Being an Account of Spiral Formations and Their Application to Growth in Nature, to Science, and to Art With Special Referenceby Theodore Andrea CookISBN 048623701X (0-486-23701-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Darwinism And Its Discontentsby Michael RuseISBN 052182947X (0-521-82947-X)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Dinosauriaby David B. Weishampel, Peter Dodson, Halszka OsmólskaISBN 0520067266 (0-520-06726-6)
Hardcover, University of California Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dinosauria'Book summary:The Dinosauria provides a state-of-the-science view of current world research on dinosaur behavior, evolution, and extinction. Its internationally renowned authors, all specialists on the various members of the Dinosauria, contribute definitive descriptions and illustrations of these magnificent Mesozoic beasts.[via] 
The Dinosauriaby Peter Dodson, David B. Weishampel, Halszka OsmolskaISBN 0520067274 (0-520-06727-4)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Dust: A History of the Small and the Invisibleby Joseph A. AmatoISBN 0520231953 (0-520-23195-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dust: A History of the Small and the Invisible'Book summary:While the story of the big has often been told, the story of the small has not yet even been outlined. With Dust, Joseph Amato enthralls the reader with the first history of the small and the invisible. Dust is a poetic meditation on how dust has been experienced and the small has been imagined across the ages. Examining a thousand years of Western civilization--from the naturalism of medieval philosophy, to the artistry of the Renaissance, to the scientific and industrial revolutions, to the modern worlds of nanotechnology and viral diseases--Dust offers a savvy story of the genesis of the microcosm.[via]
Dust, which fills the deepest recesses of space, pervades all earthly things. Throughout the ages it has been the smallest yet the most common element of everyday life. Of all small things, dust has been the most minute particulate the eye sees and the hand touches. Indeed, until this century, dust was simply accepted as a fundamental condition of life; like darkness, it marked the boundary between the seen and the unseen.
With the full advent of scientific discovery, technological innovation, and social control, dust has been partitioned, dissected, manipulated, and even invented. In place of traditional and generic dust, a highly diverse particulate has been discovered and examined. Like so much else that was once considered minute, dust has been magnified by the twentieth-century transformations of our conception of the small. These transformations--which took form in the laboratory through images of atoms, molecules, cells, and microbes--defined anew not only dust and the physical world but also the human body and mind. Amato dazzles the reader with his account of how this powerful microcosm challenges the imagination to grasp the magnitude of the small, and the infinity of the finite.
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Evolution and the Theory of Gamesby John M. SmithISBN 0521288843 (0-521-28884-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Evolution of Cooperationby Robert AxelrodISBN 0465005640 (0-465-00564-0)
Softcover, Basic Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Evolution of Cooperation'Book summary:This widely praised and much-discussed book explores how cooperation can emerge in a world of self-seeking egoistswhether superpowers, businesses, or individualswhen there is no central authority to police their actions.[via]More editions of The Evolution of Cooperation:
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Evolution Vs. Creationism: An Introductionby Eugenie C. Scott, Niles EldredgeISBN 0520246500 (0-520-24650-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Evolution Vs. Creationism: An Introduction'Book summary:Almost eighty years after the Scopes trial, the debate over the teaching of evolution continues to rage. There is no easy resolution--it is a complex topic with profound scientific, religious, educational, and legal implications. How can a student or parent understand this issue, which is such a vital part of education? Evolution vs. Creationism provides a badly needed, comprehensive, and balanced survey. Written by one of the leading advocates for the teaching of evolution in the United states, this accessible resource provides an introduction to the many facets of the current debate--the scientific evidence for evolution, the legal and educational basis for its teaching, and the various religious points of view--as well as a concise history of the evolution-creationism controversy.[via]
Each of the four sections of Evolution vs. Creationism provides a resource that will assist the reader in better understanding these issues. The first section addresses the nature of how evolution works as part of the scientific enterprise, as well as a summary of the relationship between religious beliefs and science. A section on the history of the controversy provides a handy synopsis of the lengthy struggles, from before Darwin to the present day, between advocates of creationism and the proponents of evolution. A collection of primary source documents addressing cosmology, law, education, and religious issues from all sides of the debate constitute the third section. The book concludes with a selection of resources for further information for those who wish to study the topic in more depth.More editions of Evolution Vs. Creationism: An Introduction:
Exploring Matrices and Vectorsby Paul Raymond ScottISBN 0471767913 (0-471-76791-3)
Hardcover, Wiley
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Fantastic Voyageby Isaac AsimovISBN 0553275720 (0-553-27572-0)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fantastic Voyage'Book summary:Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic sub through a dying man's carotid artery to destroy a blood clot in his brain. If they fail, the entire world will be doomed. [via]
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Henderson's Dictionary of Biological Termsby Eleanor LawrenceISBN 0470214465 (0-470-21446-5)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Nowby William H. CalvinISBN 046507278X (0-465-07278-X)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'How Brains Think: Evolving Intelligence, Then and Now'Book summary:William Calvin, a neurophysiologist and author of The River That Flows Uphill: A Journey from the Big Bang to the Big Brain, attempts to reclaim the study of human consciousness from physicists like Roger Penrose. Physicists, Calvin suggests, reduce the mind to subatomic particles and mathematical equations, whereas those in his specialty see the seat of consciousness and intelligence in higher levels of brain physiology--the neurons, synapses, and cortex. Calvin is a Darwinist who regards the unique level of human consciousness as the product of evolutionary forces that began with the ice ages two million years ago. The human response to this natural threat, he argues, was to develop mental faculties that allowed high-level communication and, thus, cooperation, leading to complex language capabilities and the distinguishing human characteristic of abstract thought. [via]
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Human Anatomy Coloring Bookby Margaret MattISBN 0486241386 (0-486-24138-6)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Human Blueprint: The Race to Unlock the Secrets of Our Genetic Scriptby Robert ShapiroISBN 055337057X (0-553-37057-X)
Softcover, Bantam Books
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Illustrated Notebook to accompany Principles of Anatomy and Physiologyby Gerard J. Tortora, Sandra Reynolds GabrowskiISBN 047125150X (0-471-25150-X)
Softcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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* "Clinical Application" sections demonstrate the clinical or professional significance of the discussion.
* Coverage of scientific research and breakthroughs in understanding the human body keep the book on the cutting edge. [via]More editions of Illustrated Notebook to accompany Principles of Anatomy and Physiology:
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Introduction to Physical Anthropologyby Robert JurmainISBN 0534767656 (0-534-76765-6)
Softcover, Wadsworth Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction to Physical Anthropology: Alternate Edition'Book summary:This successful text, now in its seventh edition, offers a biocultural perspective. It integrates basic evolutionary theory, human genetics, coverage of non-human primates, paleoanthropology, and modern population biology to illustrate the physical and behavioral evolution of human beings. New research integrated throughout the text. All Guest Essays are new. A new chapter has been added on Human Growth and Development and timelines have been added before each hominid chapter. Internet resources have been added to the end of each chapter. [via]
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- Introduction to Physical Anthropology: ISBN 0534514448 (0-534-51444-8)
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Softcover, Thomson Learning - Introduction to Physical Anthropology With Infotrac: ISBN 0534587887 (0-534-58788-7)
Softcover, Thomson Learning - Introduction to Physical Anthropology: ISBN 0534588018 (0-534-58801-8)
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Introduction to Physical Anthropology With Infotracby Harry Nelson, Lynn Kilgore, Wendy Trevathan, Robert JurmainISBN 0534274781 (0-534-27478-1)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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Introduction To Physical Anthropology With Infotracby Lynn Kilgore, Wendy Trevathan, Robert JurmainISBN 0534644228 (0-534-64422-8)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction To Physical Anthropology With Infotrac'Book summary:This mainstream, full-color physical anthropology text is the best-selling text in the market! While it continues to present a comprehensive, well-balanced introduction to the field of physical anthropology, this is a major revision and the book has shifted emphases in critical areas of biology, including molecular biology and genetics, to reflect the field as it stands today. Now, as a Media Edition, INTRODUCTION TO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY automatically comes with the new BASIC GENETICS CD which responds to growing interest in genetic variation driven by advances in molecular biology enhance. [via]
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Introduction To Physical Anthropology With Infotracby Wenda Trevathan, Lynn Kilgore, Robert JurmainISBN 053463902X (0-534-63902-X)
Softcover, Thomson Learning
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Introduction To Physical Anthropology With Infotrac'Book summary:This mainstream, full-color physical anthropology text is the best-selling text in the market! While it continues to present a comprehensive, well-balanced introduction to the field of physical anthropology, this is a major revision and the book has shifted emphases in critical areas of biology, including molecular biology and genetics, to reflect the field as it stands today. The excellent coverage of the fossil record and new fossil finds is maintained in this edition; however the authors have worked to take out excessive detail and clarify the presentation of complex material without sacrificing scholarship. They have also worked hard to eliminate any overly academic prose, and to facilitate critical thinking and student involvement with key chapter opening questions and other enhanced pedagogy. Also new in this edition, is a feature covering cutting edge advances in molecular biology, and expanded coverage of population biology and human variation. An outstanding four-color presentation featuring helpful flow charts, visual summaries, and most significant finds tables, along with maps, photo essays, multimedia, and an engaging writing style continue to provide introductory students with the best possible coverage of the field. [via]
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The Island of the Colorblindby Oliver SacksISBN 0517278952 (0-517-27895-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Jacobson's Organ : And the Remarkable Nature of Smellby Lyall WatsonISBN 0452282586 (0-452-28258-6)
Softcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Jacobson's Organ : And the Remarkable Nature of Smell'Book summary:The nose knows, says Lyall Watson, and in Jacobson's Organ, he sets out to prove that a humble, often overlooked set of nasal pits helps us decide whom to hit on, and whom to hit. First identified in 1811 by Danish anatomist Ludwig Levin Jacobson, the vomeronasal organ has been implicated in the reception of pheromones, those ephemeral chemical signals animals use to communicate nonverbally.
Watson organizes his thesis around the seven broad classes of smells identified by pioneering naturalist Carolus Linnaeus: floral, goatish, musky, foul, nauseating, spicy, and garlicky. In each section, Watson presents evidence of a surprising and unacknowledged role of smell and pheromones in human life. Is it possible that first impressions are the result of chemical signals? Watson thinks so, and also that pair-bonding, fistfights, love of offspring, and memories may have more to do with our humble nose than we think. In what is bound to be one of his more controversial stretches, Watson implicates nasal plastic surgery in postoperative mood changes:
Every time a surgeon slices away at a nasal septum in the name of fashion or vanity, both sides of Jacobson's organ are at risk of being damaged or even removed entirely, without thought for the consequences.... If you are considering cosmetic surgery on your nose, know that it could deprive you of the very things in life which having a new, cute, little button nose were supposed to improve.
Jacobson's Organ is full of Watson's pithy opinions and conjectures. Some are supported by science, some are not. But as we learn more about the role of the vomeronasal structures in human chemical communication, it becomes clear that a nosey approach is nothing to sneeze at. --Therese Littleton [via]
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Life at the Extremesby Frances AshcroftISBN 0520222342 (0-520-22234-2)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Life at the Extremes: The Science of Survivalby Frances AshcroftISBN 0520234200 (0-520-23420-0)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiologyby David DarlingISBN 0465015646 (0-465-01564-6)
Softcover, Perseus Books Group
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The Life Gameby Nigel Calder, British Broadcasting CorporationISBN 0563124261 (0-563-12426-1)
Hardcover, British Broadcasting Corporation
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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Lifeby Albert-Laszlo BarabasiISBN 0452284392 (0-452-28439-2)
Softcover, Plume
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Barabási's gift for concrete, nonmathematical explanations and penchant for eccentric humor would make the book thoroughly enjoyable even if the content weren't engaging. But the results of Barabási's research into the behavior of networks are deeply compelling. Not all networks are created equal, he says, and he shows how even fairly robust systems like the Internet could be crippled by taking out a few super-connected nodes, or hubs. His mathematical descriptions of this behavior are helping doctors, programmers, and security professionals design systems better suited to their needs. Linked presents the next step in complexity theory--from understanding chaos to practical applications. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversityby Eric R. Pianka, Laurie J. VittISBN 0520248473 (0-520-24847-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity'Book summary:From tiny to gigantic, from drab to remarkably beautiful, from harmless to venomous, lizards are spectacular products of natural selection. This book, lavishly illustrated with color photographs, is the first comprehensive reference on lizards around the world. Accessible, scientifically up-to-date, and written with contagious enthusiasm for the subject, Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity covers species evolution, diversity, ecology, and biology. Eric R. Pianka and Laurie J. Vitt have studied and photographed members of almost all lizard families worldwide, and they bring to the book a deep knowledge based on extensive firsthand experience with the animals in their natural habitats.[via]
Part One explores lizard lifestyles, answering such questions as why lizards are active when they are, why they behave as they do, how they avoid predators, why they eat what they eat, and how they reproduce and socialize. In Part Two the authors take us on a fascinating tour of the world's manifold lizard species, beginning with iguanians, an evolutionary group that includes some of the most bizarre lizards, the true chameleons of Africa and Madagascar. We also meet the glass lizard, able to break its tail into many highly motile pieces to distract a predator from its body; lizards that can run across water; and limbless lizards, such as snakes. Part Three gives an unprecedented global view of evolutionary trends that have shaped present-day lizard communities and considers the impact of humans on their future.
A definitive resource containing many entertaining anecdotes, this magnificent book opens a new window to the natural world and the evolution of life on earth.More editions of Lizards: Windows to the Evolution of Diversity:
Lucy, the Beginnings of Humankindby Donald C. Johanson, Maitland Armstrong EdeyISBN 0446370363 (0-446-37036-3)
Softcover, Warner Books Inc
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The Magic School Busby Joanna Cole, Bruce DegenISBN 0590414275 (0-590-41427-5)
Softcover, Scholastic
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Magic School Bus'Book summary:Joanna Cole Illustrations Bruce Degen. All even those who freeze at the mere mention of science will be eager to learn about the human body as it is presented here. Kirkus Reviews pointer review. Paperback. [via]
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The Magic School Bus in the Human Body: Inside the Human Bodyby Joanna Cole, Bruce DegenISBN 0590726331 (0-590-72633-1)
Softcover, Scholastic
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Man's Place in Natureby Thomas H HuxleyISBN 0486432734 (0-486-43273-4)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Man's Place in Nature'Book summary:Darwin said it first, but Huxley said it best. Known as "Darwin's bulldog" for his tenacious and successful defense of evolution by natural selection, biologist T.H. Huxley wrote Man's Place in Nature to bolster his case with hard facts. This new edition, edited and introduced by eminent paleontologist and evolutionary theorist Stephen Jay Gould, reminds the readers of the power of good writing to influence opinion. Huxley's style is charmingly persuasive, even when he's describing the intimate details of the lemur's skull. The illustrations range from crude to beautifully detailed and generally take a back seat to the prose. Those involved in debates with creationists--150 years after Darwin--will be discouraged to learn that Huxley faced many of the same arguments in his day. Still, armed with Man's Place in Nature, another generation can fight and win. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Mathematical Techniques for Biology and Medicineby William SimonISBN 0486652475 (0-486-65247-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Natureby David QuammenISBN 0440556961 (0-440-55696-1)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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A Natural History of Californiaby Allan A. SchoenherrISBN 0520069226 (0-520-06922-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematical Imaginationby Ian StewartISBN 0465072739 (0-465-07273-9)
Hardcover, Perseus Books Group
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Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality of Mathematicsby Ian StewartISBN 0465072747 (0-465-07274-7)
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The Neck of the Giraffeby Francis HitchingISBN 0451624343 (0-451-62434-3)
Softcover, New Amer Library
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Origins of Lifeby Freeman J. DysonISBN 0521626684 (0-521-62668-4)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Origins of Life'Book summary:How did life on Earth originate? Did replication or metabolism come first in the history of life? In the second edition of the acclaimed Origins of Life, distinguished scientist and science writer Freeman Dyson examines these questions and discusses the two main theories that try to explain how naturally occurring chemicals could organize themselves into living creatures. The majority view is that life began with replicating molecules, the precursors of modern genes. The minority belief is that random populations of molecules evolved metabolic activities before exact replication existed and that natural selection drove the evolution of cells toward greater complexity for a long time without the benefit of genes. Dyson analyzes both of these theories with reference to recent important discoveries by geologists and chemists, aiming to stimulate new experiments that could help decide which theory is correct. This second edition covers the impact revolutionary discoveries such as the existence of ribozymes, enzymes made of RNA; the likelihood that many of the most ancient creatures are thermophilic, living in hot environments; and evidence of life in the most ancient of all terrestrial rocks in Greenland have had on our ideas about how life began. It is a clearly written, fascinating book that will appeal to anyone interested in the origins of life. [via]
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Principles of Anatomy and Physiologyby Gerard J. TortoraISBN 0471689343 (0-471-68934-3)
Hardcover, John Wiley & Sons Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Principles Of Anatomy And Physiology'Book summary:Principles of Anatomy and Physiology has been the market leading text through many editions due to its solid scientific presentation of the principles of the human structure and function. Equally important has been the pioneering and continually evolving efforts of the authors to develop an outstanding illustration program and innovative pedagogical features that promote understanding. The product of years of teaching experience, this text provides a superb balance between anatomy and physiology while emphasizing correlation between normal physiology and pathophysiology, normal anatomy and pathology, and homeostasis and homeostatic imbalances. [via]
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Prodigal Summerby Barbara KingsolverISBN 0571206484 (0-571-20648-4)
Softcover, Faber & Faber Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Prodigal Summer'Book summary:There is no one in contemporary literature quite like Barbara Kingsolver. Her dialogue sparkles with sassy wit and earthy poetry; her descriptions are rooted in daily life but are also on familiar terms with the eternal. With Prodigal Summer, she returns from the Congo to a "wrinkle on the map that lies between farms and wildness." And there, in an isolated pocket of southern Appalachia, she recounts not one but three intricate stories.
Exuberant, lush, riotous--the summer of the novel is "the season of extravagant procreation" in which bullfrogs carelessly lay their jellied masses of eggs in the grass, "apparently confident that their tadpoles would be able to swim through the lawn like little sperms," and in which a woman may learn to "tell time with her skin." It is also the summer in which a family of coyotes moves into the mountains above Zebulon Valley:
The ghost of a creature long extinct was coming in on silent footprints, returning to the place it had once held in the complex anatomy of this forest like a beating heart returned to its body. This is what she believed she would see, if she watched, at this magical juncture: a restoration.
The "she" is Deanna Wolfe, a wildlife biologist observing the coyotes from her isolated aerie--isolated, that is, until the arrival of a young hunter who makes her even more aware of the truth that humans are only an infinitesimal portion in the ecological balance. This truth forms the axis around which the other two narratives revolve: the story of a city girl, entomologist, and new widow and her efforts to find a place for herself; and the story of Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, who seem bent on thrashing out the countless intimate lessons of biology as only an irascible traditional farmer and a devotee of organic agriculture can. As Nannie lectures Garnett, "Everything alive is connected to every other by fine, invisible threads. Things you don't see can help you plenty, and things you try to control will often rear back and bite you, and that's the moral of the story."Structurally, that gossamer web is the story: images, phrases, and events link the narratives, and these echoes are rarely obvious, always serendipitous. Kingsolver is one of those authors for whom the terrifying elegance of nature is both aesthetic wonder and source of a fierce and abiding moral vision. She may have inherited Thoreau's mantle, but she piles up riches of her own making, blending her extravagant narrative gift with benevolent concise humor. She treads the line between the sentimental and the glorious like nobody else in American literature. --Kelly Flynn [via]
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Seven Clues on Leby Cairns-smithISBN 0521337933 (0-521-33793-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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Seven Clues to the Origin of Life : A Scientific Detective Storyby A. G. Cairns-SmithISBN 0521398282 (0-521-39828-2)
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Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Natureby Harry W. Greene, Patricia Fogden, Michael FogdenISBN 0520224876 (0-520-22487-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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To Seek Out New Life : The Biology of Star Trekby Athena AndreadisISBN 0609603299 (0-609-60329-9)
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A Universe of Consciousnessby Giulio Tononi, Gerald M. EdelmanISBN 0465013775 (0-465-01377-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Universe of Consciousness'Book summary:Emily Dickinson wrote "The Brain--is wider than the Sky," and who can argue with that? Quoted by Nobel-winning scientist Gerald M. Edelman and his Neurosciences Institute colleague Giulio Tononi in A Universe of Consciousness, Miss Emily neatly explains the problem of conscious awareness, then ducks out of the way as the two scientists get to work solving it. Testable theories of consciousness are mighty lonely, as even the soberest mind can be driven to tears of madness pondering its own activity. Centuries of work by philosophers and psychologists like James and Freud have made little progress by starting with awareness and working backward to the brain; these days we have a secure enough base to try looking in the other direction and building a theory of the mind out of neurons.
Though Edelman and Tononi do make a good effort to help out the lay reader, ultimately A Universe of Consciousness is aimed at the interdisciplinary gang of scientists and academics trying to understand our shared but invisible experience. The first sections of the book cover the basic philosophical, psychological, and biological elements essential to their theory. Swiftly the authors proceed to define terms and concepts (even the long-abused term complexity gets a reappraisal) and elaborate on these to create a robust, testable theory of the neural basis of consciousness. Following this hard work, they consider some ramifications of the theory and take a close look at language and thinking. This much-needed jump-start is sure to provoke a flurry of experimental and theoretical responses; A Universe of Consciousness might just help us answer some of the greatest questions of science, philosophy, and even poetry. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Virus Hunting: AIDS, Cancer, And the Human Retrovirus a Story of Scientific Discoveryby Robert C. GalloISBN 0465098150 (0-465-09815-0)
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Vital Dust: Life As a Cosmic Imperativeby Christian De DuveISBN 0465090451 (0-465-09045-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Vital Dust: Life As a Cosmic Imperative'Book summary:Is the emergence of life on Earth the result of a single chance event or combination of lucky accidents, or is it the outcome of biochemical forces woven into the fabric of the universe? And if inevitable, what are these forces, and how do they account not only for the origin of life but also for its evolution toward increasing complexity? Vital Dust is a groundbreaking history of life on Earth, a history that only someone of Chrisitian de Duves stature and erudition could have written.[via]More editions of Vital Dust: Life As a Cosmic Imperative:
What It Means to Be 98 Percent Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genesby Jonathan MarksISBN 0520226151 (0-520-22615-1)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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What It Means to Be 98% Chimpanzee: Apes, People, and Their Genesby Jonathan MarksISBN 0520240642 (0-520-24064-2)
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Willy Ley's Exotic Zoologyby Willy Ley, Olga LeyISBN 0517625458 (0-517-62545-8)
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A Wind in the Doorby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 044098761X (0-440-98761-X)
Softcover, Random House Childrens Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Wind in the Door'Book summary:"There are dragons in the twins' vegetable garden," announces six-year-old Charles Wallace Murry in the opening sentence of The Wind in the Door. His older sister, Meg, doubts it. She figures he's seen something strange, but dragons--a "dollop of dragons," a "drove of dragons," even a "drive of dragons"--seem highly unlikely. As it turns out, Charles Wallace is right about the dragons--though the sea of eyes (merry eyes, wise eyes, ferocious eyes, kitten eyes, dragon eyes, opening and closing) and wings (in constant motion) is actually a benevolent cherubim (of a singularly plural sort) named Proginoskes who has come to help save Charles Wallace from a serious illness.
In her usual masterful way, Madeleine L'Engle jumps seamlessly from a child's world of liverwurst and cream cheese sandwiches to deeply sinister, cosmic battles between good and evil. Children will revel in the delectably chilling details--including hideous scenes in which a school principal named Mr. Jenkins is impersonated by the Echthroi (the evil forces that tear skies, snuff out light, and darken planets). When it becomes clear that the Echthroi are putting Charles Wallace in danger, the only logical course of action is for Meg and her dear friend Calvin O'Keefe to become small enough to go inside Charles Wallace's body--into one of his mitochondria--to see what's going wrong with his farandolae. In an illuminating flash on the interconnectedness of all things and the relativity of size, we realize that the tiniest problem can have mammoth, even intergalactic ramifications. Can this intrepid group voyage through time and space and muster all their strength of character to save Charles Wallace? It's an exhilarating, enlightening, suspenseful journey that no child should miss.
The other books of the Time quartet, continuing the adventures of the Murry family, are A Wrinkle in Time; A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which won the American Book Award; and Many Waters. (Ages 9 and older) --Karin Snelson [via]
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El Autobus Magico En El Cuerpo Humano/The Magic School Bus inside the Human Bodyby Joanna Cole, Bruce Degen, Isabel CanoISBN 0590464280 (0-590-46428-0)
Softcover, Scholastic
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