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20,000 Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 067143473X (0-671-43473-X)
Softcover, Pocket Books
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The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrotsby Irene Maxine PepperbergISBN 0674008065 (0-674-00806-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Alex Studies: Cognitive and Communicative Abilities of Grey Parrots'Book summary:When Irene Pepperberg, a professor at the University of Arizona, says goodnight, she typically hears the reply "Bye. I'm gonna go eat dinner. I'll see you tomorrow." Though the response itself is not unusual, the source is, for it comes from Alex, a gray parrot, Pepperberg's main research subject for the past 22 years. That parrots can talk is well known; what Pepperberg set out to study was their cognitive abilities. By teaching the bird the meaning--not just the sound--of words in order to communicate, she hoped to discover how his brain worked. She exhaustively details her fascinating results in The Alex Studies.
Pepperberg bought Alex--a parrot of average intelligence and without lofty pedigree or training--from a pet store when he was 1. Since working with Pepperberg, he has developed a 100-word vocabulary and can identify 50 different objects, recognizing quantities up to six, distinguishing seven colors and five shapes, and understanding the difference between big and small, same and different, over and under. He can tell you, for instance, that corn is yellow even if there is no corn in view, as well as correctly select the square object among various shapes and identify it verbally. What this all means, stresses Pepperberg, is that Alex is not merely parroting but actually thinking; he bases answers on reason rather than instinct or mimicry.
Though the anecdotes are rich and Alex makes a lively subject, this is principally a research paper relying on intricate details and a prodigious amount of data (the notes and references alone run to 79 pages). This is not light reading, particularly for the layperson. Still, The Alex Studies manages to be more than a valuable contribution to science, for in providing ample evidence of our similarities to other creatures, the book ultimately calls into question the concept of human supremacy over the animal kingdom. Pepperberg's stated goal is "to provoke awareness in humans that animals have capacities that are far greater than we were once led to expect, and to remind us that all we need to examine these capacities are some enlightened research tools." She has provided such tools in this seminal work. --Shawn Carkonen [via]
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America's Favorite Backyard Wildlifeby Kit Harrison, George H. HarrisonISBN 0671639722 (0-671-63972-2)
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The American Museum of Natural History's Book of Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Creaturesby Joseph WallaceISBN 0671865900 (0-671-86590-0)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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Animal Cognition: An Introduction to Modern Comparative Psychologyby Jacques VauclairISBN 0674037030 (0-674-03703-0)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Cognition: An Introduction to Modern Comparative Psychology'Book summary:Animal Cognition presents a clear, concise, and comprehensive overview of what we know about cognitive processes in animals. Focusing mainly on what has been learned from experimental research, Vauclair presents a wide-ranging review of studies of many kinds of animals--bees and wasps, cats and dogs, dolphins and sea otters, pigeons and titmice, baboons, chimpanzees, vervet monkeys, and Japanese macaques. He also offers a novel discussion of the ways Piaget's theory of cognitive development and Piagetian concepts may be used to develop models for the study of animal cognition.
Individual chapters review the current state of our knowledge about specific kinds of cognition in animals: tool use and spatial and temporal representations; social cognition--how animals manage their relational life and the cognitive organization that sustains social behaviors; representation, communication, and language; and imitation, self-recognition, and the theory of mind--what animals know about themselves. The book closes with Vauclair's "agenda for comparative cognition." Here he examines the relationship of the experimental approach to other fields and methods of inquiry, such as cognitive ethology and the ecological approach to species comparisons. It is here, too, that Vauclair addresses the key issue of continuity, or its absence, between animal and human cognition.
Given our still limited knowledge of cognitive systems in animals, Vauclair argues, researchers should be less concerned with the "why" question--the evolutionary or ecological explanations for differences in cognition between the species--and more concerned with the "what"--the careful work that is needed to increase our understanding of similarities and differences in cognitive processes. This thoughtful and lively book will be of great value to students of animal behavior and to anyone who desires a better understanding of humankind's relations to other living creatures.
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The Animal in Its World, Explorations of an Ethologist 1932-1972: Field Studiesby Nikolaas TinbergenISBN 0674037243 (0-674-03724-3)
Softcover, Harvard University Press
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The Animal in Its World, Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972: Laboratory Experiments and General Papersby Nikolaas TinbergenISBN 0674037286 (0-674-03728-6)
Softcover, Harvard University Press
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Animal Social Complexity: Intelligence, Culture, and Individualized Societiesby Peter L. Tyack, F. B. M. De WaalISBN 0674009290 (0-674-00929-0)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Animal Species and Evolutionby Ernst W. MayrISBN 0674037502 (0-674-03750-2)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Animal Species and Evolution'Book summary:This masterly and long-awaited work is a full exposition, synthesis, summation, and critical evaluation of the present state of man's knowledge about the nature of animal species and of the part they play in the processes of evolution.
In a series of twenty chapters, Mr. Mayr presents a consecutive story, beginning with a description of evolutionary biology and ending with a discussion of man as a biological species. Calling attention to unsolved problems, and relating the evolutionary subject matter to appropriate material from other fields, such as physiology, genetics, and biochemistry, the author integrates and interprets existing data. Believing that an unequivocal stand is more likely to produce constructive criticism than evasion of an issue, he does not hesitate to choose that interpretation of a controversial matter which to him seems most consistent with the emerging picture of the evolutionary process.
Between the terminal points mentioned above, Mr. Mayr pursues the narrative through discussions of species concepts and their application, morphological species characters and sibling species, biological properties of species, isolating mechanisms, hybridization, the variation and genetics of populations, storage and protection of genetic variation, the unity of the genotype, geographic variation, the polytypic species of the taxonomist, the population structure of species, kinds of species, multiplication of species, geographic speciation, the genetics of speciation, the ecology of speciation, and species and transpecific evolution. The volume provides a valuable glossary; and an inclusive bibliography greatly extends its range for those who wish to investigate special aspects of the material. Animal Species and Evolution is presented as a permanent entity. In accordance with the author's feeling that the acquisition of new knowledge will require a new statement, rather than an emendation of a previous one, no substantive revisions of this volume are planned for future printings.
Because of the impossibility of experimenting with man, and because an understanding of man's biology is indispensable for safeguarding his future, emphasis throughout this book is placed on those findings from the higher animals which are directly applicable to man. In his final chapter on hominids and the various forms of Homo, Mr. Mayr comes to the conclusion that, while modem man appears to be just as well adapted for survival purposes as were his ancestors, there is much evidence to suggest that he is threatened by the loss of his most typically human characteristics. It would be within his power to reverse this tendency.
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Biology: The Network of Lifeby Keith I. King, Paul Farber, Michael C. MixISBN 0673398692 (0-673-39869-2)
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Biomarkers: The 10 Keys to Prolonging Vitalityby William Evans, Jacqueline Thompson, Irwin H. RosenbergISBN 0671778986 (0-671-77898-6)
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The Birder's Bug Bookby Gilbert WaldbauerISBN 0674002067 (0-674-00206-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Bones of Contentionby Roger LewinISBN 0671668374 (0-671-66837-4)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Bones of Contention: Controversies in the Search for Human Originsby Roger LewinISBN 067152688X (0-671-52688-X)
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The Brain's Sense of Movementby Alain BerthozISBN 0674009800 (0-674-00980-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Brain's Sense of Movement'Book summary:The neuroscientist Alain Berthoz experimented on Russian astronauts in space to answer these questions: How does weightlessness affect motion? How are motion and three-dimensional space perceived? In this erudite and witty book, Berthoz describes how human beings on earth perceive and control bodily movement. Reviewing a wealth of research in neurophysiology and experimental psychology, he argues for a rethinking of the traditional separation between action and perception, and for the division of perception into five senses.
In Berthoz's view, perception and cognition are inherently predictive, functioning to allow us to anticipate the consequences of current or potential actions. The brain acts like a simulator that is constantly inventing models to project onto the changing world, models that are corrected by steady, minute feedback from the world. We move in the direction we are looking, anticipate the trajectory of a falling ball, recover when we stumble, and continually update our own physical position, all thanks to this sense of movement.
This interpretation of perception and action allows Berthoz, in The Brain's Sense of Movement, to focus on psychological phenomena largely ignored in standard texts: proprioception and kinaesthesis, the mechanisms that maintain balance and coordinate actions, and basic perceptual and memory processes involved in navigation.
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A Brief Atlas Of The Skeleton, Surface Anatomy, and Selected Medical Imagesby Gerard J. TortoraISBN 0673994848 (0-673-99484-8)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Century of the Geneby Evelyn Fox Keller, L. L. WinshipISBN 0674008251 (0-674-00825-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Clever As a Fox: Animal Intelligence and What It Can Teach Us About Ourselvesby Sonja I. YoergISBN 0674008707 (0-674-00870-7)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Correcting the Code: Inventing the Genetic Cure for the Human Bodyby Larry ThompsonISBN 0671770829 (0-671-77082-9)
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Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Natureby Eric ChaissonISBN 0674009878 (0-674-00987-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cosmic Evolution: The Rise of Complexity in Nature'Book summary:We are connected to distant space and time not only by our imaginations but also through a common cosmic heritage. Emerging now from modern science is a unified scenario of the cosmos, including ourselves as sentient beings, based on the time-honored concept of change. From galaxies to snowflakes, from stars and planets to life itself, we are beginning to identify an underlying ubiquitous pattern penetrating the fabric of all the natural sciences--a sweepingly encompassing view of the order and structure of every known class of object in our richly endowed universe.
This is the subject of Eric Chaisson's new book. In Cosmic Evolution Chaisson addresses some of the most basic issues we can contemplate: the origin of matter and the origin of life, and the ways matter, life, and radiation interact and change with time. Guided by notions of beauty and symmetry, by the search for simplicity and elegance, by the ambition to explain the widest range of phenomena with the fewest possible principles, Chaisson designs for us an expansive yet intricate model depicting the origin and evolution of all material structures. He shows us that neither new science nor appeals to nonscience are needed to understand the impressive hierarchy of the cosmic evolutionary story, from quark to quasar, from microbe to mind.
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Creation: Life and How to Make Itby Steve GrandISBN 0674011139 (0-674-01113-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Creation: Life and How to Make It'Book summary:Though its title brings to mind the hubris of Frankenstein, Steve Grand's Creation: Life and How to Make It is just humble enough to keep its readers hooked. Best known as the developer of the Creatures series of artificial-life software, Grand has quite a following among devotees of playful complexity.
The book ranges from deep ruminations on the nature of life and mind (artificial and biological) to fairly concrete advice for future creators, and his writing is just as elegant and compelling as his software. Sometimes his cleverness gets the best of him, but for the most part, his wordplay is used to serve his ideas, which are thought-provoking even for readers who have no intention of creating life.
Many will be surprised at the strength of Grand's antireductionism, but he makes his case vigorously and may win a few converts to the emergent-phenomena camp. Creation is essential reading for those of us who want to think through the consequences of our actions before we imitate Frankenstein's mistake. --Rob Lightner [via]
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Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose?by Michael RuseISBN 0674016319 (0-674-01631-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Dinosaurby David NormanISBN 0671874721 (0-671-87472-1)
Softcover, Macmillan General Reference
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The Dinosaur Encyclopediaby Michael J. Benton, Wendy Barish, Jim Channell, John Gosler, Bernard RobinsonISBN 0671510460 (0-671-51046-0)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Dinosaur Encyclopedia'Book summary:Explore the fascinating prehistoric world of the dinosaur with this fully illustrated guide to over 130 dinosaurs. Each description includes clear, up-to-date notes on where, how, and when the animal lived, a precise and colorful illustration, and a complete description of its size, diet, habits, and ecological significance.
Also include as special features of this unique pocket reference are:
An extensive time chart
A list of museums and sites to visit around the world
Projects and hints on how to further your interest in dinosaurs
And a comprehensive glossary and index.Everything a dinosaur lover wants and needs, in a handy, take-along pocket size for home and school use! [via]
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Dinosaurs Rediscovered: New Findings Which Are Revolutionizing Dinosaur Scienceby Don Lessem, John SibbickISBN 0671797158 (0-671-79715-8)
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Evolution from Space: A Theory of Cosmic Creationismby Fred HoyleISBN 0671492632 (0-671-49263-2)
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The Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Thinkby Robert OrnsteinISBN 0671792245 (0-671-79224-5)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Evolution of Consciousness: The Origins of the Way We Think'Book summary:Based on his life's research, the author of the bestseller the psychology of consciousness provides a provocative look at the evolution of the mind. He explains that we are not rational but adaptive, and that it is darwin, not freud, who is the central scientist of the brain. Photographs and line art throughout [via]
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The Fates of Nations: A Biological Theory of Historyby Paul A. ColinvauxISBN 0671252046 (0-671-25204-6)
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A Field Guide to Berries and Berrylike Fruitsby Madeline Angell, Marie SuilmannISBN 0672526956 (0-672-52695-6)
Softcover, Bobbs-Merrill
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The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United Statesby Janine M. BenyusISBN 0671659081 (0-671-65908-1)
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The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Western United Statedby Glenn Wolff, Janine M. BenyusISBN 067165909X (0-671-65909-X)
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Gaia: The Human Journey from Chaos to Cosmosby Elisabeth SahtourisISBN 0671680021 (0-671-68002-1)
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Genes In Conflict: The Biology Of Selfish Genetic Elementsby Robert Trivers, Austin BurtISBN 0674017137 (0-674-01713-7)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Genome: The Story of the Most Astonishing Scientific Adventure of Our Time the Attempt to Map All the Genes in the Human Bodyby Jerry E. Bishop, Michael WaldholzISBN 0671740326 (0-671-74032-6)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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Great Dinosaur Atlasby William Lindsay, Giuliano FornariISBN 0671744798 (0-671-74479-8)
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Hemispheric Asymmetry: What's Right and What's Leftby Joseph B. HelligeISBN 0674005597 (0-674-00559-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Hemispheric Asymmetry: What's Right and What's Left'Book summary:Is "right-brain" thought essentially creative, and "left-brain" strictly logical? Joseph B. Hellige argues that this view is far too simplistic. Surveying extensive data in the field of cognitive science, he disentangles scientific facts from popular assumptions about the brain's two hemispheres.
In Hemispheric Asymmetry, Hellige explains that the "right brain" and "left brain" are actually components of a much larger cognitive system encompassing cortical and subcortical structures, all of which interact to produce unity of thought and action. He further explores questions of whether hemispheric asymmetry is unique to humans, and how it might have evolved. This book is a valuable overview of hemispheric asymmetry and its evolutionary precedents.
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Hermaphrodites and the Medical Invention of Sexby Alice Domurat DregerISBN 0674001893 (0-674-00189-3)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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A History of Molecular Biologyby Michel Morange, Matthew CobbISBN 0674001699 (0-674-00169-9)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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A History of the Mindby Nicholas HumphreyISBN 0671686445 (0-671-68644-5)
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How to Win the Nobel Prize: An Unexpected Life in Scienceby J. Michael BishopISBN 0674016254 (0-674-01625-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Human Immune System: The New Frontier in Medicineby Peter Jaret, Steven B. MizelISBN 067162332X (0-671-62332-X)
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The Huntersby Phillip WhitfieldISBN 0671243985 (0-671-24398-5)
Hardcover, Bookthrift Co
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Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden Worldby Erich Hoyt, Ted SchultzISBN 0674009525 (0-674-00952-5)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Insect Lives: Stories of Mystery and Romance from a Hidden World offers an entertaining and informative survey of the human fascination, dreadful and otherwise, with insects diabolical and divine, from accounts in the Bible and Aristotle to the writings of Charles Darwin and the great nineteenth-century naturalists sending home accounts from the rain forest. Highlighted here are observations from E. O. Wilson, Jean-Henri Fabré, David Quammen, May Berenbaum, Roger Swain, William Wordsworth, A. S. Byatt, Gary Larson and more than sixty other writers who tell of the mystery and romance of that other, hidden world beneath our feet and beyond our rolled-up newspapers. [via]
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Introductory Microbiologyby Fred RossISBN 0673186814 (0-673-18681-4)
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The Invisible Man/the War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0671471139 (0-671-47113-9)
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Kings of Creation: How a New Breed of Scientists Is Revolutionizing Our Understand of Dinosaursby Don Lessem, John SibbickISBN 0671734911 (0-671-73491-1)
Hardcover, Simon & Schuster
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A Leg to Stand Onby Oliver SacksISBN 0671467808 (0-671-46780-8)
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Life Above the Jungle Floorby Donald PerryISBN 0671644262 (0-671-64426-2)
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Linnaeus: Nature and Nationby Lisbet KoernerISBN 0674005651 (0-674-00565-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Lives of a Biologist: Adventures in a Century of Extraordinary Scienceby John Tyler BonnerISBN 0674007638 (0-674-00763-8)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancyby David BainbridgeISBN 0674012364 (0-674-01236-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Making Babies: The Science of Pregnancy'Book summary:While it's a safe bet that most readers know where babies come from, it's equally likely that they don't know the whole story. Reproductive biologist David Bainbridge fills them in with Making Babies, a witty and intriguing look at an experience so essential that we all go through it at least once. It would be all too easy for the author to get caught up in the intricacies of hormones and anatomy that have evolved from our egg-laying ancestors, but he softens the details with insights and examples from throughout the animal kingdom. Expectant parents might not like being compared to red deer at first, but most will warm to their shared experience. Examining big questions like "Why have sex?" and "How does the fetus change the mother?" is daunting, but Bainbridge guides the reader through the issues with confidence and humility. It's no substitute for a birds-and-bees chat, but Making Babies is perfect for those who want to deepen their understanding of what happens next. --Rob Lightner [via]
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A Man Without Wordsby Susan SchallerISBN 0671779702 (0-671-77970-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Man Without Words'Book summary:For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student, encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been sent as an interpreter and where he sat isolated, since he knew no sign language. She found him obviously intelligent and sharply observant but unable to communicate, and she felt compelled to bring him to a comprehension of words.[via]
A Man without Words vividly conveys the challenge, the frustrations, and the exhilaration of opening the mind of a congenitally deaf person to the concept of language.-
Marine Biology: An Ecological Approachby James W. NybakkenISBN 0673994511 (0-673-99451-1)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley
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The Monkey Business: A Scientist Looks at Creationismby Niles EldredgeISBN 0671441159 (0-671-44115-9)
Softcover, Washington Square Press
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Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?by Michael RuseISBN 0674005430 (0-674-00543-0)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Of Flies, Mice, and Menby Francois Jacob, Giselle WeissISBN 0674005384 (0-674-00538-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Origins: A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life on Earthby Robert ShapiroISBN 0671459392 (0-671-45939-2)
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The Practical Ornithologistby John GoodersISBN 0671693018 (0-671-69301-8)
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Predatory Dinosaurs of the Worldby Gregory s PaulISBN 0671687336 (0-671-68733-6)
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Predatory Dinosaurs of the World: A Complete Illustrated Guideby Gregory s PaulISBN 0671619462 (0-671-61946-2)
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Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Culturesby Chris McManusISBN 0674009533 (0-674-00953-3)
Hardcover, Harvard University Press
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Right Hand, Left Hand: The Origins of Asymmetry in Brains, Bodies, Atoms and Culturesby I. C. McManusISBN 0674016130 (0-674-01613-0)
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Science of Desireby Dean HamerISBN 0671887246 (0-671-88724-6)
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The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Controlby Colin Tudge, Keith Campbell, Ian WilmutISBN 0674005864 (0-674-00586-4)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Second Creation: Dolly and the Age of Biological Control'Book summary:The Second Creation deals with some of the most important issues confronting us today: genetic engineering and cloning, and the control that science has over the process of life. Written by the noted science author Colin Tudge, the book is based on interviews with Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell, the scientists who cloned Dolly the sheep. Its aim is to explain the story of how and why they came to cloning sheep and the implications for the future, from curing diseases to human cloning. But that's not easy to convey simply, according to Ian Wilmut:
The full story is, however, inescapably complicated. The science and technology of cloning, at least by our method, takes us into some of the most esoteric reaches of biology...
Their subject is complex and requires careful reading, but the reward is worth the effort. Inevitably, the issue of human cloning is looked at in some detail, and all three of the authors find the idea repugnant and do not believe society will accept it:
The pressures for human cloning are powerful; but, although it seems likely that somebody, at some time, will attempt it, we need not assume that it will ever become a common or significant feature of human life.
The book contains a comprehensive glossary to explain the scientific terms and abbreviations. Colin Tudge is the author of several books including The Engineer in the Garden, short-listed for the British Science Book Award. --Carina Trimingham, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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The Serpent and the Rainbowby Wade DavisISBN 0671502476 (0-671-50247-6)
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The Simon and Schuster Young Readers Book of Planet Earthby Martyn BramwellISBN 0671778315 (0-671-77831-5)
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Simon and Schuster's Guide to Mushroomsby Gary H. LincoffISBN 0671428497 (0-671-42849-7)
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Simon and Schuster's Guide to Shellsby Bruno SabelliISBN 0671253190 (0-671-25319-0)
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The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, And Bodyby Steven J. MithenISBN 0674021924 (0-674-02192-4)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, And Body'Book summary:The propensity to make music is the most mysterious, wonderful, and neglected feature of humankind: this is where Steven Mithen began, drawing together strands from archaeology, anthropology, psychology, neuroscience--and, of course, musicology--to explain why we are so compelled to make and hear music. But music could not be explained without addressing language, and could not be accounted for without understanding the evolution of the human body and mind. Thus Mithen arrived at the wildly ambitious project that unfolds in this book: an exploration of music as a fundamental aspect of the human condition, encoded into the human genome during the evolutionary history of our species.
Music is the language of emotion, common wisdom tells us. In The Singing Neanderthals, Mithen introduces us to the science that might support such popular notions. With equal parts scientific rigor and charm, he marshals current evidence about social organization, tool and weapon technologies, hunting and scavenging strategies, habits and brain capacity of all our hominid ancestors, from australopithecines to Homo erectus, Homo heidelbergensis and Neanderthals to Homo sapiens--and comes up with a scenario for a shared musical and linguistic heritage. Along the way he weaves a tapestry of cognitive and expressive worlds--alive with vocalized sound, communal mimicry, sexual display, and rhythmic movement--of various species.
The result is a fascinating work--and a succinct riposte to those, like Steven Pinker, who have dismissed music as a functionless evolutionary byproduct.
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The Smaller Majority: The Hidden World of the Animals That Dominate the Tropicsby Piotr NaskreckiISBN 0674019156 (0-674-01915-6)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Smaller Majority: The Hidden World of the Animals That Dominate the Tropics'Book summary:Smaller, on average, than a human finger, creatures climbing, scampering, and flying out of sight make up 99 percent of all animal life visible to the naked eye. This is the "smaller majority" that we meet eye-to-eye, often for the first time and certainly as never before, in Piotr Naskrecki's spectacular book. A large-format volume of over 400 exquisite, full-color photographs, some depicting animals never before captured with a camera, The Smaller Majority takes us on a visual journey into the remote world of organisms that, however little known, overlooked, or even reviled, are critical to the biodiversity of the tropics, and to the life of our planet.
Here are the species who truly dominate the tropics, both in terms of their diversity and the ecological functions they play--invertebrates such as insects, arachnids, or flatworms, but also little-known vertebrates such as the pygmy chameleons of Madagascar or legless, underground frog kin known as caecilians; here is behavior never before documented, as in katydids preying upon one another, photographed in places few have visited. Using pioneering camera techniques that allow us to see the world of these creatures from their point of view, the book exposes the environment in which they live, the threats they face, and the devastating impact their disappearance may have. A unique introduction to the marvelous variety of the overlooked life under our feet, Naskrecki's book returns us to a child's sense of wonder with a fully informed, deeply felt understanding of the importance of so much of the world's smaller, teeming life.
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The Society of Mindby Marvin MinskyISBN 0671657135 (0-671-65713-5)
Softcover, Touchstone Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Society of Mind'Book summary:For some artificial intelligence researchers, Minsky's book is too far removed from hard science to be useful. For others, the high-level approach of The Society of Mind makes it a gold mine of ideas waiting to be implemented. The author, one of the undisputed fathers of the discipline of AI, sets out to provide an abstract model of how the human mind really works. His thesis is that our minds consist of a huge aggregation of tiny mini-minds or agents that have evolved to perform highly specific tasks. Most of these agents lack the attributes we think of as intelligence and are severely limited in their ability to intercommunicate. Yet rational thought, feeling, and purposeful action result from the interaction of these basic components. Minsky's theory does not suggest a specific implementation for building intelligent machines. Still, this book may prove to be one of the most influential for the future of AI. [via]
Songs, Roars, and Rituals: Communication in Birds, Mammals, and Other Animalsby Gisela Kaplan, Lesley J. RogersISBN 0674008278 (0-674-00827-8)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generationby James Edgar StrickISBN 0674009991 (0-674-00999-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sparks of Life: Darwinism and the Victorian Debates over Spontaneous Generation'Book summary:How, asks James E. Strick, could spontaneous generation--the idea that living things can suddenly arise from nonliving materials--come to take root for a time (even a brief one) in so thoroughly unsuitable a field as British natural theology? No less an authority than Aristotle claimed that cases of spontaneous generation were to be observed in nature, and the idea held sway for centuries. Beginning around the time of the Scientific Revolution, however, the doctrine was increasingly challenged; attempts to prove or disprove it led to important breakthroughs in experimental design and laboratory techniques, most notably sterilization methods, that became the cornerstones of modern microbiology and sped the ascendancy of the germ theory of disease.
The Victorian debates, Strick shows, were entwined with the public controversy over Darwin's theory of evolution. While other histories of the debates between 1860 and 1880 have focused largely on the experiments of John Tyndall, Henry Charlton Bastian, and others, Sparks of Life emphasizes previously understudied changes in the theories that underlay the debates. Strick argues that the disputes cannot be understood without full knowledge of the factional infighting among Darwinians themselves, as they struggled to create a socially and scientifically viable form of "Darwinian" science. He shows that even the terms of the debate, such as "biogenesis," usually but incorrectly attributed to Huxley, were intensely contested.
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The Tinkerer's Accomplice: How Design Emerges from Life Itselfby Scott J. TurnerISBN 0674023536 (0-674-02353-6)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classificationby Guillaume Lecointre, Herve Le Guyader, Dominique Visset, Karen McCoyISBN 0674021835 (0-674-02183-5)
Hardcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Tree of Life: A Phylogenetic Classification'Book summary:Did you know that you are more closely related to a mushroom than to a daisy? That crocodiles are closer to birds than to lizards? That dinosaurs are still among us? That the terms "fish," "reptiles," and "invertebrates" do not indicate scientific groupings? All this is the result of major changes in classification, whose methods have been totally revisited over the last thirty years.
Modern classification, based on phylogeny, no longer places humans at the center of nature. Groups of organisms are no longer defined by their general appearance, but by their different individual characteristics. Phylogeny, therefore, by showing common ancestry, outlines a tree of evolutionary relationships from which one can retrace the history of life.
This book diagrams the tree of life according to the most recent methods of classification. By showing how life forms arose and developed and how they are related, The Tree of Life presents a key to the living world in all its dazzling variety.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seaby Jules VerneISBN 0671555782 (0-671-55578-2)
Softcover, Simon & Schuster
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0671673041 (0-671-67304-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The War of the Worlds'Book summary:This is the granddaddy of all alien invasion stories, first published by H.G. Wells in 1898. The novel begins ominously, as the lone voice of a narrator tells readers that "No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's..."
Things then progress from a series of seemingly mundane reports about odd atmospheric disturbances taking place on Mars to the arrival of Martians just outside of London. At first the Martians seem laughable, hardly able to move in Earth's comparatively heavy gravity even enough to raise themselves out of the pit created when their spaceship landed. But soon the Martians reveal their true nature as death machines 100-feet tall rise up from the pit and begin laying waste to the surrounding land. Wells quickly moves the story from the countryside to the evacuation of London itself and the loss of all hope as England's military suffers defeat after defeat. With horror his narrator describes how the Martians suck the blood from living humans for sustenance, and how it's clear that man is not being conquered so much a corralled. --Craig E. Engler [via]
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Winston Churchill's Afternoon Napby Jeremy CampbellISBN 0671657178 (0-671-65717-8)
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The Wounded Skyby Diane DuaneISBN 067174352X (0-671-74352-X)
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The X in Sex: How the X Chromosome Controls Our Livesby David BainbridgeISBN 0674016211 (0-674-01621-1)
Softcover, Harvard Univ Pr
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