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The Age of Reptilesby Edwin H. ColbertISBN 0486293777 (0-486-29377-7)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Albinus on Anatomy: With 80 Original Albinus Platesby Terence Coyle, Robert Beverly HaleISBN 048625836X (0-486-25836-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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All about Dinosaursby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517479966 (0-517-47996-6)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Anatomy of Animals . Being a Brief Analysis of the Visible Forms of the More Familiar Mammals and Birds. Designed for the Use of Sculptors, Painters,by Ernest E. Seton ThompsonISBN 0517050242 (0-517-05024-2)
Hardcover, Crescent Books
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Animal Watchingby Desmond MorrisISBN 0517083388 (0-517-08338-8)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Animalwatching: A Field Guide to Animal Behaviorby Desmond MorrisISBN 051757859X (0-517-57859-X)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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The Art of Natural History: Animal Illustrators and Their Workby S. Peter DanceISBN 0517696290 (0-517-69629-0)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Audubon Society Encyclopedia of Animal Lifeby John FarrandISBN 0517546574 (0-517-54657-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Behavior Guide to African Mammals: Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, Primatesby Richard Despard Estes, Edward O. Wilson, Daniel OtteISBN 0520080858 (0-520-08085-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Drawing on his own extensive fieldwork and on the research of many other scientists, Richard Estes describes and explains the behavior of four major groups of mammals. Estes's remarkably informative guide is as up-to-date for the zoologist as it is accessible for the interested onlooker.More editions of The Behavior Guide to African Mammals: Including Hoofed Mammals, Carnivores, Primates:
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Bigger Than T. Rex: The Discovery of the Biggest Meat-Eating Dinosaur Ever Foundby Don Lessem, Robert F. WaltersISBN 0517709317 (0-517-70931-7)
Hardcover, Random House Childrens Books
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Biology: Concepts And Applicationsby Cecie StarrISBN 0495188352 (0-495-18835-2)
Softcover, Brooks/Cole Pub Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Biology: Concepts And Applications'Book summary:Want an easy-to-understand non-majors biology textbook that will help you succeed in the course? A highly illustrated biology book that gives you the basics you need to understand many of the most pressing problems we face in the 21st century? Starr's issues-oriented BIOLOGY: CONCEPTS AND APPLICATIONS helps you build a foundational understanding and shows you why it matters. Read essays on hot issues, research further, vote your position in an online poll, and then compare your votes to those of your classmates. Your textbook purchase includes student CD with short videos, as an online test prep tool, BiologyNOW, a live online tutoring service, the complete book in MP3 audio files, and instant access to an online university library. [via]
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Birds of Southern California's Deep Canyonsby Wesley WeathersISBN 0520047540 (0-520-04754-0)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Burgess Bird Book for Childrenby Thornton W. BurgessISBN 0486428400 (0-486-42840-0)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Cabinets of Curiositiesby Patrick MauriesISBN 0500510911 (0-500-51091-1)
Hardcover, Thames & Hudson
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cabinets of Curiosities'Book summary:Unicorns' horns, mermaids' skeletons, beautiful minerals, monstrous births, insects in amber, wax effigies, mysterious fossils, corals in fantastic shapes, death-masks, ivory carvings, automata that imitated living things, jewellery, work in precious metals, clocks, musical instruments, lenses, scientific instruments, terrestrial and celestial globes - all knowledge, the cosmos arranged on shelves, in cupboards, or hanging from the ceiling. Such were the cabinets of curiosities of the 17th century. This volume traces the history of these "rooms of wonders" from their first appearance in the inventories and engravings commissioned by Renaissance nobles such as the Medici or the Hapsburgs, via those of the Dane Ole Wurm and the Italian polymath Athanasius Kircher, to the serious 17th- and 18th-century scientists Elias Ashmole and Levinas Vincent. Patrick Mauries reconstructs these rooms as they were in their heyday and illustrates many of the most exotic items they contained, as well as the few complete interiors that survive. He begins with the totality of the collection, the cosmos in miniature, the whole sum of human knowledge gathered together in one room. He then looks at the cabinets that contained and categorized the objects. Next he opens them to reveal the extraordinary melange of curiosities, specimens and works of art. He also looks at the personalities of the collectors themselves, from great princes to humble scholars, and finally at the modern revival of the cabinet of curiosities among both artists and public, a strong current in contemporary culture. Looking back in time to the remarkable collections formed by the early museum creators, Patrick Mauries's illustrated study explains how the modern museum came to be. [via]
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The Case for Animal Rightsby Tom ReganISBN 0520054601 (0-520-05460-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Catsby Peggy WrattenISBN 0517250527 (0-517-25052-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Catsby Ted Smart, David Gibbon, Peggy WrattenISBN 0517278014 (0-517-27801-4)
Hardcover, Crescent Books
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Children of the Ice Age : How a Global Catastrophe Allowed Humans to Evolveby Steven M. StanleyISBN 0517588676 (0-517-58867-6)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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The Code Of Lifeby Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein, Kenneth GosnerISBN 0486439445 (0-486-43944-5)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Color Your Own Great Flower Printsby Charlene TarboxISBN 0486415538 (0-486-41553-8)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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The Complete Book of Mushroomsby Augusto Rinaldi, Vassili Tyndalo, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517514931 (0-517-51493-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Complete Science Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wellsby H. G. WellsISBN 051726188X (0-517-26188-X)
Hardcover
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Darwin and the Beagleby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517404923 (0-517-40492-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Dinosaur Dictionaryby Donald F. Glut, A. S. Romer, David TechterISBN 0517455897 (0-517-45589-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introductionby David Norman, David Nicholls, John Sibbick, Denise BlagdenISBN 0517184567 (0-517-18456-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of Californiaby Richard P. Hilton, Ken KirklandISBN 0520233158 (0-520-23315-8)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California'Book summary:One of the most geologically complex and diverse states, California spent much of the age of dinosaurs under water. While most of the fossils found in the state are those of reptiles that lived in the sea (thalattosaurs, ichthyosaurs, mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, and turtles), some are those of birds and pterosaurs that soared above it. Other fossils come from terrestrial animals that died and were washed into the ocean. These include turtles, crocodiles, lizards, and dinosaurs such as armored ankylosaurs, duck-billed hadrosaurs, and a variety of carnivorous dinosaurs.[via]
Richard Hilton is the first to tell the unsung story of the dinosaurs and reptiles of land, sea, and sky that lived in California and Baja California during the Mesozoic era (245 million-65 million years ago), in addition to the history of their discovery. Vibrantly illustrated with more than three hundred photographs, paintings, and drawings, this book provides geological and environmental details, describes the significance of the major fossils, and chronicles the adventures involved in the discovery, preparation, and publishing of the finds.
Hilton also includes accounts of the scientists, teachers, students, ranchers, and weekend fossil hunters who endured (and continue to endure) harsh weather, fires, wild animals, and the usual challenges of fieldwork to collect fossil remains and make major discoveries. These enthusiasts managed to safeguard an abundance of fossil resources, some of which would otherwise have been destroyed by quarrying, paving, and housing developments. Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California takes this legacy one step further by documenting information about the fossils and their finders in accessible prose and vivid artistic renderings, creating a valuable contribution to our understanding of California's prehistoric past.More editions of Dinosaurs and Other Mesozoic Reptiles of California:
Disciplining Reproduction: Modernity, American Life Sciences, and "the Problem of Sexby Adele E. ClarkeISBN 0520207203 (0-520-20720-3)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Encyclopedia of the Animal Kingdomby Maurice BurtonISBN 0517448017 (0-517-44801-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Enjoying Nature With Your Family: Look, Learn, Collect, Conserve, Explore the Wildlife of Town and Country in Fascinating Projects and Experimentsby Michael ChineryISBN 0517530074 (0-517-53007-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Exploring the Earth and the Cosmosby Isaac AsimovISBN 0517546671 (0-517-54667-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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The Fascinating World of the Sea: Circling the Globe for the Wild Seashellby Bob Lipe, Elva D. SheetsISBN 0517506076 (0-517-50607-6)
Hardcover, Crown Publishers
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The Fold-Out Atlas of the Human Body: A Three-Dimensional Bookby Alfred Mason AmadonISBN 0517451271 (0-517-45127-1)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Fold-Out Atlas of the Human Body: A Three-Dimensional Book'Book summary:See the marvels of the human body! This amazing book displays the organs and systems of human anatomy in full-color layered paper art. Originally published in 1906, this is a unique period piece perfect for any medical professional or anyone else interested in our our bodies function. Movable layers show how each part of the body interacts with the others, including:
" Heart and circulatory system
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" Skeletal system
" Stomach and intestines
" Jaw and larynx
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From Genesis to Genetics: The Case of Evolution and Creationismby John Alexander MooreISBN 0520240669 (0-520-24066-9)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Gilded Dinosaur: The Fossil War Between E.D. Cope and O.C. Marsh and the Rise of American Scienceby Mark JaffeISBN 0517707608 (0-517-70760-8)
Hardcover, Random House Inc
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Guide to Owl Watching in North Americaby Donald S. HeintzelmanISBN 048627344X (0-486-27344-X)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Horsewatching : Why Does a Horse Whinny and Everything Else You Ever Wanted to Knowby Desmond MorrisISBN 0517572672 (0-517-57267-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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Iguanas: Biology and Conservationby Emilia P. Martins, Ronald L. Carter, Allison Alberts, William K. HayesISBN 0520238540 (0-520-23854-0)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs: An Original and Compelling Insight into Life in the Dinosaur Kingdomby David NormanISBN 0517468905 (0-517-46890-5)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly Worldby Paul SmartISBN 0517679728 (0-517-67972-8)
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The Illustrated Herbalby Sandra Raphael, Wilfrid BluntISBN 0500277869 (0-500-27786-9)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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An Inordinate Fondness for Beetlesby Arthur V. Evans, Charles L. Bellamy, Lisa Charles WatsonISBN 0520223233 (0-520-22323-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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! In fact, approximately one-fifth of all known species are beetles--350,000 and growing (and yours truly even discovered a beetle species in 1986)--yet most people know very little about this remarkable group of organisms. This is one of the best coffee-table books I have ever seen about the creepy critters, and the full-color photos of iridescent, brightly colored, or architecturally elaborate beetle gems is sure to instill an inordinate fondness for beetles among children, artists, and anyone with a love of nature. [via]
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Insects Coloring Bookby Jan SovakISBN 0486279987 (0-486-27998-7)
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Instant Guide to Treesby Cecilia Fitzsimons, Eleanor LawrenceISBN 0517468921 (0-517-46892-1)
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Introduction to California Plant Lifeby Robert OrnduffISBN 0520027353 (0-520-02735-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Introduction to Horned Lizards North Americaby Wade C. SherbrookeISBN 0520228278 (0-520-22827-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Isaac Asimov on the Human Bodyby Isaac Asimov, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517459981 (0-517-45998-1)
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Land of Little Rainby Mary Hunter AustinISBN 0486290379 (0-486-29037-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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Latin American Insects and Entomologyby Charles L. HogueISBN 0520078497 (0-520-07849-7)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Leaves: The Formation, Characteristics, and Uses of Hundreds of Leaves Found in All Parts of the Worldby Ghillean T. Prance, Kjell Bloch SandvedISBN 0517551527 (0-517-55152-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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Life in a Bucket of Soilby Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. Silverstein, Elsie WrigleyISBN 0486410579 (0-486-41057-9)
Softcover, Dover Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life in a Bucket of Soil'Book summary:Fascinating book introduces grade-school youngsters to industrious ants, tunnel-building earthworms, snails and slugs, beetles, and many other creatures inhabiting the world beneath our feet. Vivid descriptions of how they live, breed and interact; their methods of locomotion, feeding and defense; and the effect they have on the soil in which they live.[via]More editions of Life in a Bucket of Soil:
Life in the Oceansby Joseph Lucas, Pamela CritchISBN 0500080143 (0-500-08014-3)
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Life's Matrix: A Biography of Waterby Philip BallISBN 0520230086 (0-520-23008-6)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Little Insectsby Winky AdamISBN 0486295281 (0-486-29528-1)
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Living Forestby Piet PoortvlietISBN 0517308010 (0-517-30801-0)
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Lost Worldby Arthur Conan DoyleISBN 0486400603 (0-486-40060-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Lost World'Book summary:Forget the Michael Crichton book (and Spielberg movie) that copied the title. This is the original: the terror-adventure tale of The Lost World. Writing not long after dinosaurs first invaded the popular imagination, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle spins a yarn about an expedition of two scientists, a big-game hunter, and a journalist (the narrator) to a volcanic plateau high over the vast Amazon rain forest. The bickering of the professors (a type Doyle knew well from his medical training) serves as witty contrast to the wonders of flora and fauna they encounter, building toward a dramatic moonlit chase scene with a Tyrannosaurus Rex. And the character of Professor George E. Challenger is second only to Sherlock Holmes in the outrageous force of his personality: he's a big man with an even bigger ego, and if you can grit your teeth through his racist behavior toward Native Americans, he's a lot of fun. [via]
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Mammals of Californiaby E.W. Jameson, Hans J. PeetersISBN 0520235827 (0-520-23582-7)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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A Man Without Wordsby Oliver W. Sacks, Susan SchallerISBN 0520202651 (0-520-20265-1)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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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.More editions of A Man Without Words:
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Marin Flora: Manual of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Marin County, California/With Supplementby John Thomas HowellISBN 0520056213 (0-520-05621-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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The Mind's Pastby Michael S. GazzanigaISBN 0520224868 (0-520-22486-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Mind's Past'Book summary:While we humans point to our big brains and jabber endlessly about how different they make us, other animals seem to remain unimpressed. "Yeah, well, what are they good for?" they'd ask if they could. After all, evolution has been no kinder to us than to them--all of us have had the same amount of time to get where we are, and all of us do just fine eating and reproducing. Are our brains really more valuable to us than teeth to a shark or wings to a bird? This evolutionary view of consciousness could be the key to a better understanding of how we think, and neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga has been helping develop this outlook while working on the frontlines of research. From studies with split-brain patients in the 1960s to the latest tricks of molecular biology today, Gazzaniga shares with us the results of this research and how they are changing the way we think about thinking.
The title of The Mind's Past refers both to the brain's evolution and its construction of personal identity and memory, which offer clues to the puzzle of consciousness. Gazzaniga's refreshingly straightforward, informal prose asks what our brains are good for and shows that some of our most powerful achievements (like language and statistics) might best be thought of as byproducts of systems designed to help us survive and reproduce. The surprising assertion that most of what we believe to be conscious and willful happens before we are aware of it is made plausible and perhaps comforting in this short, very humanistic book. By careful study and reflection on the mind's past, we might be able to learn something of its future. --Rob Lightner [via]
A Monograph of the Pheasantsby William BeebeISBN 048626579X (0-486-26579-X)
Hardcover, Dover Pubns
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The Natural History of Big Surby Paul Henson, Donald J. Usner, Valerie A. KellsISBN 0520205103 (0-520-20510-3)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Natural History of Big Sur'Book summary:Each year millions of people visit the area of rugged California coastline and wild mountains known as Big Sur. Finally here is a book that is both a natural history of this beautiful region and an excellent guide to its extensive public lands. The first section introduces the area's geology, climate, flora, fauna, and human history. The second section describes selected sites, trails, and features that are mentioned in Part One.[via]
Although Big Sur is world famous for awe-inspiring scenery, it is less known for its great ecological diversity and its significance as a haven for many species of terrestrial and marine wildlife. In no other part of the world do fog-loving coastal redwoods thrive on one slope of a canyon while arid-climate yuccas grow on the other. Similarly, sea otters and cormorants live near dry-climate creatures like canyon wrens and whiptail lizards. The area's staggering beauty and forbidding wilderness have inspired artists, poets, naturalists, and hikers--and also real estate developers.
As increasing tourism, development pressure, and land-use decisions continue to affect Big Sur, this book will do much to heighten awareness of the region's biotic richness and fragility. Written in nontechnical language, with generous color photographs, drawings, maps, species lists, and a bibliography, it will attract both the casual and the serious naturalist, as well as anyone concerned about preserving California's natural heritage.More editions of The Natural History of Big Sur:
A Natural History of Parenting: From Emperor Penguins to Reluctant Ewes, a Naturalist Looks at Parenting in the Animal World and Oursby Susan AllportISBN 0517707993 (0-517-70799-3)
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Natural History of Vacant Lotsby Herbert H. Wong, Matthew F. VesselISBN 0520052501 (0-520-05250-1)
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Natural History of Vacant Lotsby Matthew F. Vessel, Herbert H. WongISBN 0520053907 (0-520-05390-7)
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The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry And Asymmetry From Mirror Reflections To Superstringsby Martin GardnerISBN 0486442446 (0-486-44244-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry And Asymmetry From Mirror Reflections To Superstrings'Book summary:This newly updated edition of a well-known work explores a pair of modern science's most fundamental discoveries: the asymmetric DNA helix and the overthrow of parity (left-right symmetry) in particle physics. Absorbing and thought-provoking, The New Ambidextrous Universe was written by Martin Gardner, one of Dover's most popular authors,.[via]More editions of The New Ambidextrous Universe: Symmetry And Asymmetry From Mirror Reflections To Superstrings:
New Larousse Encyclopedia of Animal Lifeby Maurice Burton, Leon BertinISBN 0517360551 (0-517-36055-1)
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Operators and Promoters: The Story of Molecular Biology and Its Creatorsby Harrison Echols, Carol GrossISBN 0520213319 (0-520-21331-9)
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The Path to the Double Helix: The Discovery of DNAby Robert C. OlbyISBN 0486681173 (0-486-68117-3)
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The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Scienceby Steven MithenISBN 0500281009 (0-500-28100-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Prehistory of the Mind: The Cognitive Origins of Art, Religion and Science'Book summary:Try an experiment: take a passenger along on a brief car trip--a jaunt to the supermarket, say. Have a nice conversation while you're driving, and take a scenic route. Now, the next day, try to reconstruct the details of both the conversation and the trip. Chances are, unless something unusual happened along the way, that your memory of both will be indistinct, for we tend to forget the mundane--an example of what the cognitive scientist Daniel Dennett calls "rolling consciousness with swift memory loss."
Steven Mithen, an archaeologist with an interest in psychology, believes that just such a consciousness obtained among early humans when they went foraging for food or made tools. The evolution of higher, more memory-laden consciousness, he continues, occurred only as a result of a cognitive trick that doubtless involved some trial and error. The trick, simply put, was to guess what the social behavior of some member of one's social group might be in a given circumstance--to step outside one's own mind, in other words, and enter another's. This guesswork underlies the famed cave paintings of Altamira, an attempt to predict the behavior of migratory animals. It underlies as well another experiment: the development of agriculture, with the requisite predicting of how plants and animals might behave under a wide range of conditions.
Mithen's reconstruction of the ancestral human mind, laid out in a clear and accessible narrative, is a fine intellectual adventure. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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Rattlesnakesby Laurence M. KlauberISBN 0520040392 (0-520-04039-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rattlesnakes'Book summary:This virtual encyclopedia of the rattlesnake became a natural history sensation when it was first published in 1956. The republication of the Second Edition, with a new foreword by Harry W. Greene, will give amateur and professional herpetologists alike reason to rejoice.[via]More editions of Rattlesnakes:
Rattlesnakes: Their Habits, Life Histories and Influence on Mankindby Laurence Monroe KlauberISBN 0520210565 (0-520-21056-5)
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The Rockfishes of the Northeast Pacificby Milton S. Love, Mary Yoklavich, Lyman K. ThorsteinsonISBN 0520234383 (0-520-23438-3)
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The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The Conflict Between Animal Research and Animal Protectionby Deborah RudacilleISBN 0520231546 (0-520-23154-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Scalpel and the Butterfly: The Conflict Between Animal Research and Animal Protection'Book summary:Biological experimentation, writes science journalist Deborah Rudacille in The Scalpel and the Butterfly, has long been the province of a scientific elite that has not much cared to explain its work to the larger public. That public, she continues, has responded with a kind of don't-ask, don't-tell policy "whereby society will permit animal experimentation--and certain types of research on human subjects--as long as it is protected from the details". With the rise of the Animal Liberation Movement and PETA, however, that unstated policy has increasingly come into question, and research scientists have found it ever more difficult to employ animals (or humans, for that matter) in their work.
In her engaging and illuminating study of these clashing sensibilities, Rudacille ponders troubling questions. Does an elevation in the moral status of animals, she asks, necessarily mean degradation in the moral status of human beings? (Certainly, she responds, this appears to have been the case under Nazi Germany.) Is the killing of laboratory animals--nearly 10,000 in the case of the Salk vaccine against polio--justifiable in the face of the human lives that can be saved? Is it ethical to use the mentally ill as research subjects in studies that may yield cures for their illness? Philosophical landmines surround every attempt at an answer, and Rudacille takes pains to consider all sides of these and kindred issues. Her thoughtful work should provoke reflection and discussion. --Gregory McNamee [via]
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A Scientist at the Seashoreby James S. Trefil, Gloria WaltersISBN 048644564X (0-486-44564-X)
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Seeing Voices: A Journey into the World of the Deafby Oliver W. SacksISBN 0520060830 (0-520-06083-0)
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Sexual Selections: What We Can and Can't Learn About Sex from Animalsby Marlene ZukISBN 0520219740 (0-520-21974-0)
Hardcover, Univ of California Pr
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Sierra East: Edge of the Great Basinby Genny SmithISBN 0520239148 (0-520-23914-8)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Sierra Nevada Natural History an Illustrated Handbookby Tracy I. Sorer, Robert UsingerISBN 0520012275 (0-520-01227-5)
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The Urban Naturalistby Steven D. GarberISBN 0486403998 (0-486-40399-8)
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Vertebrate Historyby Barbara StahlISBN 0486648508 (0-486-64850-8)
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The Wading Birds of North Americaby Allan W. EckertISBN 0517632292 (0-517-63229-2)
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The War of the Worldsby H. G. WellsISBN 0486295060 (0-486-29506-0)
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Whales and Dolphins Coloring Bookby John GreenISBN 0486263061 (0-486-26306-1)
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Wild Animals I Have Knownby Ernest Thompson SetonISBN 0486410846 (0-486-41084-6)
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Wild Cats of the Worldby Barbara Sleeper, Art WolfeISBN 0517799782 (0-517-79978-2)
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A World in a Drop of Water: Exploring With a Microscopeby Alvin Silverstein, Virginia B. SilversteinISBN 0486403815 (0-486-40381-5)
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The World Under the Microscopeby Jerry CowhigISBN 0517120445 (0-517-12044-5)
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