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Charles Darwin
• Adrian Desmond
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A volume in the the Very Interesting People series by Oxford University Press.
(NAT123, $9.99)
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Darwin and the Barnacle, the Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough
• Rebecca Stott
• NATURAL HISTORY
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Darwin devoted eight years to the perplexing pedunculated cirripedes, setting the groundwork for his ideas about evolution through natural selection.
(NAT65, $14.95)
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Darwin Loves You, Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World
• George Levine
• SCIENCE
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Levine, a philosopher at Rutgers, argues against the popular conception that Darwanism represents a harsh world driven by competition and chance.
(NAT107, $18.95)
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Darwin on Evolution, The Development of the Theory of Natural Selection
• David Kohn
• SCIENCE
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The editors, both historians of science, present excerpts from Darwin's many books in this choice reader on the development of the idea of evolution.
(NAT103, $14.95)
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Darwin, Discovering the Tree of Life
• Niles Eldredge
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A companion book to an exhibition organized by the American Museum of Natural History (November 19, 2005 - May 29, 2006), this richly illustrated celebration of Darwin, his life and ideas, brings together manuscripts, artifacts and materials collected by Darwin aboard the Beage with curator Eldredge's illuminating essays on natural selection.
(NAT82, $35.00)
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful, The New Science of Evo Devo and The Making of the Animal Kingdom
• Sean B. Carroll
• SCIENCE
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Evolutionary developmental biology explained by a leader in the field.
(SCI177, $16.95)
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Headless Males Make Great Lovers and Other Unusual Natural Histories
• Marty Crump
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A collection of essays celebrating the many interesting and just plain weird ways of evolution. Crump is an engaging writer, conveying both the wonder and science of sexual selection, raising young, avoiding predators, feeding and communication. Her examples are outstanding.
(NAT90, $14.00)
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Human Origins, What Bones and Genomes Tell Us About Ourselves
• Rob Desalle
• Ian Tattersall
• SCIENCE
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The companion book by the co-curators of the Hall of Human Origins at the American Museum of Natural History.
(ATP19, $29.95)
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The Making of the Fittest, DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution
• Sean B. Carroll
• SCIENCE
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Carroll shows, in elegant detail, how changes in DNA demonstrate evolution by natural selection.
(SCI176, $25.95)
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Monkeyluv, and Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals
• Robert M. Sapolsky
• SCIENCE
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Sapolsky tackles big questions of what makes us what we are with humor and deft prose in this collection of 18 short magazine articles.
(ATP17, $14.00)
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The Naked Brain, How the Emerging Neurosociety Is Changing How We Live, Work, and Love
• Richard, M.D. Restak
• SCIENCE
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The renowned neurologist writes with flair and wit about the field he calls "social neuroscience," the study of how the workings of our brains affect our emotions and social interactions—and how we might control them.
(SCI237, $13.95)
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Neptune's Ark, From Ichthyosaurs to Orcas
• David Wallace
• NATURAL HISTORY
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A collection of essays on the wonders, evolution and nature of marine life.
(NAT120, $18.95)
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Origins: Selected Letters of Charles Darwin 1821-1859
• Frederic Burkhardt
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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This special anniversary edition of Burkhardt's bestselling work, "Origins: Charles Darwin's Letters: A Selection 1825-1859," now includes previously unpublished letters.
(NAT153, $28.00)
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The Plausibility of Life, Resolving Darwin's Dilemma
• Marc W. Kirschner
• John Gerhart
• SCIENCE
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A lucid explanation of the evolution of diversity of life on Earth and, in particular, the relation between natural selection and development.
(NAT121, $18.00)
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William Wilberforce, The Life of the Great Anti-slave Trade Campaigner
• William Hague
• BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
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A nuanced, clear-eyed biography of abolitionist William Wilberforce, who fought for twenty years to abolish the Atlantic slave trade.
(USS409, $35.00)
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