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On the Origin of Form
Evolution by Self-Organization
Written by Stuart Pivar
Preface by Mark A.S. McMenamin Ph.D
Afterword by Richard Milner
Contribution by Stephen Jay Gould
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $24.95
On the Origin of Form presents a new account of evolution and the origin of life based on the premise that the body form of any species is encoded not in the DNA but in the patterned structure of the primordial germ plasm—the universal predecessor of the egg.
Two hundred years... Read more >
Evolution by Self-Organization
Written by Stuart Pivar
Preface by Mark A.S. McMenamin Ph.D
Afterword by Richard Milner
Contribution by Stephen Jay Gould
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: July 28, 2009
Price: $24.95
On the Origin of Form presents a new account of evolution and the origin of life based on the premise that the body form of any species is encoded not in the DNA but in the patterned structure of the primordial germ plasm—the universal predecessor of the egg.
Two hundred years... Read more >
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Why Us?
How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves
Written by James Le Fanu
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $26.95
The triumph of science in explaining man’s unique place in the universe might seem almost complete. But in this lucid and compelling account, James Le Fanu describes how in the recent past science has come face-to-face with two seemingly unanswerable questions concerning the nature of genetic inheritance and the workings of... Read more >
How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves
Written by James Le Fanu
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $26.95
The triumph of science in explaining man’s unique place in the universe might seem almost complete. But in this lucid and compelling account, James Le Fanu describes how in the recent past science has come face-to-face with two seemingly unanswerable questions concerning the nature of genetic inheritance and the workings of... Read more >
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Why Us?
How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves
Written by James Le Fanu
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $26.95
The triumph of science in explaining man’s unique place in the universe might seem almost complete. But in this lucid and compelling account, James Le Fanu describes how in the recent past science has come face-to-face with two seemingly unanswerable questions concerning the nature of genetic inheritance and the workings of... Read more >
How Science Rediscovered the Mystery of Ourselves
Written by James Le Fanu
Format: eBook
On Sale: March 17, 2009
Price: $26.95
The triumph of science in explaining man’s unique place in the universe might seem almost complete. But in this lucid and compelling account, James Le Fanu describes how in the recent past science has come face-to-face with two seemingly unanswerable questions concerning the nature of genetic inheritance and the workings of... Read more >
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Evolution for Everyone
How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
Written by David Sloan Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
What is the biological reason for gossip?
For laughter? For the creation of art?
Why do dogs have curly tails?
What can microbes tell us about morality?
These and many other questions are tackled by renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson in this witty and groundbreaking new book. With stories that entertain as much as they... Read more >
How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
Written by David Sloan Wilson
Format: Trade Paperback, 400 pages
On Sale: December 26, 2007
Price: $15.00
What is the biological reason for gossip?
For laughter? For the creation of art?
Why do dogs have curly tails?
What can microbes tell us about morality?
These and many other questions are tackled by renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson in this witty and groundbreaking new book. With stories that entertain as much as they... Read more >
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The Language of Cells
A Doctor and His Patients
Written by Spencer Nadler
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.00
As a surgical pathologist for more than twenty-five years, Spencer Nadler was not content with the distance between his lab and the patient. Meeting with those whose diseased cells he has diagnosed, he offers them a rare understanding.
Hanna Baylan is a woman as determined as he is to confront the... Read more >
A Doctor and His Patients
Written by Spencer Nadler
Format: eBook, 224 pages
On Sale: December 18, 2007
Price: $12.00
As a surgical pathologist for more than twenty-five years, Spencer Nadler was not content with the distance between his lab and the patient. Meeting with those whose diseased cells he has diagnosed, he offers them a rare understanding.
Hanna Baylan is a woman as determined as he is to confront the... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Field Guide to North American Truffles
Hunting, Identifying, and Enjoying the World's Most Prized Fungi
Written by Matt Trappe, Frank Evans and James M. Trappe
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2007
Price: $16.95
The second most expensive food in the world after saffron, truffles are treasured, coveted, and savored for their mysterious and exotic flavor. This complete field guide shows chefs and fungi aficionados how to forage for and identify the wide variety of truffles that grow in temperate forests throughout North America. Written... Read more >
Hunting, Identifying, and Enjoying the World's Most Prized Fungi
Written by Matt Trappe, Frank Evans and James M. Trappe
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: October 1, 2007
Price: $16.95
The second most expensive food in the world after saffron, truffles are treasured, coveted, and savored for their mysterious and exotic flavor. This complete field guide shows chefs and fungi aficionados how to forage for and identify the wide variety of truffles that grow in temperate forests throughout North America. Written... Read more >
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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Written by Katrina Firlik
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $14.95
Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr. Firlik draws on this... Read more >
A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Written by Katrina Firlik
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2007
Price: $14.95
Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr. Firlik draws on this... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Evolution for Everyone
How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
Written by David Sloan Wilson
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $24.00
What is the biological reason for gossip?
For laughter? For the creation of art?
Why do dogs have curly tails?
What can microbes tell us about morality?
These and many other questions are tackled by renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson in this witty and groundbreaking new book. With stories that entertain as much as they... Read more >
How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
Written by David Sloan Wilson
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $24.00
What is the biological reason for gossip?
For laughter? For the creation of art?
Why do dogs have curly tails?
What can microbes tell us about morality?
These and many other questions are tackled by renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson in this witty and groundbreaking new book. With stories that entertain as much as they... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook and a
trade paperback.
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Evolution for Everyone
How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
Written by David Sloan Wilson
Format: eBook, 200 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $15.00
What is the biological reason for gossip?
For laughter? For the creation of art?
Why do dogs have curly tails?
What can microbes tell us about morality?
These and many other questions are tackled by renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson in this witty and groundbreaking new book. With stories that entertain as much as they... Read more >
How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives
Written by David Sloan Wilson
Format: eBook, 200 pages
On Sale: March 27, 2007
Price: $15.00
What is the biological reason for gossip?
For laughter? For the creation of art?
Why do dogs have curly tails?
What can microbes tell us about morality?
These and many other questions are tackled by renowned evolutionist David Sloan Wilson in this witty and groundbreaking new book. With stories that entertain as much as they... Read more >
Also available as a
hardcover and a
trade paperback.
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Bringing Back the Dodo
Lessons in Natural and Unnatural History
Written by Wayne Grady
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2007
Price: $19.95
This is a strikingly thought-provoking book about how the forces of evolution and extinction have shaped the living world, and the part that humans play therein. These elegant and penetrating essays speak to some of our most fundamental questions about the human and animal worlds, and confirm Grady’s standing as one... Read more >
Lessons in Natural and Unnatural History
Written by Wayne Grady
Format: Trade Paperback, 240 pages
On Sale: March 6, 2007
Price: $19.95
This is a strikingly thought-provoking book about how the forces of evolution and extinction have shaped the living world, and the part that humans play therein. These elegant and penetrating essays speak to some of our most fundamental questions about the human and animal worlds, and confirm Grady’s standing as one... Read more >
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Evolving God
A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion
Written by Barbara J. King
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $26.00
This cutting-edge book—with echoes of both Jane Goodall and Joseph Campbell—adds a fascinating new dimension to the debate about the origins of religion.
The study of evolution has uncovered invaluable information about many aspects of human behavior and culture, from the physiology of our bodies and brains to the development of hunting... Read more >
A Provocative View on the Origins of Religion
Written by Barbara J. King
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2007
Price: $26.00
This cutting-edge book—with echoes of both Jane Goodall and Joseph Campbell—adds a fascinating new dimension to the debate about the origins of religion.
The study of evolution has uncovered invaluable information about many aspects of human behavior and culture, from the physiology of our bodies and brains to the development of hunting... Read more >
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The Scientist as Rebel
Written by Freeman Dyson
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $27.95
An illuminating collection of essays by an award-winning scientist whom the London Times calls “one of the world’s most original minds.”
From Galileo to today’s amateur astronomers, scientists have been rebels, writes Freeman Dyson. Like artists and poets, they are free spirits who resist the restrictions their cultures impose on them. In... Read more >
Written by Freeman Dyson
Format: Hardcover, 400 pages
On Sale: November 14, 2006
Price: $27.95
An illuminating collection of essays by an award-winning scientist whom the London Times calls “one of the world’s most original minds.”
From Galileo to today’s amateur astronomers, scientists have been rebels, writes Freeman Dyson. Like artists and poets, they are free spirits who resist the restrictions their cultures impose on them. In... Read more >
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The Compassionate Brain
A Revolutionary Guide to Developing Your Intelligence to Its Full Potential
Written by Gerald Hüther
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2006
Price: $14.00
Here is the ultimate explanation of the brain for everyone who thinks: a guide to how the brain works, how our brains came to operate the way they do, and, most important, how to use your precious gray matter to its full capacity. The brain, according to current research, is not... Read more >
A Revolutionary Guide to Developing Your Intelligence to Its Full Potential
Written by Gerald Hüther
Format: Trade Paperback, 144 pages
On Sale: June 13, 2006
Price: $14.00
Here is the ultimate explanation of the brain for everyone who thinks: a guide to how the brain works, how our brains came to operate the way they do, and, most important, how to use your precious gray matter to its full capacity. The brain, according to current research, is not... Read more >
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Another Day in the Frontal Lobe
A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Written by Katrina Firlik
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 2, 2006
Price: $14.95
Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr. Firlik draws on this... Read more >
A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside
Written by Katrina Firlik
Format: eBook
On Sale: May 2, 2006
Price: $14.95
Katrina Firlik is a neurosurgeon, one of only two hundred or so women among the alpha males who dominate this high-pressure, high-prestige medical specialty. She is also a superbly gifted writer–witty, insightful, at once deeply humane and refreshingly wry. In Another Day in the Frontal Lobe, Dr. Firlik draws on this... Read more >
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trade paperback.
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Crystals, Fabrics, and Fields
Metaphors That Shape Embryos
Written by Donna Jeanne Haraway
Foreword by Scott Gilbert
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2004
Price: $16.95
Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change... Read more >
Metaphors That Shape Embryos
Written by Donna Jeanne Haraway
Foreword by Scott Gilbert
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2004
Price: $16.95
Acclaimed theorist and social scientist Donna Jeanne Haraway uses the work of pioneering developmental biologists Ross G. Harrison, Joseph Needham, and Paul Weiss as a springboard for a discussion about a shift in developmental biology from a vitalism-mechanism framework to organicism. The book deftly interweaves Thomas Kuhn's concept of paradigm change... Read more >
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The Origin of Species and The Voyage of the 'Beagle'
Written by Charles Darwin
Introduction by Richard Dawkins
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $32.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Easily the most influential book published in the nineteenth century, Darwin’s The Origin of Species is also that most unusual phenomenon, an altogether readable discussion of a scientific subject. On its appearance in 1859 it was immediately recognized by enthusiasts and detractors alike as a work of the... Read more >
Written by Charles Darwin
Introduction by Richard Dawkins
Format: Hardcover
On Sale: October 14, 2003
Price: $32.00
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
Easily the most influential book published in the nineteenth century, Darwin’s The Origin of Species is also that most unusual phenomenon, an altogether readable discussion of a scientific subject. On its appearance in 1859 it was immediately recognized by enthusiasts and detractors alike as a work of the... Read more >
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Biology Made Simple
Written by Rita Mary King
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2003
Price: $13.95
Take the frustration out of learning the science of life!
Biology is the most fundamental science?yet it’s one of the most complex. Now, Biology Made Simple is here to help science and non-science majors alike understand the science of life. Covering all the major themes of biology—including the cellular basis of life... Read more >
Written by Rita Mary King
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 19, 2003
Price: $13.95
Take the frustration out of learning the science of life!
Biology is the most fundamental science?yet it’s one of the most complex. Now, Biology Made Simple is here to help science and non-science majors alike understand the science of life. Covering all the major themes of biology—including the cellular basis of life... Read more >
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The Language of Cells
A Doctor and His Patients
Written by Spencer Nadler
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $12.00
As a surgical pathologist for more than twenty-five years, Spencer Nadler was not content with the distance between his lab and the patient. Meeting with those whose diseased cells he has diagnosed, he offers them a rare understanding.
Hanna Baylan is a woman as determined as he is to confront the... Read more >
A Doctor and His Patients
Written by Spencer Nadler
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: October 8, 2002
Price: $12.00
As a surgical pathologist for more than twenty-five years, Spencer Nadler was not content with the distance between his lab and the patient. Meeting with those whose diseased cells he has diagnosed, he offers them a rare understanding.
Hanna Baylan is a woman as determined as he is to confront the... Read more >
Also available as an
eBook.
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Mushrooms of Hawai'i
An Identification Guide
Written by Dennis E. Desjardin
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2002
Price: $39.95
The newest addition to our well–known series of mushroom guides, MUSHROOMS OF HAWAII is a beautifully illustrated book filled with scenic photographs of Hawaii and detailed photographs of over 230 mushrooms species. An essential reference guide for the novice or advanced mycologist, this handy reference tool provides you with all the... Read more >
An Identification Guide
Written by Dennis E. Desjardin
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: May 3, 2002
Price: $39.95
The newest addition to our well–known series of mushroom guides, MUSHROOMS OF HAWAII is a beautifully illustrated book filled with scenic photographs of Hawaii and detailed photographs of over 230 mushrooms species. An essential reference guide for the novice or advanced mycologist, this handy reference tool provides you with all the... Read more >
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Plague Time
The New Germ Theory of Disease
Written by Paul Ewald
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $15.00
According to conventional wisdom, our genes and lifestyles are the most important causes of the most deadly ailments of our time. Conventional wisdom may be wrong. In this controversial book, the eminent biologist Paul W. Ewald offers some startling arguments:
-Germs appear to be at the root of heart disease, Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia... Read more >
The New Germ Theory of Disease
Written by Paul Ewald
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2002
Price: $15.00
According to conventional wisdom, our genes and lifestyles are the most important causes of the most deadly ailments of our time. Conventional wisdom may be wrong. In this controversial book, the eminent biologist Paul W. Ewald offers some startling arguments:
-Germs appear to be at the root of heart disease, Alzheimer’s, schizophrenia... Read more >
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A User's Guide to the Brain
Perception, Attention, and the Four Theatres of the Brain
Written by John J. Ratey, M.D.
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $16.95
For the first time ever, discoveries in our under-
standing of the brain are changing anthropology, linguistics,
philosophy, and psychology--indeed, the brain itself may become a catalyst for transforming the very nature of these inquiries.
In A User's Guide to the Brain, Dr. John Ratey, best-selling co-author of Driven to Distraction, explains... Read more >
Perception, Attention, and the Four Theatres of the Brain
Written by John J. Ratey, M.D.
Format: eBook
On Sale: November 13, 2001
Price: $16.95
For the first time ever, discoveries in our under-
standing of the brain are changing anthropology, linguistics,
philosophy, and psychology--indeed, the brain itself may become a catalyst for transforming the very nature of these inquiries.
In A User's Guide to the Brain, Dr. John Ratey, best-selling co-author of Driven to Distraction, explains... Read more >
Also available as a
trade paperback.
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Time, Love, Memory
A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
Written by Jonathan Weiner
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2000
Price: $15.00
"A fascinating history--. Literate and authoritative--.Marvelously exciting." --The New York Times Book Review
Jonathan Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Beak of the Finch, brings his brilliant reporting skills to the story of Seymour Benzer, the Brooklyn-born maverick scientist whose study of genetics and experiments with fruit fly genes has... Read more >
A Great Biologist and His Quest for the Origins of Behavior
Written by Jonathan Weiner
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: April 4, 2000
Price: $15.00
"A fascinating history--. Literate and authoritative--.Marvelously exciting." --The New York Times Book Review
Jonathan Weiner, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Beak of the Finch, brings his brilliant reporting skills to the story of Seymour Benzer, the Brooklyn-born maverick scientist whose study of genetics and experiments with fruit fly genes has... Read more >
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