From one of the world's most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author) comes his most timely and important book yet: an impassioned call for quick and decisive action to save Earth's biological heritage, and a plan to achieve that rescue.

Visit Edward O. Wilson's author desktop to view artist Isabella Kirkland's painting "Descendant Species" from the book jacket with notes on the endangered species it depicts. Learn more.

From one of the world's most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author) comes his most timely and important book yet: an impassioned call for quick and decisive action to save Earth's biological heritage, and a plan to achieve that rescue.

Visit Edward O. Wilson's author desktop to view artist Isabella Kirkland's painting "Descendant Species" from the book jacket with notes on the endangered species it depicts. Learn more.

Immediately following the revolutionary discovery of the structure of DNA by James D. Watson and Francis Crick in 1953, the world of molecular biology was caught up in a gold rush. The goal: to uncover the secrets of life the newly elucidated molecule promised to reveal. Genes, Girls, and Gamow is James Watson's report on the amazing aftermath of the DNA breakthrough, picking up where his now-classic memoir The Double Helix leaves off. Learn more.

From Oliver Sacks--the distinguished neurologist who is also one of the most remarkable storytellers of our time--an account of his youth, as unexpected and fascinating as his celebrated case histories.

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Throughout the ages, the lights of the aurora borealis were believed to be messengers of gods, signs of apocalypse, or souls of the dead; even the most sophisticated scientists misapprehended their cause. Now Lucy Jago tells the story of the science--and the romance--behind the Northern Lights as she traces the grand adventure of the life of the visionary Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland.
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For nearly sixty years the menace of nuclear war has hung over humanity, while at the same time the promise of nuclear energy has enticed us. In Megawatts and Megatons, two of the worldÕs most eminent physicists--French Nobel Prize laureate Georges Charpak and American Enrico Fermi AwardÐwinner Richard L. Garwin--assess with consummate authority the benefits of nuclear energy and the dangers of nuclear weaponry.
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From the author of Life comes the fascinating story of the beginnings of life on our planet as seen by its very first creatures, trilobites--the exotic, crustaceanlike animals that dominated the seas for 300 million years.
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The first comprehensive compendium of the oceans' wondrous life and lore--the result of years of investigation and the masterful synthesis of tens of thousands of disparate sources by one of America's leading experts on the seas, and our foremost painter of marine subjects.
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"So thorough and evocative that [Prosek] has been favorably compared to the man who inspired him, John James Audubon." --Los Angeles Times

"This book is a real catch for anglers and art lovers alike." --Men's Journal
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Infused with a deep experience of wildlife and the outdoors, dedicated to conservation, reverent and hilarious by turns or at once, The Longest Silence sets the heart pounding for a glimpse of moving water, and demonstrates what a life dedicated to sport reveals about life.
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The Complete Book of Fly Tying isa complete education--and one that will leave you well prepared to tie any kind of fly for any fish taken on the fly rod.
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