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Selfish Gene New Edition by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments This nontechnical description of modern genetics is based on the insight that replicating structures have a built-in drive for self-preservation. A fascinating and provocative popular account.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Birder's Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds: Including All Species That Regularly Breed North of Mexi by Paul R Ehrlich Publisher Comments This is the most complete and authoritative reference book about the birds of North America -- up to date and in field-guide format. The Birder's Handbook is the first of its kind: a portable library of fascinating information not included in your... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann Staff Pick As fascinating as his bestseller 1491, Mann's 1493 recounts how the world was forever changed by a "Columbian Exchange," when plants, animals, commodities, and people crossed oceans for the first time. Entertaining and insightful, this scientific history... (read more) List Price $30.50 Your price: $16.00 Used - Hardcover
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Campbell Essential Biology by Eric J Simon Publisher Comments Intended for those interested in learning the essentials of... (read more) List Price $137.25 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Western Birds : Complete New Guide ((3RD)90 Edition) by Roger Tory Peterson Publisher Comments This updated volume features the unique Peterson Identification System covering all birds of North America west of the 100th meridian and north of Mexico.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Nature of Order Book 1: The Phenomenon of Life by Christopher Alexander Publisher Comments In Book One of this four-volume work, Alexander describes a scientific view of the world in which all space-matter has perceptible degrees of life, and establishes this understanding of living structures as an intellectual basis for a new architecture... (read more) List Price $75.00 Your price: $36.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments Twenty years after its original publication, The Blind Watchmaker, framed with a new introduction by the author, is as prescient and timely a book as ever. The watchmaker belongs to the eighteenth-century theologian William Paley, who argued that just as... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Encyclopedia Prehistorica Dinosaurs by Robert Sabuda Publisher Comments From renowned pop-up masters Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart comes an awe-inspiring tribute to the world's most beloved extinct animals and their 180-million-year reign on our planet. Open this book and a massive T. REX springs out, flashing a... (read more) List Price $29.99 Your price: $13.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher by Lewis Thomas Publisher Comments Elegant, suggestive, and clarifying, Lewis Thomas's profoundly humane vision explores the world around us and examines the complex interdependence of all things. Extending beyond the usual limitations of biological science and into a vast and... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds: Western Region (Audubon Society Field Guide) by National Audubon Society Publisher Comments Regional guides to birds, animals, trees, wildflowers, insects, weather, nature preserves, and much more within these western states. Beautifully illustrated with 1,500 photographs, drawings, and maps. The essential guide to the West's natural world.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Flexible
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Campbell Biology (9TH 11 Edition) by Jane B. Reece Publisher Comments Helping Students Make Connections Across Biology Campbell BIOLOGY is the unsurpassed leader in introductory biology. The text’s hallmark values–accuracy, currency, and passion for teaching and learning–have made it the most... (read more) List Price $208.80 Your price: $157.00 Used - Hardcover
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Human Evolution: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Bernard Wood Publisher Comments This "Very Short Introduction traces the history of paleoanthropology from its I beginnings in the eighteenth century to today's latest fossil finds. Concentrating on the fossil evidence for human evolution, it makes reference to the relevant... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Hidden Forest : Biography of an Ecosystem (06 Edition) by Jon R. Luoma Publisher Comments The tallest species of spruce, hemlock, fir, cedar, and pine trees on earth coexist in the old growth of the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest in Oregon's Cascade Range. Set aside as a living laboratory by the U.S. Forest Service in 1948, the 16,000... (read more) List Price $28.25 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Darwin's Origin of Species: A Biography (Books That Changed the World) by Janet Browne Publisher Comments Charles Darwin’s foremost biographer, Janet Browne, delivers a vivid and accessible introduction to the book that permanently altered our understanding of what it is to be human. A sensation on its publication in 1859, The Origin of the... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Salmon Without Rivers : a History of the Pacific Salmon Crisis (99 Edition) by Jim Lichatowich Publisher Comments "Fundamentally, the salmon's decline has been the consequence of a vision based on flawed assumptions and unchallenged myths.... We assumed we could control the biological productivity of salmon and 'improve' upon natural processes that we didn't even... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life by Nick Lane Publisher Comments If it weren't for mitochondria, scientists argue, we'd all still be single-celled bacteria. Indeed, these tiny structures inside our cells are important beyond imagining. Without mitochondria, we would have no cell suicide, no sculpting of embryonic... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition With a New Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments Richard Dawkins' brilliant reformulation of the theory of natural selection has the rare distinction of having provoked as much excitement and interest outside the scientific community as within it. His theories have helped change the whole nature of the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $11.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom by Sean B. Carroll Publisher Comments 'Evo Devo is evolutionary developmental biology, the third revolution in evolutionary biology. The first was marked by the publication of The Origin of Species. The second occurred in the early twentieth century, when Darwin\'s theories were merged with... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Pacific Coast (Audubon Guide) by Bayard Mcconnaughey Publisher Comments A comprehensive field guide, fully illustrated with color photographs, to the birds, plants, fishes, insects, seashore creatures, and other natural wonders of North America's western shores, from Alaska to southern California.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Exploring the Way Life Works : the Science of Biology (01 Edition) by Mahlon Hoagland Publisher Comments The perfect answer for any instructor seeking a more concise, meaninful, and flexible alternative to the standard introductory biology text.... (read more) List Price $113.45 Your price: $91.00 Used - Trade Paper
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