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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 $21.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Hidden Forest : the Biography of an Ecosystem (99 Edition) by Jon R. Luoma Publisher Comments From the leaves at the top of the canopy to the insects living deep beneath the soil, a forest is a complex, unified ecosystem, critically affected by every creature that lives or dies within its boundaries. In this acclaimed book, veteran science writer... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Making of the Fittest : Dna and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution (06 Edition) by Sean B. Carroll Publisher Comments DNA is the genetic material that defines us as individuals. Over the last two decades, it has emerged as a powerful tool for solving crimes and determining guilt and innocence. But, very recently, an important new aspect of DNA has been revealed--it... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Microbiology: An Introduction by Gerard J Tortora Publisher Comments ' The first of its kind, The Microbe Files: Cases in Microbiology for the Undergraduate, provides readers with a fascinating series of short cases that help readers apply what they have learned by placing them in real life situations that allied health... (read more) List Price $192.47 Your price: $75.00 Used - Hardcover
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Survival of the Sickest: The Surprising Connections Between Disease and Longevity (P.S.) by Sharon Moalem Publisher Comments Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr. Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies, our health, and our relationship to just about every other... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Life : Science of Biology (8TH 08 - Old Edition) by Sadava And Purves / Hillis / Orians / Heller Publisher Comments Co-published by Sinauer Associates, Inc., and W. H. Freeman and Company. Visit the Life, Eighth Edition preview site. LIFE HAS EVOLVED. . . from its original publication to this dramatically revitalized Eighth Edition. LIFE has always... (read more) List Price $190.00 Your price: $126.00 Used - Hardcover
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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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The Structure of Evolutionary Theory by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments The world's most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time--a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention... (read more) List Price $62.50 Your price: $29.00 Used - Hardcover
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Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth by Richard Fortey Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New York Times Book Review "A marvelous museum of the past four billion years on earth--capacious,... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Living World by George Johnson Publisher Comments The Living World is often considered a student favorite. George Johnson has written this non-majors textbook from the ground up to be an engaging and accessible learning tool with an emphasis on "how things work and why things happen the way they do... (read more) List Price $171.60 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Riddled with Life: Friendly Worms, Ladybug Sex, and the Parasites That Make Us Who We Are by Marlene Zuk Publisher Comments An NPR Best Science Book of 2007 "Fascinating."--Natalie Angier, The New York Times Reconsider the fearful parasite!We zealously battle disease, overdose on antibiotics to kill infections, and frantically scrub away germs--but are we giving our... (read more) List Price $13.50 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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All the Birds of North America by American Bird Conser Publisher Comments "Amazingly compact and beautifully presented.... Most of the artwork is stunning ... extraordinary plates.... They make paging through the book a pleasure". -- Bird Watcher's Digest "A field-calibrated, fieldworthy field guide....(the author) has the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Flexible
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived--a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Monkeyluv: And Other Essays on Our Lives as Animals by Robert M Sapolsky Publisher Comments A collection of original essays by a leading neurobiologist and primatologist shares the author's insights into behavioral biology, in a volume that focuses on three primary topics, including the physiology of genes, the human body, and the factors that... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Seven Daughters of Eve: The Science That Reveals Our Genetic Ancestry by Bryan Sykes Publisher Comments One of the most dramatic stories of genetic discovery since James Watson's The Double Helix, The Seven Daughters of Eve reveals the remarkable story behind a groundbreaking scientific discovery. After being summoned in 1997 to an archaeological site to... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Charles Darwin's on the Origin of Species: A Graphic Adaptation by Michael Keller Publisher Comments A stunning graphic adaptation of one of the most famous, contested, and important books of all time. Few books have been as controversial or as historically significant as Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - 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: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Peterson Field Guide To Western Birds 3RD Edition Revised 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: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Molecular Cell Biology by Harvey Lodish Publisher Comments With its acclaimed author team, cutting-edge content, emphasis on medical relevance, and coverage based on landmark experiments, Molecular Cell Biology has justly earned an impeccable reputation as an authoritative and exciting text. The new Sixth... (read more) Your price: $178.95 New - Hardcover
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