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Why We Run: A Natural History by Bernd Heinrich Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-282) and index.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments The best general account of evolution I have read in recent years.--E. O. Wilson. With a new introduction. Twenty years after its original publication, The Blind Watchmaker, framed with a new introduction by the author, is as prescient and timely a book... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Natural History of the Senses by Diane Ackerman Publisher Comments If Colette had studied science and spent time listening to icebergs in Antarctica and interviewing a professional nose in New York, she might have written a book as luscious and erudite as A Natural History of the Senses. In the course of this grand tour... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Brief Tour of Human Consciousness: From Impostor Poodles to Purple Numbers by V. S. Ramachandran Publisher Comments How can people come to believe that their poodle is an impostor? Or see colors in numbers? Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA, said of V.S. Ramachandran's first book, "The patients he describes are fascinating, and his experiments on them are both... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey M Masson Publisher Comments This national bestseller exploring the complex emotional lives of animals was hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas and as "marvelous" by Jane Goodall. The popularity of When Elephants Weep has swept the nation, as author Jeffrey Masson... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution by Michael J Behe Publisher Comments The groundbreaking, "seminal work" (Time) on intelligent design that dares to ask, was Darwin wrong? In 1996, Darwin's Black Box helped to launch the intelligent design movement: the argument that nature exhibits evidence of design, beyond Darwinian... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Primate's Memoir: A Neuroscientist's Unconventional Life Among the Baboons by Robert M Sapolsky Powells.com Staff Pick I never imagined that a book written by a primate behaviorologist would make me laugh out loud. Sapolsky is a born storyteller, and I found his experiences of twenty years in Africa studying baboons absolutely fascinating. You get to know the... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Little Book of Pandemics: 50 of the World's Most Virulent Plagues and Infectious Diseases by Peter Moore Publisher Comments As the world waits once again to see if the latest virus will decimate the population, The Little Black of Pandemics looks at the greatest natural killers of all time. This concise and intelligent look at the most deadly viral and bacterial... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mind Wide Open: Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments In this nationally bestselling, compulsively readable account of what makes brain science a vital component of people's quest to know themselves, acclaimed science writer Steven Johnson subjects his own brain to a battery of tests to find out what's... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox: Mending the Gap Between Science and the Humanities by Stephen Jay Gould Publisher Comments For the metaphor of cunning versus persistence that runs through The Hedgehog, the Fox, and the Magister's Pox, Stephen Jay Gould reaches back to the 7th century B.C., when the Greek soldier-poet Archilochus said that "the fox devises many strategies... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Biology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson Powells.com Staff Pick One of the most revealing, readable books about the mind to come along in years. A simply fascinating glimpse into animal behavior — on the farm, at home, and even in the mirror. Recommended by Kyle, Powells.com... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Reason for Hope by Jane Goodall Synopsis As a toddler she was entranced by all living things, and the child inspired by Tarzan and The Jungle Book became the woman who found herself working with Dr. Louis Leakey, making scientific breakthroughs with chimpanzees in Gombe, and becoming one of the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Third Chimpanzee the Evolution & Future by Jared Diamond Publisher Comments Part One A Tale of Three Chimps The next time you visit a zoo, make a point of walking past the ape cages. Imagine that the apes had lost most of their hair, and imagine a cage nearby holding some unfortunate people who had no clothes and couldn't speak... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland by Bryan Sykes Publisher Comments From the best-selling author of The Seven Daughters of Eve, an illuminating guide to the genetic history of the British Isles. One of the world's leading geneticists, Bryan Sykes has helped thousands find their ancestry in the British Isles. Saxons... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $ (Used - ) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth by E. O. Wilson Publisher Comments In this daring work, Edward O. Wilson proposes an alliance between science and religion to save Earth's vanishing biodiversity. Dear Pastor: We have not met, yet I feel I know you well enough to call you friend. First of all, we grew up in the same faith.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology by Robert Wright Publisher Comments Are men literally born to cheat? Does monogamy actually serve women's interests? These are among the questions that have made The Moral Animal one of the most provocative science books in recent years. Wright unveils the genetic strategies behind... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny by Robert Wright Publisher Comments In his bestselling The Moral Animal, Robert Wright applied the principles of evolutionary biology to the study of the human mind. Now Wright attempts something even more ambitious: explaining the direction of evolution and human history–and... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Butterflies (Audubon Society Field Guide) by Robert Michael Pyle Publisher Comments Butterflies are among the natural world's most colorful and intriguing creatures, so what could be more useful than a handy field guide with more than 1,000 photographs of all the butterflies of North America north of Mexico, including all true... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Hot Zone by Richard Preston Publisher Comments "Popular science writing at its best and the years most infectious page-turner" (People), this two-million-copy bestseller is "a top-drawer horror story...the best literary roller coaster of the fall" (Newsweek).... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of Perfume and Obsession by Chandler Burr Synopsis The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutting-edge work in... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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