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Science 2013
Chinese Medicine and HealingAn Illustrated HistoryEditEd by TJ Hinrichs and Linda L. Barnes
“A rich exploration of the
evolution and impact of
Chinese medicine . . . Medical
professionals and alternative
medicine aficionados will find
plenty to appreciate in this
compelling study.”
—Publishers Weekly
“Will change the way we learn
about and teach the history
of health and healing in China
and beyond. Chinese Medi-
cine and Healing collects ten
chronologically-organized
chapters that each explore
practices of health and heal-
ing in a specific historical
period, ranging from oracle
bones in the pre-Han period
to modern McDonald’s restau-
rant décor . . . It’s a phenom-
enal accomplishment and
makes for an enjoyable and
compelling read.”
— Carla Nappi, New Books in
East Asian Studies
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Curious BehaviorYawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and BeyondRobert R. Provine
H PROSE Award, Biomedicine & Neuroscience Category
H A Library Journal Best Book of the Year
“Neuroscientist Robert Provine turns an evolutionary lens
on everything from the gross to the faintly improper.
The ‘contagiousness’ of yawning, for instance, hints at
the roots of empathy and herd behavior. Burping and
farting were involved in the development of speech, says
Provine. . . Some of it speculative, all of it fascinating.”
—Nature
“Charmingly written and profoundly informative . . . [A]
marvelous book. . . ‘Small science’ at its best.”
—Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal
“Begs you to continue where curiosity leads you, down
the boulevards and back alleys of science.”
—James Gorman, New York Times
Belknap Press 2012 288 pp. 9780674048515 cloth $24.95 • £18.95
AdrenalineBrian B. Hoffman
“[This] is medical history at its best, revealing the blend
of genius, guts, and luck that transformed a hunch into
a breakthrough—from 19th-century physician Thomas
Addison’s insights into the function of the adrenal glands
to the beginnings of endocrinology.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“As Hoffman beautifully demonstrates, adrenaline is part
of a whole host of fundamental physiological processes
besides fight or flight. It influences our emotions and is
part of the cycle of sugar metabolism.”
—William Bynum, Wall Street Journal
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Triumphs of ExperienceThe Men of the Harvard Grant StudyGeorge E. Vaillant
“Of the 31 men in the study incapable of establishing
intimate bonds, only four are still alive . . . It’s not that the
men who flourished had perfect childhoods. Rather, as
Vaillant puts it, ‘What goes right is more important than
what goes wrong’ . . . The beauty of the Grant Study is
that, as Vaillant emphasizes, it has followed its subjects
for nine decades. The big finding is that you can teach
an old dog new tricks. The men kept changing all the
way through, even in their 80s and 90s.”
—David Brooks, New York Times
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Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern MedicineThomas H. Lee
“A splendid biography of the pioneer cardiovascular
researcher. Lee is highly knowledgeable, a clear writer,
and Eugene Braunwald is an absorbing subject—bril-
liant, resourceful, and idealistic. Eugene Braunwald and
the Rise of Modern Medicine is a compelling story, and I
found myself increasingly fascinated.”
— David McCullough, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner
“Braunwald remains far too little-known. The span of his
work in cardiology has transformed medicine and human
life. And Tom Lee has wrapped Braunwald’s life story in
the tale of how American medicine changed the world,
giving us a book that is as engrossing as it is inspiring.”
—Atul Gawande
2013 400 pp. 16 halftones, 10 line illus., 1 table 9780674724976 cloth $35.00 • £25.95
The Fragile WisdomAn Evolutionary View on Women’s Biology and Health
Grazyna Jasienska
“Women may aim for perfect
health through diet, exercise
and close attention to medi-
cal advice, but still develop
breast cancer or osteopo-
rosis. Reproductive fitness
often wars with general physi-
cal fitness over a woman’s
lifetime, argues public-health
specialist Grazyna Jasienska.
Drawing on a raft of research
in evolutionary biology and
beyond, she points to fac-
tors such as the disjunction
between ‘palaeo’ and current
lifestyles, hormonal dispari-
ties and longer lifespans as
key to informing disease-
prevention strategies.”
—Nature
2013 336 pp. 9780674047129 cloth $35.00 • £25.95
Cover image: Eastern Screech- Owl from Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology, Edited by Edward H. Burtt, Jr., and William E. Davis, Jr. (p. 4).
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Life in a ShellA Physiologist’s View of a Turtle
Donald C. Jackson
H A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
“Over 200 million years of existence, turtles have shared the
planet with dinosaurs, witnessed the diversification of mam-
mals and seen the spread of humans. Physiologist Donald
Alexander WilsonThe Scot Who Founded American OrnithologyEdward H. Burtt, Jr., and William E. Davis, Jr.
“Burtt and Davis argue convincingly for Wilson’s contribution to
modern scientific ornithology and celebrate Wilson as the man
who inspired John James Audubon . . . This book . . . give[s] us
Wilson’s wonderful illustrations—and a sense of the spirit of an
extraordinary man whose curiosity reached far beyond the man-
made world.”
—karin Altenberg, Wall Street Journal
“It is as the author of American Ornithology—a nine-volume work
that aimed to list every species in the U.S.—that Wilson will be
remembered. [His] books were revolutionary . . . Wilson’s life and
his struggle to publish American Ornithology are fascinating.”
—Peter Ranscombe, The Scotsman
Belknap Press 2013 464 pp. 146 color illus., 6 tables 9780674072558 cloth $35.00 • £25.00
Planet without ApesCraig B. Stanford
“In this study of the plight of gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans
and bonobos, primatologist Craig Stanford reveals how mining
coltan, a mineral used in electronics, destroys primate habitats
and fuels the illegal bush meat trade. In his wide-ranging call for
action, Stanford—co-director of the Jane Goodall Research Cen-
ter in Los Angeles, California—lays out the critical threats, argu-
ing that humanity’s closest cousins are viewed as savage ‘others’
and subjected to a genocidal urge last seen in the colonial era.”
—Nature
“Stanford examines the threats to apes’ survival and explores
approaches to reversing or at least neutralizing those pressures.
He reveals a complex web of cultural, social, economic and
biological issues that explain why this problem is so exceedingly
difficult to solve.”
—Sarah Halzack, Washington Post
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Jackson conveys his love of the reptile in his book. He explains
how its slow movements help it to survive winters under ice
and describes how its shell functions as a home, armour and
a buoyancy aid. By focusing on the physiology of this one
familiar beast, he also reveals how scientific understanding
evolves by building on the work of others.”
— Nature
2013 192 pp. 11 halftones, 12 line illus. 9780674072305 paper $18.95 • £14.95
Concealing Coloration in AnimalsJudy Diamond and Alan B. Bond
“Combining a naturalist’s eye with scientific rigor, the authors
report on modern experiments on the mechanisms of the selec-
tive process that support these observations.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“This book is a lovely survey, for the general public, of all that is
known about concealing coloration, and very nicely weaves the
history of the subjects with the facts.”
— John A. Endler, Professor of Sensory Ecology and Evolution, Deakin University, Australia
Belknap Press 2013 288 pp. 52 color illus. 9780674052352 cloth $29.95 • £22.95
BioluminescenceLiving Lights, Lights for LivingThérèse Wilson and J. Woodland Hastings
“Wilson and Hastings demonstrate that what appears on the
surface to be a biological oddity is actually a marvelous entry
port into examining the intricacies of biochemistry as molded by
evolution. I found this book absolutely captivating.”
— Jim Morin, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University
“Wilson and Hastings have given us a masterful biology lesson
showing how addressing a seemingly simple question (How do
different organisms produce light?) leads to fascinating natural
history, intriguing ecology, and exciting biochemistry. They show
how the study of bioluminescence has given us new tools, new
insights, and new questions that need to be answered.”
—Martin Chalfie, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
2013 208 pp. 74 color illus., 3 halftones, 11 line illus., 6 graphs 9780674067165 cloth $45.00 • £33.95
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The Spirit of the HiveThe Mechanisms of Social EvolutionRobert E. Page, Jr.ForEword by Bert Hölldobler
“Fascinating . . . Page’s book is a delightful example of how
one dedicated career in science can dramatically deepen
and broaden our perceptions of the world around us.”
—Mark L. Winston, Nature
One of the foremost honey bee geneticists in the world,
sheds light on how the coordinated activity of hives
arises naturally when worker bees respond to stimuli in
their environment. The actions they take in turn alter
the environment and so change the stimuli for their
nestmates. For example, a bee detecting ample stores
of pollen in the hive is inhibited from foraging for more,
whereas detecting the presence of hungry young larvae
will stimulate pollen gathering. Division of labor, Page
shows, is an inevitable product of group living.
2013 240 pp. 39 halftones, 30 line illus., 4 tables 9780674073029 cloth $39.95 • £29.95
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A World of InsectsThe Harvard University Press ReaderEditEd by Ring T. Cardé and Vincent H. Resh
“The editors have gathered some of the finest and most
entertaining entomological writing I’ve ever read.”
— Amy Stewart, Washington Post
James Costa, Vincent Dethier, Thomas Eisner, Lee Goff,
Bernd Heinrich, Bert Hölldobler, Kenneth Roeder, Andrew
Ross, Thomas Seeley, Karl von Frisch, Gilbert Wald-
bauer, E. O. Wilson, and Mark Winston—each writer, in
his unique voice, paints a close-up portrait of the ways
insects explore their environment, outmaneuver their
enemies, mate, and care for kin.
2012 416 pp. 12 halftones, 31 line illus., 1 table 9780674046191 paper $19.95 • £14.95
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The Fire AntsWalter R. Tschinkel
H Honorable Mention, Association of American Publishers, Biology
“I have been reading bits and
pieces of the book, dipping in
here and there like a chim-
panzee with a twig, fishing
for ants, and each time I have
come up with something tasty
and nutritious . . . My favorite
[‘Interlude’], an economical
two-page essay called ‘The
Porter Wedge Micrometer:
Mental Health for Myrmecolo-
gists,’ ought to be required
reading for any scientist
who wants to write for the
public . . . This brief essay is
entertaining and significant,
a real glimpse of what sci-
ence is and how it is done by
human beings, rational and
un-, grappling with technique,
nature and the gathering of
information. This is what the
public needs to know about
science, not just the results
presented in the driest form
possible.”
— James Gorman, New York Times
Belknap Press 2013 752 pp. 53 color illus., 23 halftones, 188 line illus., 9 tables 9780674072404 paper $29.95 • £22.95
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Yellowstone’s Wildlife in TransitionEditEd by P. J. White, Robert A. Garrott, and Glenn E. Plumb
This is the most comprehensive survey of research on
North America’s flagship national park available today.
Highly readable and fully illustrated, Yellowstone’s
Wildlife in Transition will be welcomed by ecologists and
nature enthusiasts alike.
“As a people and nation, we consistently invest in Yellow-
stone science, as the wildlife populations wax and wane
and as the climate changes, migrations are allowed or
prevented, wolves are eliminated and restored, and inva-
sive species of animals and plants press in. Translation of
this science into twenty-first century stewardship is the
intent of the present volume. The information is timeless
and valuable beyond measure.”
—from the Foreword by Edward O. Wilson
2013 368 pp. 31 halftones, 8 line illus., 1 map 9780674073180 cloth $45.00 • £33.95
The Mind of the HorseAn Introduction to Equine CognitionMichel-Antoine LeblancTranslated by Giselle Weiss
“The Mind of the Horse provides an extensive review of all
the physiological studies on horse perception. It is an es-
sential reference work for researchers of horse behavior.”
— Temple Grandin, editor of Genetics and the Behavior of Domestic Animals
Much of what we know—or think we know—about “the
intelligence of the horse” derives from fragmentary re-
ports and anecdotal evidence. Putting this accumulated
wisdom to the test, Leblanc introduces readers to rigor-
ous experimental investigations into how horses make
sense of their world under varying conditions.
2013 436 pp. 16 color illus., 60 halftones, 52 line illus., 15 tables 9780674724969 cloth $39.95 • £29.95
Animal KingdomsHunting, the Environment, and Power in the Indian Princely States
Julie E. Hughes
“This admirable and well-
written study of hunting and
elite identity in north Indian
princely states in the later
nineteenth and early twenti-
eth century is a welcome ad-
dition to social and environ-
mental history of this period.”
— kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University
2013 320 pp. 12 color illus., 5 maps 9780674072800 cloth $49.95 • £36.95
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Evolution, Games, and GodThe Principle of CooperationEditEd by Martin A. Nowak and Sarah Coakley
“Martin Nowak is undeniably a great artist, working in the me-
dium of mathematical biology.”
— Sean Nee, Nature
“I have been anticipating this book for years and it has exceeded
my high expectations. Nowak and Coakley combine the courage
of applying a specific evolutionary theory to altruism with the
prudence of recruiting sharp minds to explore and challenge
their own thesis. The result is essential reading for anyone
interested in carefully bringing science into conversation with
moral and theological phenomena while avoiding the pitfalls of
reductionism.”
—Ariel Glucklich, Georgetown University
2013 416 pp. 14 halftones, 1 line illus., 2 tables 9780674047976 cloth $35.00 • £25.95
Evolution and Human Sexual BehaviorPeter B. Gray and Justin R. Garcia
“I am convinced this book will become a classic, and I don’t use
this term lightly. It is a superb overview and synthesis of the lit-
erature, along with discussion of the newest data from a remark-
ably wide range of academic disciplines. I am impressed.”
— Helen Fisher, Rutgers University
2013 376 pp. 9780674072732 cloth $39.95 • £29.95
Genetic ExplanationsSense and Nonsense
EditEd by Sheldon krimsky and Jeremy Gruber
“Important and optimistic, Genetic Explanations clears the
way for an open discourse on human identity in the age of
DNA, clearly demonstrating the many ways in which the
information in our DNA interacts with our experience over the
course of a lifetime.”
— Robert Pollack, Columbia University
“A welcome contribution . . . a valuable resource for those seek-
ing to sort exaggerated claims about genetic causation from
solid scientific achievements.”
— Troy Duster, author of Backdoor to Eugenics
2013 384 pp. 2 graphs, 4 tables 9780674064461 cloth $45.00 • £33.95
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3An Inquiry into Modes of ExistenceAn Anthropology of the ModernsBruno LatourTranslated by Catherine Porter
H Bruno Latour is Winner of the Holberg International Memorial Prize
“[An Inquiry into Modes of Existence] is not just a book;
it is also a project in interactive metaphysics. In other
words, a book, plus website . . . Intrigued readers of
Latour’s text can go online and find themselves drawn
into a collaborative project. Collective collaboration—
some would call it ‘crowdsourcing’—is rare in philosophy,
but Latour, a sociologist and anthropologist by training,
is used to collaboration with scientists . . . Latour’s work
makes the world—sorry, worlds—interesting again.”
—Stephen Muecke, Los Angeles Review of Books
2013 520 pp. 9780674724990 cloth $39.95 • £29.95
TychomancyInferring Probability from Causal StructureMichael Strevens
“It seems almost magical how we infer facts about objec-
tive probabilities from symmetries and other physical
properties of systems. Physicists such as Maxwell have
done it with stunning success; so too evolutionary
biologists since Darwin, ecologists, climate scientists,
astronomers, and other scientists. Strevens argues that
such reasoning comes so easily to us that even babies
can do it, and we don’t notice when we do it ourselves.
In this remarkable and engaging book, he plays with
great aplomb the roles of such scientists—as well as
the role of historian of science, of cognitive psycholo-
gist, and especially of philosopher . . . Channel your inner
tychomaniac, and read this book!”
—Alan Hájek, Australian National University
2013 280 pp. 18 line illus. 9780674073111 cloth $39.95 • £29.95
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The Ecological ThoughtTimothy Morton
“Timothy Morton has a unique
take on ecology that chal-
lenges much of the alterna-
tive consciousness that floats
around on the periphery of
environmental circles. He
offers a profound take on hu-
man possibilities. To Morton,
human society and Nature are
not two distinct things but
rather two different angles on
the same thing.”
—Tikkun
2012 184 pp. 9780674064225 paper $19.95 • £14.95
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MeasurementPaul Lockhart
“This invitation to tackle mathematical questions is in-
fused with the joys of the rarefied reality of maths. Paul
Lockhart largely avoids complex formulae and the wilder
shores of jargon, opting instead for simple geometric
drawings, lucid instructions and honest warnings about
the hurdles. Covering size, shape, space and time, Lock-
hart, a maths teacher, gets through scores of problems,
from showing that a cone in a hemisphere occupies half
the volume to determining the size of the largest circle
that can sit at the bottom of a parabola. Elegant, amus-
ing and challenging.”
—Nature
Belknap Press 2012 416 pp. 416 line illus. 9780674057555 cloth $29.95 • £20.00
A History in Sum150 Years of Mathematics at Harvard (1825–1975)Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau
“A beautiful tribute to a beautiful subject, one that illumi-
nates mathematics through the lens of some of its most
remarkable practitioners. The authors’ love of mathemat-
ics shines through every chapter, as they use accessible
and spirited language to describe a wealth of heady
insights and the all-too-human stories of the minds that
discovered them. There is perhaps no better book for
immersion into the curious and compelling history of
mathematical thought.”
—Brian Greene, Columbia University
2013 280 pp. 21 halftones 9780674725003 cloth $39.95 • £29.95
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The Theology of ArithmeticNumber Symbolism in Platonism and Early ChristianityJoel kalvesmaki
In the second century, gnosticizing Christians used numerical structures and symbols to describe God, interpret the Bible, and frame the universe. In this study of the controversy that resulted, Joel kalvesmaki shows how earlier neo-Pythagorean and Platonist number symbol-ism provided the impetus for this theology of arithmetic, and describes the ways in which gnosticizing groups attempted to engage both the Platonist and Christian traditions. Arguing that the early dispute influenced the very tradition that inspired it, kalvesmaki explains how, in the late third and early fourth centuries, numbers became increasingly important to Platonists, who engaged in arithmological constructions and disputes that mirrored the earlier Christian ones.
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A Palette of ParticlesJeremy Bernstein
“Physicist Jeremy Bernstein pays homage to the subatom-
ic, tinting particles according to era of discovery . . . The
abstractions come alive as Bernstein meshes history and
science with anecdotes on everyone from Murray Gell-
Mann to Richard Feynman.”
—Nature
“General readers share in the excitement of epoch-
making science without shouldering the burden of
rigorous analysis . . . Sprinkled with anecdotes revealing
the piquant personalities of pioneering scientists.”
—Bryce Christensen, Booklist (starred review)
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101 Quantum QuestionsWhat You Need to Know About the World You Can’t Seekenneth W. Ford
“Kenneth Ford’s question-and-answer-style guide to the
weirdness of the quantum realm is a clear and handy ref-
erence. Ford’s easy-going prose will help you feel right at
home at nature’s tiniest and most counterintuitive scale.”
— Amanda Gefter, New Scientist
“Using humor and straight talk to answer questions that
often bedevil the non-scientist who attempts to grasp
this knotty subject, Ford has created an entertaining
read.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
2012 304 pp. 39 halftones, 64 line illus., 9 tables 9780674066076 paper $17.95 • £13.95
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A Short History of Physics in the American CenturyDavid C. Cassidy
“A Short History of Physics
in the American Century by
David Cassidy presents a
brisk but excellent institu-
tional and political history of
the discipline, ornamented by
lucid descriptions of physics
concepts and discoveries . . .
[It] deserves a wide audience,
including physicists curi-
ous about their discipline’s
prominent role in modern U.S.
history . . . A snappy and enjoy-
able read.”
— Benjamin Wilson,
Physics Today
2013 224 pp. 9780674725829 paper $19.95 • £14.95
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The Lost Art of Finding Our WayJohn Edward Huth
“Even the most confused of us can improve our navigational un-
derstanding by paying closer attention to the world around us . . .
A learned and encyclopedic grab bag, packed with information
drawn from study and Huth’s own experience.”
—Michael Dirda, Washington Post
“Physicist John Edward Huth turns explorer in this rich, wide-
ranging and lucidly illustrated primer on how to find yourself in
the middle of somewhere. Huth’s prescription for navigating fog,
darkness, open ocean, thick forests or unknown terrain rests
first on harnessing compass, Sun and stars; then on the subtle-
ties of weather forecasting and decoding markers such as the
wind, waves and tides.”
—Nature
Belknap Press 2013 544 pp. 171 halftones, 54 line illus., 3 tables 9780674072824 cloth $35.00 • £25.00
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Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the PoorRob Nixon
H American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation
H Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, Environmental Studies
H Association for the Study of Literature & Environment Award
“Slow Violence is inspiring, innovative, and passionate. Nixon
forces us to confront some of the most urgent issues facing the
continued existence of humans on the planet. He re-energizes
environmental literature, infusing the field with the transnational
concerns of world literature, and creatively reinvigorates post-
colonial studies.”
—Hazel Carby, Yale University
“This is a fine book, disturbing and revealing in content, and
worthy of lengthy study.”
—Jules Pretty, Times Higher Education
2012 5 halftones 370 pp. 9780674072343 paper $19.95 • £14.95
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Designing Wildlife HabitatsEditEd by John Beardsley
This book gathers essays by designers, scientists, and histori-
ans to explore how they might better collaborate to promote
zoological biodiversity and how scientific ambitions might be
expressed in culturally significant and historically informed
design.
Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of Landscape Architecture 2013 304 pp. 126 color illus., 13 halftones, 14 line illus., 2 tables 9780884023852 paper $50.00 • £37.95
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ThirstWater and Power in the Ancient WorldSteven Mithen
“Often riveting, Mithen . . . describes in detail how ancient civiliza-
tions, from China and Cambodia to the Middle East, Arizona,
Mayan Central America, and Incan Peru, managed their water
supplies and thus made arid land inhabitable . . . The archaeologi-
cal Middle East is where Mithen is at home. In other parts of the
world he writes as a traveller, but an exceptionally alert and well-
informed one . . . Mithen is passionately convinced that the study
of ancient water management offers us some lessons . . . A vitally
engaging book.”
—W. V. Harris, London Review of Books
2012 384 pp. 49 color illus., 17 line illus., 11 maps 9780674066939 cloth $25.95 • £19.95
On the Organic Law of ChangeA Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace’s Species Notebook of 1855–1859Alfred Russel WallaceAnnotated by James T. Costa
“The first detailed analysis of Wallace’s Species Notebook by an
evolutionary biologist and the most important study of the de-
velopment of Wallace’s evolutionary ideas attempted by anyone
so far. Costa is uniquely placed to have done this work; not only
does he have an excellent grasp of evolutionary theory, but he
also has a detailed understanding of the early history of the sub-
ject including the development of Darwin’s ideas about evolution.”
— George Beccaloni, Director of the A. R. Wallace Correspondence Project, Natural History Museum, London
2013 640 pp. 307 halftones, 1 line illus., 1 map, 29 tables 9780674724884 cloth $49.95 • £36.95
The Mortal SeaFishing the Atlantic in the Age of SailW. Jeffrey Bolster
H Bancroft Prize, Columbia University
H John Lyman Book Award, Society for Oceanic History
“Bolster ‘writes the ocean into history,’ tracing the currents
leading to today’s serious fish-stock depletion. Focusing on the
North Atlantic from Cape Cod to Newfoundland’s Grand Banks,
he shows how one species after another has been exploited for
centuries . . . Bolster braids marine biology into a narrative driven
by courageous chancers, such as fifteenth-century explorer John
Cabot and unnamed hordes of fishermen, to argue that the pre-
cautionary approach is key to heading off collapse.”
—Nature
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Is American Science in Decline?Yu Xie and Alexandra A. killewald
“In the heated debate over the state of U.S. science, alarmists
say there are too few young high-flyers; others, too many. Enter
sociologists Yu Xie and Alexandra Killewald, whose nuanced
view is backed up by able number-crunching. The United States,
they found, is still a scientific superpower: the workforce has
grown, and numbers of new graduates at all levels of higher
education are rising. But the future is less certain: the number
of U.S. doctorate holders taking up academic posts is in decline
and earnings are stagnant, for instance.”
—Nature
2012 240 pp. 1 line illus., 21 graphs, 30 tables 9780674052420 cloth $45.00 • £33.95
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Am I Making Myself Clear?A Scientist’s Guide to Talking to the PublicCornelia Dean
“I’ve never read a better, more thorough guide to science com-
munication in all its forms. Dean’s suggestions for how to be
interviewed by a journalist—for print, radio and television—are
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Anand Cost of Inaction ....................................... 17
Beardsley Designing Wildlife Habitats..................... 12
Bernstein A Palette of Particles ................................11
Bolster Mortal Sea ............................................... 13
Burtt Alexander Wilson ......................................4
Cardé A World of Insects .....................................6
Cassidy A Short History of Physics .......................11
Dean Am I Making Myself Clear? ..................... 14
Diamond Concealing Coloration in Animals ............5
Farmer Health and Human Rights (Journal) ........ 18
Ford 101 Quantum Questions ...........................11
Gray Evolution & Human Sexual Behavior ........8
Hinrichs Chinese Medicine and Healing .................2
Hoffman Adrenaline .................................................2
Hughes Animal Kingdoms ......................................7
Huth Lost Art of Finding Our Way.................... 12
Jackson Life in a Shell .............................................4
Jasienska Fragile Wisdom ..........................................3
Kalvesmaki Theology of Arithmetic ...........................10
Knaul Beauty without the Breast ....................... 16
Knaul Closing the Cancer Divide ...................... 16
Knaul Financing Health in Latin America ......... 16
Krimsky Genetic Explanations ................................8
Latour An Inquiry into Modes of Existence..........9
Leblanc Mind of the Horse......................................7
Lee Eugene Braunwald ....................................3
Light Making Scientists .................................... 14
Lockhart Measurement ..........................................10
Lott Four Seasons of Flowers ......................... 15
Marks Health and Human Rights ....................... 17
Mithen Thirst ........................................................ 13
Morton Ecological Thought ...................................9
Nadis A History in Sum ......................................10
Nixon Slow Violence & Environmentalism ........ 12
Nowak Evolution, Games, and God ......................8
Page Spirit of the Hive .......................................6
Provine Curious Behavior .......................................2
Snow Science and Government ....................... 15
Stanford Planet Without Apes ..................................4
Strevens Tychomancy ..............................................9
Tschinkel Fire Ants .....................................................6
Vaillant Triumphs of Experience ............................3
Wallace On the Organic Law of Change .............. 13
White Yellowstone’s Wildlife in Transition ...........7
Wilson Bioluminescence .......................................5
Xie Is American Science in Decline? ............ 14
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