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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 $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science by Richard Preston Publisher Comments Bizarre illnesses and plagues that kill people in the most unspeakable ways. Obsessive and inspired efforts by scientists to solve mysteries and save lives. From The Hot Zone to The Demon in the Freezer and beyond, Richard Preston’s bestselling... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind by Gary Marcus Publisher Comments How the accidents of evolution created our quirky, imperfect minds; and what we can do about it. Are we noble in reason? Perfect, in God's image? Far from it, says New York University psychologist Gary Marcus. In this lucid and revealing book, Marcus... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Naturalist by Edward O Wilson Publisher Comments Edward O. Wilson - University Professor at Harvard, winner of two Pulitzer prizes, eloquent champion of biodiversity - is arguably one of the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. His career represents both a blueprint and a challenge to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition Into the Forces of History by Howard K Bloom Publisher Comments The Lucifer Principle is a revolutionary work that explores the intricate relationships among genetics, human behavior, and culture to put forth the thesis that "evil" is a by-product of nature's strategies for creation and that it is woven into our most... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Selfish Gene: 30th Anniversary Edition With a New Introduction by the Author by Richard Dawkins Publisher Comments In his internationally bestselling, now classic volume, Dawkins explains how the selfish gene can also be a subtle gene. This anniversary edition retains all original material, including the two enlightening chapters in the second edition, and a new... (read more) Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Woman: An Intimate Geography by Natalie Angier Publisher Comments With the clarity, insight, and sheer exuberance of language that make her one of "The New York Times's premier stylists, Pulitzer Prize-winner Natalie Angier lifts the veil of secrecy from that most enigmatic of evolutionary masterpieces, the female body.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Insects and Spiders (Audubon Society Field Guide) by Lorus Milne Publisher Comments Spiders, bugs, moths, butterflies, beetles, bees, flies, dragonflies, grasshoppers, and many other insects are detailed in more than 700 full-color photographs visually arranged by shape and color. Descriptive text includes measurements, diagnostic... (read more) Your price $10.95 (Used - Flexible) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Double Helix: A Personal Account of the Discovery of the Structure of DNA by James D Watson Publisher Comments The personal account of one of the great scientific discoveries of the century. By identifying the structure of DNA, Francis Crick and James Watson revolutionized biochemistry and won a Nobel Prize. His honest account of their sprint against other world... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sex Sleep Eat Drink Dream: A Day in the Life of Your Body by Jennifer Ackerman Publisher Comments The acclaimed science writer Jennifer Ackerman lends her keen eye and lively voice to this marvelous exploration of the human body. Taking us through a typical day, from the arousal of the senses in the morning to the reverie of sleep and dreams... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $17.50 (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   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 $5.98 (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 $3.75 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey M Masson Publisher Comments Not since Darwin's The Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals has a book so thoroughly and effectively explored the full rage of emotions that exist throughout the animal kingdom. Hailed as "a masterpiece" by Elizabeth Marshall Thomas, When Elephants... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Insects of the Pacific Northwest (Timber Press Field Guide) by Peter Haggard Publisher Comments With coverage from southwestern British Columbia to northern California, from the coast to the high desert, this invaluable field guide, featuring more than 600 superb color photographs, describes more than 450 species of common, easily visible insects... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Flexible) 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 $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Origins of Life: From the Birth of Life to the Origin of Language by John M Smith Publisher Comments When John Maynard Smith and Eors Szathmary published The Major Transitions in Evolution, it was seen as a major work in biology. Nature hailed it as a book of "grand and daunting sweep...A splendid and rewarding tour de force." And New Scientist wrote... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution by Richard Dawkins Powells.com Staff Pick "Despite my qualms with the 'Canterbury' chapter and Dawkins's general emphasis on heredity over organismal biology, The Ancestor's Tale is still an engaging history of life on our backwater planet....The pilgrimage metaphor describes the book well. Like... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $9.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Demon in the Freezer by Richard Preston Publisher Comments The first major bioterror event in the United States — the anthrax attacks in October 2001 — was a clarion call for scientists who work with "hot" agents to find ways of protecting civilian populations against biological weapons. In The Demon... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) 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 his daring work, Wilson states that Nature is a universal value--one that serves without discrimination the interests of all humanity--and proposes an alliance between science and religion to save Earth's vanishing biodiversity.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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