- Audubon: Early Drawings
- John James Audubon
- Introduction by Richard Rhodes
- Notes by Scott V. Edwards
- Foreword by Leslie A. Morris
- In 1805, Jean Jacques Audubon fled revolutionary violence in both Haiti and France to take refuge in frontier America. Ten years later, John James Audubon was an American citizen whose desire to “become acquainted with nature” led him to reinvent himself as a naturalist and artist. The drawings he made during this crucial decade, of specimens he collected in France and in America, are published together here for the first time in large format and full color.
- Hardcover 2008
- Bird Coloration, Volume 1, Mechanisms and Measurements
- Edited by Geoffrey E. Hill
- Edited by Kevin J. McGraw
- How birds produce the brilliant and striking coloration of their feathers and other body parts is the focus of this first volume of Bird Coloration. It has been more than 40 years since the mechanisms of color production of birds have been reviewed and synthesized. Geoffrey Hill and Kevin McGraw have assembled the world's leading experts in perception, measurement, and control of bird coloration to contribute to this book. This sumptuously illustrated volume synthesizes more than 1,500 technical papers in this field.
- Paperback 2006
- Bird Coloration, Volume 2, Function and Evolution
- Edited by Geoffrey E. Hill
- Edited by Kevin J. McGraw
- In this companion volume to Bird Coloration: Volume 1, Mechanisms and Measurements, Geoffrey E. Hill and Kevin J. McGraw explain the function of the colorful displays of birds and examine the factors that shape the evolution of color signals. This sumptuously illustrated book will be essential reading for biologists studying animal coloration, but it will also be treasured by anyone curious about why birds are colorful and how they got that way.
- Hardcover 2006
- The Birder’s Bug Book
- Gilbert Waldbauer
- Gilbert Waldbauer, a veteran entomologist and an accomplished birdwatcher, presents an excellent introduction to the intricate interplay of insects and birds, with a beguiling blend of anecdote, ornithology, and entomology. Profusely illustrated with drawings and color photographs, this book offers a cornucopia of facts about the life history and behavior of insects and birds.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000
- Egg & Nest
- Rosamond Purcell
- Linnea S. Hall
- René Corado
- Introduction by Bernd Heinrich
- Alongside Rosamond Purcell’s stunning photographs, Linnea Hall and René Corado offer an engaging history of egg collecting, the provenance of the specimens in the photographs, and the biology, conservation, and ecology of the birds that produced them.
- Hardcover 2008
- More than Kin and Less than Kind
- Douglas W. Mock
- Sibling rivalry and intergenerational conflict are not limited to human beings. Among seals and piglets, storks and burying beetles, in bird nests and beehives, from apples to humans, family conflicts can be deadly serious, determining who will survive and who will perish. When offspring compete for scarce resources, parents sometime play favorites or even kill their young. Mock tells us what scientists have discovered about this disturbing side of family dynamics in the natural world.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2006