- Approaches to Faunal Analysis in the Middle East
- Edited by Richard H. Meadow
- Edited by Melinda A. Zeder
- This volume addresses the methodology and application of a faunal analysis, specifically as it pertains to data from the Middle East. Topics include a wide range of approaches to the study of the faunal remains, from the methodology of investigating issuses of domestication to the utilization of computer analysis in the identification of remains.
- Paperback
- Beautiful Minds
- Maddalena Bearzi
- Craig B. Stanford
- Beautiful Minds explains how and why apes and dolphins are so distantly related yet so cognitively alike and what this teaches us about another large-brained mammal: Homo sapiens. Noting that apes and dolphins have had no common ancestor in nearly 100 million years, Bearzi and Stanford describe the parallel evolution that gave rise to their intelligence.
- Hardcover 2008
- Built for Speed
- John A. Byers
- North America's fastest mammal, the pronghorn can accelerate explosively from a standing start to a top speed of 60 miles per hour--but it can also cruise at 45 miles per hour for many miles. What accounts for the speed of this extraordinary animal? And what is it like to be a field biologist dedicating twenty years to studying this species? In Built for Speed, John A. Byers answers these questions as he draws an intimate portrait of the most charismatic resident of the American Great Plains.
- Hardcover 2003
- Coyote at the Kitchen Door
- Stephen DeStefano
- A moose frustrates commuters by wandering onto the highway; an alligator suns himself in a strip mall parking lot. In Coyote at the Kitchen Door, Stephen DeStefano draws on decades of experience as a biologist and conservationist to examine the interplay between urban sprawl and wayward wildlife. Coyote at the Kitchen Door asks us to rethink the meaning of progress and create a new suburban wildlife ethic.
- Hardcover 2010
- The Smaller Majority
- Piotr Naskrecki
- This large-format volume of color photographs takes readers on a magnificent visual journey into the remote world of small tropical organisms critical to biodiversity. A unique introduction to the marvelous variety of the overlooked life under our feet, Naskrecki's book returns us to a child's sense of wonder with a fully informed, deeply felt understanding of the importance of the world's smaller, teeming life.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007