The Alex Studies

Irene Maxine Pepperberg

Twenty years ago Irene Pepperberg set out to discover whether large-brained, highly social parrots were capable of mastering complex cognitive concepts and the rudiments of referential speech. Her investigation and the bird at its center--a male Grey parrot named Alex--have since become almost as well known as their primate equivalents and no less a subject of fierce debate in the field of animal cognition. This book represents the long-awaited synthesis of the studies constituting one of the landmark experiments in modern comparative psychology.

Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002

Amber

Andrew Ross

The fossilized resin of ancient trees, amber preserves organic material--most commonly insects and other invertebrates--and with it the shape and surface detail that are usually obliterated or hopelessly distorted during the mineralization we associate with fossils. This fascinating substance offers a unique intersection of the fields of paleontology, botany, entomology, and mineralogy.

Paperback 1999

An Essay on Calcareous Manures

Edmund Ruffin

Edited by J. Carlyle Sitterson

This book's publication in 1832 initiated an era of agricultural reform in the ante-bellum South. By 1850 Ruffin had effected a transformation of the economy of the upper South from poverty to agricultural prosperity. This small book, with its uncompromisingly descriptive title, is a landmark in the history of soil chemistry in the United States.

Hardcover 1961

Anatomy of the Guinea Pig

Gale Cooper, M.D

Alan L. Schiller, M.D

Hardcover 1975

Ancient Light

Alan Lightman

In the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and lucid exploration of cosmology available today, MIT astrophysicist and science writer Alan Lightman takes the reader on a grand tour of the universe. In this slim volume he explores the history of cosmology, the theories and the evidence, the new discoveries, the outstanding questions, and the controversies.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Animal Body Fluids and Their Regulation

A. P. M. Lockwood

Life depends on the satisfactory functioning of protoplasm, and the functioning of protoplasm is in its turn dependent on its being bathed by a suitable medium. Animal Body Fluids and their Regulation is designed to introduce the student to some of the reasons why the composition of the bathing medium is so important and to the manner in which it is maintained. This book fills an important gap and should be especially useful to scholarship candidates and first year university students.

Hardcover 1963

Animal Species and Evolution

Ernst Mayr

In a series of twenty chapters, Mr. Mayr presents a consecutive story, beginning with a description of evolutionary biology and ending with a discussion of man as a biological species. Calling attention to unsolved problems, and relating the evolutionary subject matter to appropriate material from other fields, such as physiology, genetics, and biochemistry, the author integrates and interprets existing data. Believing that an unequivocal stand is more likely to produce constructive criticism than evasion of an issue, he does not hesitate to choose that interpretation of a controversial matter which to him seems most consistent with the emerging picture of the evolutionary process.

Hardcover 1963

The Animal in its World (Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972, Volume I, Field Studies

Nikolaas Tinbergen

Together with Konrad Lorenz, Niko Tinbergen is generally acknowledged as the founder of the young science of ethology. These classic original studies will fascinate the increasing number if readers interested in the topical problems if animals and human behavior.

Hardcover 1972 / Paperback

The Animal in its World (Explorations of an Ethologist, 1932-1972, Volume II, Laboratory Experiments and General Papers

Nikolaas Tinbergen

Paperback

Anthrax

Philipp Sarasin

Translated by Giselle Weiss

Many security experts believe that the next act of widespread terrorism will likely come from a weapon of biochemical means. In Anthrax: Bioterror as Fact and Fantasy, Philipp Sarasin explores the real threats of biological weapons--in contrast to the idea of biological substances as nebulous agents of terror--by analyzing the anthrax scares that occurred in the United States in 2001.Sarasin argues that while threats of bioterrorism are real, they are disproportionate to the fantasmal fears that now permeate American politics and culture.

Hardcover 2006

The Ape in the Tree

Alan Walker

Pat Shipman

This book offers a unique insider's perspective on the unfolding discovery of a crucial link in our evolution. It is written in the voice of Walker, whose involvement with Proconsul began when his graduate supervisor analyzed the tree-climbing adaptations in the arm and hand of this extinct creature. Today, Proconsul is the best-known fossil ape in the world and its attributes have profound implications for the very definition of humanness.

Hardcover 2005

Aristotle to Zoos

P. B. Medawar

J. S. Medawar

In the spirit of Voltaire--and occasionally in the spirit of P. G. Wodehouse--the Medawars have crafted for the life sciences a source of reference that is meant for browsing, a book both authoritative and tilled with delights.

Hardcover 1983 / Paperback 1985

Artscience

David Edwards

This book is an attempt to show how innovation in the "post-Google generation" is often catalyzed by those who cross a conventional line so firmly drawn between the arts and the sciences. Edwards describes how contemporary creators achieve breakthroughs in the arts and sciences by developing their ideas in an intermediate zone of human creativity where neither art nor science is easily defined.

Hardcover 2008

Attentional Processing

David LaBerge

LaBerge provides a systematic view of the attention process as it occurs in everyday perception, thinking, and action. Drawing from a variety of research methods and findings from cognitive psychology, neurobiology, and computer science, he presents a masterful synthesis.

Hardcover

The Behavior of Communicating

W. John Smith

In this book, W. John Smith enlarges ethology's perspective on communication and takes it in new directions. Smith's approach is deeply rooted in the ethological tradition of naturalistic observations. Detailed analysis of observed displays and display repertoires illuminates the theoretical discussion that forms the core of the book.

Hardcover 1977 / Paperback

Behavioral Mechanisms in Ecology

Douglass H. Morse

This readable text represents a much needed synthesis of ecological insight into animal behavior. Exploring the theme of resource acquisitions, Morse combines the comparative approach to biology with models based on evolutionary theory. Behavioral Mechanisms in Ecology will meet the teaching and reference needs of an extremely broad audience of professional biologists.

Hardcover 1980 / Paperback

Biogeography and Adaptation

Geerat J. Vermeij

Hardcover 1978 / Paperback

The Biological Century

Robert B. Barlow

John E. Dowling

Gerald Weissman

Garland Allen

In 1988, the famous Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) celebrated one hundred years of pioneering science. During the centennial festivities, many of the world's most renowned biologists assembled at MBL and delivered the Lab's traditional Friday Night Lectures. These lectures have been gathered and edited here by three participants. The history and scientific discovery in these pages should convey for any reader the excitement of the renowned laboratory and the drama and frustration of biology in the twentieth century.

Hardcover 1993

The Biology of the Honey Bee

Mark L. Winston

This book not only reviews the basic aspects of social behavior, ecology, anatomy, physiology, and genetics, it also summarizes major controversies in contemporary honey bee research, such as the importance of kin recognition in the evolution of social behavior and the role of the well-known dance language in honey bee communication. Thorough, well-illustrated, and lucidly written, it will for many years be a valuable resource for scholars, students, and beekeepers alike.

Hardcover 1987 / Paperback 1991

Boundaries of the Universe

John S. Glasby

The age of merely looking at the heavens, of mapping and cataloguing the positions of the stars down to fainter and fainter limits, is past. But the realm of the partially understood and the totally unknown is still as great as ever, and it is with this vast no-man's-land of astronomy that this book is concerned. With this book as a guide, the reader cannot fail to experience some of the tremendous fascination of present-day astronomy and its innumerable unsolved problems.

Hardcover 1971

Cell Fusion

Henry Harris

Hardcover 1970

City Hospitals

Harry F. Dowling

Hardcover 1982

The Code of Codes

Daniel Kevles, Editor

Leroy Hood, Editor

The human genome defines our possibilities and limitations as members of the species. The ultimate goal of the pioneering project outlined in this book is to map our genome in detail. The Code of Codes is a collective exploration of the substance and possible consequences of this project in relation to ethics, law, and society as well as to science, technology, and medicine.

Hardcover 1992 / Paperback

Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume I, The Nature of Heat

Count Rumford

Edited by Sanborn C. Brown

Hardcover 1968

Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume II, Practical Applications of Heat

Count Rumford

Edited by Sanborn C. Brown

Hardcover 1969

Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume III, Devices and Techniques

Count Rumford

Edited by Sanborn C. Brown

Hardcover 1969

Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume IV, Light and Armament

Count Rumford

Edited by Sanborn C. Brown

Hardcover 1970

Collected Works of Count Rumford, Volume V, Public Institutions

Count Rumford

Edited by Sanborn C. Brown

In this fifth volume are Count Rumford's papers on public institutions: "Poor in Munich"; "Poor in All Countries"; "Feeding the Poor"; "Coffee"; "Public Institutions in Bavaria"; "Regulations for the Army of Bavaria"; "Public Institutions in Great Britain"; and "The Royal Institution." The Collected Works of Count Rumford is much more than a source book or a guide to methods of research in physics. It provides a unique portrait of the scientific, political, and social conditions of the turbulent early years of the Industrial Revolution.

Hardcover 1970

The Common Sense of Science

J. Bronowski

Foreword by Herman Bondi

Hardcover 1953 / Paperback

Comparative Physiology of Vertebrate Respiration

G. M. Hughes

This book is a concise study of the structure and function of vertebrate respiratory systems. It describes not only the individual organ systems, but also the relationship of these systems to each other and to the animal's environment.

Hardcover 1963

The Copernican Revolution

Thomas S. Kuhn

For scientist and layman alike this book provides vivid evidence that the Copernican Revolution has by no means lost its significance today. Few episodes in the development of scientific theory show so clearly how the solution to a highly technical problem can alter our basic thought processes and attitudes. Understanding the processes which underlay the Revolution gives us a perspective, in this scientific age, from which to evaluate our own beliefs more intelligently. With a constant keen awareness of the inseparable mixture of its technical, philosophical, and humanistic elements, Mr. Kuhn displays the full scope of the Copernican Revolution as simultaneously an episode in the internal development of astronomy, a critical turning point in the evolution of scientific thought, and a crisis in Western man's concept of his relation to the universe and to God.

Paperback 1992

Creation

Steve Grand

Working mostly alone, almost single-handedly writing 250,000 lines of computer code, Steve Grand produced Creatures®, a revolutionary computer game that allowed players to create living beings complete with brains, genes, and hormonal systems--creatures that would live and breathe and breed in real time on an ordinary desktop computer. Enormously successful, the game inevitably raises the question: What is artificial life? And in this book--a chance for the devoted fan and the simply curious onlooker to see the world from the perspective of an original philosopher-engineer and intellectual maverick--Steve Grand proposes an answer.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003

Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos

Vincent G. Dethier

"Vincent Dethier shows us how to listen for sound in fields, edges, and woods and to become aware of the movements that accompany sound...We learn from his sounds what kind of person, capable of this kind of interest and care, is attending to our minds. His own sound becomes part of the community of sound common to most, if not nearly all, life, so we are doubly trained to hear, and we become doubly committed to understanding and caring for all forms of life."
--A. R. Ammons, from the foreword

Hardcover

A Cursing Brain?

Howard I. Kushner

A Cursing Brain? traces the problematic classification of Tourette syndrome through three distinct but overlapping stories: the claims of medical knowledge, patients' experiences, and cultural expectations and assumptions.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000

The Dance Language and Orientation of Bees

Karl von Frisch

Leigh Chadwick, Translator

Thomas D. Seeley

This is the masterwork of the world's most renowned authority on bees--the culmination of more than fifty years of research. It describes in non-technical language what von Frisch discovered about their methods of orientation, their sensory faculties, and their remarkable ability to communicate with one another. Seeley's foreword traces the revolutionary effects of this work, not just for the study of honeybees, but for all subsequent research in animal behavior.

Hardcover 1967 / Paperback

Darwin and Design

Michael Ruse

In clear, non-technical language, Ruse offers a full and fair assessment of the status of the argument from design in light of both the advances of modern evolutionary biology and the thinking of today's philosophers--with special attention given to the supporters and critics of "intelligent design." The first comprehensive history and exposition of Western thought about design in the natural world, this important work suggests directions for our thinking as we move into the twenty-first century.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004

Dinosaurs, Spitfires, and Sea Dragons

Christopher McGowan

McGowan sets out to solve some of the enduring mysteries about dinosaurs and other prehistoric reptiles. He makes fascinating comparisons between living and extinct animals while presenting topics that range from gigantism to intellect.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

The Diversity of Life

Edward O. Wilson

Wilson, internationally regarded as the dean of biodiversity studies, conducts us on a tour through time, traces the processes that create new species in bursts of adaptive radiation, and points out the cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution and diminished global diversity over the past 600 million years.

Hardcover

The Diversity of Life, Special Edition

Edward O. Wilson

Wilson, internationally regarded as the dean of biodiversity studies, conducts us on a tour through time, traces the processes that create new species in bursts of adaptive radiation, and points out the cataclysmic events that have disrupted evolution and diminished global diversity over the past 600 million years.

Hardcover

Drugs and Foods from Little-Known Plants

Siri von Reis Altschul

Hardcover

Dyslexia and Development

Albert M. Galaburda

Hardcover

Earth, Moon, and Planets

Fred L. Whipple

This third edition of Mr. Whipple's popular and authoritative book is thoroughly revised in light of this new knowledge. The book is written in nontechnical language and with a lucid, witty style that is readily understandable to the interested layman. Mathematics has been avoided, and scientific methods and processes are described in simple terms. In presenting the latest information about the planets and their moons, Mr. Whipple discusses their origin and evolution, motions, atmospheres, temperatures, surface conditions, the environment essential for life as we know it, and the possibilities of life outside the Earth. He concludes with a discussion of current theories about the origin of the solar system.

Hardcover 1968

Ecology and Evolution of Communities

Martin Cody

Jared Diamond

In recent times, the science of ecology has been rejuvenated and has moved to a central position in biology. This volume contains eighteen original, major contributions by leaders in the field, all associates of the late Robert MacArthur, whose work has stimulated many of the recent developments in ecology. The intellectual ferment of the field is reflected in these papers, which offer new models for ecological processes, new applications of theoretical and quantitative techniques, and new methods for analyzing and interpreting a wide variety of empirical data.

Hardcover 1975 / Paperback

Einstein, History, and Other Passions

Gerald Holton

Through his rich exploration of Einstein's thought, Gerald Holton shows how the best science depends on great intuitive leaps of imagination, and how science is indeed the creative expression of the tradition of Western civilization.

Paperback 2000

Electrical Shock Waves in Power Systems

Reinhold Rudenberg

Hardcover 1968

Evolution of African Mammals

Vincent J. Maglio, Editor

H. B. S. Cooke, Editor

Hardcover 1979

Experiments in Plant Hybridisation

Gregor Mendel

Paperback 1965

Explorations in Developmental Biology

Chandler Fulton

Attila Klein

Hardcover 1976

Explorations in the Life of Fishes

N. B. Marshall

Exploring what he considers to be the outstanding aspects of fish biology, Mr. Marshall surveys the present knowledge in the field and suggests possibilities for future investigation. He considers the causes of the overwhelming predominance of the teleost fishes, discusses the biology of deep-sea fishes, and studies such aspects of dynamic design as body form, fin pattern, muscular organization, and certain neural features in relation to movement and water.

Hardcover 1971

Eyewitness to Science

John Carey

Science's most momentous discoveries come alive in 100 brilliant firsthand accounts.

Paperback 1997

Facing Up

Steven Weinberg

Each of these essays struggles in one way or another with the necessity of facing up to the discovery that the laws of nature are impersonal, with no hint of a special status for human beings. Defending the spirit of science against its cultural adversaries, these essays express a viewpoint that is reductionist, realist, and devoutly secular. Together, they afford the general reader the unique pleasure of experiencing the superb sense, understanding, and knowledge of one of the most interesting and forceful scientific minds of our era.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003

The Fifth Branch

Sheila Jasanoff

How can decisionmakers charged with protecting the environment and the public's health and safety steer clear of false and misleading scientific research? Is it possible to give scientists a stronger voice in regulatory processes without yielding too much control over policy, and how can this be harmonized with democratic values? These are just some of the many controversial and timely questions that Sheila Jasanoff asks in this study of the way science advisers shape federal policy.

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1998

The Florida Phosphate Industry

Fred Blakey

Hardcover

Flowering Plants

G. Ledyard Stebbins

One of the world's leading evolutionary biologists here reexamines the evolutionary history of flowering plants. This important book interprets the phylogeny of flowering plants in the light of modern knowledge about genetics, developmental biology, and ecology.

Hardcover 1974

Foraminifera

4th Revised and Enlarged Edition

Joseph A. Cushman

This is the fourth revised and enlarged edition of the standard guide to the Foraminifera, the order of small marine Protozoa whose living and fossilized forms have attracted both scientific and economic interest during the past century. Fifty families, including about seven hundred and fifty genera, are systematically described and illustrated in the text and Key.

Hardcover 1948

Fossils

Richard Fortey

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

From Stone to Star

Claude Allègre

Deborah Kurmes Van Dam, Translator

Chronicling one of the great scientific adventures of our time, the eminent geochemist Claude Allègre offers a fascinating glimpse into the sophisticated isotopic detective work that has established a geologic chronology of the earth and transformed our understanding of its genesis and history. From the fossil collecting methods of eighteenth--century geologists to the development of high resolution mass spectronomy, this book provides an engaging introduction to the history, methods, and theories of modern geology.

Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1994

Frontiers of Astrophysics

Edited by Eugene H. Avrett

Paperback / Hardcover

The Generation of Diversity

Scott H. Podolsky

Alfred I. Tauber

The Generation of Diversity is an intellectual history of the major theoretical problem in immunology and its resolution in the post-World War II period. In recent decades immunology has been one of the most exciting--and successful--fields of biomedical research, and this book will provide essential background for understanding the conceptual conflicts occurring in the field today.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2000

The Genus Lesquerella (Cruciferae) in North America

Reed C. Rollins

Elizabeth A. Shaw

Hardcover 1973

The Harvard College Observatory

Bessie Zaban Jones

Lyle Gifford Boyd

Donald H. Menzel

The authors vividly portray the genesis, growth, and achievements of a major scientific institution and its relations with other observatories. Through the use of photographs and correspondence they also portray the men and women who played essential roles in the development of astronomy in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Hardcover 1971

Has Feminism Changed Science?

Londa Schiebinger

Has Feminism Changed Science? is a history of women in science and a frank assessment of the role of gender in shaping scientific knowledge. Londa Schiebinger first considers the lives of women scientists, past and present: How many are there? What sciences do they choose--or have chosen for them? Is there something uniquely feminine about the science women do? Schiebinger debunks the myth that women scientists--because they are women--are somehow more holistic and integrative and create more cooperative scientific communities.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

Hemispheric Asymmetry

Joseph B. Hellige

Is "right-brain" thought essentially creative, and "left-brain" strictly logical? Joseph B. Hellige argues that this view is far too simplistic. Surveying extensive data in the field of cognitive science, he disentangles scientific facts from popular assumptions about the brain's two hemispheres.

Paperback 2001 / Hardcover

A History of Japanese Astronomy

Shigeru Nakayama

This first comprehensive history in a Western language of the development of Japanese astronomy has interest beyond its immediate subject area, for astronomy has often been the focus of the transmission of a wide range of scientific ideas from one culture to another. Mr. Nakayama explains the historical background, with particular emphasis on the accessibility of foreign ideas at different times. The author thoroughly examines the superimposition of Western cosmology on the radically different Chinese modes of thought prevalent in Japan.

Hardcover 1969

The Hot-Blooded Insects

Bernd Heinrich

Hardcover

How to Win the Nobel Prize

J. Michael Bishop

In 1989 Michael Bishop and Harold Varmus were awarded the Nobel Prize for their discovery that normal genes under certain conditions can cause cancer. In this book, Bishop tells us how he and Varmus made their momentous discovery. More than a lively account of the making of a brilliant scientist, How to Win the Nobel Prize is also a broader narrative combining two major and intertwined strands of medical history: the long and ongoing struggles to control infectious diseases and to find and attack the causes of cancer.

Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004

Hydrogen

John S. Rigden

In this biography of hydrogen, John Rigden shows how this singular atom, the most abundant in the universe, has helped unify our understanding of the material world from the smallest scale, the elementary particles, to the largest, the universe itself. It is a tale of startling discoveries and dazzling practical benefits spanning more than one hundred years--from the first attempt to identify the basic building block of atoms in the mid-nineteenth century to the discovery of the Bose-Einstein condensate only a few years ago.

Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2003

In a Patch of Fireweed

Bernd Heinrich

Part autobiography, part case study in the ways of field biology, In a Patch of Fireweed is an endlessly fascinating account of a scientist's life and work. For the author, it is an opportunity to report not just his results but the curiosity, humor, error, passion, and competitiveness that feed into the process of discovery. For the reader, it is simply a delight, a rare chance to share the perceptions of an unusual mind fully in tune with the inner workings of nature.

Hardcover 1984 / Paperback 1991

In the Name of Eugenics

Daniel Kevles

Daniel Kevles traces the study and practice of eugenics--the science of "improving" the human species by exploiting theories of heredity--from its inception in the late nineteenth century to its most recent manifestation within the field of genetic engineering.

Paperback 1998

Information

Hans Christian von Baeyer

Information is poised to replace matter as the primary stuff of the universe, von Baeyer suggests; it will provide a new basic framework for describing and predicting reality in the twenty-first century. Despite its revolutionary premise, the book is written lucidly and offers a superb introduction to classical and quantum information.

Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005

The Insect Societies

Edward O. Wilson

This book is a work of major importance for the development of environmental and behavioral biology; it covers the classification, evolution, anatomy, physiology, and behavior of the higher social insects--ants, social wasps and bees, and termites. Mr. Wilson reinterprets the knowledge of these insects through the concepts of modern biology, from biochemistry to evolutionary theory and population ecology. View a video on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities".

Hardcover 1971 / Paperback

Interfaces in Microbial Ecology

K. C. Marshall

An interface, the boundary between two phases, has physical and chemical properties that differ from those of either phase. In this book, bacteria are treated as living colloidal systems, and the behavior of microorganisms at interfaces is analyzed on the basis of this concept. Nonspecific physical and chemical forces acting on microorganisms at interfaces are described and related to biological factors determining the distribution of and interaction between microorganisms in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

Hardcover 1976

International Cooperation in Space

Roger Bonnet

Vittorio Manno

Linking fifteen European nations, the European Space Agency offers a working model of scientific, technological, and political cooperation on an international scale. Roger M. Bonnet and Vittorio Manno give us an insiders' view of the agency--its beginnings as the European Space Research Organization, its development in the face of early difficulties, and its daily operations. Illustrated with pictures and diagrams, enlivened with anecdotes involving key world players in space science, this book provides a rich blend of factual information and personal recollection, history and interpretation. A timely contribution to the study of the politics of science and technology, it points the way to future international cooperation.

Hardcover 1994

Isaac Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica

I. Bernard Cohen

Hardcover 1972

It's a Matter of Survival

Anita Gordon

David Suzuki

More than a book on the environment, this is a book about us as a species: our shortsightedness, our failure to read the warnings, our inability to grasp the significance of our actions-and the tough decisions we have to make in order to save ourselves. Anita Gordon and David Suzuki warn us of the transition we will need to make if we are to arrive safely in the next century. The power of the book lies in the consensus of the many voices, those of scientists and other scholars, that speak through it.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1992

Ivory Diptych Sundials, 1570-1750

Steven Lloyd

Penelope Gouk

A. J. Turner

Hardcover 1992

Keywords in Evolutionary Biology

Evelyn Fox Keller, Editor

Elisabeth A. Lloyd, Editor

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

Krakatau

Ian Thornton

On August 27, 1883, the island of Krakatau near Java erupted with a force nearly ten thousand times that of the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima, obliterating all plant and animal life. This book is a comprehensive account of the reassembly of a tropical forest ecosystem on Krakatau over the past century. It is essential reading for anyone who wishes to understand the rebirth of Krakatau as well as the resilience of life everywhere.

Paperback 1997 / Hardcover

The Langurs of Abu

Sarah Blaffer Hrdy

Hardcover 1978 / Paperback

The Life of Yeasts, 2nd rev. and enlarged ed

H. J. Phaff

M. W. Miller

E. M. Mrak

Praised as "one of those rare scientific books that can be read both for pleasure and instruction" when it was first published, The Life of Yeasts now appears in a new edition incorporating the exciting developments of the last decade.This book is written for the nonspecialist who wishes to understand the yeasts, but not necessarily to become an expert on them. The new edition covers recent and major advances in the morphology, physiology, genetics, and ecology of these organisms, which have long been important in commerce and medicine and are ever more studied in the laboratory as prototypical eukaryotes.

Hardcover 1978

Living Without Oxygen

Peter W. Hochachka

Innumerable clinical problems have as their basis some derangement in oxygen-dependent metabolism. To explore mechanisms of adjusting to oxygen limitation, Living without Oxygen presents a bestiary of exotic anaerobes that illuminate elements of metabolic biochemistry only dimly seen in studies using standard experimental animals. The book places the enzymatic and biochemical machinery firmly in the biological context and assumes only a modest familiarity with bioenergetics and metabolic biochemistry.

Hardcover 1980

Making Babies

David Bainbridge

Making Babies sets the latest findings in pregnancy biology in a challenging evolutionary, historical, and sociological context, proving that when it comes to drama, pregnancy has it all: sibling rivalry, a battle of the sexes, and a crisis of gender identity. Entertaining and informative, Making Babies shows how the study of human pregnancy can help us understand our genesis as individuals and our evolution as a species, and provide insight into who we are and why we behave as we do.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2003

Making Science

Stephen Cole

The sociology of science is dominated today by relativists who boldly argue that the content of science is not primarily determined by evidence from the empirical world but is instead socially constructed in the laboratory. Making Science is the first serious critique by a sociologist of the social constructivist position.

Paperback 1995 / Hardcover

Manual of Mongolian Astrology and Divination

Introduction by Antoine Mostaert

Foreword by Francis Woodman Cleaves

Paperback 1969

Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov on the Corpuscular Theory

Mikhail Vasil'evich Lomonosov

Hardcover 1970

The Milky Way, 5th ed

Bart J. Bok

Hardcover

The Mind Has No Sex?

Londa Schiebinger

Hardcover 1989 / Paperback 1991

Molecular Specialization and Symmetry in Membrane Function

Arthur K. Solomon

Manfred Karnovsky

In this book, leading investigators of membrane structure and function report on progress in three related fields: specialization of membrane regions, asymmetry in transport properties, and differentiation of cell faces in epithelia.

Hardcover 1978

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

The Mussel Cookbook

Sarah Hurlburt

Paperback

Mystery of Mysteries

Michael Ruse

Mystery of Mysteries is an enlightening inquiry into the nature of science, using evolutionary theory as a case study. Beginning with Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) and ending with the work of the English game theorist Geoffrey Parker--a microevolutionist who studied mating strategies of dung flies--and the American paleontologist Jack Sepkoski, whose computer-generated models reconstruct mass extinctions and other macro events in life's history, Ruse explicates the role of metaphor and metavalues in evolutionary thought and draws significant conclusions about the cultural impregnation of science.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

The Negev

Michael Evenari

Leslie Shanan

Naphtali Tadmor

The Negev, first published over a decade ago, told the story of some twenty years of study of southern Israel's desert. Now Michael Evenari has amplified the book with data from another decade of work. He describes the efforts at a new farm at Wadi Mashash, extends the weather data another ten years, presents further work on the adaptations of plants and animals to desert conditions, and takes a much deeper look at the historical precedents for the method of runoff agriculture.

Hardcover 1982

New Plant Sources for Drugs and Foods from the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium

Siri von Reis

Frank J. Lipp, Jr

This companion volume to Siri von Reis's previous exploration of ethnobotanical notes in the Harvard herbaria brings to light a new array of plants with drug or food potential, offering wide-ranging possible applications for pharmacologists, chemists, botanists, and even anthropologists.

Hardcover 1982

Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist

Russell McCormmach

Hardcover 1982 / Paperback 1991

The North American Grasshoppers, Volume 1, Acrididae

Daniel Otte

Hardcover 1981

Oakes Ames

Pauline Ames Plimpton, Editor

George Plimpton

Oakes Ames was one of the group of extraordinary teachers that Harvard drew to its faculty under Eliot and Lowell; he devoted his life to the study and teaching of Botany and became a world authority on orchids and economic botany, directing the Botanical Museum and the Arnold Arboretum. Collected and edited by Pauline Ames Plimpton, his daughter, and with a Foreword by George Plimpton, his grandson, these journals, letters and diaries, written in the first half of the century, give a vivid autobiographic picture of the era.

Hardcover 1980

Of Flies, Mice, and Men

François Jacob

Giselle Weiss, Translator

Nobel Prize-winning geneticist François Jacob walks us through the surprising ways of science in this century, particularly the science of biology. Animated with anecdotes from Greek mythology, literature, episodes from the history of science, and personal experience, Of Flies, Mice, and Men tells the story of how the marvelous discoveries of molecular and developmental biology are transforming our understanding of who we are and where we came from.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2001

On Development

John Tyler Bonner

Hardcover / Paperback

On Human Nature

With a new Preface

Edward O. Wilson

In his new preface E. O. Wilson reflects on how he came to write this book: how The Insect Societies led him to write Sociobiology, and how the political and religious uproar that engulfed that book persuaded him to write another book that would better explain the relevance of biology to the understanding of human behavior.

Paperback 2004

On Integration in Plants

Rudolf Dostal

Based on the author's long life of study, observation, and experimentation, this book clears the way for the exploration of many problems in an area of botanical research about which little substantial biochemical information is yet available. Mr. Dostál's investigations largely concern the interrelations among the different organs of plants and the ways in which the various components of the plant correlate to form an integrated whole.

Hardcover 1967

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

This, the most interesting and helpful edition of Darwin's major work, is now available in an inexpensive paperback edition. It is written with a clarity, forcefulness, and conciseness not found in any subsequent revision. For modem reading and for reference, it is the standard edition of Darwin's greatest work

Paperback

One Long Argument

Ernst Mayr

Who could elucidate the subtitles of Darwin's thought and that of his contemporaries and intellectual heirs--A.R. Wallace, T.H. Huxley, August Weisman, Asa Gray--better then Ernst Mayr, a man considered by many to be the greatest evolutionist of the twentieth century? In this gem of historical scholarship, Mayr has achieved a remarkable distillation of Charles Darwin's scientific thought and his enormous legacy to twentieth-century biology.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Origins of the Modern Mind

Merlin Donald

This bold and brilliant book asks the ultimate question of the life sciences: How did the human mind acquire its incomparable power? In seeking the answer, Merlin Donald traces the evolution of human culture and cognition from primitive apes to artificial intelligence, presenting an enterprising and original theory of how the human mind evolved from its presymbolic form.

Hardcover 1991 / Paperback

Paleoceanography

Thomas J. M. Schopf

Whether in the context of off-shore oil exploration or pure research, the oceans of the geological past have never been of more compelling interest. The recent expansion in oceanographic studies has produced a burgeoning of data on ancient ocean circulation, climate, bathymetry, chemistry, biology, and temperature data that now should be considered in a more general geological and paleontological framework. Paleoceanography will serve as an important resource for paleontologists and for a much broader audience of earth and ocean scientists, petroleum geologists, and stratigraphers.

Hardcover 1980

Pandora's Hope

Bruno Latour

In this book Bruno Latour gives us his most philosophically informed book since Science in Action. Through case studies of scientists in the Amazon analyzing soil and in Pasteur's lab studying the fermentation of lactic acid, he shows us the myriad steps by which events in the material world are transformed into items of scientific knowledge. Through many examples in the world of technology, we see how the material and human worlds come together and are reciprocally transformed in this process.

Paperback 1999 / Hardcover 1999

Partners in Science

James Watt

Joseph Black

The close friendship that grew up between Dr. Joseph Black, the discoverer of specific and latent heats, and James Watt, the scientific instrument maker who was destined to become perhaps the greatest engineer of all time, is in itself a dramatic relationship, not before fully appreciated, Here for the first time is the full text of all their surviving correspondence, known only fragmentarily before in J. P. Muirhead's Life and Mechanical Inventions of James Watt, and there rather freely amended by the editor. In addition, Watt's notebook on his experiments on heat, known before only through quotation, is presented complete. This is a primary source of first-rate importance to the historian of science.

Hardcover 1969

The Pasteurization of France

Bruno Latour

Alan Sheridan, Translator

John Law, Translator

Hardcover 1988 / Paperback

The Physicists

Daniel Kevles

This magnificent account of the coming of age of physics in America has been heralded as the best introduction to the history of science in the United States. Unsurpassed in its breadth and literary style, Kevles's account portrays the brilliant scientists who became a powerful force in bringing the world into a revolutionary new era.

Paperback

Planet Earth

D. James Baker

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1993

Populations, Species, and Evolution

Ernst Mayr

In his extraordinary book, Animal Species and Evolution, Mr. Mayr fully explored, synthesized, and evaluated man's knowledge about the nature of animal species and the part they play in the process of evolution. Now, in this long-awaited abridged edition, Mr. Mayr's definitive work is made available to the interested nonspecialist, the college student, and the general reader.

Paperback 1970

Quantum Mechanics and Experience

David Z Albert

This lively account of the foundations of quantum mechanics is at once elementary and deeply challenging. It is an introduction accessible to anyone with high school mathematics and, at the same time, a rigorous discussion of the most important recent advances in our understanding of quantum physics, a number of them made by the author himself.

Hardcover 1993 / Paperback 1994

The Quantum World

Kenneth W. Ford

Illustrated by Paul Hewitt

The laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep familiarity with the discoveries of the twentieth century, Ford gives an appealing account of quantum physics that will help the serious reader make sense of a science that, for all its successes, remains mysterious.

Hardcover 2004

The Quantum World

Kenneth W. Ford

Technical Appendix by Diane Goldstein

The laws governing the very small and the very swift defy common sense and stretch our minds to the limit. Drawing on a deep familiarity with the discoveries of the twentieth century, Ford gives an appealing account of quantum physics that will help the serious reader make sense of a science that, for all its successes, remains mysterious.

Paperback 2005

The Radio Noise Spectrum

Edited by Donald H. Menzel

This book deals with the important problem of radio noise, its sources, whether manmade or natural, over the known range of frequencies. Certain of these contributions will interest the communicator, enabling him to estimate the potential interference from various types of sources. Other contributions deal mainly with scientific problems, such as the origins and significance of certain characteristic noise radiations.

Hardcover 1960

Rockets into Space

Frank Winter

In Rockets into Space, Frank Winter tells the fascinating story of the modern launch vehicle, from the mythological musings of the Babylonians and Greeks to the present-day reality of manned and unmanned space flight. In concise yet comprehensive chapters dense with anecdotal detail, Winter tracks the theoretical formulations and technological breakthroughs that have charted the evolution of rocket propulsion and vehicle design. Rockets into Space is an authoritative, entertaining guidebook for all who are interested in the history of space travel.

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback

Science and Anti-Science

Gerald Holton

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

Science at the Bar

Sheila Jasanoff

Issues spawned by the headlong pace of developments in science and technology fill the courts. The realm of the law is sometimes at a loss--constrained by its own assumptions and practices, Sheila Jasanoff suggests. This book exposes American law's long-standing involvement in constructing, propagating, and perpetuating a variety of myths about science and technology.

Paperback 1997 / Hardcover

Science in Traditional China

Joseph Needham

Hardcover 1981 / Paperback

Science under Socialism

Kristie Macrakis, Editor

Dieter Hoffmann, Editor

Taking advantage of documents never before available from the archives of the East German Communist Party and the Ministry for State Security, and drawing on interviews with, among others, the legendary spy chief Markus Wolf and members of the East German Politburo, Science under Socialism is the first book to examine the role of science and technology in the former German Democratic Republic.

Hardcover 1999

A Scientist at the White House

George B. Kistiakowsky

This highly personal diary kept by the Ukrainian-born chemist who was President Eisenhower's science advisor offers an inside view of White House infighting, policy disputes, and bureaucratic conflict, and of the role an eminent scientist came to play in shaping presidential decisions. It records the interaction between the scientific community and the defense establishment during a critical period in the making of United States foreign policy.

Hardcover 1976

Scientists in Power

Spencer R. Weart

Spencer Weart tells the astonishing story of how a few individuals at laboratory benches unleashed a power that has transformed our world. Weart's riveting account of the origins of nuclear energy follows developments from Marie Curie's experiments with radium to the late 1940s when her son-in-law, Frédéric Joliot-Curie, launched France's atomic energy program, opening the age of nuclear arms proliferation.

Hardcover 1979

Simplicity and Complexity in Games of the Intellect

Lawrence Slobodkin

Lawrence Slobodkin takes us on a spirited quest for the multiple meanings of simplicity in all facets of life. Slobodkin proposes that the best intellectual work is done as if it were a game on a simplified playing field. He supplies serious arguments for considering the role of simplification and playfulness in all of our activities. The immediate effect of his unfailingly captivating essay is to throw open a new window on the world and to refresh our perspectives on matters of the heart and mind.

Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1993

A Skeptical Biochemist

Joseph Fruton

An eminent pioneer of modern protein chemistry looks back on six decades in biochemical research and education to advance stimulating thoughts about science. Joseph Fruton brings his own skeptical vision to bear on how chemistry and biology interact to describe living systems.

Hardcover 1992

The Social Behavior of the Bees

Charles D. Michener

Hardcover 1974

The Social Construction of What?

Ian Hacking

Lost in the raging debate over the validity of social construction is the question of what, precisely, is being constructed. Facts, gender, quarks, reality? Ian Hacking's book explores an array of examples to reveal the deep issues underlying contentious accounts of reality. Especially troublesome in this dispute is the status of the natural sciences, and this is where Hacking finds some of his most telling cases, from the conflict between biological and social approaches to mental illness to vying accounts of current research in sedimentary geology.

Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000

Sociobiology

Edward O. Wilson

View a video on Professor Wilson entitled "On the Relation of Science and the Humanities"

Hardcover / Paperback

A Source Book in Animal Biology

Thomas S. Hall

The two main aims of this book are to increase the general availability of classical contributions to animal biology and to present the development of thought in this field in the words of those who produced it.

Hardcover 1951

Source Book in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 1900-1975

Owen Gingerich

Kenneth Lang

Hardcover 1979

Space Commerce

John McLucas

Space Commerce relates the story of private enterprise's unsteady rise to prominence as a major influence on world space policy and research. In this book John McLucas covers the broad sweep of space commerce, both the vision and the reality.

Hardcover 1991

Survival Strategies

Raghavendra Gadagkar

Only in recent years have biologists and ethologists begun to apply careful evolutionary thinking to the study of animal societies--and with spectacular results. This book presents the choicest of these findings, illustrated with both photographs and explanatory diagrams.

Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2001

Sustaining the Earth

John Young

Environmental issues, once the benign hobby of the few, have become everybody's urgent concern. Young maintains that only a powerful synthesis of political, economic, and moral ideologies--a unification he terms postenvironmentalism--will move world societies into a relation to the environment that maintains the best democratic values. Young offers an alternative perspective that is essential reading for all who care about our world.

Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1992

Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought

Gerald Holton

Paperback 1988

Thinking about the Earth

David Oldroyd

Thinking about the Earth is a history of the geological tradition of Western science. David Oldroyd traverses such topics as "mechanical" and "historicist" views of the earth, map-work, chemical analyses of rocks and minerals, geomorphology, experimental petrology, seismology, theories of mountain building, and geochemistry.

Hardcover 1996

The Truth of Science

Roger G. Newton

Bringing a reasonable voice to the culture wars that have sprung up around the notion of scientific truth, this book offers a clear and constructive response to those who contend, in parodies, polemics and op-ed pieces, that there really is no such thing as verifiable objective truth--and consequently no such thing as scientific authority.

Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 2000

The Two-Dimensional Ising Model

Barry McCoy

Tai Tsun Wu

Hardcover 1973

The Unnatural Nature of Science

Lewis Wolpert

In this entertaining and provocative book, Wolpert draws on the entire history of science, from Thales of Miletus to Watson and Crick, from the study of eugenics to the discovery of the double helix. The result is a scientist's view of the culture of science, authoritative and informed and at the same time mercifully accessible to those who find cohabiting with this culture a puzzling experience.

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

Value-Free Science?

Robert Proctor

Value-Free Science? emphasizes the importance of understanding the political origins and impact of scientific ideas. Proctor lucidly demonstrates how value-neutrality is a reaction to larger political developments, including the use of science by government and industry, the specialization of professional disciplines, and the efforts to stifle intellectual freedoms or to politicize the world of the academy. This provocative book will interest anyone seeking ways to reconcile the ideals of scientific freedom and social responsibility.

Hardcover 1991

The Variation and Adaptive Expression of Antibodies

George P. Smith

George P. Smith presents a critical study of these theories in this detailed treatment of immunological problems from the point of view of molecular genetics. This is a timely book offering a succinct and coherent summary of the various lines of evidence in a confused and controversial field.

Hardcover 1973

A View of the River

Luna B. Leopold

Widely regarded as the most creative scholar in the field of river morphology, Leopold presents a coherent description of the river, its shape, size, organization, and action, along with a consistent theory that explains much of the observed character of channels.

Paperback 2006 / Hardcover

Water in the Arab World

Peter Rogers, Editor

Peter Lydon, Editor

Paperback

We Have Never Been Modern

Bruno Latour

Catherine Porter, Translator

With the rise of science, we moderns believe, the world changed irrevocably, separating us forever from our primitive, premodern ancestors. But if we were to let go of this fond conviction, Bruno Latour asks, what would the world look like? His book, an anthropology of science, shows us how much of modernity is actually a matter of faith.

Paperback / Hardcover

The Whale Problem

William E. Schevill, Editor

Whales--are they destined for immediate extinction or will a workable method of controlling their harvest soon appear? The topics discussed include cetacean biology and natural history; methods of estimating the numbers of whales; population counts before, during, and after intensive whaling; recovery rates as whaling diminishes or stops; improved ways of managing whales as a resource; and suggestions for further research.

Hardcover 1974

What Makes Nature Tick?

Roger G. Newton

Paperback 1998 / Hardcover

Who Rules in Science?

James Robert Brown

Brown takes us through the various engagements in the science wars--from the infamous "Sokal affair" to angry confrontations over the nature of evidence, the possibility of objectivity, and the methods of science--to show how the contested terrain may be science, but the prize is political: Whoever wins the science wars will have an unprecedented influence on how we are governed.

Hardcover 2001 / Paperback 2004

The Wisdom of the Hive

Thomas D. Seeley

This book describes and illustrates the results of more than fifteen years of elegant experimental studies conducted by the author to investigate how a colony of bees is organized to gather its resources. The results of his research--including studies of the shaking signal, tremble dance, and waggle dance--offer the clearest, most detailed picture available of how a highly integrated animal society works.

Hardcover 1996