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London: Harper Collins Publishers, 2017. Octavo, paperback, photographs, black and white illustrations. What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest we will come to meeting an intelligent alien. What can we learn from the encounter? In Other Minds, Peter Godfrey-Smith, a distinguished..... More
New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2001. Octavo, paperback, BRAND NEW. Do genes explain life? Can advances in evolutionary and molecular biology account for what we look like, how we behave, and why we die? This intervention into biological thinking argues that such genetic reductionism has limits. It shows how an..... More
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white, and colour photographs. This book offers the first summary of Ptilochronology, the study of the growth of bird feathers as an indicator of health and nutritional condition. Offers insights into the methods, conceptual issues and related research and is..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. Octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, line drawings. Illuminating the processes and patterns that link genotype to phenotype, this book seeks to explain features, characters, and developmental mechanisms that can only be understood in terms of interactions that arise above the level of..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2009. Small quarto, colour photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of On the Origin of Species, this celebration of evolutionary development combines beautiful photographs of plants and animals with a clear, concept-based text to express Darwin's greatest discovery to..... More
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. Octavo, dustwrapper, line drawings. The worldwide prominence of snakes in religion, myth, and folklore underscores our deep connection to the serpent - but why, when so few of us have firsthand experience? The surprising answer, this book suggests, lies in the singular impact of..... More
London: Helm, 2020. Octavo, laminated boards, colour photographs, other illustrations. Brings together the widely scattered results of studies on the processes and consequences of moult in birds. This book opens with an overview of the functions of plumage, and of feather maintenance and feather wear, and then introduces the two..... More
New York: Penguin, 2012. Octavo, fine copy in dustwrapper. Acclaimed historian and biographer Paul Johnson turns his keen eye on Charles Darwin, the towering figure whose work continues to spur scientific debate. Johnson's biography is already causing a stir on the pages of Slate and New Scientist, and has become..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Quarto, dustwrapper, illustrations. A stunningly illustrated book about selective breeding - the ongoing transformation of animals at the hand of man. More important, it's a book about selective breeding on a far, far grander scale - a scale that encompasses all life on Earth. We'd..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Small quarto, paperback, text illustrations. Cooperative breeders are species in which more than a pair of individuals assist in the production of young. Cooperative breeding is found in only a few hundred bird species world-wide, and understanding this often strikingly altruistic behaviour has remained an..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005. Large octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, text illustrations. James L. Patton served as Curator of Mammals in the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, and as Professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1969 until 2001. This book aims to bring..... More
Portland: Timber Press, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs, line drawings, maps. When we see a bird flying from branch to branch happily chirping, it is easy to imagine they lead a simple life of freedom, flight, and feathers. What we don t see is the arduous, life-threatening challenges..... More
Clayton South: CSIRO Publishing, 2015. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, maps. This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of the avifauna of Darwin, in Australia's Northern Territory. Darwin has retained all of its original habitats in near-pristine condition, and is home or host to 323 bird species. Following an introduction to..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. Quarto, photographs, fine copy in dustwrapper. This alphabetically arranged reference, an immensely entertaining browser's delight, offers a dazzling overview of the life and thought of Charles Darwin and his incredibly wide sphere of influence. Authoritative and abundantly illustrated, it illuminates the ways in which..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. Octavo, text illustrations, dustwrapper. What comes first, form or function? Trumpeted as the future of biological science, evolutionary developmental biology (or 'evo-devo') answers this question by showing how evolution controls the development of organisms. This book looks at the history and key issues of evo-devo..... More
Oxford: Academic Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, diagrams. Temperature and other climate variables are currently changing at a dramatic rate. As observations have shown, these climatic changes have serious consequences for all organisms and their ability to adapt to changing environmental conditions. Birds are excellent model organisms, with a very active..... More
Irvington: Columbia University Press, 2008. Octavo, illustrations, laminated boards. Rather than favoring only one approach, Juan J. Morrone proposes a comprehensive treatment of the developments and theories of evolutionary biogeography. Evolutionary biogeography uses distributional, phylogenetic, molecular, and fossil data to assess the historical changes that have produced current biotic patterns..... More
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, (1999. sixth edition). Quarto, photographs, very good set in dustwrappers. One of the classics of mammalian literature, constantly upgraded and always value for money. More
Ludlow: Merlin Unwin Books, (2014. reprint). Octavo, dustwrapper, colour illustrations. The collective nouns of animals and birds have long inspired and intrigued. Many have their roots in medieval times, in particular applied to those creatures hunted by man, and subject to the etiquette of their proper group names. Palin has..... More
London: Thames and Hudson, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white photographs. Spectacular, mysterious, elegant, or grotesque, the vertebrate skeletons of Earth's fossil record carry within them the traces of several billion years of life. A resounding success on its initial publication in 2007, is a unique and beautiful attempt to..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Quarto, laminated boards, maps, tables, graphs. New human disease pandemics arising from animals stimulated by ongoing environmental change, demonstrate the value of ornithological research into avian diseases. A group of 29 researchers address a diverse set of topics, including the evolutionary and ecological aspects..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. Octavo, paperback, text illustrations. Explores contemporary evolutionary biology, focusing on the elements of theories - selection, adaptation, and species - that are comples and open to multiple possible interpretatins, many of which are incompatible with one another and with other accepted practices in the..... More
London: Pimlico, 1997. Octavo, maps, used, softcover. Winner of the 1996 BP Natural Book Award. "Quammen's book is brilliantly written, and summarizes the evolving science of island biogeography in a way never before attempted" Times Literary Supplement. More
Cambridge MA: MIT Press, 2009. Octavo, softcover. Natural selection is commonly interpreted as the fundamental mechanism of evolution. Questions about how selection theory can claim to be the all-sufficient explanation of evolution often go unanswered by today's neo-Darwinists, perhaps for fear that any criticism of the evolutionary paradigm will encourage..... More
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2012. Large octavo, laminated boards, black and white photographs, maps, graphs, tables. Declining bird populations have prompted extensive research on nest failure and reduced reproductive success. Until recently, this research has been hampered by the difficulties inherent in observing nest activities. This book highlights the..... More