Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2016. Octavo, softcover. The natural world is infinitely complex and hierarchically structured, with smaller units forming the components of progressively larger systems: molecules make up cells, cells comprise tissues and organs that are, in turn, parts of individual organisms, which are united into populations and..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. Octavo, paperback, black and white photographs, other illustrations. Here the world's foremost authority on the subject provides a fascinating overview of the evidence for and against a whole host of hypotheses concerning this cataclysmic event that unfolded at the end of the Permian. Some 250..... More
New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2008. Quarto, dustwrapper, colour photographs. This book features the work of seven photographers who have spent their lives camping out, donning waders, and lying in wait for the greatest shots of birds doing what they do best: flying! Selected by birder and photographer Richard Ettlinger..... More
London: Icon Books, 2010. Small octavo, paperback, black and white illustrations. In 1859, Charles Darwin shocked the world with a radical theory - evolution by natural selection. One hundred and fifty years later, his theory still challenges some of our most precious beliefs. "Introducing Evolution" provides a step-by-step guide to..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011. Quarto, laminated boards, black and white photographs, line drawings. The history of biology is populated by numerous model species or organisms. But few vertebrate groups have aided evolutionary and ecological research more than the live-bearing fishes of the family Poeciliidae. Found throughout tropical and..... More
London: T & A D Poyser, 2011. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, graphs. Poyser. The impacts of global warming are of concern to all of us. The potential responses of birds to climate change have come increasingly to the fore, and are of particular interest to the ornithological community. Are birds..... More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Octavo, text illustrations, owner's stamp, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985. Octavo, text illustrations, owner's stamp, fine copy in dustwrapper. More
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
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, illustrations, line drawings. Evolutionary biology has witnessed breathtaking advances in recent years. Some of its most exciting insights have come from the crossover of disciplines as varied as paleontology, molecular biology, ecology, and genetics. This book brings together many of today's..... More
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. Octavo, dustwrapper, colour photographs, line drawings, tables, graphs. Renowned evolutionary biologists Peter and Rosemary Grant have produced landmark studies of the Galapagos finches first made famous by Charles Darwin. In "How and why species multiply", they offered a complete evolutionary history of Darwin's finches since..... More
London: Profile Books, 2016. Octavo, dustwrapper, photographs, illustrations, maps. Why do giraffes have such long necks? Why are zebras striped? Why are buffalo herds broadly democratic while elephants prefer dictatorships? Deploying the latest scientific research and his own extensive observations on the African savannah, Leo Grasset offers some answers to..... 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
Ludwigsburg, Schriftleitung und Bezugsadresse, 1997. Octavo, fine copy in publisher's cloth. Letters from Mayr, Hartert and Stressman in German and English. An immense and valuable work of source material. 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
Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. Octavo, paperback, Nobel Prize-winning genteticist Francois Jacob walks us through the surprising ways of science, particularly the science of biology, in this century. A work of history, a social study of the role of scientists in the modern world, and a cautionary tale of..... More
New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations. For evolutionary biologists, the concept of chance has always played a significant role in the formation of evolutionary theory. Emphasizing chance is an entire way of thinking about nature, and it is also one of the key ideas..... 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
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Octavo, paperback, The volume covers such topics as the reasons for extinctions, the best ways to measure biodiversity, and the benefits and drawbacks of policies like captive breeding. 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