New BioScience Books

A passion for nature : Thomas Jefferson and natural history / by Keith Thomson	The greatest show on Earth : the evidence for evolution / Richard Dawkins	Human genetic diversity : functional consequences for health and disease / Julian C. Knight
Inland fishes of the greater Southwest : chronicle of a vanishing biota / W.L. Minckley and Paul C. Marsh ; foreword by James E. Deacon	Trogons : a natural history of the trogonidae / Joseph M. Forshaw ; illustrated by Albert Earl Gilbert.	Climate change and the media / edited by Tammy Boyce & Justin Lewis
Bayesian analysis of gene expression data / edited by Bani Mallick, David Gold, and Veerabhadran Baladandayuthapani	Computer simulation and data analysis in molecular biology and biophysics : an introduction using R / Victor Bloomfield	Biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and human wellbeing : an ecological and economic perspective / edited by Shahid Naeem … [et al.]

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Mathematical modelling for earth sciences / Xin-She Yang	Reproduction of amphibians / editor, Maria Ogielska.	Icons of life : a cultural history of human embryos / Lynn M. Morgan
Defining species : a sourcebook from antiquity to today / John S. Wilkins	Not a chimp : the hunt to find the genes that make us human / Jeremy Taylor	Analytical measurements in aquatic environments / edited by Jacek Namiesnik, Piotr Szefer
Development of non-teleost fishes / editors, Yvette W. Kunz, Carl A. Luer, B.G. Kapoor	Sensorimotor control of grasping : physiology and pathophysiology / edited by Dennis A. Nowak and Joachim Hermsdörfer	Essentials of neurophysiology : basic concepts and clinical applications for scientists and engineers

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Genetics and randomness / Anatoly Ruvinsky	Not by design : retiring Darwin’s watchmaker / John O. Reiss	Laws, theories, and patterns in ecology / Walter K. Dodds
Food spoilage microorganisms / edited by Clive de W. Blackburn	Wilderness in national parks : playground or preserve / John C. Miles	Paradoxical life : meaning, matter, and the power of human choice / Andreas Wagner
The genetics of cognitive neuroscience / edited by Terry E. Goldberg and Daniel R. Weinberger	Earth : an introduction to physical geology / Edward J. Tarbuck, Frederick K. Lutgens ; illustrated by Dennis Tasa	Before disenchantment : images of exotic animals and plants in the early modern world / Peter Mason
Trilobites of the Middle Ordovician Elnes Formation of the Oslo region, Norway / by Thomas Hansen	The limits to governance : the challenge of policy-making for the new life sciences / [edited by] Catherine Lyall, Theo Papaioannou, James Smith	> Identification and characterization of neural progenitor cells in the adult mammalian brain / Sara Gil-Perotín, Arturo Álvarez-Buylla, and José Manuel Garcia-Verdugo

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Centromere : structure and evolution / Ðurdica Ugarkovic, editor	Case files. Physiology / Eugene C. Toy … [et al.]	The big picture: medical microbiology / by Neal R. Chamberlain
Bayesian inference : with ecological applications / William A. Link, Richard J. Barker	Vitamin discoveries and disasters : history, science, and controversies / Frances Rachel Frankenburg	On the nature of limbs : a discourse / Richard Owen ; with a preface by Brian K. Hall ; with introductory essays by Ron Amundson … [et. al]
The new executive brain : frontal lobes in a complex world / Elkhonon Goldberg	Mathematical methods in biology / J. David Logan, William R. Wolesensky	The origins of sociable life : evolution after science studies / Myra J. Hird
Analyzing animal societies: quantitative methods for vertebrate social analysis / Hal Whitehead	Systematics as cyberscience: computers, change, and continuity in science / Christine Hine	Bird conservation and agriculture / Jeremy D. Wilson, Andrew D. Evans, Philip V. Grice ; with line illustrations by Colin Wilkinson

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Case files. Microbiology / Eugene C. Toy	What is biodiversity?/ James Maclaurin and Kim Sterelny	Brain gender / Melissa Hines
Protogaea / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz ; translated & edited by Claudine Cohen & Andre Wakefield	Valuing ecosystem services: the case of multi-functional wetlands / R. Kerry Turner, Stavros Georgiou and Brendan Fisher	Darwin’s armada : four voyages and the battle for the theory of evolution / Iain McCalman
Experimental endocrinology and reproductive biology / editors, Chandana Haldar	Man the hunted: primates, predators, and human evolution / Donna Hart, Robert W. Sussman	Capybaras : a natural history of the world’s largest rodent / Rexford D. Lord
Mismatch: why our world no longer fits our bodies / Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson	Big Bone Lick: the cradle of American paleontology / Stanley Hedeen ; foreword by John Mack Faragher	Tactical biopolitics: art, activism, and technoscience / edited by Beatriz da Costa and Kavita Philip ; with a foreword by Joseph Dumit

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Population genetics / Matthew B. Hamilton	Critical transitions in nature and society / Marten Scheffer	Nutrition : a lifespan approach / Simon Langley-Evans
Ecology of cities and towns : a comparative approach / edited by Mark J. McDonnell, Amy K. Hahs, Jürgen H. Breuste	Part of the pride : my life among the big cats of Africa / Kevin Richardson ; with Tony Park	The human brain : an introduction to its functional anatomy / John Nolte ; three-dimensional brain reconstruction by John Sundsten
Eat this, not that! : the best (& worst) foods in America / by David Zinczenko, with Matt Goulding	Learning and memory : from brain to behavior / Mark A. Gluck, Eduardo Mercado, Catherine E. Myers	Alex & me : how a scientist and a parrot discovered a hidden world of animal intelligence–and formed a deep bond in the process / Irene M. Pepperberg
Hope for animals and their world : how endangered species are being rescued from the brink / Jane Goodall, with Thane Maynard and Gail Hudson	Biomolecular networks : methods and applications in systems biology / Luonan Chen, Rui-Sheng Wang, Xiang-Sun Zhang	Wicked plants : the weed that killed Lincoln’s mother & other botanical atrocities / Amy Stewart ; etchings by Briony Morrow-Cribbs ; illustrations by Jonathon Rosen

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The produce contamination problem : causes and solutions / edited by Gerald M. Sapers, Ethan B. Solomon, Karl R. Matthews	Explorations in learning and the brain : on the potential of cognitive neuroscience for educational science / Ton de Jong	Seedlings of Barro Colorado Island and the neotropics / Nancy C. Garwood ; illustrated by Margaret Tebbs ; foreword by Robin Foster
The new foundations of evolution : on the tree of life / Jan Sapp	The rise of amphibians : 365 million years of evolution / Robert Carroll	The biology of blennies / editors, Robert A. Patzner
Principles of ecosystem stewardship : resilience-based natural resource management in a changing world / F. Stuart Chapin III, Gary P. Kofinas, Carl Folke, editors ; illustrated by Melissa C. Chapin	Rosalie Edge, hawk of mercy : the activist who saved nature from the conservationists / Dyana Z. Furmansky with a foreword by Bill McKibben & an afterword by Roland C. Clement	Remarkable biologists / Ioan James

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The elusive malaria vaccine : miracle or mirage? / Irwin W. Sherman	Insect species conservation / T. R. New	Oaks of Asia / Yu.L. Menitsky ; chief editor, An.A. Fedorov
Fish neuroendocrinology / edited by Nicholas J. Bernier	The age of dinosaurs in South America / Fernando E. Novas	Stem cells and cancer / edited by Rebecca G. Bagley, Beverly A. Teicher
Extinction in our times : global amphibian decline / James P. Collins, Martha L. Crump	Islands in the cosmos : the evolution of life on land / Dale A. Russell ; foreword by Simon Conway Morris	Greenhouse of the dinosaurs : evolution, extinction, and the future of our planet / Donald R. Prothero
Cold-water corals : the biology and geology of deep-sea coral habitats / J. Murray Roberts … [et al.]	The end of the long summer : why we must remake our civilization to survive on a volatile Earth / Dianne Dumanoski	Farming human pathogens : ecological resilience and evolutionary process / Rodrick Wallace, Deborah Wallace, Robert G. Wallace

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Passions for nature : nineteenth-century America’s aesthetics of alienation / Rochelle L. Johnson

Nutrients and epigenetics / [edited by] Sang-Woon Choi, Simonetta Friso

Pandora’s locks : the opening of the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway / Jeff Alexander

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Moths of Western North America / Jerry A. Powell, Paul A. Opler.	Fundamental concepts in biophysics / Thomas Jue, editor	Genetic analysis : a history of genetic thinking / Raphael Falk.
Life ascending : the ten great inventions of evolution / Nick Lane.	Plastid biology / Kevin Pyke	Geological formation names of China / Shouxin Zhang, editor.
Language lateralization and psychosis / edited by Iris E.C. Sommer, Rene S. Kahn	Why we disagree about climate change : understanding controversy, inaction and opportunity / Mike Hulme.	A new conservation politics : power, organization building, and effectiveness / David Johns
Mapping the future of biology : evolving concepts and theories / editors, Anouk Barberousse, Michel Morange, Thomas Pradeu.	The travails of two woodpeckers : ivory-bills & imperials / Noel F.R. Snyder, David E. Brown, Kevin B. Clark.	Memory and the computational brain : why cognitive science will transform neuroscience / C. R. Gallistel and Adam Philip King.