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Oceans and Marine Biology

Billion-Dollar Fish

Bailey, Kevin M.
The Untold Story of Alaska Pollock
May 2013 New Book E-book

Dolphin Confidential

Bearzi, Maddalena
Confessions of a Field Biologist
April 2012 E-book

Sea Life of the Aleutians

Brewer, Reid
An Underwater Exploration
February 2012

Ocean at Home

Brunner, Bernd
An Illustrated History of the Aquarium
May 2011

Sounding of the Whale

Burnett, D. Graham
Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century
January 2012 E-book

Swordfish

Ellis, Richard
A Biography of the Ocean Gladiator
April 2013 New Book E-book

Ecology and Evolution of Poeciliid Fishes

Evans, Jonathan P.
September 2011 E-book

All the Fish in the Sea

Finley, Carmel
Maximum Sustainable Yield and the Failure of Fisheries Management
September 2011 E-book

Stung!

Gershwin, Lisa-ann
On Jellyfish Blooms and the Future of the Ocean
May 2013 New Book E-book

Biology of Reefs and Reef Organisms

Goldberg, Walter M.
August 2013 New Book E-book

Atlas of Coasts and Oceans

Hinrichsen, Don
Ecosystems, Threatened Resources, Marine Conservation
June 2011

Floating Gold

Kemp, Christopher
A Natural (and Unnatural) History of Ambergris
May 2012 New Book E-book

Biology of Sharks and Rays

Klimley, A. Peter
August 2013 New Book E-book

Silent Deep

Koslow, Tony
The Discovery, Ecology, and Conservation of the Deep Sea
April 2007

Sea

Mack, John
A Cultural History
May 2011

Seaweeds

Mouritsen, Ole G.
Edible, Available, and Sustainable
June 2013 New Book E-book

Among Giants

Nicklin, Charles "Flip"
A Life with Whales
April 2011

Deep

Nouvian, Claire
The Extraordinary Creatures of the Abyss
March 2007

Fishes of the Open Ocean

Pepperell, Julian
A Natural History and Illustrated Guide
March 2010

Sharks and People

Peschak, Thomas P.
Exploring Our Relationship with the Most Feared Fish in the Sea
October 2013 New Book

Sex, Drugs, and Sea Slime

Prager, Ellen
The Oceans' Oddest Creatures and Why They Matter
October 2011 E-book

Underwater Eden

Stone, Gregory S.
Saving the Last Coral Wilderness on Earth
December 2012 New Book E-book

Marine Macroecology

Witman, Jon D.
October 2009 E-book

Animal Behavior and Ecology

Better to Eat You With

Berger, Joel
Fear in the Animal World
November 2008 E-book

Caribou Herds of Northwest Alaska, 1850-2000

Burch Jr., Ernest S.
September 2012 New Book E-book

Animal Personalities

Carere, Claudio
Behavior, Physiology, and Evolution
March 2013 New Book E-book

Island Bats

Fleming, Theodore H.
Evolution, Ecology, and Conservation
March 2010 E-book

Cougar

Hornocker, Maurice
Ecology and Conservation
December 2009 E-book

Zookeeping

Irwin, Mark
An Introduction to the Science and Technology
September 2013 New Book

How Animals Grieve

King, Barbara J.
March 2013 New Book E-book

Ecology and Conservation of Asian Hornbills

Kinnaird, Margaret F.
Farmers of the Forest
February 2008

Wild Mammals in Captivity

Kleiman, Devra G.
Principles and Techniques for Zoo Management, Second Edition
September 2010 E-book

Population Fluctuations in Rodents

Krebs, Charles J.
April 2013 New Book E-book

Studying Human Behavior

Longino, Helen E.
How Scientists Investigate Aggression and Sexuality
January 2013 New Book E-book

Mind of the Chimpanzee

Lonsdorf, Elizabeth V.
Ecological and Experimental Perspectives
August 2010 E-book

What Is Biodiversity?

Maclaurin, James
June 2008 E-book

Maternal Effects in Mammals

Maestripieri, Dario
June 2009 E-book

Extreme Measures

McNab, Brian K.
The Ecological Energetics of Birds and Mammals
June 2012 New Book E-book

Wolves

Mech, L. David
Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation
November 2003 E-book

Amboseli Elephants

Moss, Cynthia J.
A Long-Term Perspective on a Long-Lived Mammal
March 2011 E-book

Infanticide Controversy

Rees, Amanda
Primatology and the Art of Field Science
November 2009 E-book

Theory of Ecology

Scheiner, Samuel M.
July 2011 E-book

Serengeti II

Sinclair, A. R. E.
Dynamics, Management, and Conservation of an Ecosystem
August 1995

Serengeti III

Sinclair, A. R. E.
Human Impacts on Ecosystem Dynamics
October 2008 E-book

Serengeti

Sinclair, A. R. E.
Dynamics of an Ecosystem
June 1995

Animal Body Size

Smith, Felisa A.
Linking Pattern and Process across Space, Time, and Taxonomic Group
August 2013 New Book

Nature and Nurture of Love

Vicedo, Marga
From Imprinting to Attachment in Cold War America
May 2013 New Book E-book

Bird Watch

Walters, Martin
A Survey of Planet Earth's Changing Ecosystems
March 2011

Natural History

Art of Medicine

Anderson, Julie
Over 2,000 Years of Images and Imagination
February 2012

Longevity Seekers

Anton, Ted
Science, Business, and the Fountain of Youth
May 2013 New Book E-book

Nature's Ghosts

Barrow, Jr., Mark V.
Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology
October 2009 E-book

Nature All Around Us

Beisner, Beatrix
A Guide to Urban Ecology
September 2012 New Book E-book

Ecology of Place

Billick, Ian
Contributions of Place-Based Research to Ecological Understanding
January 2011 E-book

Puss in Books

Britton, Catherine
April 2013 New Book

Dangerous Work

Conan Doyle, Arthur
Diary of an Arctic Adventure
October 2012 New Book E-book

Fair Society

Corning, Peter
The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice
April 2011 E-book

Don't Look, Don't Touch, Don't Eat

Curtis, Valerie
The Science Behind Revulsion
October 2013 New Book

Global Flu and You

Dehner, George
A History of Influenza
December 2012 New Book

Crown Jewels

Delehanty, Randolph
Five Great National Parks Around The World and The Challenges They Face
May 2013 New Book

Crown Jewels

Delehanty, Randolph
Five Great National Parks Around The World and The Challenges They Face
May 2013 New Book

Art of Thomas Bewick

Donald, Diana
July 2013 New Book

Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose

Dugatkin, Lee Alan
Natural History in Early America
November 2009 E-book

Great Plains

Forsberg, Michael
America's Lingering Wild
October 2009

Common Edible Seaweeds in the Gulf of Alaska

Garza, Dolly
Second Edition
March 2013 New Book

Human Shore

Gillis, John R.
Seacoasts in History
October 2012 New Book E-book

Knowing Nature

Goldman, Mara J.
Conversations at the Intersection of Political Ecology and Science Studies
April 2011 E-book

Ice

Gosnell, Mariana
The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance
June 2007

Natural History of the New World

Graham, Alan
The Ecology and Evolution of Plants in the Americas
December 2010 E-book

Essential Naturalist

Graham, Michael H.
Timeless Readings in Natural History
May 2011 E-book

Lost World of Fossil Lake

Grande, Lance
Snapshots from Deep Time
May 2013 New Book E-book

Outsider Scientists

Harman, Oren
Routes to Innovation in Biology
November 2013 New Book

Book of Barely Imagined Beings

Henderson, Caspar
A 21st Century Bestiary
April 2013 New Book E-book

Genentech

Hughes, Sally Smith
The Beginnings of Biotech
October 2011 E-book

Land of Extremes

Huryn, Alex
A Natural History of the Arctic North Slope of Alaska
September 2012 New Book E-book

Martian Stranded on Earth

Krementsov, Nikolai
Alexander Bogdanov, Blood Transfusions, and Proletarian Science
July 2011 E-book

Science on American Television

LaFollette, Marcel Chotkowski
A History
December 2012 New Book E-book

Naturalist's Guide to the Tropics

Lambertini, Marco
May 2000

Ecology of Happiness

Lambin, Eric
October 2012 New Book E-book

Born to Run

Lewis, Albert
Athletes of the Iditarod
February 2013 New Book

World in One Cubic Foot

Liittschwager, David
Portraits of Biodiversity
November 2012 New Book

Science on Ice

Linder, Chris
Four Polar Expeditions
December 2011

Dawn of the Deed

Long, John A.
The Prehistoric Origins of Sex
October 2012 New Book E-book

Nuvuk, the Northernmost

Lum, Daniel James Inulak
Altered Land, Altered Lives in Barrow, Alaska
June 2013 New Book

Architecture by Birds and Insects

Macnamara, Peggy
A Natural Art
August 2008

Art of Migration

Macnamara, Peggy
Birds, Insects, and the Changing Seasons in Chicagoland
July 2013 New Book E-book

Hard Road West

Meldahl, Keith Heyer
History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail
November 2007

Relics

Naskrecki, Piotr
Travels in Nature's Time Machine
October 2011 E-book

Paradise Found

Nicholls, Steve
Nature in America at the Time of Discovery
May 2009 E-book

Sea Monsters

Nigg, Joseph
A Voyage around the World's Most Beguiling Map
October 2013 New Book

Modern Nature

Nyhart, Lynn K.
The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany
May 2009 E-book

Last Walk

Pierce, Jessica
Reflections on Our Pets at the End of Their Lives
September 2012 New Book E-book

Alexander von Humboldt

Rupke, Nicolaas A.
A Metabiography
June 2008

Infectious Disease

Scientific American,
A Scientific American Reader
September 2008

Long and the Short of It

Silvertown, Jonathan
The Science of Life Span and Aging
October 2013 New Book

Bear Wrangler

Troyer, Will
Memoirs of an Alaska Pioneer Biologist
February 2010 E-book

Medieval Dogs

Walker-Meikle, Kathleen
May 2013 New Book

Island Life

Wallace, Alfred Russel
Or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates
June 2013 New Book E-book

Passage to Cosmos

Walls, Laura Dassow
Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
September 2009 E-book

AMS Weather Book

Williams, Jack
The Ultimate Guide to America's Weather
June 2009

Guide to Marine Mammals of Alaska

Wynne, Kate
Fourth Edition
March 2013 New Book

Planet of Viruses

Zimmer, Carl
September 2011 E-book

Culinary Herbs and Spices of the World

van Wyk, Ben-Erik
October 2013 New Book

Essay on the Geography of Plants

von Humboldt, Alexander
March 2010 E-book

Views of the Cordilleras and Monuments of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas

von Humboldt, Alexander
A Critical Edition
January 2013 New Book E-book

Evolution

Bulletproof Feathers

Allen, Robert
How Science Uses Nature's Secrets to Design Cutting-Edge Technology
May 2010

Genomes and What to Make of Them

Barnes, Barry
December 2008 E-book

Evolutionary Restraints

Borrello, Mark E.
The Contentious History of Group Selection
October 2010 E-book

Darwin Deleted

Bowler, Peter J.
Imagining a World without Darwin
March 2013 New Book E-book

In Search of Mechanisms

Craver, Carl F.
Discoveries across the Life Sciences
October 2013 New Book

Metaphysics, Materialism, and the Evolution of Mind

Darwin, Charles
The Early Writings of Charles Darwin
November 2011

Darwin's Sacred Cause

Desmond, Adrian
Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins
April 2011

Darwin's Finches

Donohue, Kathleen
Readings in the Evolution of a Scientific Paradigm
June 2011

Ornaments of Life

Fleming, Theodore H.
Coevolution and Conservation in the Tropics
September 2013 New Book

Pseudoscience Wars

Gordin, Michael D.
Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
September 2012 New Book E-book

Multiplicity in Unity

Herrera, Carlos M.
Plant Subindividual Variation and Interactions with Animals
November 2009 E-book

Biology's First Law

McShea, Daniel W.
The Tendency for Diversity and Complexity to Increase in Evolutionary Systems
July 2010 E-book

How Life Began

Meinesz, Alexandre
Evolution's Three Geneses
September 2008 E-book

Evolution of Primate Societies

Mitani, John C.
October 2012 New Book E-book

Cultural History of Heredity

Müller-Wille, Staffan
June 2012 New Book E-book

Making Sense of Evolution

Pigliucci, Massimo
The Conceptual Foundations of Evolutionary Biology
November 2006 E-book

Nonsense on Stilts

Pigliucci, Massimo
How to Tell Science from Bunk
May 2010 E-book

Philosophy of Pseudoscience

Pigliucci, Massimo
Reconsidering the Demarcation Problem
August 2013 New Book

Evidence for Evolution

Rogers, Alan R.
June 2011 E-book

Evolution

Scientific American,
A Scientific American Reader
September 2006 E-book

99% Ape

Silvertown, Jonathan
How Evolution Adds Up
April 2009

Creating a Physical Biology

Sloan, Phillip R.
The Three-Man Paper and Early Molecular Biology
December 2011 E-book

Life Out of Sequence

Stevens, Hallam
A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics
November 2013 New Book

Relentless Evolution

Thompson, John N.
April 2013 New Book E-book

On the Origin of Phyla

Valentine, James W.
June 2004

Banquet at Delmonico's

Werth, Barry
The Gilded Age and the Triumph of Evolution in America
April 2011

Botany

Kew Plant Glossary

Beentje, Henk
An Illustrated Dictionary of Plant Terms
July 2010

Forests Forever

Berger, John J.
Their Ecology, Restoration, and Preservation
December 2008

Tropical Rainforests

Bermingham, Eldredge
Past, Present, and Future
August 2005

Visible Empire

Bleichmar, Daniela
Botanical Expeditions and Visual Culture in the Hispanic Enlightenment
October 2012 New Book E-book

Vegetables

Bloch-Dano, Evelyne
A Biography
April 2012 E-book

Geranium

Boddy, Kasia
February 2013 New Book

Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers

Crump, Marty
& Other Unusual Relationships
November 2009 E-book

Restoring Tropical Forests

Elliott, Stephen
A Practical Guide
August 2013 New Book

Golden Age of Flowers

Fisher, Celia
Botanical Illustration in the Age of Discovery 1600-1800
October 2011

Medieval Flower Book

Fisher, Celia
April 2013 New Book

Plant Hunters

Fry, Carolyn
The Adventures of the World's Greatest Botanical Explorers
September 2013 New Book

Aloe Names Book

Grace, O. M.
January 2012

Latin for Gardeners

Harrison, Lorraine
Over 3,000 Plant Names Explained and Explored
September 2012 New Book E-book

Practical Botany for Gardeners

Hodge, Geoff
Over 3,000 Terms Identified and Explored
September 2013 New Book

Champion Trees of Britain and Ireland

Johnson, Owen
The Tree Register Handbook
January 2012

Art of Plant Evolution

Kress, W. John
April 2010

Field Guide to Seaweeds of Alaska

Lindeberg, Mandy R.
July 2012 New Book

Pine

Mason, Laura
August 2013 New Book

Life in the Soil

Nardi, James B.
A Guide for Naturalists and Gardeners
October 2007 E-book

Aloes: The Definitive Guide

Newton, L. E.
August 2011

Plant Physics

Niklas, Karl J.
March 2012 E-book

Bitter Roots

Osseo-Asare, Abena Dove
The Search for Healing Plants in Africa
December 2013 New Book

Lily

Reiss, Marcia
August 2013 New Book

Golden Age of Botanical Art

Rix, Martyn
September 2013 New Book

Life of a Leaf

Vogel, Steven
October 2012 New Book E-book

Growing Garden Bulbs

Wilford, Richard
September 2013 New Book

Deforesting the Earth

Williams, Michael
From Prehistory to Global Crisis, An Abridgment
September 2006 E-book

Oak

Young, Peter
February 2013 New Book

Deceptive Beauties

Ziegler, Christian
The World of Wild Orchids
October 2011

Conservation

Still Counting . . .

Alonso, Leeanne E.
Biodiversity Exploration for Conservation: The First 20 Years of the Rapid Assessment Program
April 2011

Wild Hope

Balmford, Andrew
On the Front Lines of Conservation Success
July 2012 New Book E-book

Ignoring Nature No More

Bekoff, Marc
The Case for Compassionate Conservation
June 2013 New Book E-book

Wildlife Conservation in a Changing Climate

Brodie, Jedediah F.
December 2012 New Book E-book

Global Fever

Calvin, William H.
How to Treat Climate Change
April 2008

Story of Six Rivers

Coates, Peter
History, Culture and Ecology
April 2013 New Book

Fragile Balance

Dickman, Christopher
The Extraordinary Story of Australian Marsupials
January 2008

Consumed

Elton, Sarah
Food for a Finite Planet
October 2013 New Book

Fate of the Forest

Hecht, Susanna B.
Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon, Updated Edition
January 2011 E-book

Wasted World

Hengeveld, Rob
How Our Consumption Challenges the Planet
April 2012 E-book

Infinite Nature

Hull, R. Bruce
May 2006

Global Pigeon

Jerolmack, Colin
March 2013 New Book E-book

Breeding Bio Insecurity

Klotz, Lynn C.
How U.S. Biodefense Is Exporting Fear, Globalizing Risk, and Making Us All Less Secure
October 2009 E-book

Economics of Climate Change

Libecap, Gary D.
Adaptations Past and Present
June 2011 E-book

Rapid Biological Assessments of the Nakanai Mountains and the Upper Strickland Basin

Richards, Stephen J.
Surveying the Biodiversity of Papua New Guinea’s Sublime Karst Environments
July 2011

Dawn of Green

Ritvo, Harriet
Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism
October 2009 E-book

Fragile Web

Silvertown, Jonathan
What Next for Nature?
August 2010

Global Environmental History

Simmons, I.
August 2008

Greetings from the Salton Sea

Stringfellow, Kim
Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905-2005
October 2011

Constructed Climates

Wilson, William G.
A Primer on Urban Environments
February 2011 E-book

World of Rivers

Wohl, Ellen
Environmental Change on Ten of the World's Great Rivers
November 2010 E-book

Our Once and Future Planet

Woodworth, Paddy
Restoring the World in the Climate Change Century
October 2013 New Book

Paleobiology

Second Jurassic Dinosaur Rush

Brinkman, Paul
Museums and Paleontology in America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
July 2010 E-book

Amniote Paleobiology

Carrano, Matthew T.
Perspectives on the Evolution of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles
August 2006

Accidental Species

Gee, Henry
Misunderstandings of Human Evolution
October 2013 New Book

Human Career

Klein, Richard G.
Human Biological and Cultural Origins, Third Edition
June 2009

Trilobites

Levi-Setti, Riccardo
November 1995

Star-Crossed Stone

McNamara, Kenneth J.
The Secret Life, Myths, and History of a Fascinating Fossil
November 2010 E-book

Fossil Ecosystems of North America

Nudds, John R.
A Guide to the Sites and Their Extraordinary Biotas
April 2008

Bones, Clones, and Biomes

Patterson, Bruce D.
The History and Geography of Recent Neotropical Mammals
June 2012 New Book E-book

Stratigraphic Paleobiology

Patzkowsky, Mark E.
Understanding the Distribution of Fossil Taxa in Time and Space
April 2012 E-book

Worlds Before Adam

Rudwick, Martin J. S.
The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
July 2008 E-book

Evolution of Fossil Ecosystems

Selden, Paul A.
March 2005

Paleobiological Revolution

Sepkoski, David
Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology
June 2009 E-book

Rereading the Fossil Record

Sepkoski, David
The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline
April 2012 E-book

The Animal Series from Reaktion

Donkey

Bough, Jill
June 2011

Hyena

Brottman, Mikita
June 2012 New Book

Shark

Crawford, Dean
August 2008

Deer

Fletcher, John
August 2013 New Book

Gorilla

Gott, Ted
May 2013 New Book

Moose

Jackson, Kevin
January 2009

Mosquito

Jones, Richard
June 2012 New Book

Lobster

King, Richard J.
May 2011

Leech

Kirk, Robert G. W.
February 2013 New Book

Wolf

Marvin, Garry
March 2012

Pig

Mizelle, Brett
October 2011

Monkey

Morris, Desmond
June 2013 New Book

Trout

Owen, James
March 2012

Chicken

Potts, Annie
January 2012

Dolphin

Rauch, Alan
August 2013 New Book

Kangaroo

Simons, John
December 2012 New Book

Frog

Sleigh, Charlotte
June 2012 New Book

Sparrow

Todd, Kim
March 2012

Ostrich

Williams, Edgar
May 2013 New Book

Crocodile

Wylie, Dan
June 2013 New Book

Elephant

Wylie, Dan
January 2009

Duck

de Rijke, Victoria
December 2008

Vulture

van Dooren, Thom
June 2011

Reference

What Editors Want

Benson, Philippa J.
An Author's Guide to Scientific Journal Publishing
December 2012 New Book E-book

Book of Leaves

Coombes, Allen J.
A Leaf-by-Leaf Guide to Six Hundred of the World's Great Trees
November 2010

Writing Science in Plain English

Greene, Anne E.
May 2013 New Book E-book

Book of Shells

Harasewych, M. G.
A Life-Size Guide to Identifying and Classifying Six Hundred Seashells
June 2010

Does Science Need a Global Language?

Montgomery, Scott L.
English and the Future of Research
May 2013 New Book E-book

Book of Fungi

Roberts, Peter
A Life-Size Guide to Six Hundred Species from around the World
April 2011