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History of Life
The living world today contains all kinds of creatures that do unexpected things-- we have come to expect that there were complex and unusual ways of life in the past, and that evolution took some ... > read more -
Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions
This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth. The most famous is the mass ... > read more -
Human Molecular Genetics, Third Edition
Following the completion of the Human Genome Project the content and organization of the third edition of Human Molecular Genetics has been thoroughly revised.* Part One (Chapters 1-7) covers basic ... > read more -
Microbiology: A Human Perspective w/ARIS
Appropriate for the non-major/allied health student, this authoritative text carefully explains the fundamentals of microbiology, providing a general overview of the principles followed by more ... > read more -
The First American: The Suppressed Story of the People Who Discovered the New World
Forty years ago, an amateur prehistorian discovered an engraved mastodon bone near Mexico City, showing a virtual bestiary from the Ice Age. Harvard University took notice and excavated nearby ... > read more -
Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, And Earth's Ancient Atmosphere
For 65 million years dinosaurs ruled the Earth - until a deadly asteroid forced their extinction. But what accounts for the incredible longevity of dinosaurs? A renowned scientist now provides a ... > read more -
Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England
An original portrait of New England's forests, tracing their evolution from precolonial days to the present through a study of the patterns we see today.Landscape is much more than scenery to be ... > read more -
When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?
We're closing in on the 150th anniversary of Darwin's Origin of Species, but clearly not closing in on any resolution of the debates that the book stirred up between science and religion. In this ... > read more -
Culture Sketches: Case Studies in Anthropology
Ideal for any Cultural Anthropology course, this brief and inexpensive collection of ethnographic case studies introduces students to fifteen cultures and exposes them to ethnography without ... > read more -
The Physics of Astrophysics Volume II: Gas Dynamics
Presented in two volumes, The Physics of Astrophysics is ideally suited for a year-long astrophysics course for university seniors and first-year graduate students. This second volume deals with the ... > read more
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