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Books Received Backlist

A topically-sorted series of lists of all books received during the last three months


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Astronomy

Ambassadors from Earth
Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
Jay Gallentine
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln,  2009
Hardback: 519 pp., illus. $34.95, C$48.95, £26.99. ISBN 9780803222205.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight.

Comets and the Origin of Life
Janaki Wickramasinghe, Chandra Wickramasinghe, and William Napier
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 231 pp., illus. $55, £41. ISBN 9789812566355.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Cracking the Einstein Code
Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
Fulvio Melia
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 149 pp., illus. $25, £17.50. ISBN 9780226519517.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Extraterrestrials
A Philosophical Perspective
André Kukla
Lexington (Rowman and Littlefield), Lanham, MD,  2009
Hardback: 110 pp. $60. ISBN 9780739142448.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 110 pp. $24.95. ISBN 9780739142455.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, or A Sidereal Message
Galileo Galilei. Introduction and Notes by William R. Shea and Tiziana Bascelli
Science History Publications/USA (Watson), Sagamore Beach, MA,  2009
Paperback: 132 pp., illus. $14.95. ISBN 9780881353754.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Translated from the Latin edition by William R. Shea.

Horizons of Cosmology
Exploring Worlds Seen and Unseen
Joseph Silk
Templeton, West Conshohocken, PA,  2009
Paperback: 215 pp., illus. $19.95. ISBN 9781599473413.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Templeton Science and Religion.

The Monthly Sky Guide
8th ed.
Ian Ridpath. Illustrated by Wil Tirion
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 72 pp., illus. $17. ISBN 9780521133692.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Plasma Universe
Curt Suplee. Amitava Bhattacharjee, Ed.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 88 pp., illus. $20.99. ISBN 9780521519274.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Pluto Confidential
An Insider Account of the Ongoing Battles over the Status of Pluto
Laurence A. Marschall
BenBella, Dallas,  2009
Paperback: 231 pp. $14.95, C$17.50. ISBN 9781933771809.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Primordial Density Perturbation
Cosmology, Inflation and the Origin of Structure
David H. Lyth and Andrew R. Liddle
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
Hardback: 515 pp., illus. $75. ISBN 9780521828499.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Primordial Density Perturbation
Cosmology, Inflation and the Origin of Structure
David H. Lyth and Andrew R. Liddle
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 515 pp., illus. $75. ISBN 9780521828499.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Secrets of the Universe
How We Discovered the Cosmos
Paul Murdin
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 341 pp., illus. $49. ISBN 9780226551432.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Universe or Multiverse?
Bernard Carr, Ed.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 533 pp., illus., $90.99. ISBN 9780521848411.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 533 pp., illus., $49.99. ISBN 9780521140690.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)


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Biomedicine

Antibody Phage Display
Methods and Protocols. 2nd ed.
Robert Aitken, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 250 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9781603273015.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 562.

Asthma
The Biography
Mark Jackson
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 261 pp., illus. $24.95, £12.99. ISBN 9780199237951.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Biographies of Disease.

Blessed Days of Anaesthesia
How Anaesthetics Changed the World
Stephanie J. Snow
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Paperback: 240 pp., illus. $16.95, £9.99. ISBN 9780192805898.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

Bone Pathology
2nd ed.
Jasvir S. Khurana, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 430 pp., illus. $179. ISBN 9781588297662.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Breast Cancer in the Post-Genomic Era
Antonio Giordano and Nicola Normanno, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 242 pp., illus. $189. ISBN 9781603279444.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Current Clinical Oncology.

Carotid Artery Stenting
The Basics
Jacqueline Saw, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 288 pp., illus. $189. ISBN 9781603273138.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Contemporary Cardiology.

Challenging Cases in Allergy and Immunology
Massoud Mahmoudi, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 345 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9781603274425.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Chaos and Organization in Health Care
Thomas H. Lee and James J. Mongan
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 294 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780262013536.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Chemokine Receptors in Cancer
Amy M. Fulton, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 186 pp., illus. $159. ISBN 9781603272667.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Cancer Drug Discovery and Development.

Cholera
The Biography
Christopher Hamlin
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 354 pp., illus. $24.95, £12.99. ISBN 9780199546244.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Biographies of Disease.

CNS Cancer
Models, Markers, Prognostic Factors, Targets, and Therapeutic Approaches
Erwin G. Van Meir, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 1326 pp., illus. $169. ISBN 9781603275521.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Cancer Drug Discovery and Development.

Cocktail
A Play About the Life and HIV Drug Development Work of Dr. Krisana Kraisinthu
Vince LiCata and Ping Chong
Silkworm, Chaing Mai, Thailand,  2009
Paperback: 112 pp. $15, Baht 295. ISBN 9789749511688.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
A play.

The Deadly Dinner Party and Other Medical Detective Stories
Jonathan A. Edlow
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 259 pp. $27.50. ISBN 9780300125580.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Depression Is Contagious
How the Most Common Mood Disorder Is Spreading Around the World and How to Stop It
Michael D. Yapko
Free Press (Simon and Schuster), New York,  2009
Hardback: 253 pp. $26, C$34. ISBN 9781416590743.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Diabetes
The Biography
Robert Tattersall
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 239 pp., illus. $24.95, £12.99. ISBN 9780199541362.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Biographies of Disease.

Doctoring the Mind
Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good?
Richard P. Bentall
New York University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 384 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780814791486.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Endoscopic Therapy for Barrett's Esophagus
Richard E. Sampliner, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 201 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9781603274449.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Clinical Gastroenterology.

Essential Dance Medicine
Ana Bracilovic
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Paperback: 194 pp., illus. $79.95. ISBN 9781934115671.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Musculoskeletal Medicine.

Fat Detection
Taste, Texture, and Post Ingestive Effects
Jean-Pierre Montmayeur and Johannes le Coutre, Eds.
CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group), Boca Raton, FL,  2009
Hardback: 635 pp., illus. $149.95. ISBN 9781420067750.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Frontiers in Neuroscience.

fMRI Techniques and Protocols
Massimo Filippi, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 857 pp., illus. $169. ISBN 9781603279185.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Neuromethods, vol. 41.

Free for All
Fixing School Food in America
Janet Poppendieck
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 368 pp. $27.50, £19.95. ISBN 9780520243705.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
California Studies in Food and Culture, 28.

G Protein-Coupled Receptors in Drug Discovery
Wayne R. Leifert, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 388 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781603273169.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 552.

Generosity
An Enhancement
Richard Powers
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York,  2009
Hardback: 304 pp. $25. ISBN 9780374161149.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
A novel.

Genetic Rounds
A Doctor's Encounters in the Field That Revolutionized Medicine
Robert Marion
Kaplan, New York,  2009
Hardback: 304 pp., illus. $24.95, C$30.95. ISBN 9781607144601.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Genetics of Complex Human Diseases
A Laboratory Manual
Ammar Al-Chalabi and Laura Almasy, Eds.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY,  2009
Hardback: 232 pp., illus. $158. ISBN 9780879698829.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 232 pp., illus. $95. ISBN 9780879698836.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Getting What We Deserve
Health and Medical Care in America
Alfred Sommer
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 149 pp., illus. $21.95. ISBN 9780801893872.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Gifted Hands
America's Most Significant Contributions to Surgery
Seymour I. Schwartz
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Hardback: 259 pp., illus. $27.95. ISBN 9781591026839.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Green Intelligence
Creating Environments That Protect Human Health
John Wargo
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 393 pp., illus. $32.50. ISBN 9780300110371.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Guide to Signal Pathways in Immune Cells
E. Nigel Wardle
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 437 pp., illus. $149. ISBN 9781603275378.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Handbook of Cardiac Anatomy, Physiology, and Devices
2nd ed.
Paul A. Iaizzo, Ed.
Springer, New York,  2009
Hardback: 675 pp., illus. + CD-ROM. $179. ISBN 9781603273718.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Healing the Broken Mind
Transforming America's Failed Mental Health System
Timothy A. Kelly
New York University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 205 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780814748121.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Health and Medicine on Display
International Expositions in the United States, 1876-1904
Julie K. Brown
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 340 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9780262026574.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Human Body
An Introduction for the Biomedical and Health Sciences
Gillian Pocock and Christopher D. Richards
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 813 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 9780199289073.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Human Embryogenesis
Methods and Protocols
Julie Lafond and Cathy Vaillancourt, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 322 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781603270083.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 550.

Hysteria
The Biography
Andrew Scull
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 231 pp., illus. $24.95, £12.99. ISBN 9780199560967.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Biographies of Disease.

Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy
The Case of Nanette Leroux
Jan Goldstein
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 258 pp., illus. $29.95, £20.95. ISBN 9780691011868.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Icons of Life
A Cultural History of Human Embryos
Lynn M. Morgan
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 328 pp., illus. $55, £37.95. ISBN 9780520260436.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 328 pp., illus. $21.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780520260443.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Infectious Disease in the Aging
A Clinical Handbook. 2nd ed.
Thomas T. Yoshikawa and Dean C. Norman
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 537 pp., illus. $189. ISBN 9781603275330.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Infectious Disease.

Laboratory Disease
Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology
Christoph Gradmann
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 328 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780801893131.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Translated from the German edition (Göttingen, 2005) by Elborg Forster.

Making Catfish Bait Out of Government Boys
The Fight Against Cattle Ticks and the Transformation of the Yeoman South
Claire Strom
University of Georgia Press, Athens,  2009
Hardback: 319 pp., illus. $44.95. ISBN 9780820327495.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy
Bodies, Books, Fortune, Fame
Ruth Richardson
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Paperback: 337 pp., illus. £9.99. ISBN 9780199570287.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

More Than Genes
What Science Can Tell Us About Toxic Chemicals, Development, and the Risk to Our Children
Dan Agin
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 412 pp. $27.95. ISBN 9780195381504.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Mortal Coil
A Short History of Living Longer
David Boyd Haycock
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Paperback: 320 pp., illus. $22. ISBN 9780300158250.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

Oxidative Neural Injury
Sigrid C. Veasey, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 229 pp., illus. $159. ISBN 9781603273411.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Contemporary Clinical Neuroscience.

Pancreatic Stem Cells
Juan Domínguez-Bendala
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 164 pp., illus. $159. ISBN 9781607611318.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.

Performance-Enhancing Technologies in Sports
Ethical, Conceptual, and Scientific Issues
Thomas H. Murray, Karen J. Maschke, and Angela A. Wasunna, Eds.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 300 pp., illus. $50. ISBN 9780801893612.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Personality Disorders
A Practical Guide
Carol W. Berman
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore,  2009
Paperback: 203 pp. $39.95. ISBN 9780781794015.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Practical Guides in Psychiatry.

Practice Under Pressure
Primary Care Physicians and Their Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
Timothy Hoff
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 250 pp. $72. ISBN 9780813546759.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 250 pp. $24.95. ISBN 9780813546766.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

A Primer for the Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Thermodynamics, Bioenergetics, Metabolism
Christopher B. Scott
Springer, New York,  2009
Hardback: 180 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9781603273824.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Real World Drug Discovery
A Chemist's Guide to Biotech and Pharmaceutical Research
Robert M. Rydzewski
Elsevier, Oxford,  2008
Hardback: 533 pp., illus. £46.99. ISBN 9780080466170.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Real World of a Forensic Scientist
Renowned Experts Reveal What It Takes to Solve Crimes
Henry C. Lee, Elaine M. Pagliaro, and Katherine Ramsland
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Hardback: 349 pp., illus. $25.98. ISBN 9781591027294.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Recombinant Antibodies for Immunotherapy
Melvyn Little, Ed.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 433 pp., illus. $120. ISBN 9780521887328.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Rising Plague
The Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling Arsenal to Fight Them
Brad Spellberg
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Hardback: 264 pp., illus. $26. ISBN 9781591027508.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Say Good Night to Insomnia
2nd ed.
Gregg D. Jacobs
Holt, New York,  2009
Paperback: 245 pp. $16, $C20.50. ISBN 9780805089585.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Short Stay Management of Chest Pain
William Franklin Peacock and Christopher P. Cannon, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 283 pp., illus. $189. ISBN 9781603279475.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Contemporary Cardiology.

Surgical Pathology of Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Tumors
Ashraf Khan, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 254 pp., illus. $149. ISBN 9781603273954.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Current Clinical Pathology.

Technological Medicine
The Changing World of Doctors and Patients
Stanley Joel Reiser
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 245 pp., illus. $30. ISBN 9780521835695.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Technological Medicine
The Changing World of Doctors and Patients
Stanley Joel Reiser
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 245 pp., illus. $30. ISBN 9780521835695.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Therapeutic Applications of RNAi
Methods and Protocols
John F. Reidharr-Olson and Cristina M. Rondinone, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 158 pp., illus. $99.50. ISBN 9781603272940.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 555.

Treating Dementia
Do We Have a Pill for It?
Jesse F. Ballenger et al., Eds.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 281 pp. $60. ISBN 9780801893650.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Treating the Brain
What the Best Doctors Know
Walter G. Bradley
Dana Press, Washington, DC,  2009
Hardback: 328 pp., illus. $25. ISBN 9781932594461.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Trick or Treatment
The Undeniable Facts About Alternative Medicine
Simon Singh and Edzard Ernst
Norton, New York,  2009
Paperback: 352 pp., illus. $17.95. ISBN 9780393337785.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

Type 2 Diabetes
Methods and Protocols
Claire Stocker, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 288 pp., illus. $99.50. ISBN 9781934115152.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 560.

Valvular Heart Disease
Andrew Wang and Thomas M. Bashore, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 546 pp., illus. $269. ISBN 9781588299826.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Contemporary Cardiology.

Viruses, Plagues, and History
Past, Present, and Future. 2nd ed.
Michael B. A. Oldstone
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 399 pp., illus. $17.95. ISBN 9780195327311.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

What Is Medicine?
Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing
Paul U. Unschuld
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 250 pp., illus. $60, £41.95. ISBN 9780520257658.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 250 pp., illus. $24.95, £16.95. ISBN 9780520257665.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Translated from the German by Karen Reimers.


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Earth and Environmental Sciences

After Ike
Aerial Views from the No-Fly Zone
Bryan Carlile. Essay by Andrew Sansom
Texas A&M University Press, College Station,  2009
Paperback: 144 pp., illus. $24.95. ISBN 9781603441506.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Aqua Shock
The Water Crisis in America
Susan J. Marks
Bloomberg, New York,  2009
Hardback: 240 pp., illus. $24.95, C$31.95. ISBN 9781576603321.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Atlas of the World
15th ed.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 448 pp., illus. $80. ISBN 9780195374513.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Atlas of Water
Mapping the World's Most Critical Resource. 2nd ed.
Maggie Black and Jannet King
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Paperback: 128 pp., illus. $21.95. ISBN 9780520259348.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Atmosphere, Weather and Climate
9th ed.
Roger G. Barry and Richard J. Chorley
Routledge, New York,  2009
Paperback: 532 pp., illus. $74.95. ISBN 9780415465700.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Bringing Nature Home
How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants. 2nd ed.
Douglas W. Tallamy
Timber, Portland, OR,  2009
Paperback: 360 pp., illus. $17.95. ISBN 9780881929928.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Catastrophe in the Making
The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow
William R. Freudenburg et al.
Shearwater (Island), Washington, DC,  2009
Hardback: 221 pp., illus. $26.95. ISBN 9781597266826.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Chasing Molecules
Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry
Elizabeth Grossman
Shearwater (Island), Washington, DC,  2009
Hardback: 281 pp. $26.95. ISBN 9781597263702.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Complete Ice Age
How Climate Change Shaped the World
Brian Fagan, Ed.
Thames and Hudson, New York,  2009
Hardback: 240 pp., illus. $40, C$50. ISBN 9780500051610.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Down to the Wire
Confronting Climate Collapse
David W. Orr
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 283 pp. $19.95. ISBN 9780195393538.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Earth After Us
What Legacy Will Humans Leave in the Rocks?
Jan Zalasiewicz, with contributions from Kim Freedman
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Paperback: 265 pp., illus. $16.95, £8.99. ISBN 9780199214983.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

Fast Multipole Boundary Element Method
Theory and Applications in Engineering
Yijun Liu
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 253 pp., illus. $85. ISBN 9780521116596.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Terry Tempest Williams
Vintage (Random House), New York,  2009
Paperback: 430 pp. $16. ISBN 9780375725197.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Forecast
The Surprising -- and Immediate -- Consequences of Climate Change
Stephan Faris
Holt, New York,  2009
Paperback: 253 pp. $15, C$19. ISBN 9780805090840.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2009 ed.

Galápagos
Preserving Darwin's Legacy
Tui De Roy, Ed.
Firefly, Buffalo,  2009
Hardback: 240 pp., illus. $49.95. ISBN 9781554074846.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Gems and Gemstones
Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World
Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
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Geomorphology and Global Environmental Change
Olav Slaymaker, Thomas Spencer, and Christine Embleton-Hamann, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Grass
In Search of Human Habitat
Joe C. Truett
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
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Organisms and Environments, 11.

The Great Experiment in Conservation
Voices from the Adirondack Park
William F. Porter, Jon D. Erickson, and Ross S. Whaley, Eds.
Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY,  2009
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Green Intelligence
Creating Environments That Protect Human Health
John Wargo
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
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The Heart of the Great Alone
Scott, Shackleton, and Antarctic Photography
David Hempleman-Adams, Emma Stuart, and Sophie Gordon
Bloomsbury, New York,  2009
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Jacques Cousteau
The Sea King
Brad Matsen
Pantheon, New York,  2009
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Machine Learning Methods in the Environmental Sciences
Neural Networks and Kernels
William W. Hsieh
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Managers of Global Change
The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies
Frank Biermann and Bernd Siebenhüner, Eds.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009

Mapping the World
Stories of Geography
Caroline Laffon and Martine Laffon
Firefly, Buffalo,  2009
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Megadisasters
Predicting the Next Catastrophe
Florin Diacu
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
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More Than Genes
What Science Can Tell Us About Toxic Chemicals, Development, and the Risk to Our Children
Dan Agin
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Noncircular Gears
Design and Generation
Faydor L. Litvin et al.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Now or Never
Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future
Tim Flannery
Atlantic (Grove Atlantic), London,  2009
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Ocean Engineering Mechanics
With Applications
Michael E. McCormick
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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On Thin Ice
The Changing World of the Polar Bear
Richard Ellis
Knopf (Random House), New York,  2009
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Paleoclimates
Understanding Climate Change Past and Present
Thomas M. Cronin
Columbia University Press, New York,  2009
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The Passage to Cosmos
Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
Laura Dassow Walls
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
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The Poisoning of Michigan
2nd ed.
Joyce Egginton
Michigan State University Press, East Lansing,  2009
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Preserving Nature in the National Parks
A History
Richard West Sellars
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
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Reprint, 1997 ed.

The Road to Yucca Mountain
The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States
J. Samuel Walker
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
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Roadside Geology of Minnesota
Richard W. Ojakangas
Mountain, Missoula, MT,  2009
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Saving Kyoto
An Insider's Guide to How It Works, Why It Matters and What It Means for the Future
Graciela Chichilnisky and Kristen A. Sheeran
New Holland, London,  2009
Paperback: 209 pp., illus. £8.99. ISBN 9781847734310.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Science as a Contact Sport
Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate
Stephen H. Schneider
National Geographic Books, Washington, DC,  2009
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Science in Environmental Policy
The Politics of Objective Advice
Ann Campbell Keller
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Politics, Science, and the Environment.

Seasick
Ocean Change and the Extinction of Life on Earth
Alanna Mitchell
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 171 pp. $25. ISBN 9780226532585.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Toward the Healthy City
People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning
Jason Corburn
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Urban and Industrial Environments.

Treasures of the Earth
Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Futue
Saleem H. Ali
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 303 pp., illus. $30. ISBN 9780300141610.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Tunguska Mystery
Vladamir Rubtsov
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands,  2009
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Astronomers' Universe.

Understanding Climate Change
Climate Variability, Predictability, and Change in the Midwestern United States
S. C. Pryor, Ed.
Indiana University Press, Bloomington,  2009
Hardback: 312 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 9780253353443.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Vesuvius
A Biography
Alwyn Scarth
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Water
John Knechtel, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Alphabet City, no. 14.

Watershed Investigations
12 Labs for High School Science
Jennifer Soukhome
NSTA Press, Arlington, VA,  2009
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The Wetlands Handbook
Edward Maltby and Tom Barker, Eds.
Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ,  2009
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What's So Great About Granite?
Jennifer H. Carey
Mountain, Missoula, MT,  2009
Paperback: 102 pp., illus. $18. ISBN 9780878425631.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Who Turned Out the Lights?
Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson
Harper (HarperCollins), New York,  2009
Paperback: 361 pp., illus. $16.99. ISBN 9780061715648.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Whole Earth Discipline
An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Stewart Brand
Viking (Penguin), New York,  2009
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World Ocean Census
A Global Survey of Marine Life
Darlene Trew Crist, Gail Scowcroft, and James M. Harding Jr.
Firefly, Buffalo,  2009
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Engineering and Technology

Alchemy of Glass
Counterfeit, Imitation, and Transformation in Ancient Glassmaking
Marco Beretta
Science History Publications/USA (Watson), Sagamore Beach, MA,  2009
Hardback: 216 pp., illus. $59.95. ISBN 9780881353501.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Ambassadors from Earth
Pioneering Explorations with Unmanned Spacecraft
Jay Gallentine
University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln,  2009
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Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight.

Biodesign
The Process of Innovating Medical Technologies
Stefanos Zenios, Josh Makower, and Paul Yock, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 778 pp., illus. $90. ISBN 9780521517423.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Book of Michael of Rhodes
A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript. Vol. I: Facsimile
David McGee, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 533 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 9780262135030.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Book of Michael of Rhodes
A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript. Vol. 2: Transcription and Translation
Alan M. Stahl, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 741 pp., illus. $75. ISBN 9780262195904.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Transcription by Franco Rossi. Translation by Alan M. Stahl.

The Book of Michael of Rhodes
A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript. Vol. 3, Studies
Pamela O. Long, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 384 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9780262123082.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Bridging Divides
The Origins of the Beckman Institute at Illinois
Theodore L. Brown
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 128 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780252034848.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Cambridge Aerospace Dictionary
2nd ed.
Bill Gunston
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 816 pp. $155. ISBN 9780521191654.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Change by Design
How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation
Tim Brown, with Barry Katz
Harper (HarperCollins), New York,  2009
Hardback: 272 pp. $27.99. ISBN 9780061766084.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Dark Side of the Moon
Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race
Wayne Biddle
Norton, New York,  2009
Hardback: 240 pp., illus. $25.95, C$32.50. ISBN 9780393059106.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Edison's Concrete Piano
Flying Tanks, Six-Nippled Sheep, Walk-on-Water Shoes and 12 Other Flops from Great Inventors
Judy Wearing
ECW, Montreal,  2009
Paperback: 270 pp., illus. $14.95, C$17.95. ISBN 9781550228632.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

A Foundation in Digital Communication
Amos Lapidoth
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 749 pp., illus. $70. ISBN 9780521193955.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Frank Julian Sprague
Electrical Inventor and Engineer
William D. Middleton and William D. Middleton III
Indiana University Press, Bloomington,  2009
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Fundamentals of Fluid Power Control
John Watton
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Fundamentals of Guided-Wave Optoelectronic Devices
William S. C. Chang
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices
2nd ed.
Yuan Taur and Tak H. Ning
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Guided Explorations of the Mechanics of Solids and Structures
Strategies for Solving Unfamiliar Problems
James F. Doyle
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Cambridge Aerospace.

High-Speed Electronics and Optoelectronics
Devices and Circuits
Sheila Prasad, Hermann Schumacher, and Anand Gopinath
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Intellectual Property Rights and the Life Science Industries
Past, Present and Future. 2nd ed.
Graham Dutfield
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 424 pp., illus. $64. ISBN 9789812832276.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Micro and Nano Technologies in Bioanalysis
Methods and Protocols
James Weifu Lee and Robert S. Foote, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 688 pp., illus. $129. ISBN 9781934115404.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 544.

Numerical Methods in Engineering with MATLAB
2nd ed.
Jaan Kiusalaas
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Ocean Engineering Mechanics
With Applications
Michael E. McCormick
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 620 pp., illus. $125. ISBN 9780521859523.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Optoelectronic Devices
Design, Modeling, and Simulation
Xun Li
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 373 pp., illus. $115. ISBN 9780521875103.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Power Trip
From Oil Wells to Solar Cells -- Our Ride to the Renewable Future
Amanda Little
Harper (HarperCollins), New York,  2009
Hardback: 464 pp., illus. $25.99, C$33.99. ISBN 9780061353253.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Practical Design Verification
Dhiraj K. Pradhan and Ian G. Harris, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 288 pp., illus. $80. ISBN 9780521859721.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Principles of Chemical Sensors
2nd ed.
Jirí Janata
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands,  2009
Hardback: 389 pp., illus. $109. ISBN 9780387699301.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Radiance of France
Nuclear Power and National Identity After World War II
Gabrielle Hecht
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 495 pp., illus. $25, £18.95. ISBN 9780262582810.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Inside Technology. Reprint, 1998 ed.

Radio-Frequency Electronics
Circuits and Applications. 2nd ed.
Jon B. Hagen
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 462 pp., illus. $80. ISBN 9780521889742.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Reinforcement of Polymer Nano-Composites
Theory, Experiments and Applications
T. A. Vilgis, G. Heinrich, and M. Klüppel
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 221 pp., illus. $130. ISBN 9780521874809.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Science of War
Defense Budgeting, Military Technology, Logistics, and Combat Outcomes
Michael E. O'Hanlon
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Published in association with the Brookings Institution, Washington, DC.

The Secret Lives of Buildings
From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories
Edward Hollis
Metropolitan (Henry Holt), New York,  2009
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Semiconductor Devices for High-Speed Optoelectronics
Giovanni Ghione
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Silicon Earth
Introduction to the Microelectronics and Nanotechnology Revolution
John D. Cressler
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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The Simple Science of Flight
From Insects to Jumbo Jets. 2nd ed.
Henk Tennekes
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Sloshing
Odd M. Faltinsen and Alexander N. Timokha
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Small Miracles
Edward M. Lerner
Tor (Tom Doherty Associates), New York,  2009
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A novel.

Soil Mechanics
A One-Dimensional Introduction
David Muir Wood
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Solar Energy Engineering
Processes and Systems
Soteris A. Kalogirou
Academic (Elsevier), Burlington, MA,  2009
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Splendidly Unreasonable Inventors
The Lives, Loves and Deaths of 30 Pioneers Who Changed the World
Jeremy Coller, with Christine Chamberlain
Overlook (Peter Mayer), New York,  2009
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Synchronization in Wireless Sensor Networks
Parameter Estimation, Performance Benchmarks and Protocols
Erchin Serpedin and Qasim M. Chaudhari
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Technological Medicine
The Changing World of Doctors and Patients
Stanley Joel Reiser
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Thin Film Shape Memory Alloys
Fundamentals and Device Applications
Shuichi Miyazaki, Yong Qing Fu, and Wei Min Huang, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Transport in Nanostructures
2nd ed.
David K. Ferry, Stephen M. Goodnick and Jonathan Bird
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Why Architecture Matters
Paul Goldberger
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
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Wired for Innovation
How Information Technology Is Reshaping the Economy
Erik Brynjolfsson and Adam Saunders
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Am I Making Myself Clear?
A Scientists's Guide to Talking to the Public
Cornelia Dean
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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The Art of Being a Scientist
A Guide for Graduate Students and Their Mentors
Roel Snieder and Ken Larner
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009
Elizabeth Kolbert, Ed.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston,  2009
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The Best American Science Writing 2009
Natalie Angier, Ed.
Ecco (HarperCollins), New York,  2009
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Doing Science
Design, Analysis, and Communication of Scientific Research. 2nd ed.
Ivan Valiela
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Don't Be Such a Scientist
Talking Substance in an Age of Style
Randy Olson
Island, Washington, DC,  2009
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Imagining Science
Art, Science, and Social Change
Sean Caulfield and Timothy Caulfield, Eds.
University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Canada,  2009
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Making Sense
A Student's Guide to Research and Writing. Engineering and the Technical Sciences. 3rd ed.
Margot Northey and Judi Jewinski
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Mentoring and Diversity
Tips for Students and Professionals for Developing and Maintaining a Diverse Scientific Community
Thomas Landefeld
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands,  2009
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Mentoring in Academia and Industry, vol. 4.

Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts
Branches
Philip Ball
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 231 pp., illus. $29.95, £14.99. ISBN 9780199237982.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing
Richard Dawkins
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
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Reprint, 2008 ed. Reviewed by Hanne Andersen, Science 320, 1721 (27 June 2008).

PISA Science 2006
Implications for Science Teachers and Teaching
Rodger W. Bybee and Barry J. McCrae, Eds.
NSTA Press, Arlington, VA,  2009
Paperback: 304 pp., illus. $23.95; to NSTA members, $19.16. ISBN 9781933531311.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Science as a Contact Sport
Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate
Stephen H. Schneider
National Geographic Books, Washington, DC,  2009
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The Science of the Oven
Hervé This
Columbia University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 216 pp., illus. $22.95, £15.95. ISBN 9780231147064.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Translated from the French edition (2007) by Jody Gladding.

So You Want to Be a Scientist?
Philip A. Schwartzkroin
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 208 pp. $19.95. ISBN 9780195333541.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Starchild
The Human Meanings of the Big Bang Cosmos
Don Lago
Plain View, Austin,  2009
Paperback: 145 pp., illus. $14.95. ISBN 9781935514312.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Stupid Science
Weird Experiments, Mad Scientists, and Idiots in the Lab
Leland Gregory
Andrews McMeel, Kansas City,  2009
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Time
Eva Hoffman
Picador (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New York,  2009
Paperback: 222 pp. $14, C$18. ISBN 9780312427276.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Big Ideas/Small Books. Reprint, 2009 ed.

When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish
And Other Speculations About This and That
Martin Gardner
Hill and Wang (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New York,  2009
Hardback: 256 pp. $26. ISBN 9780809087372.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Write an Effective Funding Application
A Guide for Resarchers and Scholars
Mary W. Walters
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 163 pp. $45. ISBN 9780801893551.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science

The Origin Then and Now
An Interpretive Guide to the Origin of Species
David N. Reznick
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 448 pp., illus. $29.95, £20.95. ISBN 9780691129785.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

American Melancholy
Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century
Laura D. Hirschbein
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 208 pp. $42.95. ISBN 9780813545844.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Animal Rights
A Reference Handbook. 2nd ed.
Clifford J. Sherry
ABC-CLIO, Santa Barbara, CA,  2009
Hardback: 325 pp. $55. ISBN 9781598841916.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Contemporary World Issues.

Asthma
The Biography
Mark Jackson
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 261 pp., illus. $24.95, £12.99. ISBN 9780199237951.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Biographies of Disease.

Atomic
The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb, 1939-1949
Jim Baggott
Icon, Cambridge,  2009
Paperback: 590 pp., illus. £9.99. ISBN 9781848310827.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Before Disenchantment
Images of Exotic Animals and Plants in the Early Modern World
Peter Mason
Reaktion, London,  2009
Hardback: 272 pp., illus. $49. ISBN 9781861894373.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Big Burn
Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
Timothy Egan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston,  2009
Hardback: 336 pp., illus. $27. ISBN 9780618968411.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Blessed Days of Anaesthesia
How Anaesthetics Changed the World
Stephanie J. Snow
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Paperback: 240 pp., illus. $16.95, £9.99. ISBN 9780192805898.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

A Body Worth Defending
Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body
Ed Cohen
Duke University Press, Durham, NC,  2009
Hardback: 384 pp. $89.95. ISBN 9780822345183.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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The Book of Codes
Understanding the World of Hidden Messages
Paul Lunde, Ed.
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 288 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780520260139.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Book of Michael of Rhodes
A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript. Vol. I: Facsimile
David McGee, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 533 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 9780262135030.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Book of Michael of Rhodes
A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript. Vol. 2: Transcription and Translation
Alan M. Stahl, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 741 pp., illus. $75. ISBN 9780262195904.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Transcription by Franco Rossi. Translation by Alan M. Stahl.

The Book of Michael of Rhodes
A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript. Vol. 3, Studies
Pamela O. Long, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 384 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9780262123082.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Boyle
Between God and Science
Michael Hunter
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 380 pp., illus. $55. ISBN 9780300123814.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Bridging Divides
The Origins of the Beckman Institute at Illinois
Theodore L. Brown
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 128 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780252034848.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Causality
Models, Reasoning, and Inference. 2nd ed.
Judea Pearl
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 484 pp., illus. $49. ISBN 9780521895606.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Charles Darwin's Notebooks from the Voyage of the Beagle
Gordon Chancellor and John van Wyhe, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 649 pp., illus. $150. ISBN 9780521517577.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Cholera
The Biography
Christopher Hamlin
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 354 pp., illus. $24.95, £12.99. ISBN 9780199546244.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Biographies of Disease.

Cognition and Perception
How Do Psychology and Neural Science Inform Philosophy?
Athanassios Raftopoulos
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 445 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9780262013215.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Coral Thief
A Novel
Rebecca Stott
Spiegel and Grau (Random House), New York,  2009
Hardback: 301 pp., illus. $25. ISBN 9780385531467.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Correspondence of Charles Darwin
Vol. 17, 1869
Frederick Burkhardt et al., Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 811 pp., illus. $140. ISBN 9780521190305.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Cotton and Race in the Making of America
The Human Costs of Economic Power
Gene Dattel
Dee, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 431 pp., illus. $28.95. ISBN 9781566637473.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Creating Modern Neuroscience
The Revolutionary 1950s
Gordon M. Sheperd
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 303 pp., illus. $79.95. ISBN 9780195391503.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Dark Side of the Moon
Wernher von Braun, the Third Reich, and the Space Race
Wayne Biddle
Norton, New York,  2009
Hardback: 240 pp., illus. $25.95, C$32.50. ISBN 9780393059106.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Darwin's Camera
Art and Photography in the Theory of Evolution
Phillip Prodger
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 310 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9780195150315.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Dawn of Green
Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism
Harriet Ritvo
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 245 pp., illus. $26, £18. ISBN 9780226720821.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Defining Darwin
Essays on the History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
Michael Ruse
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Hardback: 271 pp. $26.98. ISBN 9781591027256.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Descartes' Bones
A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
Russell Shorto
Vintage (Random House), New York,  2009
Paperback: 323 pp., illus. $15, C$18.95. ISBN 9780307275660.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

Diabetes
The Biography
Robert Tattersall
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 239 pp., illus. $24.95, £12.99. ISBN 9780199541362.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Biographies of Disease.

Doctoring the Mind
Is Our Current Treatment of Mental Illness Really Any Good?
Richard P. Bentall
New York University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 384 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780814791486.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Daniel L. Everett
Vintage Departures (Random House), New York,  2009
Paperback: 318 pp., illus. $16, C$19.95. ISBN 9780307386120.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed. Reviewed by Andreea S. Calude, Science 323, 1721 (23 January 2009).

A Dream of Undying Fame
How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis
Louis Breger
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,  2009
Hardback: 155 pp. $22.95, C$29. ISBN 9780465017355.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Dreaming the Biosphere
The Theater of All Possibilities
Rebecca Reider
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque,  2009
Hardback: 326 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9780826346735.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Einstein
The Life of a Genius
Walter Isaacson
Collins Design (HarperCollins), New York,  2009
Hardback: 94 pp., illus. $40. ISBN 9780061893896.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Einstein's Mistakes
The Human Failings of Genius
Hans C. Ohanian
Norton, New York,  2009
Paperback: 416 pp., illus. $16.95, C$21. ISBN 9780393337686.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

Emergence and Embodiment
New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory
Bruce Clarke and Mark B. N. Hansen, Eds.
Duke University Press, Durham, NC,  2009
Hardback: 294 pp. $84.95. ISBN 9780822345817.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Science and Cultural Theory.

Envisioning Nature, Science, and Religion
James D. Proctor, Ed.
Templeton, West Conshohocken, PA,  2009
Hardback: 379 pp., illus. $54.95. ISBN 9781599473147.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Eureka Man
The Life and Legacy of Archimedes
Alan Hirshfeld
Walker, New York,  2009
Hardback: 251 pp., illus. $26. ISBN 9780802716187.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Extraterrestrials
A Philosophical Perspective
André Kukla
Lexington (Rowman and Littlefield), Lanham, MD,  2009
Hardback: 110 pp. $60. ISBN 9780739142448.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Francis Crick
Hunter of Life's Secrets
Robert Olby
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY,  2009
Hardback: 558 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9780879697983.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Frank Julian Sprague
Electrical Inventor and Engineer
William D. Middleton and William D. Middleton III
Indiana University Press, Bloomington,  2009
Hardback: 335 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9780253353832.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

From Galileo to Gell-Mann
The Wonder That Inspired the Greatest Scientists of All Time. In Their Own Words
Marco Bersanelli and Mario Gargantini
Templeton, West Conshohocken, PA,  2009
Hardback: 336 pp. $27.95. ISBN 9781599473406.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Translated from the Italian edition (Milan, 2003) by John Bowden.

Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, or A Sidereal Message
Galileo Galilei. Introduction and Notes by William R. Shea and Tiziana Bascelli
Science History Publications/USA (Watson), Sagamore Beach, MA,  2009
Paperback: 132 pp., illus. $14.95. ISBN 9780881353754.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Translated from the Latin edition by William R. Shea.

Genetic Rounds
A Doctor's Encounters in the Field That Revolutionized Medicine
Robert Marion
Kaplan, New York,  2009
Hardback: 304 pp., illus. $24.95, C$30.95. ISBN 9781607144601.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Global Perspectives on Science and Spirituality
Pranab Das, Ed.
Templeton, West Conshohocken, PA,  2009
Paperback: 238 pp., $29.95. ISBN 9781599473390.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Great Caliphs
The Golden Age of the 'Abbasid Empire
Amira K. Bennison
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 254 pp., illus. $30. ISBN 9780300152272.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Great Experiment in Conservation
Voices from the Adirondack Park
William F. Porter, Jon D. Erickson, and Ross S. Whaley, Eds.
Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY,  2009
Hardback: 640 pp. $45. ISBN 9780815632313.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Health and Medicine on Display
International Expositions in the United States, 1876-1904
Julie K. Brown
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 340 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9780262026574.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Heart of the Great Alone
Scott, Shackleton, and Antarctic Photography
David Hempleman-Adams, Emma Stuart, and Sophie Gordon
Bloomsbury, New York,  2009
Hardback: 240 pp., illus. $47.50. ISBN 9781608190072.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Here Be Dragons
How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth
Dennis McCarthy
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 238 pp., illus. £16.99. ISBN 9780199542468.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

A Hole in the Head
More Tales in the History of Neuroscience
Charles G. Gross
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 366 pp., illus. $35, £25.95. ISBN 9780262013383.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Hybrid
The History and Science of Plant Breeding
Noel Kingsbury
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 507 pp. $35, £24. ISBN 9780226437040.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Hysteria
The Biography
Andrew Scull
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 231 pp., illus. $24.95, £12.99. ISBN 9780199560967.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Biographies of Disease.

Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy
The Case of Nanette Leroux
Jan Goldstein
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 258 pp., illus. $29.95, £20.95. ISBN 9780691011868.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Icons of Life
A Cultural History of Human Embryos
Lynn M. Morgan
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 328 pp., illus. $55, £37.95. ISBN 9780520260436.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Imagining Science
Art, Science, and Social Change
Sean Caulfield and Timothy Caulfield, Eds.
University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Canada,  2009
Paperback: 121 pp., illus. $34.95, C$34.95, £19.95. ISBN 9780888645081.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Imperfect Oracle
The Epistemic and Moral Authority of Science
Theodore L. Brown
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park,  2009
Hardback: 347 pp. $75. ISBN 9780271035352.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Introducing Ethics
A Graphic Guide
Dave Robinson and Chris Garratt
Icon, Cambridge,  2009
Paperback: 176 pp., illus. $9.95, £6.99, C$10.99. ISBN 9781848310087.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Copublished by Totem, New York.

The Island at the Center of the World
The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America
Russell Shorto
Vintage (Random House), New York,  2009
Paperback: 400 pp., illus. $14.95, C$19.95. ISBN 9781400078677.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2005 ed.

Jacques Cousteau
The Sea King
Brad Matsen
Pantheon, New York,  2009
Hardback: 317 pp., illus. $27.95, C$34. ISBN 9780375424137.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Justice
What's the Right Thing to Do?
Michael J. Sandel
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York,  2009
Hardback: 318 pp. $25. ISBN 9780374180652.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Laboratory Disease
Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology
Christoph Gradmann
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 328 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780801893131.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Translated from the German edition (Göttingen, 2005) by Elborg Forster.

Laws and Lawmakers
Science, Metaphysics, and the Laws of Nature
Marc Lange
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 275 pp., illus. $24.95. ISBN 9780195328141.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Logicomix
An Epic Search for Truth
Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papdimitriou
Bloomsbury, New York,  2009
Paperback: 347 pp., illus. $22.95. ISBN 9781596914520.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Making Catfish Bait Out of Government Boys
The Fight Against Cattle Ticks and the Transformation of the Yeoman South
Claire Strom
University of Georgia Press, Athens,  2009
Hardback: 319 pp., illus. $44.95. ISBN 9780820327495.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy
Bodies, Books, Fortune, Fame
Ruth Richardson
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Paperback: 337 pp., illus. £9.99. ISBN 9780199570287.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

Mapping the World
Stories of Geography
Caroline Laffon and Martine Laffon
Firefly, Buffalo,  2009
Hardback: 190 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9781554075256.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Meeting the Demands of Reason
The Life and Thought of Andrei Sakharov
Jay Bergman
Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY,  2009
Hardback: 472 pp., illus. $39.95, £26.95. ISBN 9780801447310.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Mentoring and Diversity
Tips for Students and Professionals for Developing and Maintaining a Diverse Scientific Community
Thomas Landefeld
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands,  2009
Paperback: 115 pp. $32.95. ISBN 9781441907776.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Mentoring in Academia and Industry, vol. 4.

The Metamorphosis of Plants
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Introduction and photography by Gordon L. Miller
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 154 pp., illus. $21.95. ISBN 9780262013093.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Monkey and the Inkpot
Natural History and Its Transformations in Early Modern China
Carla Nappi
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 252 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9780674035294.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose
Natural History in Early America
Lee Alan Dugatkin
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 178 pp., illus. $26, £18. ISBN 9780226169149.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

A Mysterious Masterpiece
The World of the Linder Gallery
Michael John Gorman
Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence,  2009
Paperback: 135 pp., illus. €12. ISBN 9788896532027.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The New Atheism
Taking a Stand for Science and Reason
Victor J. Stenger
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Paperback: 282 pp. $19. ISBN 9781591027515.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Oliver Wendell Holmes
Physician and Man of Letters
Scott H. Podolsky and Charles S. Bryan, Eds.
Science History Publications/USA (Watson), Sagamore Beach, MA,  2009
Hardback: 288 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780881353792.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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The Paradox of Scientific Authority
The Role of Scientific Advice in Democracies
Wiebe E. Bijker, Roland Bal, and Ruud Hendriks
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 235 pp. $32, £23.95. ISBN 9780262026581.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Inside Technology.

Paradoxical Life
Meaning, Matter, and the Power of Human Choice
Andreas Wagner
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 269 pp. $28. ISBN 9780300149234.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Passage to Cosmos
Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
Laura Dassow Walls
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 420 pp., illus. $35, £24. ISBN 9780226871820.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

A Passion for Nature
Thomas Jefferson and Natural History
Keith Thomson
Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Charlottesville, VA,  2009
Paperback: 148 pp., illus. $14.95. ISBN 9781882886265.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Monticello Monograph.

Perfect Rigor
A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century
Masha Gessen
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston,  2009
Hardback: 254 pp. $26. ISBN 9780151014064.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Performance-Enhancing Technologies in Sports
Ethical, Conceptual, and Scientific Issues
Thomas H. Murray, Karen J. Maschke, and Angela A. Wasunna, Eds.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 300 pp., illus. $50. ISBN 9780801893612.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Philosophy After Darwin
Classic and Contemporary Readings
Michael Ruse, Ed.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 592 pp. $80, £55. ISBN 9780691135533.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Picturing Plants
An Analytical History of Botanical Illustration. 2nd ed.
Gill Saunders
KWS, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 153 pp., illus. $50, £34.50. ISBN 9780981773643.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Preserving Nature in the National Parks
A History
Richard West Sellars
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Paperback: 422 pp., illus. $27.50. ISBN 9780300154146.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 1997 ed.

The Radiance of France
Nuclear Power and National Identity After World War II
Gabrielle Hecht
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 495 pp., illus. $25, £18.95. ISBN 9780262582810.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Inside Technology. Reprint, 1998 ed.

A Rare Botanical Legacy
The Contributions of Ruby and Arthur Van Deventer
Rick Bennett and Susan Calla, Eds.
Heyday, Berkeley, CA,  2009
Hardback: 160 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9781597141161.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

ReAction!
Chemistry in the Movies
Mark Griep and Marjorie Mikasen
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 350 pp., illus. $49.95. ISBN 9780195326925.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Richard Owen
Biology Without Darwin. 2nd ed.
Nicolaas A. Rupke
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Paperback: 368 pp., illus. $29, £20. ISBN 9780226731773.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Routes of Learning
Highways, Pathways, and Byways in the History of Mathematics
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 386 pp., illus. $75. ISBN 9780801892479.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 386 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780801892486.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Science as a Contact Sport
Inside the Battle to Save Earth's Climate
Stephen H. Schneider
National Geographic Books, Washington, DC,  2009
Hardback: 303 pp. $28, C$35. ISBN 9781426205408.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Science for All
The Popularization of Science in Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Peter J. Bowler
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 351 pp. $45, £31. ISBN 9780226068633.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Science in Democracy
Expertise, Institutions, and Representations
Mark B. Brown
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 370 pp. $56, £41.95. ISBN 9780262013246.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 370 pp. $28, £20.95. ISBN 9780262513043.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Science on the Home Front
American Women Scientists in World War II
Jordynn Jack
University of Illinois Press, Urbana,  2009
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Scientific Models in Philosophy of Science
Daniela M. Bailer-Jones
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh,  2009
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Scientific Understanding
Philosophical Perspectives
Henk E. de Regt, Sabina Leonelli, and Kai Eigner
University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh,  2009
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Secrets of the Universe
How We Discovered the Cosmos
Paul Murdin
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
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Seeking Nature's Logic
Natural Philosophy in the Scottish Enlightenment
David B. Wilson
Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park,  2009
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The Signature of All Things
On Method
Giorgio Agamben
Zone, New York,  2009
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Translated from the Italian edition (2008) by Luca Di Santo, with Kevin Attell.

Socrates in the Boardroom
Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars
Amanda H. Goodall
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Song of Two Worlds
Alan Lightman
Peters, Natick, MA,  2009
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Species
A History of the Idea
John S. Wilkins
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
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Splendidly Unreasonable Inventors
The Lives, Loves and Deaths of 30 Pioneers Who Changed the World
Jeremy Coller, with Christine Chamberlain
Overlook (Peter Mayer), New York,  2009
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Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron
Biology, Physics, and Change in Science
Park Doing
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Vesuvius
A Biography
Alwyn Scarth
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Viruses, Plagues, and History
Past, Present, and Future. 2nd ed.
Michael B. A. Oldstone
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Walking with the Great Apes
Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas
Sy Montgomery
Chelsea Green, White River Junction, VT,  2009
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Reprint, 1991 ed.

The Year of the Flood
A Novel
Margaret Atwood
Doubleday, New York,  2009
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You Don't Have to be Buddhist to Know Nothing
An Illustrious Collection of Thoughts on Naught
Joan Konner, Ed.
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
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After Adam Smith
A Century of Transformation in Politics and Political Economy
Murray Milgate and Shannon C. Stimson
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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After Ike
Aerial Views from the No-Fly Zone
Bryan Carlile. Essay by Andrew Sansom
Texas A&M University Press, College Station,  2009
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The Age of Empathy
Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
Frans de Waal
Harmony (Crown), New York,  2009
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Aging and Work
Issues and Implications in a Changing Landscape
Sara J. Czaja and Joseph Sharit, Eds.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
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American Melancholy
Constructions of Depression in the Twentieth Century
Laura D. Hirschbein
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ,  2009
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The Ancient Indus
Urbanism, Economy, and Society
Rita P. Wright
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Case Studies in Early Societies.

The Anger Solution
The Proven Method for Achieving Calm and Developing Healthy, Long-Lasting Relationships
John Lee
Da Capo Lifelong (Perseus Books Group), Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Atlas of the World
15th ed.
Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Atomic
The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb, 1939-1949
Jim Baggott
Icon, Cambridge,  2009
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Atomic Obsession
Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda
John Mueller
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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The Behavioral Neuroscience of Adolescence
Linda Patia Spear
Norton, New York,  2009
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The Big Questions
Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics
Steven Landsburg
Free Press (Simon and Schuster), New York,  2009
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Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax
Derek Bickerton and Eörs Szathmáry, Eds.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Strüngmann Forum Reports.

A Body Worth Defending
Immunity, Biopolitics, and the Apotheosis of the Modern Body
Ed Cohen
Duke University Press, Durham, NC,  2009
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The Book
The Life Story of a Technology
Nicole Howard
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
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The Book of Codes
Understanding the World of Hidden Messages
Paul Lunde, Ed.
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
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The Book of Michael of Rhodes
A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript. Vol. 2: Transcription and Translation
Alan M. Stahl, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Transcription by Franco Rossi. Translation by Alan M. Stahl.

The Book of Michael of Rhodes
A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript. Vol. I: Facsimile
David McGee, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 533 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 9780262135030.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Book of Michael of Rhodes
A Fifteenth-Century Maritime Manuscript. Vol. 3, Studies
Pamela O. Long, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Born to Be Good
The Science of a Meaningful Life
Dacher Keltner
Norton, New York,  2009
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Brain Sense
The Science of the Senses and How We Process the World Around Us
Faith Hickman Brynie
AMACOM, New York,  2009
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Breeding Bio Insecurity
How U.S. Biodefense Is Exporting Fear, Globalizing Risk, and Making Us All Less Secure
Lynn C. Klotz and Edward J. Sylvester
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 268 pp., illus. $27.50, £19. ISBN 9780226444055.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Catastrophe in the Making
The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow
William R. Freudenburg et al.
Shearwater (Island), Washington, DC,  2009
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Chaos and Organization in Health Care
Thomas H. Lee and James J. Mongan
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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The Child
An Encyclopedic Companion
Richard A. Shweder, Ed.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 1143 pp., illus. $75, £51.50. ISBN 9780226475394.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Coethnicity
Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action
James Habyarimana et al.
Russell Sage Foundation, New York,  2009
Hardback: 251 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780871544209.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Russell Sage Foundation Series on Trust.

Cognition and Perception
How Do Psychology and Neural Science Inform Philosophy?
Athanassios Raftopoulos
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 445 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9780262013215.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Cognitive Challenge of War
Prussia 1806
Peter Paaret
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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The Cognitive Neurosciences
4th ed.
Michael S. Gazzaniga, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 1312 pp., illus. $175. ISBN 9780262013413.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Communities of Play
Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds
Celia Pearce and Artemesia
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 341 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780262162579.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Complete Ice Age
How Climate Change Shaped the World
Brian Fagan, Ed.
Thames and Hudson, New York,  2009
Hardback: 240 pp., illus. $40, C$50. ISBN 9780500051610.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Cotton and Race in the Making of America
The Human Costs of Economic Power
Gene Dattel
Dee, Chicago,  2009
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Crossing the Finish Line
Completing College at America's Public Universities
William G. Bowen, Matthew Chingos and Michael S. McPherson
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 413 pp., illus. $27.95. ISBN 9780691137483.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Delete
The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 251 pp. $24.95, £16.95. ISBN 9780691138619.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Demystifying Psychiatry
A Resource for Patients and Families
Charles F. Zorumski and Eugene H. Rubin
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Denialism
How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
Michael Specter
Penguin, New York,  2009
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Depression Is Contagious
How the Most Common Mood Disorder Is Spreading Around the World and How to Stop It
Michael D. Yapko
Free Press (Simon and Schuster), New York,  2009
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Destiny Calling
How the People Elected Barack Obama
Charles M. Madigan
Dee, Chicago,  2009
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Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes
Life and Language in the Amazonian Jungle
Daniel L. Everett
Vintage Departures (Random House), New York,  2009
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Reprint, 2008 ed. Reviewed by Andreea S. Calude, Science 323, 1721 (23 January 2009).

A Dream of Undying Fame
How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis
Louis Breger
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,  2009
Hardback: 155 pp. $22.95, C$29. ISBN 9780465017355.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Duplicity Theory of Vision
From Newton to the Present
Bjorn Stabell and Ulf Stabell, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 237 pp., illus. $115. ISBN 9780521111171.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Eating History
30 Turning Points in the Making of American Cuisine
Andrew F. Smith
Columbia University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 390 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780231140928.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Arts and Traditions of the Table.

Elephants on the Edge
What Animals Teach Us About Humanity
G. A. Bradshaw
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 338 pp., illus. $28. ISBN 9780300127317.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Faith Instinct
How Religion Evolved and Why It Endures
Nicholas Wade
Penguin, New York,  2009
Hardback: 318 pp. $25.95, C$32.50. ISBN 9781594202285.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Finding Beauty in a Broken World
Terry Tempest Williams
Vintage (Random House), New York,  2009
Paperback: 430 pp. $16. ISBN 9780375725197.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Free for All
Fixing School Food in America
Janet Poppendieck
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 368 pp. $27.50, £19.95. ISBN 9780520243705.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
California Studies in Food and Culture, 28.

From Boys to Men of Heart
Hunting as Rite of Passage
Randall L. Eaton
OWLink Media, Shelton, WA,  2009
Paperback: 336 pp. $24.95. ISBN 9781579940263.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

From Rage to Courage
Answers to Readers' Letters
Alice Miller
Norton, New York,  2009
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From the Ground Up
Translating Geography into Community Through Neighbor Networks
Rick Grannis
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 262 pp., illus. $35, £24.95. ISBN 9780691140254.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Gems and Gemstones
Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World
Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 383 pp., illus. $45, £31. ISBN 9780226305110.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Getting What We Deserve
Health and Medical Care in America
Alfred Sommer
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 149 pp., illus. $21.95. ISBN 9780801893872.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Gifts from the Ancestors
Ancient Ivories of Bering Strait
William W. Fitzhugh, Julie Hollowell, and Aron L. Crowell, Eds.
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 328 pp., illus. $55. ISBN 9780300122060.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Grass
In Search of Human Habitat
Joe C. Truett
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 235 pp., illus. $34.95, £24.95. ISBN 9780520258396.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Organisms and Environments, 11.

Handbook of Cultural Developmental Science
Marc H. Bornstein, Ed.
Psychology Press (Taylor and Francis), New York,  2009
Hardback: 624 pp., illus. $85. ISBN 9780805863307.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Handbook of Reward and Decision Making
Jean-Claude Dreher and Léon Tremblay, Eds.
Academic (Elsevier), Burlington, MA,  2009
Hardback: 504 pp., illus. $160, £115. ISBN 9780123746207.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Healing the Broken Mind
Transforming America's Failed Mental Health System
Timothy A. Kelly
New York University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 205 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780814748121.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Heroes
Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece
Sabine Albersmeier, Ed.
Walters Art Museum, Baltimore,  2009
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High-Tech Terror
Recognition, Management, and Prevention of Biological, Chemical, and Nuclear Injuries Secondary to Acts of Terrorism
Robert Samuel Cromartie III and Richard Joseph Duma
Thomas, Springfield, IL,  2009
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Hope in the Age of Anxiety
Anthony Scioli and Henry B. Biller
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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How Fantasy Becomes Reality
Seeing Through Media Influence
Karen E. Dill
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Hysteria
The Biography
Andrew Scull
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
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Biographies of Disease.

Hysteria Complicated by Ecstasy
The Case of Nanette Leroux
Jan Goldstein
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 258 pp., illus. $29.95, £20.95. ISBN 9780691011868.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Impulsivity
The Behavioral and Neurological Science of Discounting
Gregory J. Madden and Warren K. Bickel, Eds.
American Psychological Association, Washington, DC,  2009
Hardback: 469 pp., illus. $79.95. ISBN 9781433804779.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Insecure American
How We Got Here and What We Should Do About It
Hugh Gusterson and Catherine Besteman, Eds.
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 385 pp. $65, £44.95. ISBN 9780520259690.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Interest Rates and Coupon Bonds in Quantum Finance
Belal E. Baaquie
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 508 pp., illus. $90. ISBN 9780521889285.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

An Introduction to the Academic Politics in Agricultural Research
Richard L. Cooper
Dorrance, Pittsburgh,  2009
Hardback: 36 pp. $15. ISBN 9781434902412.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Inventing Equal Opportunity
Frank Dobbin
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 320 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780691137438.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Justice
What's the Right Thing to Do?
Michael J. Sandel
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York,  2009
Hardback: 318 pp. $25. ISBN 9780374180652.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Making Catfish Bait Out of Government Boys
The Fight Against Cattle Ticks and the Transformation of the Yeoman South
Claire Strom
University of Georgia Press, Athens,  2009
Hardback: 319 pp., illus. $44.95. ISBN 9780820327495.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Making of Americans
Democracy and Our Schools
E. D. Hirsch Jr.
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 273 pp. $25. ISBN 9780300152814.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Managers of Global Change
The Influence of International Environmental Bureaucracies
Frank Biermann and Bernd Siebenhüner, Eds.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009

Mentoring and Diversity
Tips for Students and Professionals for Developing and Maintaining a Diverse Scientific Community
Thomas Landefeld
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands,  2009
Paperback: 115 pp. $32.95. ISBN 9781441907776.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Mentoring in Academia and Industry, vol. 4.

Models of Conflict and Cooperation
Rick Gillman and David Housman
American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI,  2009
Hardback: 429 pp., illus. $69; to AMS, $55. ISBN 9780821848722.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Mostly Harmless Econometrics
An Empiricist's Companion
Joshua D. Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 391 pp., illus. $75. ISBN 9780691120348.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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The New Economics
A Bigger Picture
David Boyle and Andrew Simms
Earthscan, London,  2009
Hardback: 204 pp. $24.95. ISBN 9781844076758.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The New Oxford Book of Food Plants
2nd ed.
John Vaughan and Catherine Geissler
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 283 pp., illus. $39.95, £40. ISBN 9780199549467.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Now or Never
Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future
Tim Flannery
Atlantic (Grove Atlantic), London,  2009
Hardback: 183 pp. $18. ISBN 9780802118981.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

On Monsters
An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
Stephen T. Asma
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 367 pp., illus. $27.95. ISBN 9780195336160.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

On Rumors
How Falsehoods Spread, Why We Believe Them, What Can Be Done
Cass R. Sunstein
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York,  2009
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On the Death and Life of Languages
Claude Hagège
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
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Copublished with Éditions Odile Jacob, Paris. Translated from the French edition (Paris, 2000) by Jody Gladding.

One Nation Under Contract
The Outsourcing of American Power and the Future of Foreign Policy
Allison Stanger
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 256 pp. $26. ISBN 9780300152654.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Ordinary Genomes
Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities
Karen-Sue Taussig
Duke University Press, Durham, NC,  2009
Hardback: 260 pp., illus. $79.95. ISBN 9780822345169.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Experimental Futures.

The Other Side of Sadness
What the New Science of Bereavement Tells Us About Life After Loss
George A. Bonanno
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,  2009
Hardback: 239 pp. $25.95, C$32.95. ISBN 9780465013609.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Oyster Question
Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880
Christine Keiner
University of Georgia Press, Athens,  2009
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The Paradox of Scientific Authority
The Role of Scientific Advice in Democracies
Wiebe E. Bijker, Roland Bal, and Ruud Hendriks
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Inside Technology.

Personality Disorders
A Practical Guide
Carol W. Berman
Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore,  2009
Paperback: 203 pp. $39.95. ISBN 9780781794015.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Practical Guides in Psychiatry.

The Physician's Guide to Investing
A Practical Approach to Building Wealth. 2nd ed.
Robert M. Doroghazi
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Pink Brain, Blue Brain
How Small Differences Grow into Troublesome Gaps and What We Can Do About It
Lise Eliot
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston,  2009
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Pleasures of the Brain
Morten L. Kringelbach and Kent C. Berridge, Eds.
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Series in Affective Science.

The Poison King
The Life and Legend of Mithradates, Rome's Deadliest Enemy
Adrienne Mayor
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Political Affect
Connecting the Social and the Somatic
John Protevi
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis,  2009
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The Prism of Grammar
How Child Language Illuminates Humanism
Tom Roeper
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Reprint, 2007 ed.

Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association
6th ed.
American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association, Washington, DC,  2009
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The Real World of a Forensic Scientist
Renowned Experts Reveal What It Takes to Solve Crimes
Henry C. Lee, Elaine M. Pagliaro, and Katherine Ramsland
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Hardback: 349 pp., illus. $25.98. ISBN 9781591027294.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Risk and Reward
The Science of Casino Blackjack
N. Richard Werthamer
Springer, New York,  2009
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The Road to Yucca Mountain
The Development of Radioactive Waste Policy in the United States
J. Samuel Walker
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
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The Robust Federation
Principles of Design
Jenna Bednar
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Saving Kyoto
An Insider's Guide to How It Works, Why It Matters and What It Means for the Future
Graciela Chichilnisky and Kristen A. Sheeran
New Holland, London,  2009
Paperback: 209 pp., illus. £8.99. ISBN 9781847734310.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Science in Democracy
Expertise, Institutions, and Representations
Mark B. Brown
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Science in Environmental Policy
The Politics of Objective Advice
Ann Campbell Keller
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Politics, Science, and the Environment.

Scroogenomics
Why You Shouldn't Buy Presents for the Holidays
Joel Waldfogel
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Snail
Peter Williams
Reaktion, London,  2009
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Animal.

Socrates in the Boardroom
Why Research Universities Should Be Led by Top Scholars
Amanda H. Goodall
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Sushi
Food for the Eye, the Body and the Soul
Ole G. Mouritsen
Springer, New York,  2009
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Translated from the Danish edition (2006) by Mariela Johansen.

Think Confident, Be Confident
A Four-Step Program to Eliminate Doubt and Achieve Lifelong Self-Esteem
Leslie Sokol and Marci G. Fox
Perigee (Berkley Publishing Group), New York,  2009
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This Time Is Different
Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Toward the Healthy City
People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning
Jason Corburn
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Urban and Industrial Environments.

Treasures of the Earth
Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Futue
Saleem H. Ali
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 303 pp., illus. $30. ISBN 9780300141610.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Trust
Self-Interest and the Common Good
Marek Kohn
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 160 pp. $13.95. ISBN 9780199217922.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Uncorking the Past
The Quest for Wine, Beer, and Other Alcoholic Beverages
Patrick E. McGovern
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 346 pp., illus. $29.95, £20.95. ISBN 9780520253797.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Unfinished Revolution
How a New Generation is Reshaping Family, Work, and Gender in America
Kathleen Gerson
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Walking with the Great Apes
Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas
Sy Montgomery
Chelsea Green, White River Junction, VT,  2009
Paperback: 272 pp., illus. $17.95. ISBN 9781603580625.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Wannabe U
Inside the Corporate University
Gaye Tuchman
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 264 pp. $25, £17.50. ISBN 9780226815299.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

When Brute Force Fails
How to Have Less Crime and Less Punishment
Mark A. R. Kleiman
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Who Turned Out the Lights?
Your Guided Tour to the Energy Crisis
Scott Bittle and Jean Johnson
Harper (HarperCollins), New York,  2009
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Whole Earth Discipline
An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Stewart Brand
Viking (Penguin), New York,  2009
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Who's In Charge?
Leadership During Epidemics, Bioterror Attacks, and Other Public Health Crises
Laura H. Kahn
Praeger Security International (Greenwood), Westport, CT,  2009
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Why We Cooperate
Michael Tomasello
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Why Women Have Sex
Understanding Sexual Motivations from Adventure to Revenge (and Everything in Between)
Cindy M. Meston and David M. Buss
Times (Henry Holt), New York,  2009
Hardback: 331 pp. $25, C$32. ISBN 9780805088342.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

WMD Terrorism
Science and Policy Choices
Stephen M. Maurer, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Mathematics and Computers

Aggregation Functions
Michel Grabisch et al.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 478 pp., illus. $120. ISBN 9780521519267.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Encyclopedia of Mathematics and Its Applications, 127.

A Better Pencil
Readers, Writers, and the Digital Revolution
Dennis Baron
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 277 pp., illus. $24.95. ISBN 9780195388442.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Book of Codes
Understanding the World of Hidden Messages
Paul Lunde, Ed.
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 288 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780520260139.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Communities of Play
Emergent Cultures in Multiplayer Games and Virtual Worlds
Celia Pearce and Artemesia
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 341 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780262162579.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Computational Modeling Methods for Neuroscientists
Erik De Schutter, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Computational Neuroscience.

Delete
The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 251 pp. $24.95, £16.95. ISBN 9780691138619.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Essential Mathcad for Engineering, Science, and Math ISE
2nd ed. International version
Brent Maxfield
Academic (Elsevier), London,  2009
Paperback: 525 pp., illus. £24.99. ISBN 9780123748461.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Expressive Processing
Digital Fictions, Computer Games, and Software Studies
Noah Wardrip-Fruin
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 497 pp., illus. $34.95. ISBN 9780262013437.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Software Studies.

Famous Puzzles of Great Mathematicians
Miodrag S. Petkovic
American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI,  2009
Paperback: 343 pp., illus. $36; to AMS members, $29. ISBN 9780821848142.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Fast Multipole Boundary Element Method
Theory and Applications in Engineering
Yijun Liu
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 253 pp., illus. $85. ISBN 9780521116596.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Fundamentals of Modern VLSI Devices
2nd ed.
Yuan Taur and Tak H. Ning
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 670 pp., illus. $90. ISBN 9780521832946.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

A Guide to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics
3rd ed.
David P. Landau and Kurt Binder
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 487 pp., illus. $75. ISBN 9780521768481.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

How Many Licks?
Or, How to Estimate Damn Near Anything
Aaron Santos
Running, Philadelphia,  2009
Paperback: 176 pp., illus. $14.95, C$18.95, £8.99. ISBN 9780762435609.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Interest Rates and Coupon Bonds in Quantum Finance
Belal E. Baaquie
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 508 pp., illus. $90. ISBN 9780521889285.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Machine Learning Methods in the Environmental Sciences
Neural Networks and Kernels
William W. Hsieh
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 363 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 9780521791922.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Mathematics for Physics
A Guided Tour for Graduate Students
Michael Stone and Paul Goldbart
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 820 pp., illus. $90. ISBN 9780521854030.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

MATLAB for Neuroscientists
An Introduction to Scientific Computing in MATLAB
Pascal Wallisch et al.
Academic (Elsevier), Burlington, MA,  2009
Hardback: 398 pp., illus. $79.95. ISBN 9780123745514.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Models of Conflict and Cooperation
Rick Gillman and David Housman
American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI,  2009
Hardback: 429 pp., illus. $69; to AMS, $55. ISBN 9780821848722.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Mythematics
Solving the Twelve Labors of Hercules
Michael Huber
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Non-Linear Modeling and Analysis of Solids and Structures
Steen Krenk
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 359 pp., illus. $80. ISBN 9780521830546.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Not Always Buried Deep
A Second Course in Elementary Number Theory
Paul Pollack
American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI,  2009
Hardback: 319 pp., illus. $62; to AMS memers, $50. ISBN 9780821848807.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Numerical Methods in Engineering with MATLAB
2nd ed.
Jaan Kiusalaas
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 433 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9780521191333.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

One to Nine
The Inner Life of Numbers
Andres Hodges
Norton, New York,  2009
Paperback: 336 pp., illus. $16.95. ISBN 9780385665773.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

Parallel Coordinates
Visual Multidimensional Geometry and Its Applications
Alfred Inselberg
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands,  2009
Hardback: 578 pp., illus. + CD-ROM. $79.95. ISBN 9780387215075.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Partial Differential Equations and Fluid Mechanics
James C. Robinson and José L. Rodrigo, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 269 pp. $60. ISBN 9780521125123.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
London Mathematical Society Lecture Note, 364.

Pattern Formation and Dynamics in Nonequilibrium Systems
Michael Cross and Henry Greenside
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 551 pp., illus. $90. ISBN 9780521770507.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Perfect Rigor
A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century
Masha Gessen
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston,  2009
Hardback: 254 pp. $26. ISBN 9780151014064.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Poincaré's Legacies, Part II
Pages from Year Two of a Mathematical Blog
Terence Tao
American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI,  2009
Paperback: 302 pp., illus. $39; to AMS members, $31. ISBN 9780821848852.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Probabilistic Methods for Bioinformatics
With an Introduction to Bayesian Networks
Richard E. Neapolitan
Morgan Kaufmann (Elsevier), Burlington, MA,  2009
Hardback: 420 pp., illus. $69.95. ISBN 9780123704764.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Risk and Reward
The Science of Casino Blackjack
N. Richard Werthamer
Springer, New York,  2009
Hardback: 149 pp., illus. $49.95. ISBN 9781441902528.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Routes of Learning
Highways, Pathways, and Byways in the History of Mathematics
Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
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Topology for Computing
Afra J. Zomorodian
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Cambridge Monographs on Applied and Computational Mathematics.


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Bioluminescence
Methods and Protocols. 2nd ed.
Preston B. Rich and Christelle Douillet, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 574.

Biomembrane Frontiers
Nanostructures, Models, and the Design of Life. Vol. 2
Roland Faller et al., Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Handbook of Modern Biophysics.

Chemokine Receptors in Cancer
Amy M. Fulton, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Cancer Drug Discovery and Development.

Chimeras, Hybrids, and Interspecies Research
Politics and Policymaking
Andrea L. Bonnicksen
Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC,  2009
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CNS Cancer
Models, Markers, Prognostic Factors, Targets, and Therapeutic Approaches
Erwin G. Van Meir, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Cancer Drug Discovery and Development.

Cognition and Perception
How Do Psychology and Neural Science Inform Philosophy?
Athanassios Raftopoulos
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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The Cognitive Neurosciences
4th ed.
Michael S. Gazzaniga, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Computational Modeling Methods for Neuroscientists
Erik De Schutter, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Computational Neuroscience.

Conservation Genetics in the Age of Genomics
George Amato et al., Eds.
Columbia University Press, New York,  2009
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American Museum of Natural History, Center for Biodiversity Conservation, Series on Biodiversity.

Cortical Mechanisms of Vision
Michael R. M. Jenkin and Laurence R. Harris, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 458 pp., illus. + CD-ROM. $120. ISBN 9780521889612.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Creating Modern Neuroscience
The Revolutionary 1950s
Gordon M. Sheperd
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Disorders of Volition
Natalie Sebanz and Wolfgang Prinz, Eds.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Reprint, 2006 ed.

The Evolution and Emergence of RNA Viruses
Edward C. Holmes
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 266 pp., illus. $60. ISBN 9780199211135.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution.

Fat Detection
Taste, Texture, and Post Ingestive Effects
Jean-Pierre Montmayeur and Johannes le Coutre, Eds.
CRC Press (Taylor and Francis Group), Boca Raton, FL,  2009
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Frontiers in Neuroscience.

fMRI Techniques and Protocols
Massimo Filippi, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Neuromethods, vol. 41.

Francis Crick
Hunter of Life's Secrets
Robert Olby
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY,  2009
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G Protein-Coupled Receptors in Drug Discovery
Wayne R. Leifert, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 552.

Generosity
An Enhancement
Richard Powers
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, New York,  2009
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A novel.

Genetic Rounds
A Doctor's Encounters in the Field That Revolutionized Medicine
Robert Marion
Kaplan, New York,  2009
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The Genetics of Cognitive Neuroscience
Terry E. Goldberg and Daniel R. Weinberger, Eds.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Issues in Clinical and Cognitive Neuropsychology.

Genetics of Complex Human Diseases
A Laboratory Manual
Ammar Al-Chalabi and Laura Almasy, Eds.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY,  2009
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Guide to Signal Pathways in Immune Cells
E. Nigel Wardle
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 437 pp., illus. $149. ISBN 9781603275378.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

A Hole in the Head
More Tales in the History of Neuroscience
Charles G. Gross
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 366 pp., illus. $35, £25.95. ISBN 9780262013383.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

How We Live and Why We Die
The Secret Lives of Cells
Lewis Wolpert
Norton, New York,  2009
Hardback: 252 pp. $24.95. ISBN 9780393072211.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Human Embryogenesis
Methods and Protocols
Julie Lafond and Cathy Vaillancourt, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 322 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781603270083.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 550.

Intellectual Property Rights and the Life Science Industries
Past, Present and Future. 2nd ed.
Graham Dutfield
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 424 pp., illus. $64. ISBN 9789812832276.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Intersubjective Mirror in Infant Learning and Evolution of Speech
Stein Bråten
John Benjamins, Philadelphia,  2009
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Advances in Consciousness Research, 76.

Laboratory Disease
Robert Koch's Medical Bacteriology
Christoph Gradmann
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 328 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780801893131.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Translated from the German edition (Göttingen, 2005) by Elborg Forster.

The Lives of the Brain
Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind
John S. Allen
Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 350 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9780674035348.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Looking and Acting
Vision and Eye Movements in Natural Behaviour
Michael F. Land and Benjamin W. Tatler
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 281 pp., illus. £29.95. ISBN 9780198570943.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Lung Mechanics
An Inverse Modeling Approach
Jason H. T. Bates
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 236 pp., illus. $70. ISBN 9780521509602.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Meiosis
Vol. 1, Molecular and Genetic Methods
Scott Keeney, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 377 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781934115664.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 557.

Meiosis
Vol. 2, Cytological Methods
Scott Keeney, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 468 pp., illus. + CD-ROM. $110. ISBN 9781607611028.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 558.

The Metamorphosis of Plants
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Introduction and photography by Gordon L. Miller
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 154 pp., illus. $21.95. ISBN 9780262013093.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Micro and Nano Technologies in Bioanalysis
Methods and Protocols
James Weifu Lee and Robert S. Foote, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 688 pp., illus. $129. ISBN 9781934115404.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 544.

Microarray Analysis of the Physical Genome
Methods and Protocols
Jonathan R. Pollack, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 233 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9781603271912.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 556.

Mitochondrial DNA
Methods and Protocols. 2nd ed.
Jeffrey A. Stuart, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 415 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781934115602.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 554.

Mitosis
Methods and Protocols
Andrew D. McAinsh
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 357 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781603279925.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 545.

Ordinary Genomes
Science, Citizenship, and Genetic Identities
Karen-Sue Taussig
Duke University Press, Durham, NC,  2009
Hardback: 260 pp., illus. $79.95. ISBN 9780822345169.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 260 pp., illus. $22.95. ISBN 9780822345343.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Experimental Futures.

Pancreatic Stem Cells
Juan Domínguez-Bendala
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 164 pp., illus. $159. ISBN 9781607611318.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.

Pleasures of the Brain
Morten L. Kringelbach and Kent C. Berridge, Eds.
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 351 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9780195331028.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Series in Affective Science.

A Primer for the Exercise and Nutrition Sciences
Thermodynamics, Bioenergetics, Metabolism
Christopher B. Scott
Springer, New York,  2009
Hardback: 180 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9781603273824.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Probabilistic Methods for Bioinformatics
With an Introduction to Bayesian Networks
Richard E. Neapolitan
Morgan Kaufmann (Elsevier), Burlington, MA,  2009
Hardback: 420 pp., illus. $69.95. ISBN 9780123704764.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Proteomics
Methods and Protocols
Jörg Reinders and Albert Sickmann, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 453 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781607611561.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 564.

Recombinant Antibodies for Immunotherapy
Melvyn Little, Ed.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 433 pp., illus. $120. ISBN 9780521887328.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Rising Plague
The Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling Arsenal to Fight Them
Brad Spellberg
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Hardback: 264 pp., illus. $26. ISBN 9781591027508.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Sensorimotor Control of Grasping
Physiology and Pathophysiology
Dennis A. Nowak and Joachim Hermsdörfer, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 523 pp., illus. $120. ISBN 9780521881579.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Sticky Synapse
Cell Adhesion Molecules and Their Role in Synapse Formation and Maintenance
Michael Hortsch and Hisashi Umemori, Eds.
Springer, New York,  2009
Hardback: 465 pp., illus. $189. ISBN 9780387927077.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Therapeutic Applications of RNAi
Methods and Protocols
John F. Reidharr-Olson and Cristina M. Rondinone, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 158 pp., illus. $99.50. ISBN 9781603272940.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 555.

Transgenesis Techniques
Principle and Protocols. 3rd ed.
Elizabeth J. Cartwright, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 347 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781603270182.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 561.

Uncultivated Microorganisms
Slava S. Epstein, Ed.
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands,  2009
Hardback: 218 pp., illus. $179. ISBN 9783540854647.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Microbiology Monographs, vol. 10.

Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron
Biology, Physics, and Change in Science
Park Doing
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 164 pp., illus. $28, £20.95. ISBN 9780262042550.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Year of the Flood
A Novel
Margaret Atwood
Doubleday, New York,  2009
Hardback: 448 pp. $26. ISBN 9780385528771.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Yeast Functional Genomics and Proteomics
Methods and Protocols
Igor Stagljar, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 314 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9781934115718.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 548.


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The Origin Then and Now
An Interpretive Guide to the Origin of Species
David N. Reznick
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 448 pp., illus. $29.95, £20.95. ISBN 9780691129785.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

A Field Guide to the Birds of Brazil
Ber van Perlo
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Paperback: 479 pp., illus, $39.95, £22.99. ISBN 9780195301557.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Age of Empathy
Nature's Lessons for a Kinder Society
Frans de Waal
Harmony (Crown), New York,  2009
Hardback: 304 pp. $25.99. ISBN 9780307407764.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Arachnids
Jan Beccaloni
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 320 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9780520261402.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Art of Plant Evolution
W. John Kress and Shirley Sherwood
Kew Publishing, Richmond, Surrey, UK,  2009
Hardback: 320 pp., illus. £32. ISBN 9781842464212.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 320 pp., illus. £24.95. ISBN 9781842464175.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Before Disenchantment
Images of Exotic Animals and Plants in the Early Modern World
Peter Mason
Reaktion, London,  2009
Hardback: 272 pp., illus. $49. ISBN 9781861894373.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Big Burn
Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire That Saved America
Timothy Egan
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston,  2009
Hardback: 336 pp., illus. $27. ISBN 9780618968411.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Bird Conservation and Agriculture
Jeremy D. Wilson, Andrew D. Evans, and Philip V. Grice
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 404 pp., illus. $135. ISBN 9780521571814.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 404 pp., illus. $63. ISBN 9780521734721.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation.

Birds of Borneo
Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak, and Kalimantan
Susan Myers
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Paperback: 272 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780691143507.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Princeton Field Guides.

Birds of Eastern North America
A Photographic Guide
Paul Sterry and Brian E. Small
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 336 pp., illus. $45, £30.95. ISBN 9780691134253.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 336 pp., illus. $18.95, £12.95. ISBN 9780691134260.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Birds of Western North America
A Photographic Guide
Paul Sterry and Brian E. Small
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 416 pp., illus. $45, £30.95. ISBN 9780691134277.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 416 pp., illus. $18.95, £12.95. ISBN 9780691134284.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Bizarre and Incredible World of Plants
Wolfgang Stuppy, Rob Kesseler, and Madeline Harley. Alexandra Papadakis, Ed.
Firefly, Buffalo,  2009
Hardback: 144 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9781554075331.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Botanicals
Environmental Expressions in Art. The Alisa and Isaac M. Sutton Collection
James J. White and Lugene B. Bruno, with essays by Isaac M. Sutton, Susan Frei Nathan and Alice Marcus Krieg
Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Pittsburgh,  2009
Paperback: 133 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780913196830.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Co-published with the Isaac C. M. Sutton 1999 Investment Trust.

Bright Wings
An Illustrated Anthology of Poems About Birds
Billy Collins, Ed. Paintings by David Allen Sibley
Columbia University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 286 pp., illus. $22.95, £15.95. ISBN 9780231150842.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Bringing Nature Home
How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants. 2nd ed.
Douglas W. Tallamy
Timber, Portland, OR,  2009
Paperback: 360 pp., illus. $17.95. ISBN 9780881929928.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Cave Biology
Life in Darkness
Aldemaro Romero
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 305 pp., illus. $120. ISBN 9780521828468.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 305 pp., illus. $60. ISBN 9780521535533.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation.

Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species
A Graphic Adaptation
Michael Keller
Rodale, Emmaus, PA,  2009
Paperback: 192 pp., illus. $21.95. ISBN 9781605299488.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Comets and the Origin of Life
Janaki Wickramasinghe, Chandra Wickramasinghe, and William Napier
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 231 pp., illus. $55, £41. ISBN 9789812566355.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Comparative Biogeography
Discovering and Classifying Biogeographical Patterns of a Dynamic Earth
Lynne R. Parenti and Malte C. Ebach
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 309 pp., illus. $39.95, £27.95. ISBN 9780520259454.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Complete Ice Age
How Climate Change Shaped the World
Brian Fagan, Ed.
Thames and Hudson, New York,  2009
Hardback: 240 pp., illus. $40, C$50. ISBN 9780500051610.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Conservation Genetics in the Age of Genomics
George Amato et al., Eds.
Columbia University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 264 pp., illus. $65, £45. ISBN 9780231128322.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
American Museum of Natural History, Center for Biodiversity Conservation, Series on Biodiversity.

The Coral Thief
A Novel
Rebecca Stott
Spiegel and Grau (Random House), New York,  2009
Hardback: 301 pp., illus. $25. ISBN 9780385531467.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Curse of the Labrador Duck
My Obsessive Quest to the Edge of Extinction
Glen Chilton
Simon and Schuster, New York,  2009
Hardback: 317 pp. $25. ISBN 9781439102473.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Dawn of Green
Manchester, Thirlmere, and Modern Environmentalism
Harriet Ritvo
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 245 pp., illus. $26, £18. ISBN 9780226720821.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Defining Darwin
Essays on the History and Philosophy of Evolutionary Biology
Michael Ruse
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Hardback: 271 pp. $26.98. ISBN 9781591027256.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Dinosaur Odyssey
Fossil Threads in the Web of Life
Scott D. Sampson
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 352 pp., illus. $29.95, £20.95. ISBN 9780520241633.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Do Bats Drink Blood?
Fascinating Answers to Questions About Bats
Barbara A. Schmidt-French and Carol A. Butler
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ,  2009
Paperback: 171 pp., illus. $21.95. ISBN 9780813545882.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Animal Q&A.

Dreaming the Biosphere
The Theater of All Possibilities
Rebecca Reider
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque,  2009
Hardback: 326 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9780826346735.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Earwig's Tail
A Modern Bestiary of Multi-Legged Legends
May R. Berenbaum
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 208 pp., illus. $23.95. ISBN 9780674035409.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Ecology of Tropical East Asia
Richard T. Corlett
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 272 pp., illus. $135. ISBN 9780199532452.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 272 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 9780199532469.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Elephants on the Edge
What Animals Teach Us About Humanity
G. A. Bradshaw
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 338 pp., illus. $28. ISBN 9780300127317.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Eponym Dictionary of Mammals
Bo Beolens, Michael Watkins, and Michael Grayson
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 590 pp. $65. ISBN 9780801893049.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Evidence of Evolution
Photography by Susan Middleton. Text by Mary Ellen Hannibal
Abrams, New York,  2009
Hardback: 128 pp., illus. $29.95, C$38.95. ISBN 9780810949249.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Evidence of Evolution
Photographs by Susan Middleton. Text by Mary Ellen Hannibal
Abrams, New York,  2009
Hardback: 128 pp., illus. $29.95, C$38.95. ISBN 9780810949249.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Evolution
The Story of Life
Douglas Palmer. Illustrated by Peter Barrett
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 374 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9780520255111.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Evolution and Emergence of RNA Viruses
Edward C. Holmes
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 266 pp., illus. $60. ISBN 9780199211135.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Oxford Series in Ecology and Evolution.

Extraterrestrials
A Philosophical Perspective
André Kukla
Lexington (Rowman and Littlefield), Lanham, MD,  2009
Hardback: 110 pp. $60. ISBN 9780739142448.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Flora Mirabilis
How Plants Have Shaped World Knowledge, Health, Wealth, and Beauty
Catherine Herbert Howell
National Geographic Books, Washington, DC,  2009
Hardback: 256 pp., illus. $35, C$42. ISBN 9781426205095.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Galápagos
Preserving Darwin's Legacy
Tui De Roy, Ed.
Firefly, Buffalo,  2009
Hardback: 240 pp., illus. $49.95. ISBN 9781554074846.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds
Steven Vogel
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 316 pp., illus. $75, £52. ISBN 9780691138060.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 316 pp., illus. $35, £24.95. ISBN 9780691138077.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Grass
In Search of Human Habitat
Joe C. Truett
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 235 pp., illus. $34.95, £24.95. ISBN 9780520258396.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Organisms and Environments, 11.

The Great Experiment in Conservation
Voices from the Adirondack Park
William F. Porter, Jon D. Erickson, and Ross S. Whaley, Eds.
Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY,  2009
Hardback: 640 pp. $45. ISBN 9780815632313.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Greatest Show on Earth
The Evidence for Evolution
Richard Dawkins
Free Press (Simon and Schuster), New York,  2009
Hardback: 480 pp., illus. $30, C$39.99. ISBN 9781416594789.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Here Be Dragons
How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth
Dennis McCarthy
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 238 pp., illus. £16.99. ISBN 9780199542468.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Humans Who Went Extinct
Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived
Clive Finlayson
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 285 pp., illus. £16.99. ISBN 9780199239184.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Hybrid
The History and Science of Plant Breeding
Noel Kingsbury
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 507 pp. $35, £24. ISBN 9780226437040.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Inland Fishes of the Greater Southwest
Chronicle of a Vanishing Biota
W. L. Minckley and Paul C. Marsh
University of Arizona Press, Tucson,  2009
Hardback: 478 pp., illus. $75. ISBN 9780816527991.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Inside of a Dog
What Dogs See, Smell, and Know
Alexandra Horowitz
Scribner (Simon and Schuster), New York,  2009
Hardback: 367 pp., illus. $27, C$34.99. ISBN 9781416583400.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Invasive Species Management
A Handbook of Principles and Techniques
Mick N. Clout and Peter. A Williams
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 320 pp., illus. £65. ISBN 9780199216321.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Techniques in Ecology and Conservation.

Life along the Inner Coast
A Naturalist's Guide to the Sounds, Inlets, Rivers, and Intracoastal Waterway from Norfolk to Key West
Robert L. Lippson and Alice Jane Lippson
University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill,  2009
Hardback: 468 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780807833032.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Lion's Eye
Seeing in the Wild
Joanna Greenfield
Little, Brown (Hachette Book Group USA), New York,  2009
Hardback: 320 pp. $23.99, C$26.99. ISBN 9780316328487.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Lives of the Brain
Human Evolution and the Organ of Mind
John S. Allen
Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 350 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9780674035348.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Lung Mechanics
An Inverse Modeling Approach
Jason H. T. Bates
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 236 pp., illus. $70. ISBN 9780521509602.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Mammals of India
Vivek Menon
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Paperback: 201 pp., illus. $35, £24.95. ISBN 9780691140674.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Princeton Field Guides.

The Metamorphosis of Plants
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Introduction and photography by Gordon L. Miller
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 154 pp., illus. $21.95. ISBN 9780262013093.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose
Natural History in Early America
Lee Alan Dugatkin
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 178 pp., illus. $26, £18. ISBN 9780226169149.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Natural History of West Indian Reptiles and Amphibians
Robert W. Henderson and Robert Powell
University Press of Florida, Gainesville,  2009
Hardback: 520 pp., illus. $85. ISBN 9780813033945.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Nature's Ghosts
Confronting Extinction from the Age of Jefferson to the Age of Ecology
Mark V. Barrow Jr.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 509 pp., illus. $35, £24. ISBN 9780226038148.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The New Foundations of Evolution
On the Tree of Life
Jan Sapp
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 445 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9780195388497.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 445 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9780195388503.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The New Oxford Book of Food Plants
2nd ed.
John Vaughan and Catherine Geissler
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 283 pp., illus. $39.95, £40. ISBN 9780199549467.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

On Thin Ice
The Changing World of the Polar Bear
Richard Ellis
Knopf (Random House), New York,  2009
Hardback: 417 pp., illus. $28.95, C$35. ISBN 9780307270597.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Owl
Desmond Morris
Reaktion, London,  2009
Paperback: 216 pp., illus. $19.95. ISBN 9781861895257.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Animal.

The Oyster Question
Scientists, Watermen, and the Maryland Chesapeake Bay Since 1880
Christine Keiner
University of Georgia Press, Athens,  2009
Hardback: 351 pp., illus. $44.95. ISBN 9780820326986.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Passage to Cosmos
Alexander von Humboldt and the Shaping of America
Laura Dassow Walls
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 420 pp., illus. $35, £24. ISBN 9780226871820.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Pick of the Bunch
The Story of Twelve Treasured Flowers
Margaret Willes
Bodleian Library, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 168 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9781851243037.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Picturing Plants
An Analytical History of Botanical Illustration. 2nd ed.
Gill Saunders
KWS, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 153 pp., illus. $50, £34.50. ISBN 9780981773643.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Published in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Planet Ape
Desmond Morris, with Steve Parker
Firefly, Buffalo,  2009
Hardback: 288 pp., illus. $49.95. ISBN 9781554075669.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Preserving Nature in the National Parks
A History
Richard West Sellars
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Paperback: 422 pp., illus. $27.50. ISBN 9780300154146.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 1997 ed.

The Princeton Guide to Ecology
Simon Levin, Ed.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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A Rare Botanical Legacy
The Contributions of Ruby and Arthur Van Deventer
Rick Bennett and Susan Calla, Eds.
Heyday, Berkeley, CA,  2009
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The Real Chimpanzee
Sex Strategies in the Forest
Christophe Boesch
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Reproductive Skew in Vertebrates
Proximate and Ultimate Causes
Reinmar Hager and Clara B. Jones, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Richard Owen
Biology Without Darwin. 2nd ed.
Nicolaas A. Rupke
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
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Scale, Heterogeneity, and the Structure and Diversity of Ecological Communities
Mark E. Ritchie
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Monographs in Population Biology, 45.

Science in Environmental Policy
The Politics of Objective Advice
Ann Campbell Keller
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Politics, Science, and the Environment.

Search for the Golden Moon Bear
Science and Adventure in Southeast Asia
Sy Montgomery
Chelsea Green, White River Junction, VT,  2009
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Seasick
Ocean Change and the Extinction of Life on Earth
Alanna Mitchell
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
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The Secret Life of Tigers
2nd ed.
Valmik Thapar
Oxford University Press, New Delhi,  2009
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Sex Allocation
Stuart A. West
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Monographs in Population Biology, 44.

Sexy Orchids Make Lousy Lovers
And Other Unusual Natural Histories
Marty Crump
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
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The Sibley Guide to Trees
David Allen Sibley
Knopf (Random House), New York,  2009
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The Simple Science of Flight
From Insects to Jumbo Jets. 2nd ed.
Henk Tennekes
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Snail
Peter Williams
Reaktion, London,  2009
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Animal.

Spatial Conservation Prioritization
Quantitative Methods and Computational Tools
Atte Moilanen, Kerrie A. Wilson, and Hugh P. Possingham, Eds.
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Species
A History of the Idea
John S. Wilkins
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
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The Tangled Bank
An Introduction to Evolution
Carl Zimmer
Roberts, Greenwood Village, CO,  2009
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Texas Cacti
Brian Loflin and Shirley Loflin
Texas A&M University Press, College Station,  2009
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W. L. Moody Jr. Natural History, no. 42.

Trees of Rivers
The Story of the Amazon
John Hemming
Thames and Hudson, New York,  2009
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Walking with the Great Apes
Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey, Biruté Galdikas
Sy Montgomery
Chelsea Green, White River Junction, VT,  2009
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Reprint, 1991 ed.

Waterbirds
Theodore Cross
Norton, New York,  2009
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The Wetlands Handbook
Edward Maltby and Tom Barker, Eds.
Wiley-Blackwell, Hoboken, NJ,  2009
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What on Earth Evolved?
100 Species That Changed the World
Christopher Lloyd
Bloomsbury, New York,  2009
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When the Rains Come
A Naturalist's Year in the Sonoran Desert
John Alcock
University of Arizona Press, Tucson,  2009
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Whole Earth Discipline
An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Stewart Brand
Viking (Penguin), New York,  2009
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World Ocean Census
A Global Survey of Marine Life
Darlene Trew Crist, Gail Scowcroft, and James M. Harding Jr.
Firefly, Buffalo,  2009
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A Year on the Wing
Four Seasons in a Life with Birds
Tim Dee
Free Press (Simon and Schuster), New York,  2009
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Alchemy of Glass
Counterfeit, Imitation, and Transformation in Ancient Glassmaking
Marco Beretta
Science History Publications/USA (Watson), Sagamore Beach, MA,  2009
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Atomic
The First War of Physics and the Secret History of the Atom Bomb, 1939-1949
Jim Baggott
Icon, Cambridge,  2009
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Atomic Obsession
Nuclear Alarmism from Hiroshima to Al-Qaeda
John Mueller
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Biomolecular Crystallography
Principles, Practice, and Application to Structural Biology
Bernhard Rupp
Garland Science (Taylor and Francis), New York,  2009
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Chasing Molecules
Poisonous Products, Human Health, and the Promise of Green Chemistry
Elizabeth Grossman
Shearwater (Island), Washington, DC,  2009
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Cracking the Einstein Code
Relativity and the Birth of Black Hole Physics
Fulvio Melia
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
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Dynamics of One-Dimensional Quantum Systems
Inverse-Square Interaction Models
Yoshio Kuramoto and Yusuke Kato
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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The Elements
A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
Theodore Gray. Photographs by Theodore Gray and Nick Mann
Black Dog and Leventhal, New York,  2009
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The Experimental Foundations of Particle Physics
2nd ed.
Robert N. Cahn and Gerson Goldhaber
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Glimpses of Creatures in Their Physical Worlds
Steven Vogel
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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A Guide to Monte Carlo Simulations in Statistical Physics
3rd ed.
David P. Landau and Kurt Binder
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Guided Explorations of the Mechanics of Solids and Structures
Strategies for Solving Unfamiliar Problems
James F. Doyle
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Cambridge Aerospace.

Irrefutable Evidence
Adventures in the History of Forensic Sciences
Michael Kurland
Dee, Chicago,  2009
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The Joy of Chemistry
The Amazing Science of Familiar Things
Cathy Cobb and Monty L. Fetterolf
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
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Mathematics for Physics
A Guided Tour for Graduate Students
Michael Stone and Paul Goldbart
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Molecular Theory of Water and Aqueous Solutions
Part I: Understanding Water
Arieh Ben-Naim
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ,  2009
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The New Physics for the Twenty-First Century
Gordon Fraser, Ed.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Nuclear Reactions for Astrophysics
Principles, Calculation and Applications of Low-Energy Reactions
Ian J. Thompson and Filomena M. Nunes
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Partial Differential Equations and Fluid Mechanics
James C. Robinson and José L. Rodrigo, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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London Mathematical Society Lecture Note, 364.

Pattern Formation and Dynamics in Nonequilibrium Systems
Michael Cross and Henry Greenside
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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The Plasma Universe
Curt Suplee. Amitava Bhattacharjee, Ed.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Principles of Chemical Sensors
2nd ed.
Jirí Janata
Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands,  2009
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Quantum Field Theory in Curved Spacetime
Quantized Fields and Gravity
Leonard E. Parker and David J. Toms
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics.

Quantum Leaps
Jeremy Bernstein
Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Quantum Physics
A Fundamental Approach to Modern Physics
John S. Townsend
University Science, Sausalito, CA,  2009
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ReAction!
Chemistry in the Movies
Mark Griep and Marjorie Mikasen
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Real World Drug Discovery
A Chemist's Guide to Biotech and Pharmaceutical Research
Robert M. Rydzewski
Elsevier, Oxford,  2008
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Reinforcement of Polymer Nano-Composites
Theory, Experiments and Applications
T. A. Vilgis, G. Heinrich, and M. Klüppel
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Rheophysics
The Deformation and Flow of Matter
Patrick Oswald
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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The Science of the Oven
Hervé This
Columbia University Press, New York,  2009
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Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History. Translated from the French edition (2007) by Jody Gladding.

Small Miracles
Edward M. Lerner
Tor (Tom Doherty Associates), New York,  2009
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A novel.

Soil Mechanics
A One-Dimensional Introduction
David Muir Wood
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Take-Home Physics
65 High-Impact, Low-Cost Labs
Michael Horton
NSTA Press, Arlington, VA,  2009
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Thermoelasticity with Finite Wave Speeds
Józef Ignaczak and Martin Ostoja-Starzewski
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Oxford Mathematical Monographs.

Velvet Revolution at the Synchrotron
Biology, Physics, and Change in Science
Park Doing
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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