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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

The Adaptive Optics Revolution
A History
Robert W. Duffner
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque,  2009
Hardback: 485 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9780826346919.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Ancient Light
A Portrait of the Universe
David Malin
Phaidon, New York,  2009
Hardback: 128 pp., illus. $49.95, C$59.95. ISBN 9780714849324.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Book of the Moon
Rick Stroud
Walker, New York,  2009
Hardback: 368 pp., illus. $27. ISBN 9780802717344.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Cambridge Double Star Atlas
James Mullaney and Wil Tirion
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 152 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780521493437.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Discovering the Expanding Universe
Harry Nussbaumer and Lydia Bieri
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 244 pp., illus. $59. ISBN 9780521514842.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Finding the Big Bang
P. James E. Peebles, Lyman A. Page Jr., and R. Bruce Partridge
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 587 pp., illus. $80. ISBN 9780521519823.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Smithsonian Atlas of Space Exploration
Roger D. Launius and Andrew K. Johnston
Collins (HarperCollins), New York,  2009
Hardback: 240 pp., illus. $34.99. ISBN 9780061565267.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)


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Biomedicine

Addiction
A Disorder of Choice
Gene M. Heyman
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 212 pp. $26.95. ISBN 9780674032989.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Adrenal Imaging
Michael A. Blake and Giles W. L. Boland, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 234 pp., illus. $199. ISBN 9781934115862.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Contemporary Medical Imaging.

Antiparasitic and Antibacterial Drug Discovery
From Molecular Target to Drug Candidates
Paul M. Selzer, Ed.
Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA,  2009
Hardback: 509 pp., illus. $200. ISBN 9783527323272.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Drug Discovery in Infectious Diseases.

Antiviral Research
Strategies in Antiviral Drug Discovery
Robert L. LaFemina, Ed.
ASM Press, Washington, DC,  2009
Hardback: 387 pp., illus. $169.95. ISBN 9781555814397.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Astrocytes in (Patho)Physiology of the Nervous System
Vladimir Parpura and Philip G. Haydon, Eds.
Springer, New York,  2009
Hardback: 719 pp., illus. $149. ISBN 9780387794914.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Biennial Review of Infertility
Vol. 1
Douglas T. Carrell et al., Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 332 pp., illus. $149. ISBN 9781603273916.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Boundaries of Contagion
How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS
Evan S. Lieberman
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 367 pp. $65, £38.95. ISBN 9780691132860.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 367 pp. $24.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780691140193.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Carbon Nanotubes
Angels or Demons?
Silvana Fiorito
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2008
Hardback: 163 pp., illus. $109, £58. ISBN 9789814241014.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Case Studies in Infectious Disease
Peter M. Lydyard et al.
Garland Science (Taylor and Francis), New York,  2009
Paperback: 608 pp., illus. $50. ISBN 9780815341420.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Chasing Medical Miracles
The Promise and Perils of Clinical Trials
Alex O'Meara
Walker, New York,  2009
Hardback: 272 pp. $25. ISBN 9780802716965.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Children and Pollution
Why Scientists Disagree
Colleen F. Moore
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 374 pp., illus. $27.95. ISBN 9780195386660.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Clinical Virology Manual
4th ed.
Steven Specter et al., Eds.
ASM Press, Washington, DC,  2009
Hardback: 708 pp., illus. $179.95. ISBN 9781555814625.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Contested Medicine
Cancer Research and the Military
Gerald Kutcher
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 257 pp. $35, £24. ISBN 9780226465319.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Cortico-Subcortical Dynamics in Parkinson's Disease
Kuei-Yuan Tseng, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 463 pp., illus. $189. ISBN 9781603272513.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Contemporary Neuroscience.

Dendrimer-Based Nanomedicine
Istvan J. Majoros and James R. Baker Jr., Eds.
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2008
Hardback: 433 pp., illus. $215, £115. ISBN 9789814241045.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Dengue
Scott B. Halstead, Ed.
Imperial College Press, London,  2009
Hardback: 505 pp., illus. $138, £75. ISBN 9781848162280.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Tropical Medicine: Science and Practice, vol. 5.

The Depression Cure
The 6-Step Program to Beat Depression Without Drugs
Stephen S. Ilardi
Da Capo Lifelong (Perseus Books Group), Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 299 pp. $25, £14.99, C$31.50. ISBN 9780738213132.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Diabetes and Exercise
Judith G. Regensteiner et al., Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 331 pp., illus. $179. ISBN 9781588299260.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Contemporary Diabetes.

Digital Image Processing for Medical Applications
Geoff Dougherty
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
Hardback: 461 pp., illus. $89. ISBN 9780521860857.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Diversity and Women's Health
Sue V. Rosser, Ed.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 302 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780801892806.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
A National Women's Studies Association Journal Reader.

DNA Microarrays for Biomedical Research
Methods and Protocols
Martin Dufva, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 314 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9781934115695.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 529.

The Elusive Malaria Vaccine
Miracle or Mirage?
Irwin W. Sherman
ASM Press, Washington, DC,  2009
Hardback: 401 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9781555815158.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Essential Hospital Handbook
How to Be an Effective Partner in a Loved One's Care
Patrick Conlon
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 384 pp. $30. ISBN 9780300145755.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 384 pp. $18. ISBN 9780300145762.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Ethics and Newborn Genetic Screening
New Technologies, New Challenges
Mary Ann Baily and Thomas H. Murray, Eds.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 372 pp., illus. $50. ISBN 9780801891519.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Evolution of Obesity
Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 404 pp., illus. $40. ISBN 9780801892622.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The First Episode of Psychosis
A Guide for Patients and Their Families
Michael T. Compton and Beth Broussard
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 285 pp., illus. $15.95. ISBN 9780195372496.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Fluoride Wars
How a Modest Public Health Measure Became America's Longest-Running Political Melodrama
R. Allan Freeze and Jay H. Lehr
Wiley, Hoboken, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 393 pp. $40. ISBN 9780470448335.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Food and Nutrition Controversies Today
A Reference Guide
Myrna Chandler Goldstein and Mark A. Goldstein
Greenwood, New York,  2009
Hardback: 255 pp., illus. $49.95, £34.95. ISBN 9780313354021.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Food-Borne Microbes
Shaping the Host Ecosystem
Lee-Ann Jaykus, Hua H. Wang, and Larry S. Schlesinger, Eds.
ASM Press, Washington, DC,  2009
Hardback: 407 pp., illus. $159.95. ISBN 9781555814052.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

From Local Invasion to Metastatic Cancer
Involvement of Distant Sites Through the Lymphovascular System
Stanley P.L. Leong, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 665 pp., illus. $199. ISBN 9781603270861.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Current Clinical Oncology.

Gene Therapy of Cancer
Methods and Protocols. 2nd ed.
Wolfgang Walther and Ulrike S. Stein, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 744 pp., illus. $129. ISBN 9781934115855.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 542.

Handbook of Autopsy Practice
4th ed.
Brenda L. Waters, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 608 pp., illus. $179. ISBN 9781588298416.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Handbook of Cerebrovascular Disease and Neurointerventional Technique
Mark R. Harrigan and John P. Deveikis
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Paperback: 755 pp., illus. $179. ISBN 9781588297556.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Contemporary Medical Imaging.

Handbook of Clinical Nutrition and Aging
2nd ed.
Connie Watkins Bales and Christine Seel Ritchie, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 698 pp., illus. $149. ISBN 9781603273848.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Nutrition and Health .

Healing Spaces
The Science of Place and Well-Being
Esther M. Sternberg
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 351 pp. $27.95. ISBN 9780674033368.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Heart of Power
Health and Politics in the Oval Office
David Blumenthal and James A. Morone
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 494 pp., illus. $26.95. ISBN 9780520260306.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Hepatocyte Transplantation
Methods and Protocols
Anil Dhawan and Robin D. Hughes, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 249 pp., illus. $79.95. ISBN 9781588298836.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 481.

HIV and the Brain
New Challenges in the Modern Era
Robert H. Paul et al., Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 414 pp., illus. $139. ISBN 9781934115084.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Current Clinical Neurology.

Imaging Dopamine
Paul Cumming
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 356 pp., illus. $140. ISBN 9780521790024.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Immunology
Clinical Case Studies and Disease Pathophysiology
Warren Strober and Susan R. S. Gottesman
Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA,  2009
Paperback: 417 pp., illus. $50. ISBN 9780471326595.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Inflammation and Cancer
Methods and Protocols. Vol. 1: Experimental Models and Practical Approaches
Serguei V. Kozlov, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 390 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781934115145.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 511.

Introduction to Biomedical Instrumentation
The Technology of Patient Care
Barbara L. Christe
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 243 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 9780521515122.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Leukemia
Methods and Protocols
Chi Wai Eric So, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 440 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781588299895.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 538.

A Line Drawn in the Sand
Responses to the AIDS Treatment Crisis in Africa
Phyllis J. Kanki and Richard G. Marlink, Eds.
Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Paperback: 288 pp., illus. $30. ISBN 9780674033450.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Making the American Mouth
Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century
Alyssa Picard
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 241 pp., illus. $45.95. ISBN 9780813545356.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Critical Issues in Health and Medicine.

The Mosquito Crusades
A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day
Gordon Patterson
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 285 pp. $49.95. ISBN 9780813545349.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Nanomedicine
A Systems Engineering Approach
Mingjun Zhang and Ning Xi, Eds.
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2009
Hardback: 358 pp., illus. $149, £80. ISBN 9789814241366.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Nanopathology
The Health Impact of Nanoparticles
Antonietta M. Gatti
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2008
Hardback: 312 pp., illus. $135, £69. ISBN 9789814241007.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Nanotherapeutics
Drug Delivery Concepts in Nanoscience
Alf Lamprecht, Ed.
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2008
Hardback: 291 pp., illus. $155, / £82. ISBN 9789814241021.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Neural Cell Transplantation
Methods and Protocols
Neil J. Scolding and David Gordon, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 265 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9781603279307.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 549.

The New Plagues
Pandemics and Poverty in the Globalized World
Stefan H. E. Kaufmann, with the assistance of Susan Schädlich
Haus, London,  2009
Paperback: 333 pp. £9.99. ISBN 9781906598136.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
The Sustainability Project. Translated from the German edition (Frankfort am Main, 2007) by Michael Capone.

Oath Betrayed
America's Torture Doctors. 2nd ed.
Steven H. Miles
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Paperback: 296 pp., illus. $16.95, £9.95. ISBN 9780520259683.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2006 ed.

An Odyssey with Animals
A Veterinarian's Reflections on the Animal Rights and Welfare Debate
Adrian R. Morrison
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 286 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780195374445.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Opiate Receptors and Antagonists
From Bench to Clinic
Reginald L. Dean III, Edward J. Bilsky, and S. Stevens Negus, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 781 pp., illus. $149. ISBN 9781588298812.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Contemporary Neuroscience.

Panic in Level 4
Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
Richard Preston
Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York,  2009
Paperback: 235 pp., illus. $15, C$17.50. ISBN 9780812975604.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio
A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America
Bert Hansen
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 359 pp., illus. $75. ISBN 9780813545264.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 359 pp., illus. $37.95. ISBN 9780813545769.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Pocket Handbook of GI Pharmacotherapeutics
George Y. Wu and Achilles Pappano, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Paperback: 128 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9781588299345.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Clinical Gastroenterology.

Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Basic Science and Clinical Practice
Priyattam J. Shiromani, Terence M. Keane, and Joseph E. LeDoux, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 423 pp., illus. $89.95. ISBN 9781603273282.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Price of Perfection
Individualism and Society in the Era of Biomedical Enhancement
Maxwell J. Mehlman
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 320 pp. $25. ISBN 9780801892639.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Prostate Cancer Screening
2nd ed.
Donna P. Ankerst, Catherine M. Tangen, and Ian M. Thompson Jr., Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 413 pp., illus. $169. ISBN 9781603272803.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Current Clinical Urology.

Pulmonary Problems in Pregnancy
Ghada Bourjeily and Karen Rosene-Montella, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 433 pp., illus. $149. ISBN 9781934115121.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Respiratory Medicine.

Quirks of Human Anatomy
An Evo-Devo Look at the Human Body
Lewis I. Held Jr.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 272 pp., illus. $115. ISBN 9780521518482.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 272 pp., illus. $34.99. ISBN 9780521732338.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Renal Cell Carcinoma
Molecular Targets and Clinical Applications. 2nd ed.
Ronald M. Bukowski, Robert A. Figlin, and Robert J. Motzer, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 523 pp., illus. $169. ISBN 9781588297372.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Resolving Messy Policy Problems
Handling Conflict in Environmental, Transport, Health and Ageing Policy
Steven Ney
Earthscan, London,  2009
Hardback: 224 pp., illus. $117. ISBN 9781844075669.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Resolving Messy Policy Problems.

Righteous Dopefiend
Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 392 pp., illus. $65, £38.95. ISBN 9780520230880.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 392 pp., illus. $24.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780520254985.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
California Series in Public Anthropology.

Sexual Function in the Prostate Cancer Patient
John P. Mulhall, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 283 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9781603275545.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Current Clinical Urology.

The Skeletal System
Olivier Pourquié, Ed.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY,  2009
Hardback: 373 pp., illus. $95. ISBN 9780879698256.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Sunlight Solution
Why More Sun Exposure and Vitamin D Are Essential to Your Health
Laurie Winn Carlson
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Paperback: 246 pp. $19.98. ISBN 9781591027010.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Telomeres and Telomerase in Cancer
Keiko Hiyama, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 385 pp., illus. $159. ISBN 9781603273060.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Cancer Drug Discovery and Development.

Therapeutic Antibodies
Methods and Protocols
Antony S. Dimitrov, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 603 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781934115923.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 525.

Total Cure
The Antidote to the Health Care Crisis
Harold S. Luft
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2008
Hardback: 336 pp. $27.95. ISBN 9780674032101.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Transcend
Nine Steps to Living Well Forever
Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman
Rodale, Emmaus, PA,  2009
Hardback: 480 pp., illus. $27.95, C$30.95. ISBN 9781605299563.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Trends in Stem Cell Biology and Technology
Hossein Baharvand, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 433 pp., illus. $159. ISBN 9781603279048.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Unstuck
Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression
James Gordon
Penguin, New York,  2009
Paperback: 443 pp., illus. $16, C$20. ISBN 9780143115519.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

Wednesday Is Indigo Blue
Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
Richard E. Cytowic and David M. Eagleman
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 319 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780262012799.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Year in Human and Medical Genetics 2009
Moyra Smith, Ed.
Blackwell, Malden, MA,  2009
Paperback: 177 pp., illus. $130. ISBN 9781573317313.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Published on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1151.


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Earth and Environmental Sciences

Advanced Biological Treatment Processes
Lawrence K. Wang, Nazih K.Shammas, and Yung-Tse Hung, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 759 pp., illus. $195. ISBN 9781588293602.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Handbook of Environmental Engineering, vol. 9.

Agenda for a Sustainable America
John C. Dernbach, Ed.
ELI Press, Washington, DC,  2009
Paperback: 537 pp., illus. $52.95. ISBN 9781585761333.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The AMS Weather Book
The Ultimate Guide to America's Weather
Jack Williams
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 928 pp., illus. $35, £24. ISBN 9780226898988.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Ancient Landscapes of the Colorado Plateau
Ron Blakey and Wayne Ranney
Grand Canyon Association, Grand Canyon, AZ,  2009
Paperback: 176 pp., illus. $34.95. ISBN 9781934656037.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Applied Geostatistics with SGeMS
A User's Guide
Nicolas Remy, Alexandre Boucher, and Jianbing Wu
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
Hardback: 284 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9780521514149.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Assessing the Conservation Value of Fresh Waters
An International Perspective
Philip J. Boon and Catherine M. Pringle, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 303 pp., illus. $150. ISBN 9780521848855.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 303 pp., illus. $70. ISBN 9780521613224.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Ecology, Biodiversity and Conservation.

Atmospheric Thermodynamics
Elementary Physics and Chemistry
Gerald R. North and Tatiana L. Erukhimova
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 279 pp., illus. $70. ISBN 9780521899635.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Beaches and Parks in Southern California
Counties Included: Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego
California Coastal Commission
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Paperback: 352 pp., illus. $24.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780520258525.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Experience the California Coast.

Beyond Walden
The Hidden History of America's Kettle Lakes and Ponds
Robert M. Thorson
Walker, New York,  2009
Hardback: 319 pp., illus. $26. ISBN 9780802716453.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Big Thaw
Travels in the Melting North
Ed Struzik
Wiley, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada,  2009
Hardback: 288 pp., illus. $26.95, C$29.95. ISBN 9780470157282.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Charles Darwin's Shorter Publications
1829-1883
John van Wyhe, Ed.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
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Children and Pollution
Why Scientists Disagree
Colleen F. Moore
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Climate Change
The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future
Edmond A. Mathez
Columbia University Press, New York,  2009
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The Conflict Over Environmental Regulation in the United States
Origins, Outcomes, and Comparisons with the EU and Other Regions
Frank T. Manheim
Springer, New York,  2009
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Conservation Refugees
The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples
Mark Dowie
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Critical Transitions in Nature and Society
Marten Scheffer
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Princeton Studies in Complexity.

The Design of Future Things
Donald A. Norman
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,  2009
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The Ecological Revolution
Making Peace with the Planet
John Bellamy Foster
Monthly Review Press, New York,  2009
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Ecology and Conservation of the San Pedro River
Juliet C. Stromberg and Barbara Tellman, Eds.
University of Arizona Press, Tucson,  2009
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Ecology of Marine Sediments
From Science to Management. 2nd ed.
John S. Gray and Michael Elliott
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans
Karen McLeod and Heather Leslie, Eds.
Island, Washington, DC,  2009
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The End Is Nigh
A History of Natural Disasters
Henrik Svensen
Reaktion, London,  2009
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Environmentalism in Popular Culture
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural
Noël Sturgeon
University of Arizona Press, Tucson,  2009
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Global Warming
The Complete Briefing. 4th ed.
John Houghton
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota
Vol. 2, Ocean and Coastal Economy
James C. Cato, Ed.
Texas A&M University Press, College Station,  2009
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Introduction to Energy in California
Peter Asmus
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
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Island in a Storm
A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World
Abby Sallenger
PublicAffairs (Perseus), New York,  2009
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James Lovelock
In Search of Gaia
John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Longitude by Wire
Finding North America
Richard Stachurski
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia,  2009
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The Medea Hypothesis
Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?
Peter Ward
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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The Mosquito Crusades
A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day
Gordon Patterson
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ,  2009
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The Nature of Cities
Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions, 1920-1960
Jennifer S. Light
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
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Ocean
Reflections on a Century of Exploration
Wolf H. Berger
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
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Of Rock and Rivers
Seeking a Sense of Place in the American West
Ellen Wohl
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
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Out of the Blue
A History of Lightning: Science, Superstition, and Amazing Stories of Survival
John S. Friedman
Delta Trade (Bantam Dell), New York,  2009
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Petrology of Sedimentary Rocks
2nd ed.
Sam Boggs Jr.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
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Pineapple Culture
A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones
Gary Y. Okihiro
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
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The Politics of Climate Change
Anthony Giddens
Polity, Cambridge,  2009
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Remedies for a New West
Healing Landscapes, Histories, and Cultures
Patricia Nelson Limerick, Andrew Cowell, and Sharon K. Collinge, Eds.
University of Arizona Press, Tucson,  2009
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Resolving Messy Policy Problems
Handling Conflict in Environmental, Transport, Health and Ageing Policy
Steven Ney
Earthscan, London,  2009
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Resolving Messy Policy Problems.

The Rock Physics Handbook
Tools for Seismic Analysis of Porous Media. 2nd ed.
Gary Mavko, Tappan Mukerji, and Jack Dvorkin
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Smithsonian Atlas of Space Exploration
Roger D. Launius and Andrew K. Johnston
Collins (HarperCollins), New York,  2009
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Stories in Stone
Travels Through Urban Geology
David B. Williams
Walker, New York,  2009
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Sustainable Energy -- Without the Hot Air
David J. C. MacKay
UIT Cambridge, Cambridge,  2009
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Time and Tide in Acadia
Seasons on Mount Desert Island
Christopher Camuto
Norton, New York,  2009
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Toward Sustainable Communities
Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy. 2nd ed.
Daniel A. Mazmanian and Michael E. Kraft, Eds.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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American and Comparative Environmental Policy.

Unquenchable
America's Water Crisis and What to Do About It
Robert Glennon
Shearwater (Island), Washington, DC,  2009
Hardback: 427 pp., illus. $27.95. ISBN 9781597264365.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Valles Caldera
A Geologic History
Fraser Goff
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque,  2009
Paperback: 124 pp., illus. $18.95. ISBN 9780826345905.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Vanishing Face of Gaia
A Final Warning
James Lovelock
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,  2009
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Weather's Greatest Mysteries Solved!
Randy Cerveny
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Hardback: 330 pp., illus. $26.98. ISBN 9781591027201.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Weighing the World
The Quest to Measure the Earth
Edwin Danson
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Reprint, 2006 ed.

What's the Worst That Could Happen?
A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate
Greg Craven
Perigee (Penguin Group), New York,  2009
Paperback: 272 pp., illus. $14.95. ISBN 9780399535017.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Why We Disagree About Climate Change
Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
Mike Hulme
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Engineering and Technology

Accident Prone
A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age
John C. Burnham
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 336 pp., illus. $40, £27.50. ISBN 9780226081175.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Adaptive Optics Revolution
A History
Robert W. Duffner
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque,  2009
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Adrenal Imaging
Michael A. Blake and Giles W. L. Boland, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Contemporary Medical Imaging.

Biocatalysis
Biochemical Fundamentals and Applications
Peter Grunwald
Imperial College Press, London,  2009
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The Book of the Moon
Rick Stroud
Walker, New York,  2009
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Carbon Nanotubes
Angels or Demons?
Silvana Fiorito
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2008
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Chasing Icarus
The Seventeen Days in 1910 that Forever Changed American Aviation
Gavin Mortimer
Walker, New York,  2009
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China's Emerging Technological Edge
Assessing the Role of High-End Talent
Denis Fred Simon and Cong Cao
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
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Digital Image Processing for Medical Applications
Geoff Dougherty
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
Hardback: 461 pp., illus. $89. ISBN 9780521860857.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Digital Television Systems
Marcelo Sampaio de Alencar
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Ecoholic
Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products, and Services
Adria Vasil
Norton, New York,  2009
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Electronic Device Architectures for the Nano-CMOS Era
From Ultimate CMOS Scaling to Beyond CMOS Devices
Simon Deleonibus, Ed.
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2008
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Essentials of Cognitive Radio
Linda Doyle
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Cambridge Wireless Essentials.

Fresh
A Perishable History
Susanne Freidberg
Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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The Genie in the Machine
How Computer-Automated Inventing Is Revolutionizing Law and Business
Robert Plotkin
Stanford Law Books (Stanford University Press), Stanford, CA,  2009
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In Mortal Hands
A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age
Stephanie Cooke
Bloomsbury, New York,  2009
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Introduction to Biomedical Instrumentation
The Technology of Patient Care
Barbara L. Christe
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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License to Orbit
The Future of Commercial Space Travel
Joseph N. Pelton and Peter Marshall
Apogee, Burlington, Canada,  2009
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LTE for 4G Mobile Broadband
Air Interface Technologies and Performance
Farooq Khan
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Nanobiotechnology and Nanobiosciences
Claudio Nicolini
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2008
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Pan Stanford Series in Nanobiotechnology, vol. 1.

Nanocomputing
Computational Physics for Nanoscience and Nantechnology
James J. Y. Hsu
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2009
Hardback: 382 pp., illus. $135, £101. ISBN 9789814241267.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Nanostructures in Electronics and Photonics
Faiz Rahman, Ed.
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2008
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Nanotherapeutics
Drug Delivery Concepts in Nanoscience
Alf Lamprecht, Ed.
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2008
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The Patent Crisis and How the Courts Can Solve It
Dan L. Burk and Mark A. Lemley
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
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Plasmonic Nanoguides and Circuits
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Ed.
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2008
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Polarization Holography
L. Nikolova and P. S. Ramanujam
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945
Lars Heide
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
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Studies in Industry and Science.

Silicon Nanophotonics
Basic Principles, Present Status and Perspectives
Leonid Khriachtchev, Ed.
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2008
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A Smart Energy Policy
An Economist's Rx for Balancing Cheap, Clean, and Secure Energy
James M. Griffin
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
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Sneaky Green Uses for Everyday Things
How to Craft Eco-Garments and Sneaky Snack Kits, Create Green Cleaners, Remake Paper into Flying Toys, Assemble Alternative Energy Science Projects, and Construct a Robot Recycle Bin with Everyday Things
Cy Tymony
Andrews McMeel, Kansas City,  2009
Paperback: 140 pp., illus. $12.99, C$15.99. ISBN 9780740779336.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Spirit of Invention
The Story of the Thinkers, Creators, and Dreamers Who Formed Our Nation
Julie M. Fenster
Harper (HarperCollins), New York,  2009
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Smithsonian Books.

Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age
Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790-1865
Ross Thomson
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
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Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution
Charles Weiss and William B. Bonvillian
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Tracks Across Continents, Paths Through History
The Economic Dynamics of Standardization in Railway Gauge
Douglas J. Puffert
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
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Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis Protocols
David Sheehan and Raymond Tyther, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?
Brian Fies
Abrams ComicArts (Abrams), New York,  2009
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Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings?
Flying Animals, Flying Machines, and How They Are Different
David E. Alexander
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ,  2009
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100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know
Math Explains Your World
John D. Barrow
Norton, New York,  2009
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Communications Skills for the Biosciences
A Graduate Guide
Aysha Divan
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
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Dynamics of Self-Organized and Self-Assembled Structures
Rashmi C. Desai and Raymond Kapral
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
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The End Is Nigh
A History of Natural Disasters
Henrik Svensen
Reaktion, London,  2009
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Getting the Most Out of Your Mentoring Relationships
A Handbook for Women in STEM
Donna J. Dean
Springer, New York,  2009
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Increasing the Competitive Edge in Math and Science
Janet S. Kettlewelland Ronald J. Henry, Eds.
Rowman and Littlefield, Lanham, MD,  2009
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Inquiry
The Key to Exemplary Science
Robert E. Yager, Ed.
NSTA Press, Arlington, VA,  2009
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Integrated Science
New Approaches to Education: A Virtual Roundtable Discussion
Michael E. Brint, David J. Marcey, and Michael C. Shaw, Eds.
Springer, New York,  2009
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Mapping the Future of Biology
Evolving Concepts and Theories
Anouk Barberousse, Michel Morange, and Thomas Pradeu, Eds.
Springer, Berlin,  2009
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Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol. 266.

A Mathematical Nature Walk
John A. Adam
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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More Everyday Science Mysteries
Stories for Inquiry-Based Science Teaching
Richard Konicek-Moran
NSTA Press, Arlington, VA,  2009
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Nature's Patterns: A Tapestry in Three Parts
Flow
Philip Ball
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Picturing the Uncertain World
How to Understand, Communicate, and Control Uncertainty Through Graphical Display
Howard Wainer
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Professing to Learn
Creating Tenured Lives and Careers in the American Research University
Anna Neumann
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
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Professional Learning Communities for Science Teaching
Lessons from Research and Practice
Susan Mundry and Katherine E. Stiles, Eds.
NSTA Press, Arlington, VA,  2009
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Simplexity
Why Simple Things Become Complex (And How Complex Things Can Be Made Simple)
Jeffrey Kluger
Hyperion, New York,  2009
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Solving Everyday Problems with the Scientific Method
Thinking Like a Scientist
Don K. Mak, Angela T. Mak, and Anthony B. Mak
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ,  2009
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A Student Handbook for Writing in Biology
3rd ed.
Karin Knisely
Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA,  2009
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Study and Communication Skills for the Biosciences
Stuart Johnson and Jon Scott
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 247 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9780199219834.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Tacit Dimension
Michael Polanyi
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Paperback: 128 pp. $16, £11. ISBN 9780226672984.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Theo Gray's Mad Science
Experiments You Can Do at Home -- But Probably Shouldn't
Theodore Gray
Black Dog and Leventhal, New York,  2009
Hardback: 239 pp., illus. $24.95. ISBN 9781579127916.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Uncovering Student Ideas in Science
Vol. 4, 25 New Formative Assessment Probes
Page Keeley and Joyce Tugel
NSTA Press, Arlington, VA,  2009
Paperback: 204 pp., illus. $27.95; to NSTA members, $22.36. ISBN 9781935155010.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Voice and Vision
A Guide to Writing History and Other Serious Nonfiction
Stephen J. Pyne
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?
Brian Fies
Abrams ComicArts (Abrams), New York,  2009
Hardback: 208 pp., illus. $24.95, C$27.50. ISBN 9780810996366.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Writing Scientific Research Articles
Strategy and Steps
Margaret Cargill and Patrick O'Connor
Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA,  2009
Paperback: 183 pp. $30. ISBN 9781405186193.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Writing Successful Science Proposals
2nd ed.
Andrew J. Friedland and Carol L. Folt
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
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Accident Prone
A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age
John C. Burnham
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 336 pp., illus. $40, £27.50. ISBN 9780226081175.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Adaptive Optics Revolution
A History
Robert W. Duffner
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque,  2009
Hardback: 485 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9780826346919.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Alexander von Humboldt
The Botanicals of America
H. Walter Lack
Prestel, Munich,  2009
Hardback: 280 pp., illus. $185. ISBN 9783791341422.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Analogies in Physics and Life
A Scientific Autobiography
Richard M. Weiner
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 436 pp., illus. $88, £48. ISBN 9789812704702.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Anatomy of a Beast
Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot
Michael McLeod
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
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Animal Capital
Rendering Life in Biopolitical Times
Nicole Shukin
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis,  2009
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Posthumanities, 6.

The Atmosphere of Heaven
The Unnatural Experiments of Dr Beddoes and His Sons of Genius
Mike Jay
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 303 pp., illus. $30. ISBN 9780300124392.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Boundaries of Contagion
How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS
Evan S. Lieberman
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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The Boundaries of the New Frontier
Rhetoric and Communication at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Joanna S. Ploeger
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia,  2009
Hardback: 215 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9781570038082.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Cambridge Companion to Darwin
2nd ed.
Jonathan Hodge and Gregory Radick, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Cambridge Companions to Philosophers.

The Cambridge History of Science
Vol. 6, The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences
Peter J. Bowler and John V. Pickstone, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Chasing Icarus
The Seventeen Days in 1910 that Forever Changed American Aviation
Gavin Mortimer
Walker, New York,  2009
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Conservation Refugees
The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples
Mark Dowie
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 371 pp. $27.95. ISBN 9780262012614.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Contested Medicine
Cancer Research and the Military
Gerald Kutcher
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 257 pp. $35, £24. ISBN 9780226465319.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Darwin Myth
The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin
Benjamin Wiker
Regnery, Washington, DC,  2009
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Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Discovering the Expanding Universe
Harry Nussbaumer and Lydia Bieri
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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A Dream of Undying Fame
How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis
Louis Breger
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,  2009
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The Earth Moves
Galileo and the Roman Inquisition
Dan Hofstadter
Atlas (Norton), New York,  2009
Hardback: 240 pp., illus. $23.95, C$30. ISBN 9780393066500.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Great Discoveries.

Einstein's Generation
The Origins of the Relativity Revolution
Richard Staley
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 504 pp., illus. $98, £67.50. ISBN 9780226770567.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Ethics and Newborn Genetic Screening
New Technologies, New Challenges
Mary Ann Baily and Thomas H. Murray, Eds.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
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The Ethics of Protocells
Moral and Social Implications of Creating Life in the Laboratory
Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke, Eds.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Basic Bioethics.

Evolution and Ethics
Thomas Henry Huxley. Michael Ruse, Ed.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Falconer on the Edge
A Man, His Birds, and the Vanishing Landscape of the American West
Rachel Dickinson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston,  2009
Hardback: 240 pp. $24. ISBN 9780618806232.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Fatal Journey
The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson--A Tale of Mutiny and Murder in the Arctic
Peter C. Mancall
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,  2009
Hardback: 313 pp., illus. $26.95. ISBN 9780465005116.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Fixing My Gaze
A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions
Susan R. Barry
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,  2009
Hardback: 265 pp., illus. $26, C$32.95. ISBN 9780465009138.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Flower Hunters
Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Flower Hunters
Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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The Fluoride Wars
How a Modest Public Health Measure Became America's Longest-Running Political Melodrama
R. Allan Freeze and Jay H. Lehr
Wiley, Hoboken, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 393 pp. $40. ISBN 9780470448335.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Form and Function in Developmental Evolution
Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 252 pp., illus. $90. ISBN 9780521872683.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology.

The Frozen Ship
The Histories and Tales of Polar Exploration
Sarah Moss
BlueBridge (United Tribes Media), New York,  2009
Paperback: 256 pp., illus. $13.95, C$15.95. ISBN 9781933346205.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Genetic Analysis
A History of Genetic Thinking
Raphael Falk
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 344 pp., illus. $90. ISBN 9780521884181.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology.

The Genie in the Machine
How Computer-Automated Inventing Is Revolutionizing Law and Business
Robert Plotkin
Stanford Law Books (Stanford University Press), Stanford, CA,  2009
Hardback: 280 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780804756990.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

God According to God
A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along
Gerald L. Schroeder
HarperOne (HarperCollins), San Francisco,  2009
Hardback: 255 pp. $25.99. ISBN 9780061710155.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

History Man
The Life of R. G. Collingwood
Fred Inglis
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 399 pp., illus. $39.50, £23.95. ISBN 9780691130149.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
Christopher Cokinos
Tarcher (Putnam), New York,  2009
Paperback: 381 pp.. $16.95. ISBN 9781585427222.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2000 ed.

Invented Knowledge
False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions
Ronald H. Fritze
Reaktion, London,  2009
Hardback: 304 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9781861894304.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Kaiser Wilhelm Society under Natinal Socialism
Susanne Heim, Carola Sachse, and Mark Walker
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 501 pp., illus. $80. ISBN 9780521879064.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Karl Bodmer
A Swiss Artist in America 1809-1893
North American Native Museum and Hartwig Isernhagen, Eds.
Scheidegger and Spiess, Zürich,  2009
Hardback: 207 pp., illus. $60. ISBN 9783858812360.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
Cathy Gere
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 287 pp., illus. $27.50, £19. ISBN 9780226289533.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Life
Organic Form and Romanticism
Denise Gigante
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 316 pp., illus. $40. ISBN 9780300136852.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Lives in Science
How Institutions Affect Academic Careers
Joseph C. Hermanowicz
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 337 pp. $55, £38. ISBN 9780226327617.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Longitude by Wire
Finding North America
Richard Stachurski
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia,  2009
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Making the American Mouth
Dentists and Public Health in the Twentieth Century
Alyssa Picard
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ,  2009
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Critical Issues in Health and Medicine.

Masters of Sex
The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
Thomas Maier
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,  2009
Hardback: 423 pp., illus. $27.50, C$32. ISBN 9780465003075.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Minerva's Owl
The Tradition of Western Political Thought
Jeffrey Abramson
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 398 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780674032651.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Modern American Environmentalists
A Biographical Encyclopedia
George A. Cevasco and Richard P. Harmond, Eds.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
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Modern Nature
The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany
Lynn K. Nyhart
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 437 pp., illus. $45, £31. ISBN 9780226610894.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Modern Period
Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America
Lara Freidenfelds
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 252 pp., illus. $60. ISBN 9780801892455.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Mosquito Crusades
A History of the American Anti-Mosquito Movement from the Reed Commission to the First Earth Day
Gordon Patterson
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 285 pp. $49.95. ISBN 9780813545349.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Naming Nature
The Clash Between Instinct and Science
Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Norton, New York,  2009
Hardback: 352 pp., illus. $27.95, C$35. ISBN 9780393061970.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Newton and the Counterfeiter
The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
Thomas Levenson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston,  2009
Hardback: 330 pp. $25. ISBN 9780151012787.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Newton and the Counterfeiter
The Unknown Detective Career of the World's Greatest Scientist
Thomas Levenson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston,  2009
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Notebooks from New Guinea
Field Notes of a Tropical Biologist
Vojtech Novotny
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 268 pp., illus. £16.99. ISBN 9780199561650.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Oath Betrayed
America's Torture Doctors. 2nd ed.
Steven H. Miles
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Paperback: 296 pp., illus. $16.95, £9.95. ISBN 9780520259683.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2006 ed.

Ocean
Reflections on a Century of Exploration
Wolf H. Berger
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 529 pp., illus. $59.95, £42.95. ISBN 9780520247789.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

An Odyssey with Animals
A Veterinarian's Reflections on the Animal Rights and Welfare Debate
Adrian R. Morrison
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 286 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780195374445.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

An Odyssey with Animals
A Veterinarian's Reflections on the Animal Rights and Welfare Debate
Adrian R. Morrison
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 286 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780195374445.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Once and Future New York
Historic Preservation and the Modern City
Randall Mason
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis,  2009
Paperback: 343 pp., illus. $27.95. ISBN 9780816656042.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Only a Theory
Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul
Kenneth R. Miller
Penguin, New York,  2009
Paperback: 256 pp., illus. $16, C$20. ISBN 9780143115663.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

Operation Bite Back
Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness
Dean Kuipers
Bloomsbury, New York,  2009
Hardback: 320 pp. $25. ISBN 9781596914582.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Paleobiological Revolution
Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology
David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse, Eds.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 
Hardback: 578 pp., illus. $65, £45. ISBN 9780226748610.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Panic in Level 4
Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
Richard Preston
Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York,  2009
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Reprint, 2008 ed.

Paradise Found
Nature in America at the Time of Discovery
Steve Nicholls
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 534 pp. $30, £17.50. ISBN 9780226583402.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Picturing Medical Progress from Pasteur to Polio
A History of Mass Media Images and Popular Attitudes in America
Bert Hansen
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ,  2009
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Paperback: 359 pp., illus. $37.95. ISBN 9780813545769.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Plastic Fantastic
How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World
Eugenie Samuel Reich
Palgrave Macmillan (St. Martin's), New York,  2009
Hardback: 270 pp. $26.95, C$29.95. ISBN 9780230224674.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Price of Perfection
Individualism and Society in the Era of Biomedical Enhancement
Maxwell J. Mehlman
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 320 pp. $25. ISBN 9780801892639.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Professing to Learn
Creating Tenured Lives and Careers in the American Research University
Anna Neumann
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 318 pp. $45. ISBN 9780801891311.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945
Lars Heide
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 375 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 9780801891434.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Studies in Industry and Science.

The Pure Society
From Darwin to Hitler
André Pichot
Verso, New York,  2009
Hardback: 384 pp., illus. $34.95, £19.99, C$43.50. ISBN 9781844672448.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Translated from the French edition (2001) by David Fernbach.

Quantum Gods
Creation, Chaos, and the Search for Cosmic Consciousness
Victor J. Stenger
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Hardback: 292 pp., illus. $26.98. ISBN 9781591027133.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Reviving the Living
Meaning Making in Living Systems
Yair Neuman
Elsevier, Amsterdam,  2009
Hardback: 319 pp., illus. $185. ISBN 9780444530332.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Studies in Multidisciplinarity, vol. 6.

Sea of Dangers
Captain Cook and His Rivals in the South Pacific
Geoffrey Blainey
Dee, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 335 pp., illus. $27.50. ISBN 9781566638258.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Secret Science
Spanish Cosmography and the New World
Mariá M. Portuondo
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 349 pp., illus. $45, £31. ISBN 9780226675343.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Signature in the Cell
DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
Stephen C. Meyer
HarperOne (HarperCollins), San Francisco,  2009
Hardback: 621 pp., illus. $28.99. ISBN 9780061472787.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Simulation and Its Discontents
Sherry Turkle
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 221 pp., illus. $22, £14.95. ISBN 9780262012706.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life.

The Spirit of Invention
The Story of the Thinkers, Creators, and Dreamers Who Formed Our Nation
Julie M. Fenster
Harper (HarperCollins), New York,  2009
Hardback: 223 pp., illus. $29.99. ISBN 9780061231896.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Smithsonian Books.

Spiritual Evolution
A Scientific Defense of Faith
George E. Vaillant
Broadway (Bantam Doubleday Dell), New York,  2009
Paperback: 255 pp. $15, C$18.95. ISBN 9780767926584.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution
David F. Prindle
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Hardback: 249 pp. $26.98. ISBN 9781591027188.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Structures of Change in the Mechanical Age
Technological Innovation in the United States, 1790-1865
Ross Thomson
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 448 pp., illus. $68. ISBN 9780801891410.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Subjects of the World
Darwin's Rhetoric and the Study of Agency in Nature
Paul Sheldon Davies
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 267 pp. $40, £27.50. ISBN 9780226137629.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Three Cultures
Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century
Jerome Kagan
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
Hardback: 323 pp. $70. ISBN 9780521518420.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 323 pp. $21.99. ISBN 9780521732307.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Tracks Across Continents, Paths Through History
The Economic Dynamics of Standardization in Railway Gauge
Douglas J. Puffert
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 374 pp. $55. ISBN 9780226685090.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Weighing the World
The Quest to Measure the Earth
Edwin Danson
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 301 pp., illus. $19.95. ISBN 9780195384956.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2006 ed.

What a Time I Am Having
Selected Letters of Max Perutz
Vivien Perutz, Ed.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY,  2009
Hardback: 536 pp., illus. $39. ISBN 9780879698645.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

When Experiments Travel
Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects
Adriana Petryna
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 270 pp. $65, £38.95. ISBN 9780691126562.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 270 pp. $24.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780691126579.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails)
Matt Young and Paul K.Strode
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 461 pp., illus. $72. ISBN 9780813545493.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 461 pp., illus. $21.95. ISBN 9780813545509.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Why I Am Not a Scientist
Anthropology and Modern Knowledge
Jonathan Marks
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 339 pp. $55, £32.95. ISBN 9780520259591.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 339 pp. $22.95, £13.50. ISBN 9780520259607.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Why We Disagree About Climate Change
Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity
Mike Hulme
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 432 pp., illus. $85. ISBN 9780521898690.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Worlds of Flow
A History of Hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl
Olivier Darrigol
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Accident Prone
A History of Technology, Psychology, and Misfits of the Machine Age
John C. Burnham
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 336 pp., illus. $40, £27.50. ISBN 9780226081175.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Addiction
A Disorder of Choice
Gene M. Heyman
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Agenda for a Sustainable America
John C. Dernbach, Ed.
ELI Press, Washington, DC,  2009
Paperback: 537 pp., illus. $52.95. ISBN 9781585761333.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Agendas and Instability in American Politics
2nd ed.
Frank R. Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 367 pp., illus. $69, £47.50. ISBN 9780226039473.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Anatomy of a Beast
Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot
Michael McLeod
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 230 pp., illus. $24.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780520255715.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Anatomy of Evil
Michael H. Stone
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Hardback: 432 pp., illus. $26.98. ISBN 9781591027263.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Ancient American Art in Detail
Colin McEwan
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 144 pp., illus. $21.95. ISBN 9780674033153.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Ancient Human Migrations
A Multidisciplinary Approach
Peter N. Peregrine, Ilia Peiros, and Marcus Feldman, Eds.
University of Utah Press, Salt Lake City,  2009
Paperback: 220 pp., illus. $30. ISBN 9780874809428.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Foundations of Archaeological Inquiry.

The Ancient Southwest
Chaco Canyon, Bandelier, and Mesa Verde
David E. Stuart
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque,  2009
Paperback: 154 pp., illus. $18.95. ISBN 9780826346384.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Beyond War
The Human Potential for Peace
Douglas P. Fry
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 349 pp., illus. $17.95. ISBN 9780195384611.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Bigfoot
The Life and Times of a Legend
Joshua Blu Buhs
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
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Bioeconomics of Invasive Species
Integrating Ecology, Economics, Policy, and Management
Reuben P. Keller et al., Eds.
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 314 pp., illus. $49.95. ISBN 9780195367973.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Bioeconomy to 2030
Designing a Policy Agenda
International Futures Programme
OECD, Paris,  2009
Paperback: 322 pp., illus. ISBN 9789264038530.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Blood and Mistletoe
The History of the Druids in Britain
Ronald Hutton
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 507 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9780300144857.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Bodies in Doubt
An American History of Intersex
Elizabeth Reis
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 236 pp., illus. $55. ISBN 9780801891557.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Boundaries of Contagion
How Ethnic Politics Have Shaped Government Responses to AIDS
Evan S. Lieberman
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 367 pp. $65, £38.95. ISBN 9780691132860.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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The Bounds of Reason
Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences
Herbert Gintis
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 304 pp., illus. $35, £19.95. ISBN 9780691140520.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Bozo Sapiens
Why to Err Is Human
Michael Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan
Bloomsbury, New York,  2009
Hardback: 303 pp. $26. ISBN 9781596914001.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Camps
A Guide to 21st-Century Space
Charlie Hailey
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 558 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780262512879.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Can the World Afford Autistic Spectrum Disorder?
Nonverbal Communication, Asperger Syndrome and the Interbrain
Digby Tantam
Jessica Kingsley, London,  2009
Hardback: 256 pp., illus. $24.95. ISBN 9781843106944.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Children and Pollution
Why Scientists Disagree
Colleen F. Moore
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 374 pp., illus. $27.95. ISBN 9780195386660.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

China's Emerging Technological Edge
Assessing the Role of High-End Talent
Denis Fred Simon and Cong Cao
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
Paperback: 434 pp. $39.99. ISBN 9780521712330.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Class War?
What Americans Really Think About Economic Inequality
Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Paperback: 156 pp., illus. $13, £9. ISBN 9780226644554.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Climate Change
The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future
Edmond A. Mathez
Columbia University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 340 pp., illus. $55, £26.50. ISBN 9780231146425.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Computational Modelling in Behavioural Neuroscience
Closing the Gap Between Neurophysiology and Behaviour
Dietmar Heinke and Eirini Mavritsaki, Eds.
Psychology Press (Taylor and Francis), New York,  2009
Hardback: 374 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9781841697383.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Advances in Behavioural Brain Science.

Computing the Mind
How the Mind Really Works
Shimon Edelman
Oxford University Press, New York,  2008
Hardback: 627 pp., illus. $69.95. ISBN 9780195320671.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Conflict Over Environmental Regulation in the United States
Origins, Outcomes, and Comparisons with the EU and Other Regions
Frank T. Manheim
Springer, New York,  2009
Hardback: 335 pp., illus. $59.95. ISBN 9780387758763.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Conservation Psychology
Understanding and Promoting Human Care for Nature
Susan Clayton and Gene Myers
Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA,  2009
Hardback: 261 pp., illus. $140. ISBN 9781405194099.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Cool Cuisine
Taking the Bite Out of Global Warming
Laura Stec, with Eugene Cordero
Gibbs Smith, Layton, UT,  2009
Paperback: 256 pp., illus. $24.99. ISBN 9781423603924.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Counter Clockwise
Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility
Ellen J. Langer
Ballantine (Random House), New York,  2009
Hardback: 235 pp. $25, C$28.95. ISBN 9780345502049.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Cradle of Language
Rudolf Botha and Chris Knight, Eds.
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Studies in the Evolution of Language, 12.

Critical Transitions in Nature and Society
Marten Scheffer
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 398 pp., illus. $99.50. ISBN 9780691122038.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Princeton Studies in Complexity.

The Crucible of Consciousness
An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain
Zoltan Torey
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Paperback: 263 pp., illus. $34, £21.95. ISBN 9780262512848.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Curious?
Discover the Missing Ingredient to a Fulfilling Life
Todd Kashdan
William Morrow (HarperCollins), New York,  2009
Hardback: 350 pp. $25.99. ISBN 9780061661181.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Dangerous World of Butterflies
The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists
Peter Laufer
Lyons (Globe Pequot), Guilford, CT,  2009
Hardback: 288 pp. $24.95, C$29.95. ISBN 9781599215556.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Darwin Myth
The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin
Benjamin Wiker
Regnery, Washington, DC,  2009
Hardback: 208 pp. $27.95, C$35.50. ISBN 9781596980976.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Deception
From Ancient Empires to Internet Dating
Brooke Harrington, Ed.
Stanford University Press, Palo Alto, CA,  2009
Hardback: 360 pp., illus. $34.95. ISBN 9780804756495.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Deception in the Marketplace
The Psychology of Deceptive Persuasion and Consumer Self-Protection
David M. Boush, Marian Friestad, and Peter Wright
Routledge, New York,  2009
Paperback: 257 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780805860870.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Discovering Human Sexuality
Simon LeVay, Janice Baldwin, and John Baldwin
Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA,  2009
Paperback: 644 pp., illus. $84.95. ISBN 9780878934218.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Diversity and Women's Health
Sue V. Rosser, Ed.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 302 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780801892806.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
A National Women's Studies Association Journal Reader.

A Dream of Undying Fame
How Freud Betrayed His Mentor and Invented Psychoanalysis
Louis Breger
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,  2009
Hardback: 147 pp. $24.95, C$31.50. ISBN 9780465017355.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

E. O. Wilson and B. F. Skinner
A Dialogue Between Sociobiology and Radical Behaviorism
Paul Naour
Springer, New York,  2009
Hardback: 158 pp. $129. ISBN 9780387894614.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects.

The Ecological Revolution
Making Peace with the Planet
John Bellamy Foster
Monthly Review Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 328 pp. $17.95. ISBN 9781583671795.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Economic Naturalist's Field Guide
Common Sense Principles for Troubled Times
Robert H. Frank
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,  2009
Hardback: 240 pp. $26, C$32.95. ISBN 9780465015115.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

An Edible History of Humanity
Tom Standage
Walker, New York,  2009
Hardback: 285 pp., illus. $26. ISBN 9780802715883.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Eel
Richard Schweid
Reaktion, London,  2009
Paperback: 184 pp., illus. $19.95. ISBN 9781861894236.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Animal.

The Ego Tunnel
The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self
Thomas Metzinger
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,  2009
Hardback: 286 pp., illus. $24.50, C$32. ISBN 9780465045679.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Empires of the Silk Road
A History of Central Eurasia from the Bronze Age to the Present
Christopher I. Beckwith
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 500 pp. $35, £19.95. ISBN 9780691135892.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The End Is Nigh
A History of Natural Disasters
Henrik Svensen
Reaktion, London,  2009
Hardback: 238 pp., illus. $30. ISBN 9781861894335.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Environmentalism in Popular Culture
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural
Noël Sturgeon
University of Arizona Press, Tucson,  2009
Paperback: 240 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780816525812.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Euro
The Politics of the New Global Currency
David Marsh
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 352 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780300127300.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

First Peoples in a New World
Colonizing Ice Age America
David J. Meltzer
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 464 pp., illus. $29.95, £17.95. ISBN 9780520250529.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Fluoride Wars
How a Modest Public Health Measure Became America's Longest-Running Political Melodrama
R. Allan Freeze and Jay H. Lehr
Wiley, Hoboken, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 393 pp. $40. ISBN 9780470448335.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Food and Nutrition Controversies Today
A Reference Guide
Myrna Chandler Goldstein and Mark A. Goldstein
Greenwood, New York,  2009
Hardback: 255 pp., illus. $49.95, £34.95. ISBN 9780313354021.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Free from Lies
Discovering Your True Needs
Alice Miller
Norton, New York,  2009
Hardback: 282 pp. $24.95, C$31. ISBN 9780393069136.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Fresh
A Perishable History
Susanne Freidberg
Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 414 pp., illus. $27.95. ISBN 9780674032910.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Going to Extremes
How Like Minds Unite and Divide
Cass R. Sunstein
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 207 pp. $21.95. ISBN 9780195378016.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Handbook to Life in Prehistoric Europe
Jane McIntosh
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 416 pp., illus. $24.95. ISBN 9780195384765.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Heart of Power
Health and Politics in the Oval Office
David Blumenthal and James A. Morone
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 494 pp., illus. $26.95. ISBN 9780520260306.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Horse in Human History
Pita Kelekna
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
Paperback: 476 pp., illus. $27.99. ISBN 9780521736299.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

How Do You Know?
The Economics of Ordinary Knowledge
Russell Hardin
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 240 pp. $35, £19.95. ISBN 9780691137551.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

How Sex Works
Why We Look, Smell, Taste, Feel, and Act the Way We Do
Sharon Moalem
Harper (HarperCollins), New York,  2009
Hardback: 288 pp. $26.99. ISBN 9780061479656.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Human Career
Human Biological and Cultural Origins. 3rd ed.
Richard G. Klein
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 1019 pp., illus. $75, £51.50. ISBN 9780226439655.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Human Lineage
Matt Cartmill and Fred H. Smith
Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA,  2009
Hardback: 623 pp., illus. $100. ISBN 9780471214915.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Foundations of Human Biology.

Human Sexuality
3rd ed.
Simon LeVay and Janice Baldwin
Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA,  2009
Hardback: 739 pp., illus. $104.95. ISBN 9780878934249.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Images of the Wildman in Southeast Asia
An Anthropological Perspective
Gregory Forth
Routledge, London,  2009
Hardback: 359 pp., illus. $95. ISBN 9780710313546.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

In Mortal Hands
A Cautionary History of the Nuclear Age
Stephanie Cooke
Bloomsbury, New York,  2009
Hardback: 496 pp. $27. ISBN 9781596916173.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Interactional Instinct
The Evolution and Acquisition of Language
Namhee Lee et al.
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 243 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9780195384246.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 243 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780195384239.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Introduction to Energy in California
Peter Asmus
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 437 pp., illus. $50, £29.95. ISBN 9780520257528.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 437 pp., illus. $18.95, £11.50. ISBN 9780520257511.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
California Natural History Guides, 97.

Invented Knowledge
False History, Fake Science and Pseudo-Religions
Ronald H. Fritze
Reaktion, London,  2009
Hardback: 304 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9781861894304.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Invisible Hook
The Hidden Economics of Pirates
Peter T. Leeson
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 287 pp., illus. $24.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780691137476.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Island in a Storm
A Rising Sea, a Vanishing Coast, and a Nineteenth-Century Disaster that Warns of a Warmer World
Abby Sallenger
PublicAffairs (Perseus), New York,  2009
Hardback: 296 pp., illus. $24.95. ISBN 9781586485153.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Karl Bodmer
A Swiss Artist in America 1809-1893
North American Native Museum and Hartwig Isernhagen, Eds.
Scheidegger and Spiess, Zürich,  2009
Hardback: 207 pp., illus. $60. ISBN 9783858812360.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism
Cathy Gere
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 287 pp., illus. $27.50, £19. ISBN 9780226289533.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Language Complexity as an Evolving Variable
Geoffrey Sampson, David Gil, and Peter Trudgill, Eds.
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 324 pp. $45.95. ISBN 9780199545223.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Studies in the Evolution of Language, 13.

The Link
Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
Colin Tudge, with Josh Young
Little, Brown (Hachette Book Group USA), New York,  2009
Hardback: 272 pp., illus. $25.99. ISBN 9780316070089.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Localist Movements in a Global Economy
Sustainability, Justice, and Urban Development in the United States
David J. Hess
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 333 pp. $59, £32.95. ISBN 9780262012645.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 333 pp. $25, £16.95. ISBN 9780262512329.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Urban and Industrial Environments.

Masters of Sex
The Life and Times of William Masters and Virginia Johnson, the Couple Who Taught America How to Love
Thomas Maier
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,  2009
Hardback: 423 pp., illus. $27.50, C$32. ISBN 9780465003075.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Minerva's Owl
The Tradition of Western Political Thought
Jeffrey Abramson
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 398 pp. $29.95. ISBN 9780674032651.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Mirroring People
The Science of Empathy and How We Connect with Others
Marco Iacoboni
Picador (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New York,  2009
Paperback: 328 pp. $15, C$19. ISBN 9780312428389.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

Modern American Environmentalists
A Biographical Encyclopedia
George A. Cevasco and Richard P. Harmond, Eds.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 575 pp. $110. ISBN 9780801891526.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Modern Period
Menstruation in Twentieth-Century America
Lara Freidenfelds
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 252 pp., illus. $60. ISBN 9780801892455.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Motherless State
Women's Political Leadership and American Democracy
Eileen McDonagh
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 354 pp., illus. $75, £51. ISBN 9780226514543.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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The Nature of Cities
Ecological Visions and the American Urban Professions, 1920-1960
Jennifer S. Light
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 322 pp., illus. $60. ISBN 9780801891366.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Obelisk
A History
Brian A. Curran et al.
Burndy Library, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Paperback: 384 pp., illus. $27.95. ISBN 9780262512701.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Burndy Library Publications, new ser., no. 2.

On the Origin of Stories
Evolution, Cognition, and Fiction
Brian Boyd
Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 554 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780674033573.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

On the Origins of Cognitive Science
The Mechanization of the Mind
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Paperback: 238 pp. $25, £16.95. ISBN 9780262512398.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Translated from the French edition (Paris, 1994) by M. B. DeBevoise. Reprint, 2000 ed.

The Once and Future New York
Historic Preservation and the Modern City
Randall Mason
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis,  2009
Paperback: 343 pp., illus. $27.95. ISBN 9780816656042.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Operation Bite Back
Rod Coronado's War to Save American Wilderness
Dean Kuipers
Bloomsbury, New York,  2009
Hardback: 320 pp. $25. ISBN 9781596914582.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Palaces of the Ancient New World
A Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks, 10th and 11th October 1998
Susan Toby Evans and Joanne Pillsbury, Eds.
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, DC,  2009
Paperback: 424 pp., illus. $19.95. ISBN 9780884023418.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Parentonomics
An Economist Dad Looks at Parenting
Joshua Gans
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 251 pp. $22.95. ISBN 9780262012782.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Paws and Effect
The Healing Power of Dogs
Sharon Sakson
Spiegel and Grau (Random House), New York,  2009
Paperback: 275 pp., illus. $15, C$17.50. ISBN 9780385528566.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2007 ed.

Pensions, Social Security, and the Privatization of Risk
Mitchell A. Orenstein, Ed.
Columbia University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 137 pp., illus. $55, £39.50. ISBN 9780231146944.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 137 pp., illus. $18, £13. ISBN 9780231146951.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Columbia University Press and Social Science Research Council Series on the Privatization of Risk.

Personality
What Makes You the Way You Are
Daniel Nettle
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 304 pp. $14.95, £7.99. ISBN 9780199211432.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint 2007 ed.

Pineapple Culture
A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones
Gary Y. Okihiro
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 269 pp., illus. $24.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780520255135.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Th Playful Brain
Venturing to the Limits of Neuroscience
Sergio Pellis and Vivien Pellis
Oneworld, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 287 pp., illus. $29.95, £19.99. ISBN 9781851686322.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Playful Brain
Venturing to the Limits of Neuroscience
Sergio Pellis and Vivien Pellis
Oneworld, Oxford,  2009
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Policy and Performance in American Higher Education
An Examination of Cases Across State Systems
Richard Richardson, Jr. and Mario Martinez
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
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The Political Mind
A Cognitive Scientist's Guide to Your Brain and Its Politics
George Lakoff
Penguin, New York,  2009
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The Politics of Climate Change
Anthony Giddens
Polity, Cambridge,  2009
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The Politics of Food Supply
U.S. Agricultural Policy in the World Economy
Bill Winders
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
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The Politics of Global Regulation
Walter Mattli and Ngaire Woods, Eds.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Portfolios of the Poor
How the World's Poor Live on $2 a Day
Daryl Collins et al.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Basic Science and Clinical Practice
Priyattam J. Shiromani, Terence M. Keane, and Joseph E. LeDoux, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Predictably Irrational
The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. 2nd ed.
Dan Ariely
Harper (HarperCollins), New York,  2009
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The Prehistory of Language
Rudolf Botha and Chris Knight, Eds.
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Studies in the Evolution of Language, 11.

Principles of Synthetic Intelligence
PSI: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition
Joscha Bach
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures.

Psychology
Pythagoras to Present
John C. Malone
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Resolving Messy Policy Problems
Handling Conflict in Environmental, Transport, Health and Ageing Policy
Steven Ney
Earthscan, London,  2009
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Resolving Messy Policy Problems.

Righteous Dopefiend
Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
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California Series in Public Anthropology.

The Rise of Homo sapiens
The Evolution of Modern Thinking
Frederick L. Coolidge and Thomas Wynn
Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA,  2009
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Sacred Desire
Growing in Compassionate Living
Nancy K. Morrison and Sally K. Severino
Templeton Foundation Press, Philadelphia,  2009
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Schoolhouses, Courthouses, and Statehouses
Solving the Funding-Achievement Puzzle in America's Public Schools
Eric A. Hanushek and Alfred A. Lindseth
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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The Science of God
The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdom
Gerald Schroeder
Free Press (Simon and Schuster), New York,  2009
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Sex and War
How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World
Malcolm Potts and Thomas Hayden
BenBella, Dallas,  2009
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The Slave Next Door
Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today
Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
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Small Wonder
The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory
Jonathan Zimmerman
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
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A Smart Energy Policy
An Economist's Rx for Balancing Cheap, Clean, and Secure Energy
James M. Griffin
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
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Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing
Living in the Future
Charles Bowden
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston,  2009
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The South Beach Diet Super Charged
Faster Weight Loss and Better Health for Life
Arthur Agatston, with Joseph Signorile
St. Martin's Griffin, New York,  2009
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Spent
Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
Geoffrey Miller
Viking (Penguin), New York,  2009
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Squeezed
What You Don't Know About Orange Juice
Alissa Hamilton
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
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Tactical Media
Rita Raley
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis,  2009
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Taming the River
Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities
Camille Z. Charles et al.
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Thank God for Evolution
How the Marriage of Science and Religion Will Transform Your Life and Our World
Michael Dowd
Plume (Penguin Group USA), New York,  2009
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The Three Cultures
Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, and the Humanities in the 21st Century
Jerome Kagan
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
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Total Cure
The Antidote to the Health Care Crisis
Harold S. Luft
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2008
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Toward Sustainable Communities
Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy. 2nd ed.
Daniel A. Mazmanian and Michael E. Kraft, Eds.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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American and Comparative Environmental Policy.

Understanding Consciousness
2nd ed.
Max Velmans
Routledge, New York,  2009
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Unquenchable
America's Water Crisis and What to Do About It
Robert Glennon
Shearwater (Island), Washington, DC,  2009
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Unstuck
Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression
James Gordon
Penguin, New York,  2009
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Violence and Social Orders
A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History
Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Virtualpolitik
An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes
Elizabeth Losh
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 426 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780262123044.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Wednesday Is Indigo Blue
Discovering the Brain of Synesthesia
Richard E. Cytowic and David M. Eagleman
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Welcome to the Urban Revolution
How Cities Are Changing the World
Jeb Brugmann
Bloomsbury, New York,  2009
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What Color Is the Sacred?
Michael Taussig
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
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What Do You Want From Me?
Learning to Get Along with In-Laws
Terri Apter
Norton, New York,  2009
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What Is Intelligence?
Beyond the Flynn Effect. 2nd ed.
James R. Flynn
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
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What We Know About Emotional Intelligence
How It Affects Learning, Work, Relationships, and Our Mental Health
Moshe Zeidner, Gerald Matthews, and Richard D. Roberts
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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What's the Worst That Could Happen?
A Rational Response to the Climate Change Debate
Greg Craven
Perigee (Penguin Group), New York,  2009
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Wiki Government
How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful
Beth Simone Noveck
Brookings Institution, Washington, DC,  2009
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The Woman Who Can't Forget
The Extraordinary Story of Living with the Most Remarkable Memory Known to Science. A Memoir
Jill Price, with Bart Davis
Free Press (Simon and Schuster), New York,  2009
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Applied Geostatistics with SGeMS
A User's Guide
Nicolas Remy, Alexandre Boucher, and Jianbing Wu
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
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Biomeasurement
A Student's Guide to Biological Statistics. 2nd ed.
Dawn Hawkins
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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The Bounds of Reason
Game Theory and the Unification of the Behavioral Sciences
Herbert Gintis
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Computational Complexity
A Modern Approach
Sanjeev Arora and Boaz Barak
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 603 pp., illus. $55. ISBN 9780521424264.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Computational Modelling in Behavioural Neuroscience
Closing the Gap Between Neurophysiology and Behaviour
Dietmar Heinke and Eirini Mavritsaki, Eds.
Psychology Press (Taylor and Francis), New York,  2009
Hardback: 374 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9781841697383.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Advances in Behavioural Brain Science.

Computational Systems Biology
Jason McDermott et al., Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 541.

The Drunkard's Walk
How Randomness Rules Our Lives
Leonard Mlodinow
Vintage (Random House), New York,  2009
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Essentials of Wireless Mesh Networking
Steve Methley
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Cambridge Wireless Essentials.

The Genie in the Machine
How Computer-Automated Inventing Is Revolutionizing Law and Business
Robert Plotkin
Stanford Law Books (Stanford University Press), Stanford, CA,  2009
Hardback: 280 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780804756990.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Indeterminacy
The Mapped, the Navigable, and the Uncharted
Jose V. Ciprut, Ed.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Paperback: 399 pp. $37, £23.95. ISBN 9780262533119.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Information Foraging Theory
Adaptive Interaction with Information
Peter Pirolli
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Markov Chains and Stochastic Stability
2nd ed.
Sean Meyn and Richard L. Tweedie
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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A Mathematical Nature Walk
John A. Adam
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 271 pp., illus. $27.95. ISBN 9780691128955.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Mathematics in 10 Lessons
The Grand Tour
Jerry P. King
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Paperback: 394 pp., illus. $18.95. ISBN 9781591026860.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

MATLAB
A Practical Introduction to Programming and Problem Solving
Stormy Attaway
Butterworth-Heinemann (Elsevier), Burlington, MA,  2009
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Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R
Alain F. Zuur et al.
Springer, New York,  2009
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The Monty Hall Problem
The Remarkable Story of Math's Most Contentious Brain Teaser
Jason Rosenhouse
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Multimedia Networking
From Theory to Practice
Jenq-Neng Hwang
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Nanocomputing
Computational Physics for Nanoscience and Nantechnology
James J. Y. Hsu
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2009
Hardback: 382 pp., illus. $135, £101. ISBN 9789814241267.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945
Lars Heide
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
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Studies in Industry and Science.

Pythagoras' Revenge
A Mathematical Mystery
Arturo Sangalli
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Quantum Information
Stephen M. Barnett
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Paperback: 312 pp., illus. £24.95. ISBN 9780198527633.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Oxford Master Series in Atomic, Optical, and Laser Physics.

Simulation and Its Discontents
Sherry Turkle
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 221 pp., illus. $22, £14.95. ISBN 9780262012706.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life.

SpecLab
Digital Aesthetics and Projects in Speculative Computing
Johanna Drucker
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 261 pp., illus. $70, £48.50. ISBN 9780226165073.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Statistics
A Very Short Introduction
David J. Hand
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 135 pp., illus. $11.95, £7.99. ISBN 9780199233564.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Very Short Introductions.

Tactical Media
Rita Raley
University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis,  2009
Hardback: 208 pp., illus. $58.50. ISBN 9780816651504.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 208 pp., illus. $19.50. ISBN 9780816651511.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Electronic Mediations.

TinyOS Programming
Philip Levis and David Gay
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
Paperback: 280 pp., illus. $55. ISBN 9780521896061.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Virtualpolitik
An Electronic History of Government Media-Making in a Time of War, Scandal, Disaster, Miscommunication, and Mistakes
Elizabeth Losh
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 426 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780262123044.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Wiki Government
How Technology Can Make Government Better, Democracy Stronger, and Citizens More Powerful
Beth Simone Noveck
Brookings Institution, Washington, DC,  2009
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Advanced Biological Treatment Processes
Lawrence K. Wang, Nazih K.Shammas, and Yung-Tse Hung, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Handbook of Environmental Engineering, vol. 9.

Animal Osmoregulation
Timothy J. Bradley
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Oxford Animal Biology.

Antiviral Research
Strategies in Antiviral Drug Discovery
Robert L. LaFemina, Ed.
ASM Press, Washington, DC,  2009
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Astrocytes in (Patho)Physiology of the Nervous System
Vladimir Parpura and Philip G. Haydon, Eds.
Springer, New York,  2009
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Bioinformatics for DNA Sequence Analysis
David Posada, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 537.

Bioinformatics for Systems Biology
Stephen Krawetz, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Biosensors and Biodetection
Methods and Protocols. Vol. 2, Electrochemical and Mechanical Detectors, Lateral Flow and Ligands for Biosensors
Avraham Rasooly and Keith E. Herold, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 504.

Biosensors and Biodetection
Methods and Protocols. Vol. 1, Optical-Based Detectors
Avraham Rasooly and Keith E. Herold, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 503.

Brain-Mind Machinery
Brain-Inspired Computing and Mind Opening
Gee-Wah Ng
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 383 pp., illus. $72. ISBN 9789812790255.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Cell
A Molecular Approach. 5th ed.
Geoffrey M. Cooper and Robert E. Hausman
Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA,  2009
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Copublished with ASM Press, Washington, DC.

Cell-Based Assays for High-Throughput Screening
Methods and Protocols
Paul A. Clemons, Nicola J. Tolliday, and Bridget K. Wagner, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 486.

Chromatin Protocols
2nd ed.
Srikumar P. Chellappan, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 523.

Clinical Virology Manual
4th ed.
Steven Specter et al., Eds.
ASM Press, Washington, DC,  2009
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Computational Modelling in Behavioural Neuroscience
Closing the Gap Between Neurophysiology and Behaviour
Dietmar Heinke and Eirini Mavritsaki, Eds.
Psychology Press (Taylor and Francis), New York,  2009
Hardback: 374 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9781841697383.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Advances in Behavioural Brain Science.

Computational Systems Biology
Jason McDermott et al., Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 541.

Computing the Mind
How the Mind Really Works
Shimon Edelman
Oxford University Press, New York,  2008
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Cortico-Subcortical Dynamics in Parkinson's Disease
Kuei-Yuan Tseng, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Contemporary Neuroscience.

The Crucible of Consciousness
An Integrated Theory of Mind and Brain
Zoltan Torey
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Paperback: 263 pp., illus. $34, £21.95. ISBN 9780262512848.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

DNA Microarrays for Biomedical Research
Methods and Protocols
Martin Dufva, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 529.

DNA Replication
Methods and Protocols
Sonya Vengrova and Jacob Z. Dalgaard, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 521.

DNA-Protein Interactions
Principles and Protocols. 3rd ed.
Tom Moss and Benoît Leblanc, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 543.

The Elusive Malaria Vaccine
Miracle or Mirage?
Irwin W. Sherman
ASM Press, Washington, DC,  2009
Hardback: 401 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9781555815158.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Epitope Mapping Protocols
2nd ed.
Ulrich Reineke and Mike Schutkowski, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 524.

Essential Cell Biology
3rd ed.
Bruce Alberts et al.
Garland Science (Taylor and Francis), New York,  2009
Hardback: 864 pp., illus. + CD-ROM. $135. ISBN 9780815341291.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Ethics of Protocells
Moral and Social Implications of Creating Life in the Laboratory
Mark A. Bedau and Emily C. Parke, Eds.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Basic Bioethics.

Expressed Sequence Tags (ESTs)
Generation and Analysis
John Parkinson, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 533.

Extracellular Matrix Protocols
2nd ed.
Sharona Even-Ram and Vira V. Artym, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 522.

Fixing My Gaze
A Scientist's Journey into Seeing in Three Dimensions
Susan R. Barry
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,  2009
Hardback: 265 pp., illus. $26, C$32.95. ISBN 9780465009138.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Food-Borne Microbes
Shaping the Host Ecosystem
Lee-Ann Jaykus, Hua H. Wang, and Larry S. Schlesinger, Eds.
ASM Press, Washington, DC,  2009
Hardback: 407 pp., illus. $159.95. ISBN 9781555814052.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Forms of Becoming
The Evolutionary Biology of Development
Alessandro Minelli
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 242 pp., illus. $27.95, £16.95. ISBN 9780691135687.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Translated from the Italian edition (Torino, 2007) by Mark Epstein.

The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent
Why We See So Well
Lynne A. Isbell
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 221 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9780674033016.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Functional Selectivity of G Protein-Coupled Receptor Ligands
New Opportunities for Drug Discovery
Kim A. Neve, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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The Receptors.

Fundamental Concepts in Biophysics
Vol. 1
Thomas Jue, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Handbook of Modern Biophysics.

Gene Knockout Protocols
2nd ed.
Ralf Kühn and Wolfgang Wurst, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 530.

Gene Therapy of Cancer
Methods and Protocols. 2nd ed.
Wolfgang Walther and Ulrike S. Stein, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 542.

Genetic Analysis
A History of Genetic Thinking
Raphael Falk
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 344 pp., illus. $90. ISBN 9780521884181.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology.

Glycomics
Methods and Protocols
Nicolle H. Packer and Niclas G. Karlsson, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 403 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781588297747.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 534.

Go Ask Your Father
One Man's Obsession with Finding His Origins Through DNA Testing
Lennard J. Davis
Bantam (Random House), New York,  2009
Hardback: 239 pp., illus. $25, C$28.95. ISBN 9780553805512.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Horizontal Gene Transfer
Genomes in Flux
Maria Boekels Gogarten, Johann Peter Gogarten, and Lorraine Olendzenski, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 532.

Hormones and Brain Plasticity
Luis Miguel Garcia-Segura
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 496 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 9780195326611.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Oxford Series in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology.

Hormones and Brain Plasticity
Luis Miguel Garcia-Segura
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 496 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 9780195326611.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Oxford Series in Behavioral Neuroendocrinology.

Imaging Dopamine
Paul Cumming
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 356 pp., illus. $140. ISBN 9780521790024.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Immunology
Clinical Case Studies and Disease Pathophysiology
Warren Strober and Susan R. S. Gottesman
Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA,  2009
Paperback: 417 pp., illus. $50. ISBN 9780471326595.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Machinery of Life
2nd ed.
David S. Goodsell
Copernicus (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 179 pp., illus. $29. ISBN 9780387849249.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Macrophages and Dendritic Cells
Methods and Protocols
Neil E. Reiner, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 531.

Maternal Effects in Mammals
Dario Maestripieri and Jill M. Mateo, Eds.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
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Membrane Proteomics
Methods and Protocols
Matthew J. Peirce and Robin Wait, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 528.

Memory and the Computational Brain
Why Cognitive Science Will Transform Neuroscience
C. R. Gallistel and Adam Philip King
Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA,  2009
Paperback: 335 pp., illus. $50. ISBN 1405122889.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Blackwell/Maryland Lectures in Language and Cognition.

Mirroring People
The Science of Empathy and How We Connect with Others
Marco Iacoboni
Picador (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), New York,  2009
Paperback: 328 pp. $15, C$19. ISBN 9780312428389.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

The Molecular Organography of Plants
Quentin Cronk
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 271 pp., illus. £75. ISBN 9780199550357.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Neural Cell Transplantation
Methods and Protocols
Neil J. Scolding and David Gordon, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 549.

The Neural Crest and Neural Crest Cells in Vertebrate Development and Evolution
Brian K. Hall
Springer, New York,  2009
Hardback: 422 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9780387098456.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Not a Chimp
The Hunt to Find the Genes That Make Us Human
Jeremy Taylor
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 354 pp., illus. £16.99. ISBN 9780199227785.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Nucleic Acid and Peptide Aptamers
Methods and Protocols
Günter Mayer, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 535.

On the Origins of Cognitive Science
The Mechanization of the Mind
Jean-Pierre Dupuy
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Paperback: 238 pp. $25, £16.95. ISBN 9780262512398.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Translated from the French edition (Paris, 1994) by M. B. DeBevoise. Reprint, 2000 ed.

Opiate Receptors and Antagonists
From Bench to Clinic
Reginald L. Dean III, Edward J. Bilsky, and S. Stevens Negus, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 781 pp., illus. $149. ISBN 9781588298812.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Contemporary Neuroscience.

Panic in Level 4
Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science
Richard Preston
Random House Trade Paperbacks, New York,  2009
Paperback: 235 pp., illus. $15, C$17.50. ISBN 9780812975604.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

Phospho-Proteomics
Methods and Protocols
Marjo de Graauw, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 340 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9781603278331.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 527.

Plant Genomics
Methods and Protocols
Daryl J. Somers, Peter Langridge, and J. Perry Gustafson, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 372 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781588299970.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 513.

Plastid Biology
Kevin Pyke
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Th Playful Brain
Venturing to the Limits of Neuroscience
Sergio Pellis and Vivien Pellis
Oneworld, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 287 pp., illus. $29.95, £19.99. ISBN 9781851686322.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

A Primer of Genome Science
3rd ed.
Greg Gibson and Spencer V. Muse
Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA,  2009
Paperback: 384 pp., illus. $69.95. ISBN 9780878932368.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Principles of Synthetic Intelligence
PSI: An Architecture of Motivated Cognition
Joscha Bach
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Oxford Series on Cognitive Models and Architectures.

Protein Blotting and Detection
Methods and Protocols
Biji T. Kurien and R. Hal Scofield, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 536.

Regulatory Networks in Stem Cells
Vinagolu K. Rajasekhar and Mohan C. Vemuri, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.

Renal Cell Carcinoma
Molecular Targets and Clinical Applications. 2nd ed.
Ronald M. Bukowski, Robert A. Figlin, and Robert J. Motzer, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 523 pp., illus. $169. ISBN 9781588297372.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Riboswitches
Methods and Protocols
Alexander Serganov, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 540.

Seasons of Life
The Biological Rhythms that Enable Living Things to Thrive and Survive
Russell G. Foster and Leon Kreitzman
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 315 pp., illus. $28. ISBN 9780300115567.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Signature in the Cell
DNA and the Evidence for Intelligent Design
Stephen C. Meyer
HarperOne (HarperCollins), San Francisco,  2009
Hardback: 621 pp., illus. $28.99. ISBN 9780061472787.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Sperm Biology
An Evolutionary Perspective
Tim R. Birkhead, David J. Hosken,and Scott Pitnick, Eds.
Academic (Elsevier Science), San Diego,  2009
Hardback: 674 pp., illus. $79.95. ISBN 9780123725684.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Systems Biology
Ivan V. Maly, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 512 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781934115640.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 500.

Telomeres and Telomerase in Cancer
Keiko Hiyama, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 385 pp., illus. $159. ISBN 9781603273060.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Cancer Drug Discovery and Development.

Textbook of Structural Biology
Anders Liljas et al.
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 580 pp., illus. + CD-ROM. $128, £96. ISBN 9789812772077.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Therapeutic Antibodies
Methods and Protocols
Antony S. Dimitrov, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 603 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781934115923.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 525.

Toll-Like Receptors
Methods and Protocols
Claire E. McCoy and Luke A. J. O'Neill, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 461 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781934115725.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 517.

Trends in Stem Cell Biology and Technology
Hossein Baharvand, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 433 pp., illus. $159. ISBN 9781603279048.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Untangling the Double Helix
DNA Entanglement and the Action of the DNA Topoisomerases
James C. Wang
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY,  2009
Paperback: 245 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9780879698799.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Viral Applications of Green Fluorescent Protein
Methods and Protocols
Barry W. Hicks, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 369 pp., illus. + CD-ROM. $109. ISBN 9781934115879.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 515.

Wetware
A Computer in Every Living Cell
Dennis Bray
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Hardback: 279 pp., illus. $28, £18.99. ISBN 9780300141733.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

What a Time I Am Having
Selected Letters of Max Perutz
Vivien Perutz, Ed.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY,  2009
Hardback: 536 pp., illus. $39. ISBN 9780879698645.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

What Is Life?
Investigating the Nature of Life in the Age of Synthetic Biology
Ed Regis
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 208 pp. $13.95. ISBN 9780195383416.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Year in Cognitive Neuroscience 2009
Michael B. Miller and Alan Kingstone, Eds.
Blackwell, Malden, MA,  2009
Paperback: 303 pp., illus. $150. ISBN 9781573317528.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Published on behalf of the New York Academy of Sciences. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 1156.

Zebrafish
Methods and Protocols
Graham J. Lieschke, Andrew C. Oates, and Koichi Kawakami, Eds.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
Hardback: 347 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9781603279765.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 546.


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Agenda for a Sustainable America
John C. Dernbach, Ed.
ELI Press, Washington, DC,  2009
Paperback: 537 pp., illus. $52.95. ISBN 9781585761333.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Alexander von Humboldt
The Botanicals of America
H. Walter Lack
Prestel, Munich,  2009
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Animal Behavior
An Evolutionary Approach. 9th ed.
John Alcock
Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA,  2009
Paperback: 618 pp., illus. $84.95. ISBN 9780878932252.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Annotated Origin
A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin. Annotated by James T. Costa
Belknap Press of the Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 569 pp. $35. ISBN 9780674032811.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Balance of Nature
Ecology's Enduring Myth
John Kricher
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 251 pp. $24.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780691138985.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Beanworld
Book 1: Wahoolazuma!
Larry Marder
Dark Horse, Milwaukie, OR,  2009
Hardback: 272 pp., illus. $19.95. ISBN 9781595822406.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Bears
A Year in the Life
Matthais Breiter
Firefly, Buffalo,  2009
Paperback: 176 pp., illus. $24.95. ISBN 9781554074617.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Bioeconomics of Invasive Species
Integrating Ecology, Economics, Policy, and Management
Reuben P. Keller et al., Eds.
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 314 pp., illus. $49.95. ISBN 9780195367973.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Bioeconomy to 2030
Designing a Policy Agenda
International Futures Programme
OECD, Paris,  2009
Paperback: 322 pp., illus. ISBN 9789264038530.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Biological Control of Tropical Weeds Using Arthropods
Rangaswamy Muniappan, Gadi V. P. Reddy, and Anantanarayanan Raman, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 507 pp., illus. $140. ISBN 9780521877916.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Biology of Alpine Habitats
Laszlo Nagy and Georg Grabherr
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 388 pp., illus. $55. ISBN 9780198567042.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Biology of Habitats.

Birds of Europe, Russia, China, and Japan
Non-Passerines: Loons to Woodpeckers
Norman Arlott
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Paperback: 240 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780691136851.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Princeton Illustrated Checklists.

Birds of Pakistan
Richard Grimmett, Tom Roberts, and Tim Inskipp
Yale University Press, New Haven, CT,  2009
Paperback: 256 pp., illus. $40. ISBN 9780300152494.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Copublished with Christopher Helm, London. Helm Field Guides.

Birds of the Horn of Africa
Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, and Socotra
Nigel Redman, Terry Stevenson, and John Fanshawe
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Paperback: 496 pp., illus. $40. ISBN 9780691143453.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Princeton Field Guides.

Birdsong by the Seasons
A Year of Listening to Birds
Donald Kroodsma. Drawings by Nancy Haver
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston,  2009
Hardback: 382 pp., illus. + CD-ROM. $28. ISBN 9780618753369.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

California Plant Families
West of the Sierran Crest and Deserts
Glenn Keator
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 223 pp., illus. $65, £38.95. ISBN 9780520237094.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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Charles Darwin's Shorter Publications
1829-1883
John van Wyhe, Ed.
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
Hardback: 555 pp., illus. $160. ISBN 9780521888097.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Cold-Water Corals
The Biology and Geology of Deep-Sea Coral Habitats
J. Murray Roberts et al.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 350 pp., illus. $125. ISBN 9780521884853.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Conflict Over Environmental Regulation in the United States
Origins, Outcomes, and Comparisons with the EU and Other Regions
Frank T. Manheim
Springer, New York,  2009
Hardback: 335 pp., illus. $59.95. ISBN 9780387758763.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Conservation Refugees
The Hundred-Year Conflict Between Global Conservation and Native Peoples
Mark Dowie
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
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Cork Oak Woodlands on the Edge
Ecology, Adaptive Management, and Restoration
James Aronson, Joao S. Pereira, and Juli G. Pausas, Eds.
Island, Washington, DC,  2009
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Society for Ecological Restoration International.

Critical Transitions in Nature and Society
Marten Scheffer
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Princeton Studies in Complexity.

The Dangerous World of Butterflies
The Startling Subculture of Criminals, Collectors, and Conservationists
Peter Laufer
Lyons (Globe Pequot), Guilford, CT,  2009
Hardback: 288 pp. $24.95, C$29.95. ISBN 9781599215556.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Darwin Myth
The Life and Lies of Charles Darwin
Benjamin Wiker
Regnery, Washington, DC,  2009
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Darwinian Populations and Natural Selection
Peter Godfrey-Smith
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 217 pp., illus. $55. ISBN 9780199552047.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Dragonflies and Damselflies of the West
Dennis Paulson
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
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Princeton Field Guides.

Early Life History of Marine Fishes
Bruce S. Miller and Arthur W. Kendall Jr.
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 276 pp., illus. $60, £41.95. ISBN 9780520249721.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Ecological Revolution
Making Peace with the Planet
John Bellamy Foster
Monthly Review Press, New York,  2009
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Ecology and Conservation of the San Pedro River
Juliet C. Stromberg and Barbara Tellman, Eds.
University of Arizona Press, Tucson,  2009
Hardback: 543 pp., illus. $85. ISBN 9780816527526.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Ecology of Fragmented Landscapes
Sharon K. Collinge
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 356 pp., illus. $70. ISBN 9780801891380.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Ecology of Marine Sediments
From Science to Management. 2nd ed.
John S. Gray and Michael Elliott
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 239 pp., illus. $60. ISBN 9780198569022.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans
Karen McLeod and Heather Leslie, Eds.
Island, Washington, DC,  2009
Hardback: 391 pp., illus. $90. ISBN 9781597261548.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
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The Edge of the Sea of Cortez
Tidewalkers' Guide to the Upper Gulf of California
Betty Hupp and Marilyn Malone
Operculum, Tucson, AZ,  2009
Paperback: 96 pp., illus. $27.95. ISBN 9780615248288.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Eel
Richard Schweid
Reaktion, London,  2009
Paperback: 184 pp., illus. $19.95. ISBN 9781861894236.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Animal.

Environmentalism in Popular Culture
Gender, Race, Sexuality, and the Politics of the Natural
Noël Sturgeon
University of Arizona Press, Tucson,  2009
Paperback: 240 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780816525812.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Evolution
2nd ed.
Douglas J. Futuyma
Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA,  2009
Hardback: 716 pp., illus. $108.95. ISBN 9780878932238.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Evolution of Obesity
Michael L. Power and Jay Schulkin
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 404 pp., illus. $40. ISBN 9780801892622.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Extinction in Our Times
Global Amphibian Decline
James P. Collins and Martha L. Crump
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 295 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780195316940.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Falconer on the Edge
A Man, His Birds, and the Vanishing Landscape of the American West
Rachel Dickinson
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston,  2009
Hardback: 240 pp. $24. ISBN 9780618806232.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Flora of Great Britain and Ireland
Vol. 3, Mimosaceae - Lentibulariaceae
Peter Sell and Gina Murrell
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 623 pp., illus. $260. ISBN 9780521553377.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Flower Hunters
Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 342 pp., illus. £9.99. ISBN 9780199561827.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Flower Hunters
Mary Gribbin and John Gribbin
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Form and Function in Developmental Evolution
Manfred D. Laubichler and Jane Maienschein, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 252 pp., illus. $90. ISBN 9780521872683.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Biology.

Forms of Becoming
The Evolutionary Biology of Development
Alessandro Minelli
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 242 pp., illus. $27.95, £16.95. ISBN 9780691135687.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Translated from the Italian edition (Torino, 2007) by Mark Epstein.

The Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent
Why We See So Well
Lynne A. Isbell
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 221 pp., illus. $45. ISBN 9780674033016.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

A General History of Quadrupeds
The Figures Engraved on Wood
Thomas Bewick
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 538 pp., illus. $55, £38. ISBN 9780226044811.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 538 pp., illus. $19, £13. ISBN 9780226044804.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Guide and Reference to the Amphibians of Western North America (North of Mexico) and Hawaii
R. D. Bartlett and Patricia P. Bartlett
University Press of Florida, Gainesville,  2009
Paperback: 237 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780813032986.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Guide and Reference to the Snakes of Western North America (North of Mexico) and Hawaii
R. D. Bartlett and Patricia P. Bartlett
University Press of Florida, Gainesville,  2009
Paperback: 296 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780813033013.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Guide and Reference to the Turtles and Lizards of Western North America (North of Mexico) and Hawaii
R. D. Bartlett and Patricia P. Bartlett
University Press of Florida, Gainesville,  2009
Paperback: 335 pp., illus. $29.95. ISBN 9780813033129.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Hope Is the Thing with Feathers
A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
Christopher Cokinos
Tarcher (Putnam), New York,  2009
Paperback: 381 pp.. $16.95. ISBN 9781585427222.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2000 ed.

How Women Got Their Curves and Other Just-So Stories
Evolutionary Enigmas
David P. Barash and Judith Eve Lipton
Columbia University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 224 pp., illus. $29.95, £17.95. ISBN 9780231146647.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Human Career
Human Biological and Cultural Origins. 3rd ed.
Richard G. Klein
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 1019 pp., illus. $75, £51.50. ISBN 9780226439655.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Human Impacts on Salt Marshes
A Global Perspective
Brian R. Silliman, Edwin D. Grosholz, and Mark D. Bertness, Eds.
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 429 pp., illus. $60, £41.95. ISBN 9780520258921.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Human Lineage
Matt Cartmill and Fred H. Smith
Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA,  2009
Hardback: 623 pp., illus. $100. ISBN 9780471214915.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Foundations of Human Biology.

Information Foraging Theory
Adaptive Interaction with Information
Peter Pirolli
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 216 pp., illus. $27.95. ISBN 9780195387797.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Inner World of Farm Animals
Their Amazing Social, Emotional, and Intellectual Capacities
Amy Hatkoff
Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, New York,  2009
Hardback: 176 pp., illus. $19.95, C$21.95. ISBN 9781584797487.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

James Lovelock
In Search of Gaia
John Gribbin and Mary Gribbin
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 286 pp., illus. $24.95. ISBN 9780691137506.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Large-Scale Landscape Experiments
Lessons from Tumut
David B. Lindenmayer
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
Hardback: 303 pp., illus. $150. ISBN 9780521881562.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 303 pp., illus. $69. ISBN 9780521707787.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Ecology, Biodiversity, and Conservation.

The Last Refuge of the Mt. Graham Red Squirrel
Ecology of Endangerment
H. Reed Sanderson and John L. Koprowski, Eds.
University of Arizona Press, Tucson,  2009
Hardback: 441 pp., illus. $85. ISBN 9780816527687.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Life Ascending
The Ten Great Inventions of Evolution
Nick Lane
Norton, New York,  2009
Hardback: 352 pp., illus. $26.95, C$33.50. ISBN 9780393065961.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Link
Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
Colin Tudge, with Josh Young
Little, Brown (Hachette Book Group USA), New York,  2009
Hardback: 272 pp., illus. $25.99. ISBN 9780316070089.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

A Manual of Acarology
3rd ed.
G. W. Krantz and D. E. Walter, Eds.
Texas Tech University Press, Lubbock,  2009
Hardback: 815 pp., illus. $140. ISBN 9780896726208.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Manual of Leaf Architecture
Beth Ellis et al.
Comstock (Cornell University Press), Ithaca, NY,  2009
Paperback: 198 pp., illus. $29.95, £16.50. ISBN 9780801475184.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Published in association with the New York Botanical Garden.

The Medea Hypothesis
Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?
Peter Ward
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 204 pp., illus. $24.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780691130750.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Micropropagation of Orchids
2nd ed.
Joseph Arditti
Blackwell, Malden, MA,  2009
Hardback: 2 vols. 1556 pp., illus., boxed. $475. ISBN 9781405160889.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R
Alain F. Zuur et al.
Springer, New York,  2009
Hardback: 596 pp., illus. $84.95. ISBN 9780387874579.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Modern American Environmentalists
A Biographical Encyclopedia
George A. Cevasco and Richard P. Harmond, Eds.
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 575 pp. $110. ISBN 9780801891526.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Modern Nature
The Rise of the Biological Perspective in Germany
Lynn K. Nyhart
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 437 pp., illus. $45, £31. ISBN 9780226610894.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Moths of Western North America
Jerry A. Powell and Paul A. Opler
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 383 pp., illus. $95, £65. ISBN 9780520251977.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Naming Nature
The Clash Between Instinct and Science
Carol Kaesuk Yoon
Norton, New York,  2009
Hardback: 352 pp., illus. $27.95, C$35. ISBN 9780393061970.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Nested Ecology
The Place of Humans in the Ecological Hierarchy
Edward T. Wimberley
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 259 pp. $60. ISBN 9780801891564.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 259 pp. $30. ISBN 9780801892899.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Neural Crest and Neural Crest Cells in Vertebrate Development and Evolution
Brian K. Hall
Springer, New York,  2009
Hardback: 422 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9780387098456.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Notebooks from New Guinea
Field Notes of a Tropical Biologist
Vojtech Novotny
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 268 pp., illus. £16.99. ISBN 9780199561650.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Oceanic Anglerfishes
Extraordinary Diversity in the Deep Sea
Theodore W. Pietsch
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 570 pp., illus. $85, £61. ISBN 9780520255425.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

On the Origin of Species
Charles Darwin. Jim Endersby, Ed.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 519 pp. $115. ISBN 9780521867092.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 1859 ed.

Only a Theory
Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul
Kenneth R. Miller
Penguin, New York,  2009
Paperback: 256 pp., illus. $16, C$20. ISBN 9780143115663.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Reprint, 2008 ed.

The Paleobiological Revolution
Essays on the Growth of Modern Paleontology
David Sepkoski and Michael Ruse, Eds.
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 
Hardback: 578 pp., illus. $65, £45. ISBN 9780226748610.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Palms of Southern Asia
Andrew Henderson
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 199 pp., illus. $90, £62. ISBN 9780691134499.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Princeton Field Guides.

The Phylogenetic Handbook
A Practical Approach to Phylogenetic Analysis and Hypothesis Testing. 2nd ed.
Philippe Lemey, Marco Salemi, and Anne-Mieke Vandamme, Eds.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 749 pp., illus. $130. ISBN 9780521877107.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 749 pp., illus. $59. ISBN 9780521730716.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Pineapple Culture
A History of the Tropical and Temperate Zones
Gary Y. Okihiro
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 269 pp., illus. $24.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780520255135.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Reaching the Animal Mind
Clicker Training and What It Teaches Us About All Animals
Karen Pryor
Scribner (Simon and Schuster), New York,  2009
Hardback: 269 pp. $25, C$32.99. ISBN 9780743297769.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Resource Strategies of Wild Plants
Joseph M. Craine
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 351 pp., illus. $99.50, £59.95. ISBN 9780691139111.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 351 pp., illus. $45, £26.95. ISBN 9780691139128.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Rewilding the West
Restoration in a Prairie Landscape
Richard Manning
University of California Press, Berkeley,  2009
Hardback: 237 pp. $24.95, £14.95. ISBN 9780520256583.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans
An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females
Martin N. Muller and Richard W. Wrangham, Eds.
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 495 pp., illus. $55. ISBN 9780674033245.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Sharks and Rays of Australia
2nd ed.
Peter R. Last and John D. Stevens
Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Hardback: 652 pp., illus. $100, £74.95, €90. ISBN 9780674034112.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Shorebirds of North America, Europe, and Asia
A Photographic Guide
Richard Chandler
Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,  2009
Paperback: 448 pp., illus. $35. ISBN 9780691142814.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Princeton Field Guides.

A Short History of the Honey Bee
Humans, Flowers, and Bees in the Eternal Chase for Honey
E. Readicker-Henderson. Images by Ilona
Timber, Portland, OR,  2009
Hardback: 163 pp., illus. $19.95, £14.99. ISBN 9780881929423.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Skeletal System
Olivier Pourquié, Ed.
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, Cold Spring Harbor, NY,  2009
Hardback: 373 pp., illus. $95. ISBN 9780879698256.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Snakes
Ecology and Conservation
Stephen J. Mullin and Richard A. Seigel, Eds.
Comstock (Cornell University Press), Ithaca, NY,  2009
Hardback: 379 pp., illus. $60, £33.50. ISBN 9780801445651.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Sperm Biology
An Evolutionary Perspective
Tim R. Birkhead, David J. Hosken,and Scott Pitnick, Eds.
Academic (Elsevier Science), San Diego,  2009
Hardback: 674 pp., illus. $79.95. ISBN 9780123725684.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Stephen Jay Gould and the Politics of Evolution
David F. Prindle
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Hardback: 249 pp. $26.98. ISBN 9781591027188.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Thermal Adaptation
A Theoretical and Empirical Synthesis
Michael J. Angilletta Jr.
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
Paperback: 301 pp., illus. $65. ISBN 9780198570882.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Time and Tide in Acadia
Seasons on Mount Desert Island
Christopher Camuto
Norton, New York,  2009
Hardback: 217 pp., illus. $24.95, C$31. ISBN 9780393060676.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Toward Sustainable Communities
Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy. 2nd ed.
Daniel A. Mazmanian and Michael E. Kraft, Eds.
MIT Press, Cambridge, MA,  2009
Paperback: 379 pp. $25, £36.95. ISBN 9780262512299.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
American and Comparative Environmental Policy.

The Travails of Two Woodpeckers
Ivory-Bills and Imperials
Noel F. R. Snyder, David E. Brown, and Kevin B. Clark
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque,  2009
Hardback: 184 pp., illus. $27.95. ISBN 9780826346643.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Vanishing Face of Gaia
A Final Warning
James Lovelock
Basic Books (Perseus), New York,  2009
Hardback: 288 pp. $25. ISBN 9780465015498.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Why Don't Jumbo Jets Flap Their Wings?
Flying Animals, Flying Machines, and How They Are Different
David E. Alexander
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 295 pp., illus. $26.95. ISBN 9780813544793.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Why Evolution Works (and Creationism Fails)
Matt Young and Paul K.Strode
Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 461 pp., illus. $72. ISBN 9780813545493.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 461 pp., illus. $21.95. ISBN 9780813545509.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Wild Justice
The Moral Lives of Animals
Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 204 pp., illus. $26, £18. ISBN 9780226041612.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Wild Marsh
Four Seasons at Home in Montana
Rick Bass
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Boston,  2009
Hardback: 383 pp. $26. ISBN 9780547055169.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)


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Ab Initio Molecular Dynamics
Basic Theory and Advanced Methods
Dominik Marx and Jürg Hutter
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 577 pp., illus. $80. ISBN 9780521898638.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Analogies in Physics and Life
A Scientific Autobiography
Richard M. Weiner
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 436 pp., illus. $88, £48. ISBN 9789812704702.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 436 pp., illus. $58, £31. ISBN 9789812704719.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Antiparasitic and Antibacterial Drug Discovery
From Molecular Target to Drug Candidates
Paul M. Selzer, Ed.
Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA,  2009
Hardback: 509 pp., illus. $200. ISBN 9783527323272.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Drug Discovery in Infectious Diseases.

Approaches to Quantum Gravity
Toward a New Understanding of Space, Time and Matter
Daniele Oriti, Ed.
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 603 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9780521860451.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Atmospheric Thermodynamics
Elementary Physics and Chemistry
Gerald R. North and Tatiana L. Erukhimova
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 279 pp., illus. $70. ISBN 9780521899635.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Biocatalysis
Biochemical Fundamentals and Applications
Peter Grunwald
Imperial College Press, London,  2009
Hardback: 1051 pp., illus. $154, £91. ISBN 9781860947445.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 1051 pp., illus. $81, £52. ISBN 9781860947711.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

The Boundaries of the New Frontier
Rhetoric and Communication at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Joanna S. Ploeger
University of South Carolina Press, Columbia,  2009
Hardback: 215 pp., illus. $39.95. ISBN 9781570038082.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Carbon Nanotube Science
Synthesis, Properties and Applications
Peter J. F. Harris
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 313 pp., illus. $90. ISBN 9780521828956.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

CP Violation
I. I. Bigi and A. I. Sanda
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 505 pp., illus. $160. ISBN 9780521847940.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Cambridge Monographs on Particle Physics, Nuclear Physics and Cosmology, 28.

Dynamics of Self-Organized and Self-Assembled Structures
Rashmi C. Desai and Raymond Kapral
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge,  2009
Hardback: 342 pp., illus. $80. ISBN 9780521883610.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Einstein's Generation
The Origins of the Relativity Revolution
Richard Staley
University of Chicago Press, Chicago,  2009
Hardback: 504 pp., illus. $98, £67.50. ISBN 9780226770567.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 504 pp., illus. $38, £26. ISBN 9780226770574.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Elements of Continuum Mechanics and Thermodynamics
Joanne L. Wegner and James B. Haddow
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 288 pp., illus. $99. ISBN 9780521866323.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Experimental Neutron Scattering
B. T. M. Willis and C. J. Carlile
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Hardback: 337 pp., illus. £45. ISBN 9780198519706.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Finding the Big Bang
P. James E. Peebles, Lyman A. Page Jr., and R. Bruce Partridge
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 587 pp., illus. $80. ISBN 9780521519823.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Force and Motion
An Illustrated Guide to Newton's Laws
Jason Zimba
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 439 pp., illus. $85. ISBN 9780801891595.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Paperback: 439 pp., illus. $50. ISBN 9780801891601.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Froth!
The Science of Beer
Mark Denny
Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore,  2009
Hardback: 195 pp., illus. $24.95. ISBN 9780801891328.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Introduction to Macromolecular Crystallography
2nd ed.
Alexander McPherson
Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA,  2009
Paperback: 277 pp., illus. $90. ISBN 9780470185902.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Molecules with Silly or Unusual Names
Paul W. May
Imperial College Press, London,  2009
Paperback: 188 pp., illus. $32, £17. ISBN 9781848162075.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Molecules: Nucleation, Aggregation and Crystallization
Beyond Medical and Other Implications
Jan Sedzik and Paolo Riccio, Eds.
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ,  2009
Paperback: 364 pp., illus. $98, £74. ISBN 9789812832658.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Nanostructures in Electronics and Photonics
Faiz Rahman, Ed.
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2008
Hardback: 314 pp., illus. $179, £95. ISBN 9789814241106.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Plasmonic Nanoguides and Circuits
Sergey I. Bozhevolnyi, Ed.
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2008
Hardback: 449 pp., illus. $149, £80. ISBN 9789814241328.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Plastic Fantastic
How the Biggest Fraud in Physics Shook the Scientific World
Eugenie Samuel Reich
Palgrave Macmillan (St. Martin's), New York,  2009
Hardback: 270 pp. $26.95, C$29.95. ISBN 9780230224674.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Polarization Holography
L. Nikolova and P. S. Ramanujam
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 255 pp., illus. $110. ISBN 9780521509756.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Quantum Gods
Creation, Chaos, and the Search for Cosmic Consciousness
Victor J. Stenger
Prometheus, Amherst, NY,  2009
Hardback: 292 pp., illus. $26.98. ISBN 9781591027133.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Quantum Information
Stephen M. Barnett
Oxford University Press, Oxford,  2009
Paperback: 312 pp., illus. £24.95. ISBN 9780198527633.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Oxford Master Series in Atomic, Optical, and Laser Physics.

Quantum Mechanics
Gennaro Auletta, Mauro Fortunato, and Giorgio Parisi
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Quantum Statistical Mechanics
William C. Schieve and Lawrence P. Horwitz
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Quinone Methides
Steven E. Rokita, Ed.
Wiley, Hoboken, NJ,  2009
Hardback: 449 pp., illus. $125. ISBN 9780470192245.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)
Wiley Series on Reactive Intermediates in Chemistry and Biology, vol. 1.

The Rock Physics Handbook
Tools for Seismic Analysis of Porous Media. 2nd ed.
Gary Mavko, Tappan Mukerji, and Jack Dvorkin
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
Hardback: 523 pp., illus. $80. ISBN 9780521861366.    ORDER (AAAS members) | ORDER (non-members)

Semiconductor Quantum Bits
Fritz Henneberger and Oliver Benson
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2009
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Spin Wave Confinement
Sergej O. Demokritov, Ed.
Pan Stanford, Singapore,  2009
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Structural Ceramics
Fundamentals and Case Studies
F. L. Riley
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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Superconductivity
A Very Short Introduction
Stephen Blundell
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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Very Short Introductions.

Textbook of Structural Biology
Anders Liljas et al.
World Scientific, Hackensack, NJ,  2009
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Two-Dimensional Electrophoresis Protocols
David Sheehan and Raymond Tyther, Ed.
Humana (Springer), New York,  2009
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Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 519.

Viscoelastic Materials
Roderic Lakes
Cambridge University Press, New York,  2009
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What Einstein Did Not See
Redefining Time to Understand Space
Thomas W. Sills
Dearborn Resources, Chicago,  2009
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Worlds of Flow
A History of Hydrodynamics from the Bernoullis to Prandtl
Olivier Darrigol
Oxford University Press, New York,  2009
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