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This fully revised edition of the most authoritative guide to science proposal writing is essential for any scientist embarking on a thesis or grant application. Completely updated and with entirely new chapters on private foundation funding and interdisciplinary research, the book explains each step of the proposal process in detail.

A completely updated edition of the classic guide to Web site design, this book focuses on fundamentals and addresses all aspects of design—from planning through production, assessment, and maintenance. New topics of special interest include Universal Usability, Information Architecture, and Search Engine Optimization.

In this concise yet comprehensive guide, a distinguished scientist and teacher describes in detail how successfully to plan and write about proposed research projects. With step-by-step advice, the volume is indispensable for anyone undertaking research in the life or environmental sciences or management.

In this valuable book, two leaders in environmental and natural resource organizations present a new approach to leadership. The complicated conditions of the twenty-first century demand that all groups–for-profit and non-profit–rethink notions of leadership, say the authors. They discuss how organizations and individuals can adopt new leadership practices.

Using a published paper as a guide, Michael J. Katz takes the reader through every step of the writing process, including the use of standard formats (abstract, introduction, materials and methods, results, discussion, acknowledgments, and references), language (style and word usage), and publication (choosing the appropriate journal, the review process, and revising). Other chapters discuss figur...

This exceptional book encompasses the entire range of writing skills that today’s students and professional scientists may need to employ. Detailed chapters offer practical advice and many extended examples of such forms of scientific writing as laboratory notes, abstracts, research reports, resumes, dissertations, journal articles, grant proposals, and more.

This welcome book offers down-to-earth advice for busy teachers on how best to use instructional technology. Organized around such specific goals and tasks as communication with students, distribution of course materials, or collaborative learning, the guide shows when and how technology can help teachers at all instructional levels to meet everyday challenges. A CD-ROM accompanies the book.

This enthralling book takes us into the dolphins’ world beneath the sea to discover details of their lives, their methods of communication, and how they interact with one another and with humans. Drawing on decades of firsthand research, the authors unveil one of the most intimate and scientifically accurate portraits of dolphins to date.

In this exhilarating book, readers join a scientist-explorer on ten expeditions to remote tropical rainforests. Ornithologist Bruce Beehler describes the wonders of the rainforest, the surprises that awaited him there, and the wisdom of the native peoples. He concludes with important reflections on why healthy rainforests are so vital to the health of our planet and ...

The author of Red Sky at Morning would be the first to agree that we are in deep environmental trouble, but he offers hope that there is still time to avert global catastrophe. Gus Speth explores a wide variety of promising and even radical ideas for transforming modern capitalism so as to protect and restore the natural world.

In this powerful book, a renowned environmental leader warns that despite all the international negotiations of the past two decades, efforts to protect Earth’s environment are not succeeding. He explains why this is so and presents eight specific steps that governments and citizens can take to achieve a sustainable future. For this new paperback edition the author has added an Afterword tha...

Treating the symptoms of global ecological stress isn’t enough, we need to address the root causes of unsustainability, says philosopher/scientist John Ehrenfeld in this thought-provoking book. He offers a new model of sustainability along with a set of strategies for creating a world in which human and other life can flourish forever.

This vitally important book shows how economic analysis can help us to better

address the challenges of global warming. Integrating economic and scientific

research, the author provides a comprehensive model that c...

This book examines important environmental and resource issues of today to uncover why and how policy changes do or do not happen. Applying the punctuated equilibrium theory of policy dynamics in diverse case studies, the authors reveal the conditions and tactics that make change possible in policies toward water use, energy, and other critical issues.

How can environmental problems be solved when they cross boundaries and involve diverse people? What kind of leadership and institutions will bring success? From experience in the greater Yellowstone region, Susan G. Clark looks at leadership and policy in managing natural resources. She assesses accomplishments toward sustainability over the past forty years.

Troubled by the failure of conservationists and environmentalists to provide a persuasive vision of the universal benefits when conservation succeeds, activist Eric T. Freyfogle offers a thought-provoking critique of the conservation movement. He addresses the real meaning of good land use and identifies six key tasks that those who care about healthy lands must address.

Through vivid tales of the pollution wars, a veteran environmental advocate shows that the Environmental Protection Agency is so big and remote that it must fail the environment and our society. David Schoenbrod reaches the surprising conclusion that we should strip the EPA of its power to dictate to the nation and replace it with “bottom-up” environmental protection now.

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This indispensable guide explains what every manager should know and do with respect to the environment. Filled with examples and pragmatic how-to advice, the book shows how corporations can meet environmental challenges and become more profitable by building eco-thinking into their business strategies.

Americans enthusiastically plant, weed, water, spray, and mow an estimated twenty million acres of lawn. But is our dedication to these lawns contributing to the serious environmental problems facing the planet? The authors in this book argue that it is, and they offer aesthetically pleasing strategies for creating and caring for ecologically sound lawns.

This book is a piercing, first-hand analysis of the World Bank, one of the most powerful actors in today’s global economy. Why is the World Bank so successful? How has it gained power even at moments in its history when it seemed likely to fail? This pathbreaking book is the first close examination of the inner workings of the Bank, the foundations of its global achievements, its propensity ...

This major, definitive anthology of writings is a complete and up-to-date guide to environmental literacy. The first to be organized around the idea that environmental studies must be interdisciplinary, the collection demonstrates how the natural sciences, social sciences, and the humanities all contribute to a balanced understanding of the natural world and our rela...

Leading researchers discuss what is now known about past climate changes in different areas of the world. They examine recent trends in and projections about climate change; ways that particular organisms are responding to climate change; conservation challenges, including social and policy issues; and more.

In this book Richard N. L. Andrews looks at American environmental policy over the past four hundred years, shows how it affects environmental issues and public policy decisions today, and poses the central policy challenges for the future. This second edition brings the book up to date through President George W. Bush’s first term and gives the current state of American environmental politi...

Why did the concept of biological diversity, introduced only twenty-five years ago, so quickly emerge as a banner issue for the environmental movement? This book explores the historical roots of biological diversity, tracing the evolution of the term and identifying the earlier conservation traditions that contributed to its rapid acceptance.

This book provides the first comprehensive scientific summary of the actual response of the ecosystem of Yellowstone National Park to the fires that ravaged the park in 1988. Written by experts in wildlife biology, ecosystem science, landscape ecology, and forest science, it challenges many assumptions about the short- and long-term repercussions of the devastation.

How does a nongovernmental organization (NGO) empower itself in today’s world? In this insightful book, the author applies a new theoretical perspective in case studies of NGOs in the Philippines. Raymond Bryant focuses on the concept of moral capital and analyzes how perceptions of NGOs as moral and altruistic can translate into social power.

A leading expert in environmental policy traces the history of pesticide law and science and arrives at the alarming conclusion that we have failed to protect ourselves, and especially our children, from pesticide contamination of food, soil, water, and air. Our faith in government’s ability to ensure only safe levels of exposure to pesticides is unfounded, despite the passage of the 1996 Fo...

This book tells the dramatic story of how a profit-driven multinational corporation (Chiquita Brands International) and an upstart group of environmentalists (the Rainforest Alliance) forged an astonishingly successful partnership, a collaboration that is a promising new model of cooperative behavior for solving critical global problems.

This book documents five cases in which a forest certification program backed by leading environmental groups has competed with industry and landowner-sponsored certification systems for legitimacy. It compares the politics behind forest certification in different countries, discusses the impact this program has had on other certification programs, and assesses the ability of private forest certif...

In this engaging book, a geneticist uses everyday language to explain the science of genetic history and what it can tell us about Jewish history. Who are the Jews? Where did they come from? What are the connections between ancient Jews and modern Israelis? David Goldstein shows how genetic research yields rich new insights into history, identity, and what makes a pe...

This strikingly illustrated book provides the first opportunity to meet our extinct human ancestors face to face. With reconstructions created by experts at the American Museum of Natural History and detailed descriptions of the twenty known human species, the book changes our view of human evolution and the place of Homo sapiens on the family tree.

Tom Gundling examines a period in anthropological history when ideas about what it means to be human were severely tested. Drawing on extensive primary sources, many never before published, he argues that the reinterpretation of early human fossils came about at last because of changes in theoretical approach, not simply because new and more complete fossils had been recovered. Gundling concludes ...

Offering daring new ideas about evolution, two highly respected biologists here tackle the central, unresolved question in the field—how have living organisms on Earth developed with such astounding variety and complexity? Marc Kirschner and John Gerhart draw on cutting-edge biological and medical research to provide an original solution to this longstanding puzzle.

In easy-to-understand language, a distinguished cell biologist explains how living cells perform computations and what this tells us about biological phenomena as diverse as the behavior of protozoa and the metabolism of the liver. The book proposes exciting new answers to the perennial question, “What is life?”

How do plants and animals “know” the seasons will change? How do seasonal changes affect humans? What happens when the timing of seasonal events is altered? The authors of this fascinating book explain new findings about seasons and their connections with such biological mysteries as migration, hibernation, and reproduction.

Through a tour of modern biological marvels, Andreas Wagner illustrates how the scientific paradoxes underpinning our understanding of modern biology affect the way we define the world around us.

This book is the definitive guide to the largest and most charismatic species of falcon in the world, the Gyrfalcon. With detailed information on coloration, distribution, habitats, feeding habits, breeding cycle, ecology, conservation issues, and much more, the book presents the most accurate, up-to-date, and complete view of this bird ever published.

Birders, wildlife enthusiasts, and ornithologists will welcome this fully illustrated, up-to-date guide to every known species and subspecies of owl worldwide, including 12 new species only recently discovered. With highly detailed information on habits, plumage, vocalizations, and much more, the book brings to light the mysterious world of owls.

The first guide devoted entirely to the birds of Pakistan, this book is the perfect companion for anyone attempting to make field identifications. With 93 superb color plates, range maps, and full descriptive information on hundreds of bird species, the book also offers information on birdwatching areas, distinguishing among similar species, and much more.

This is the first birder’s guide to sixty cities of the world. An indispensable book for traveling bird enthusiasts who find themselves in a foreign city with a little free time but no birding gear or transportation, it offers details on major bird-watching sites, lists of summer and winter bird residents, maps, line drawings, and directions for using public transportation.

Volume 1 presents extensive species accounts, including information on habitat, vocalization, nomenclature, and the very latest taxonomy to subspecies level. An up-to-date discography lists all published CDs that contain recordings of birds of northern South America.

The two companion volumes of this extensive and detailed guide make a groundbreaking contribution to bird guide literature: they not only provide detailed accounts of every known bird species in the vast region from Ecuador to French Guiana but also, for the first time, illustrate virtually every plumage variation in full color. The illustrations include adult males and females where different as ...

Volume 2, designed for use in the field, contains complete range maps, Robin Restall’s immaculate and jewel-like paintings, and information about specific marks, habitat, and behavior to aid in identification.

This accessible book gathers the results of recent research on birds and their habitats to understand better the decline of bird species or shifts in species composition in America’s forests, prairies, shrublands, mountain regions, marshes, and deserts. Robert A. Askins explains how basic principles of bird ecology and landscape ecology can help us to create scientifically sound plans for pr...

This comprehensive book is the first field guide to the birds of The Gambia and Senegal, an area of West Africa popular with birders for its many tropical African birds. The guide provides full accounts of over 600 bird species and depicts nearly all of these in 48 beautiful color plates. For each species, the authors describe identifying features, similarities with other species, behavior, vocali...

This educational and entertaining book explores the history of ornithology from the earliest times to the present day, vividly describing the ornithologists who have been most influential in their field and the discoveries they have made.

This is the first comprehensive guide to the unique wildlife of the Galápagos, encompassing all the birds, mammals, and reptiles a visitor to these extraordinary islands might encounter. The simple-to-use pocket-sized volume, with 53 color plates and 78 maps, will enable beginners and experts alike to identify accurately the striking and charismatic fauna of the Galápagos islands.

Trinidad and Tobago, tropical islands on the continental shelf of northeastern South America, enjoy a rich diversity of bird species, including visitors from the nearby mainland and others traveling the migratory flyway from North America. This compact, portable field guide is designed to provide birders and ornithologists with all the up-to-date information they nee...

In this accessible book, a biologist reflects on the question “What is life?” and looks at the answers provided by an array of recent scientific advances. Michel Morange describes different approaches to the perennially unresolved question through history, then clearly explains today’s new answers.

This gloriously illustrated book documents 56 varieties of flowers and herbs that were grown in early American gardens and provides the advice of a master gardener on how to plan and grow your own historically authentic garden today.

The ill-fated dodo was extinct within 50 years of human settlement on the Mascarene Islands, and many other native species soon followed suit. This book uncovers the fascinating and disturbing ecological history of the islands for the first time and presents superb color paintings of extinct species by reconstructive artist Julian Hume.

This dazzling book presents the most complete and magnificently photographed natural history tour of China ever offered. China’s array of wildlife habitats is the most diverse in the world, and the volume presents up-to-date, fascinating commentary on the animals, plants, and landscapes of every region.

Encompassing a spectacular variety of environments—from boreal areas to subtropical islands, from dense woodlands to open seas—Japan is home to a rich array of bird species. This up-to-date and brilliantly photographed guide covers nearly 600 species of birds found in Japan and north-east Asia, including resident and migrant species as well as vagrants that are seen with some regularit...

This intriguing book examines the often surprising ways that crows and ravens and humans interact. Featuring more than 100 striking illustrations, the book recounts lively stories about crows and ravens throughout history and around the world, and the authors challenge us to reconsider our thinking not only about these compelling birds but also about ourselves. 

This engaging book examines the shared history of people and bears. Hopscotching through history, literature, and science, Bernd Brunner presents a delightfully illustrated compendium of information about different cultures’ attitudes toward bears, the central place of bears in our myths and dreams, how our images of bears do and do not mesh with reality, and m...

This book is the first English-language guide to Vietnam’s spectacular flora and fauna and to the diverse natural areas in which they live. Generously illustrated with maps, photographs, and original watercolor illustrations, this presentation provides a comprehensive tour of the country with detailed descriptions of key natural areas to visit.

Lichens are abundant and diverse in most parts of North America, yet their beauty and ecological importance are often overlooked. This stunningly illustrated book—the first definitive color photographic guide to the lichens of North America—offers a comprehensive and accessible view of the fascinating world of lichens. The book provides full information on more than 800 species and is ...

This spectacular field guide belongs in the pocket of anyone who ventures offshore in the North Atlantic region, from Cape Hatteras to the Gulf of St. Lawrence. It encompasses more than two hundred species of wildlife, including mammals, birds, turtles, fish, sharks, rays, invertebrates, and even seaweeds, along with range maps, stunning full-color illustrations, and special help with identifying ...

In this appealing book a noted ecologist tells stories about birds and mammals to reveal important facts about the relations between environmental change and the extinctions or population explosions of various species. H. H. Shugart entertains, enlightens, and inspires us to learn to use ecological science to protect earth’s landscapes and creatures.

This up-to-date and fully illustrated guide is the first comprehensive account of the natural history of Lapland for English-language readers. The book introduces the wildlife, birds, and plants of this unique and largely unspoiled region, emphasizing species that are characteristic, distinctive, or likely to be encountered by visitors.

This is the first complete guide to the dramatic environment, the wild inhabitants, and the human history of the Galápagos Islands, where Darwin found the inspiration for his theories of evolution. The book includes exceptionally vivid photographs along with an extensive gazetteer with details about the islands’ plants and animals and useful travel advice.

This book is a gorgeously illustrated exploration and celebration of the wildlife and wild places of the Caribbean. It spans all the principal islands and mainland areas bordering the Sea, introduces exotic creatures and flora in their habitats, and features a Gazetteer crammed with tips on the most exciting natural locations and the best times to visit them.

This comprehensive and fully illustrated field guide to all the extraordinary mammals of Madagascar—lemurs, tenrec, bats, civets, mongooses, and diverse others—includes many new species only recently identified. With vivid color photographs, line illustrations, and maps, the book is an essential volume for every ecotourist or scientist visiting the island.

This fascinating book explores biological clocks in eye-opening detail. The authors show how the biological clock has played an essential role in evolution, why even today it plays a vitally important role in all living organisms, how we are tampering with the biological clock in humans and the concerns we should have about this, and what types of problems a malfunctioning clock can cause&...

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This spectacularly illustrated book takes us on a captivating journey to North America as it was 13,000 years ago. From the icy Arctic to the steaming swamps of Florida, each region and its extraordinary inhabitants come startlingly to life. The landscape teems with giant ground sloths, mastodons, camels, scimitar-toothed cats, a...

This copiously illustrated book is a unique guide that helps both amateur naturalists and serious field botanists identify nonwoody plants—herbaceous weeds (including grasses and sedges) and wildflowers—as they are found in fall and winter in the northeastern United States and eastern Canada.

In this vivid memoir of a life in science, ecologist Paul Colinvaux takes his readers from the Alaskan tundra to steamy Amazon jungles. His gripping tale recounts rugged adventures in pursuit of ice-age records, revelations about the great Amazon forest, and a fierce battle to disprove a hypothesis accepted by much of the scientific community.

Naturalist William Burt has for thirty years roamed the marshes of North America to create this stunningly beautiful photographic portrait. Selecting ninety exquisite images, Burt shows us a place that few ever see--a mysterious world teeming with rare flora and elusive birds. His thoughtful reflections on the marshes he has visited complete this lovely volume.

While many people understand the importance of biodiversity in the wild, few are aware of the need for preserving diversity in domestic livestock. With each extinction of a farm animal breed we risk losing genetic traits of vital importance to our agricultural future or to medical progress. This comprehensive, definitive book offers complete information on more than 130 endangered livestock breeds...

An ideal volume for keeping a personal mammals life list, this book includes: English and scientific names of every species, a brief summary of distribution and habitat, a checkbox and space to record notes, and an appendix with further details.

Nowhere is the alarming problem of deforestation more pressing than in the Amazon rainforest. This important book presents the results of the longest-running and most comprehensive study of forest fragmentation ever undertaken—a 19-year examination of plants, animals, and ecology at a single forest site in the Brazilian Amazon. The illuminating findings will be essential reading for anyone c...

This enlightening book examines the fluctuating status of dogs in Native America from prehistory to the present. Drawing on chronicles, ethnographies, archaeological reports, myths, biology, and a rich ray of visual materials, Schwartz investigates views about dogs—as profane, as deities, as eaters of excrement, and as valued food.

Rumphius, one of the greatest naturalists of the seventeenth century, was the first to describe tropical orchids in a Western language. This lovely book gathers and translates from Dutch into English for the first time all the sections of Rumphius’ monumental Ambonese Herbal that were devoted to orchids. The volume includes illustrations, notes, and an informative introduction ...

With wit and wisdom seven acclaimed scholars in sociology, history, science, and theology examine the debate between creationists and evolutionists and the teaching of evolution in America’s schools. This volume marks the one-hundredth anniversary of The Terry Lecture Series.

A world-renowned physicist-theologian provides a new framework for dialogue between science and religion, using recent scientific inquiry into relativity, evolutionary theory, life after death, and many other issues as a foundation on which to build a model of Christian belief structure.

A renowned critic demolishes the insistent claims of atheists and others who assert that science has rendered God and faith obsolete. Seasoning his serious book with humor, Terry Eagleton reexamines God, Jesus, free will, scientific thought, and liberalism to arrive at the conclusion that reason and faith are by no means mutually exclusive.

In this important book, an eminent scholar seeks to reconcile accounts of the world given in the natural sciences and religion by examining initiatives in cognitive science and evolutionary biology on one hand and theology on the other.

Despite the differences of their subject matter, science and theology have a cousinly relationship, John Polkinghorne argues in this thought-provoking book. From a unique perspective as both theoretical physicist and Anglican priest, he uncovers an array of significant parallels between quantum physics and theology.

 

Reality is multi-layered, consisting not only of the scientific processes of the natural world but also the personal dimension of human nature, asserts quantum physicist/Anglican priest John Polkinghorne in his latest book. His integrated view of reality draws on insights both scientific and religious to expand our understanding of the nature and complexity of reality.

 

One of our great theologians, also a physicist, here sets a new agenda for religion’s dialogue with science. John Polkinghorne approaches the dialogue from a little-explored perspective in which theology shapes the discussion, and he argues convincingly that science and theology can inform one another in significant ways.

John Polkinghorne brings unique qualifications to his exploration of the possibilities of believing in God in an age of science: he is internationally known as a theoretical physicist and as a theologian. In this thought-provoking book, Polkinghorne focuses on the collegiality between science and theology, contending that the inquiries of these "intellectual cousins" are parallel.

In this captivating book, one of the most highly-regarded scientist-theologians of our time offers a thought-provoking exploration of the interaction between science and theology. John Polkinghorne defends the place of theology in the university, discusses the role of revelation in religion, and focuses closely on reconciling what science can say about the processes of the universe with theology&#...

Do we live in a world that makes sense, not just now but forever? If the universe is going to end in collapse or decay, can it really be a divine creation? Is there a credible hope of a destiny beyond death? In this engaging book, a leading scientist-theologian draws on ideas from science, scripture, and theology to address these and other important questions.

In this controversial book, social anthropologist Mary Douglas argues that many famous antique texts are misunderstood and others have been dismissed because they employ ring composition, a literary style unfamiliar today. She explores ring composition across cultures and examines its function in the Iliad, the Bible’s Book of Numbers, and Tristram Shandy.

Long before Darwin published his On the Origin of Species, scientific discoveries and developments threatened religious beliefs based on the literal truth of the Bible. This book looks at these conflicts through the writings of Enlightenment thinkers, casting interesting light on the history of ideas and on such contemporary controversies as creationism and in...

Earthrise tells the remarkable story of the first photographs of Earth from space and the totally unexpected impact of those images. The Apollo “Earthrise” and “Blue Marble” photographs were beamed across the world some forty years ago. They had an astounding effect, Robert Poole explains, and in fact transformed thinking about the Earth and its environment in a way that echoed throughout religion, culture, and science. Gazing upon our whole planet for the first time, we saw ourselves and our place in the universe with new clarity.

Poole delves into new areas of research and looks at familiar history from fresh perspectives. With intriguing anecdotes and wonderful pictures, he examines afresh the politics of the Apollo missions, the challenges of whole Earth photography, and the story of the behind-the-scenes struggles to get photographs of the Earth put into mission plans. He traces the history of imagined visions of Earth from space and explores what happened when imagination met reality. The photographs of Earth represented a turning point, Poole contends. In their wake, Earth Day was inaugurated, the environmental movement took off, and the first space age ended. People turned their focus back toward Earth, toward the precious and fragile planet we call home.

Robert Poole is reader in history, University of Cumbria. He has written and broadcast extensively on history, from witch trials to the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, and has published in journals from History Today to Past and Present. He lives in Lancaster, England.

Dramatic scientific progress may soon provide answers to some of the most compelling questions about our universe, predicts John Gribbin in this accessible book. He focuses on today’s cutting-edge research and what it can tell us about the creation of the universe, the possibility of other forms of life, and the fate of the expanding cosmos.

We are made of stardust--and so is all life as we know it. Every chemical element on earth except hydrogen has been scattered across the universe in great stellar explosions and recycled into new stars, planets, and parts of us. In this engrossing book, John and Mary Gribbin explain how developments in astronomy from the 1920s to the present day have led to this startling realization and to a new ...

For anyone interested in the remarkable achievements and discoveries of modern science—but intimidated by confusing technical detail—this book offers the perfect solution. Award-winning author John Gribbin stands back from the details and offers a broad picture of science, from the structure of particles within the atom to the birth of the universe. With eloquent clarity, Gribbin expla...

Remembered primarily as captain of the Beagle, Robert FitzRoy emerges in this exceptional biography as much more than Charles Darwin’s shipmaster. A British naval commander, a governor of New Zealand, the inventor of weather forecasting—FitzRoy was all of these and more during a life of high adventure and accomplishment but also tragic disappointment.

This is an indispensable book for all professionals and students interested in the field of geoarchaeology, including those with limited earth-science experience. The authors offer an integrated approach to geoarchaeology for the first time, framing geologic concepts within an archaeological context and citing specific examples to demonstrate how geologic methods can be used to interpret archaeolo...

“These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.” So penned Captain Robert Falcon Scott in 1912 as he confronted defeat and death in the ferocious subzero temperatures of Antarctica. In this riveting book, Susan Solomon finishes the interrupted tale of Scott and his British expedition, depicting in full detail the staggering 900-mile trek to the South Pole and r...

This richly illustrated, thoughtful book summarizes the history and present condition of river systems and their watersheds across the United States. It shows how human activities have impoverished our rivers, what we can do to reverse this trend, and teaches us to view the connections between rivers and their landscapes more holistically. 

This practical and knowledgeable guidebook is the first to deal comprehensively with the stone circles of Britain and Ireland and with the cromlechs and megalithic "horseshoes" of Brittany. Filled with fascinating information, useful maps, and arresting photographs, this invaluable resource describes over 400 sites and discusses the archaeology and architectural features of each ring.

This exciting book tells the story of America’s golden period of fossil discovery, the years from 1750 to 1890. Replete with high adventure, ruthless competing bone hunters, and previously unimagined scientific discoveries, the book sets the story of paleontology in the context of American history and the opening of the West.

Andrew Lambert accesses to new materials to depict the shocking fate of Captain Sir John Franklin’s doomed arctic expedition and how, despite his failure, Franklin inspired future arctic heroes such as Robert Falcon Scott.

This extraordinary work is the first biography in a generation of one of the world's most important scientists, Robert Boyle—a pioneer of the modern experimental method, the champion of a novel mechanical view of nature, and a penetrating thinker regarding philosophical and theological issues related to sc...

This book tells the strange story of maverick doctor Thomas Beddoes, whose medical researchers in Bristol, England discovered the mind-altering effects of inhaling nitrous oxide in the late 1700s. Beddoes’ glittering circle of colleagues and friends became intellectual pioneers in an era of vast ferment in medicine, poetry, chemistry, philosophy, and politics.<...

This engaging book considers how insects and those who studied them shaped the course of intellectual and scientific inquiry in the Victorian era. Filled with stories of famous and eccentric entomologists, the book reveals the surprisingly important role bugs played in the making of modern Britain.

This wide-ranging book investigates the emergence of modern ideas about the natural world in Britain from 1680–1860 through an examination of the cultural values common to the sciences, art, literature, and natural theology.

This book is the first devoted to modern biology’s iconoclasts: scientists like Stephen Jay Gould and Barbara McClintock who challenged prevailing notions in their fields. The stories of these nineteen stubborn innovators—some famous, some forgotten—provide a refreshingly new perspective on the role of dissent in the practice of science. The volume ...

The first wide-ranging history of museum collecting in western Europe over the course of its formative centuries.

In this original book Robert Tavernor offers a brief history of the various measuring systems human beings have devised, from the time of the Great Pyramid to the era of manned space flights. He refutes the notion that measuring is strictly a scientific activity and shows how deeply entwined measures and measuring are with human experience and history.

This extraordinary account of the development of aviation takes us from Charles Lindbergh’s dramatic New York-Paris flight to the horrifying bombing campaigns of World War II. Robert Wohl recaptures in words and illustrations an era when a wide-ranging cast of characters—among them millionaire Howard Hughes, Italian dictator Mussolini, and architect Le Corbusier—fell under aviati...

Since the mid-1970s, spacecraft, satellites, and instruments built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena have revolutionized our knowledge of the solar system and of Earth itself. This book takes off from where Clayton Koppes’s JPL and the American Space Program stopped, recounting the extraordinary story of JPL’s accomplishments and failures from 1976 to 2004 while showi...

In this powerful book, the story of KGB surveillance and intimidation of Nobel prize laureate Andrei Sakharov from 1968 to his death in 1989 comes to light for the first time. Disturbing archival documents show how deeply the KGB feared this great figure of Soviet science, and how profoundly it misunderstood his role in the human rights movement.

Biologist Seymour Benzer’s work in phage biology in the 1950s is recognized today as a scientific tipping point, when the nature of the gene was recast in molecular terms. Drawing on Benzer’s remarkably complete records and correspondence, this book reconstructs the intriguing process of the former physicist’s research and discovery.

 

This volume presents the correspondence between Gottfried Leibniz, one of Europe’s most influential Enlightenment scholars, and Batholomew Des Bosses, a Jesuit philosopher keenly interested in Leibniz’s philosophy. With new translations of the letters and an authoritative introduction, the book makes a unique contribution to Leibniz scholarship.

Rumphius, one of the greatest naturalists of the seventeenth century, was the first to describe tropical orchids in a Western language. This lovely book gathers and translates from Dutch into English for the first time all the sections of Rumphius’ monumental Ambonese Herbal that were devoted to orchids. The volume includes illustrations, notes, and an informative introduction ...

One of the great tropical naturalists of the seventeenth century, G. E. Rumphius—the "Indian Pliny"—spent most of his life stationed on the island of Ambon in eastern Indonesia. His classic text, the first modern work on tropical fauna, is here published in English for the first time. The book describes and illustrates the organisms of the seas surrounding Ambon, as well as minerals an...

This vivid book tells a story that spans three centuries and crosses many national boundaries—a story of scientific discovery that fundamentally changed the way we understand the basis of life. Henry Harris, one of the world’s leading cell biologists, here provides a strikingly original account of how scientists came to understand that the bodies of all living things are composed of mi...

Through detailed studies of six preeminent scientists of the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries, Frederic Lawrence Holmes explores the nature of scientific discovery and creativity in this fascinating book. Following the research pathways of these men, he uncovers common features in their careers and discoveries that lead to new understandings of the scientific process.

In 1957 young scientists Matthew Meselson and Frank Stahl produced a landmark experiment in DNA replication that became famous not only for its result but also for its extremely beautiful simplicity and elegance. This masterful account of Meselson and Stahl’s quest reconstructs the complex route that led to their experiment and provides an inside view of day-to-day scientific research in whi...

This engaging book explores the demand for spices: why were they so popular, and why so expensive?  Paul Freedman surveys the history, geography, economics, and culinary tastes of the Middle Ages to uncover the surprisingly varied ways that spices were put to use--in elaborate medieval cuisine, in the treatment of disease, for the promotion of well-being, and to...

In this pathbreaking book, a leading historian of science and medicine presents convincing evidence that Dutch commerce—not religion—inspired the rise of science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Harold J. Cook taps vast archival evidence to show how commerce in the Dutch Golden Age changed citizens’ values and triggered the Scientific Revolution.

This captivating book is the first to focus on the array of ordinary men and women who shared a keen interest in nature and scientific inquiry in Elizabethan London. Throughout the vibrant city, lawyers, prisoners, midwives, merchants, and others developed the tools and techniques, as well as the collaborative yet contentious culture, that became the hallmarks of the...

This volume presents a gorgeous selection of natural history drawings and watercolors by Leonardo da Vinci and other master artists in the Age of Discovery. Renowned naturalist and documentary-maker Sir David Attenborough and colleagues explore how illustrations of plants and animals inspired and were inspired by the new scientific spirit of the Renaissance.

This groundbreaking book is the first to trace the history of Huntington’s disease in America, from a despairing victim who committed suicide in 1806 to the genetic discoveries of our own times. Weaving together social, medical, and scientific insights, the book illuminates attitudes toward disease, heredity, eugenics, genetic testing, and more.

Biologist Seymour Benzer’s work in phage biology in the 1950s is recognized today as a scientific tipping point, when the nature of the gene was recast in molecular terms. Drawing on Benzer’s remarkably complete records and correspondence, this book reconstructs the intriguing process of the former physicist’s research and discovery.

 

Picking up where Berton Roueché’s The Medical Detectives left off, The Deadly Dinner Party presents ...

Full of extraordinary stories and insights, this book tells the captivating history of human preoccupation with longevity and immortality. From the beginnings of the scientific revolution to the medical and genetic research of today, scientists and philosophers have engaged with zeal in the quest to prolong human life.

This elegantly written book is the definitive account of Paracelsus the Great, preeminent physician, astrologer, occultist, and radical activist of the early Reformation.

Early in the twentieth century, malaria was Italy’s major public health problem, reducing productivity, stunting literacy, and undermining its army. This book recounts the advances, setbacks, and final victory against malaria after World War II, showing how a successful national campaign changed Italy’s history and established important principles for battling infectious diseases.
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This spellbinding book is the first behind-the-scenes account of how a handful of psychiatrists, with the help of the pharmaceutical industry, turned shyness into an illness. The book exposes the real forces behind the 1980s revolution in psychiatry, when revisions to the diagnostic handbook created an explosion of new disorders and a windfall for drug companies.

This book tells the scandalous story of the practice of dissection in nineteenth-century Britain and its penal colonies. The bodies of convicted murderers, Aborigines, and the unfortunate poor who died in the hospital routinely arrived in dissecting rooms where medical men conducted public autopsies in the interests not only of science but also entertainment.

This riveting book takes the reader around the globe and through the centuries to discover how different cultures have sought to combat and treat physical pain. Filled with colorful, entertaining, and sometimes excrucuating stories, the book describes humanity's checkered progress in the battle against pain and assesses the prospects for improved pain treatment in the future.

In this riveting book, a well-known expert traces the evolution of organ transplantation from its initial stirrings in the imaginations of the ancients to its current status as accepted treatment for nearly 40,000 patients each year. Dr. Nicholas Tilney describes both the triumphs in the field and the commercialism and ethical conflicts that have arisen.

In this fascinating and richly illustrated book, John Henderson takes us directly into the wards of the Renaissance hospitals of Florence. Drawing on years of archival research, the author explores the civic role of the hospitals, their beautiful architecture and interior design, and their methods of treatment, many of which continue to influence healthcare practices today.

In 1955 a devastating mistake at Cutter Laboratories, a vaccine manufacturer in Berkeley, California, led to the injection of  200,000 people with a virulent form of polio virus. This book tells the shocking story of the disaster for the first time and explores how the tragedy occurred and how its legacy has contributed to vaccine shortages today.

In this riveting account of medical sleuthing, Dr. Jonathan A. Edlow tells the history of the discovery of Lyme disease over centuries and continents. He also provides the latest information about the disease and its treatment, explaining the recent widespread outbreaks and examining the controversies that have swirled over the diagnosis, vaccine, treatment, and even definition of Lyme disease.

Madhouse reveals a long-suppressed medical scandal, uncovering the full story of Henry Cotton, the prominent early-twentieth-century American psychiatrist whose ruthless surgical procedures killed or maimed thousands of patients. Despite the disastrous results of his experimental treatments, Cotton’s colleagues failed to censure–or even question–his techniques.

Diseases and injuries were major concerns for ancient Egyptians. This book, featuring some sixty-four objects from the Metropolitan Museum, discusses how both practical and magical medicine informed Egyptian art and for the first time reproduces and translates treatments described in the spectacular Edwin Smith Papyrus.

In a remarkable feat of detective work, Hugh Trevor-Roper presents the first full biography of Sir Theodore de Mayerne, the versatile Huguenot doctor who served King James I as physician, European emissary, and high-level spy. The book shines fresh light on Mayerne’s life and wide-ranging interests—literary, scientific, political, artistic, and conspiratorial.

This book traces the epic clash of values between traditional scenery-and-tourism management and emerging ecological concepts in the national parks, America's most treasured landscapes. It spans the period from the creation of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 to near the present, analyzing the management of fires, predators, elk, bear, and other natural phenomena in parks such as Yellowstone, Yos...

Integrating the history of science, environmental history, and science studies, Notes from the Ground examines the cultural conditions that brought agriculture and science together in early America.

This landmark book—the first environmental history of China—is based on a wealth of literary, political aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources that reveal the views of the Chinese people toward their environment and landscape. Written by an eminent China specialist, it provides both a new perspective on long-term Chinese history and an explanation of the roots of China’s cu...

Since the beginnings of European settlement, Americans have transformed the myth of the wolf from an expression of the untamed frontier to an embodiment of the great wilderness. In this provocative history of wolves in America—and of the humans who have hated and loved them—Jon Coleman investigates the sometimes violent and always controversial relationship between the ...

This seminal book, based on innovative research at Harvard Forest, describes the dramatic natural and human-induced changes in the land and environment of New England over the past one thousand years. Such a landscape history, the contributing scientists show, is essential for our understanding of nature and of good conservation practice.

In this detailed reconstruction of colonial farming in Concord, Massachusetts, Brian Donahue challenges the notion that early farmers degraded their land. In fact, Donahue shows, Concord farmers skillfully adapted the ancient traditions of English mixed husbandry to New England’s soils and climate to achieve a sustainable, ecologically sound system.

Tracing the Hudson River through four centuries, this entertaining book recounts the stories of intrepid explorers, inspired artists and writers, dedicated entrepreneurs and industrialists, and pioneering ecologists—those who have both shaped and been shaped by the river. Tom Lewis illuminates the unique role of this grand river in American history and imagination.

This groundbreaking book argues that the political collapse of East Germany in the 1980s could have been predicted by analyzing the country’s natural landscape. Arvid Nelson records the history of the East German government’s disregard for its landscape and shows how forest and ecosystem change can serve as a reliable barometer to the health of a political system.

This book offers an intimate portrait of the ways allergic disease has shaped American culture, landscape, and life. Through the life stories of people, plants, and insects, Mitman reveals how our changing environment—physical, biological, social, and economic—has helped to create America’s allergic landscape and why solutions to combat hay fever and asthma have failed.

Spanning the automobile’s entire history, this book is the first to relate consumer behavior to the wider environmental impact of cars—from raw materials and manufacturing to use and disposal. It shows that America’s disappointing response to automobile-related environmental issues stems from the interplay of politics, economics, and desire.

In this groundbreaking book, Matthew Klingle explores the environmental history of Seattle and shows how the city’s attempts to reshape nature have often ended in both ecological disaster and economic inequality. Advocating what he describes as “an ethic of place,” Klingle proposes bold new ways of thinking about environmental and urban policy.

All ecosystems have a history of past human impacts, some obvious, others subtle, Emily Russell contends in this fascinating exploration of historical ecology. To understand the lingering consequences of human history on current ecosystems and landscapes, and conversely to understand the role that changing environments have played in human history, the author urges an interdisciplinary approach.

Confronting an ecological crisis in 1860, French officials initiated an unprecedented policy of alpine reforestation that reduced access to forest and pasture for highland peasants. This book is an environmental and political history of the disputes over the uses of mountains and forests in France from the mid-nineteenth century to the eve of World War II. The book traces the peasants’ incre...

Roderick Nash’s classic study of America’s changing attitudes toward wilderness has received wide acclaim since its initial publication in 1967. The Los Angeles Times has listed it among the one hundred most influential books published in the last quarter century, Outside Magazine has included it in a survey of “books that changed our world,” and it has been c...

Mediterranean Europe is often interpreted as a “Lost Eden”—once verdant and fertile but progressively degraded and desertified by the mismanagement of successive human civilizations. The authors of this engaging book challenge such a view. They find that the aridity and barrenness of the region today is not abnormal in terms of its historic and prehistoric past, and they identify...

The acclaimed author James Scott adopts a radically different approach to history to tell the story of the deliberately stateless peoples who occupy a vast track of land in Asia called Zomia.

This book explores the forces that have shaped agricultural policies in the U.S. during the past eighty years, showing how divisions and coalitions within agriculture affected supply management policy and highlighting the roles played by the world economy, the civil rights movement, and existing national policy.

This timely work is the definitive account of Russia’s land reform from the late 1980s to today, initiatives that will have a profound effect on Russia’s ability to compete in an era of globalization.

This enlightening book explores the history of processed orange juice and the forces behind its emergence as an American breakfast staple. OJ drinkers may be dismayed to learn what goes into the making of the product that advertisers label “100% pure orange juice.”

This delightful book tells the history of the potato, from its origins in Incan gardens thousands of years ago to its place on a NASA manned rocket destined for Mars. Less humble than it may seem, the potato has played a crucial role in human history wherever people have embraced it as a staple food.

Steve Striffler’s vivid first-hand report on the process of bringing chicken to our dinner tables—from the farmer to the factory worker to the consumer—shows convincingly that our current system is unhealthy for all concerned. In this thoughtful book he proposes a practical new model of poultry production, one that will improve the lives of all concerned.

This fascinating book is about land, belonging, and the mortgage—and how people of different cultural backgrounds understand them in Africa. Anthropologist Parker Shipton shows why Western notions of property and credit don’t apply in rural African cultures and why international development efforts are often misguided.

A groundbreaking ethnography of the Luo people in western Kenya, this book is also an exploration of nonmonetary forms of exchange and how people measure obligations to one another. Social, moral, and religious values affect attitudes toward credit and debt, the author shows, and he discusses the profound implications of this for international aid programs.

This spellbinding book is the first behind-the-scenes account of how a handful of psychiatrists, with the help of the pharmaceutical industry, turned shyness into an illness. The book exposes the real forces behind the 1980s revolution in psychiatry, when revisions to the diagnostic handbook created an explosion of new disorders and a windfall for drug companies.

Already technology enables parents to select some genetic traits for their children, and soon it will be possible to begin to shape ourselves as a species. Countering loud cries of alarm, bioethics expert Ronald Green explains why our fears about genetic engineering are overblown and how we can move forward responsibly to create a better future.

Steve Striffler’s vivid first-hand report on the process of bringing chicken to our dinner tables—from the farmer to the factory worker to the consumer—shows convincingly that our current system is unhealthy for all concerned. In this thoughtful book he proposes a practical new model of poultry production, one that will improve the lives of all concerned.

Whether stem cell research lives up to its promise will largely depend upon new laws as yet unwritten, says the author of this timely book. He identifies, analyzes, and proposes answers to controversial legal questions concerning cloning, patenting stem cells lines, government funding of research that destroys embryos, and much more.

In this level-headed analysis of the pharmaceutical industry and how we regulate it, Richard Epstein asks: are we protecting patients or blocking the development of useful new drugs? He looks closely at the maze of laws and regulations that affect pharmaceutical operations and concludes that while some make good sense, others hinder innovation and threaten the vitality of the industry.

This book shows how interrelated movements—social and scientific—combined to transform the study of the child in the early twentieth century. Drawing on nationwide archives and interviews with child study pioneers, the book recounts the role of social reformers, philanthropists, and progressive scientists who established an entirely new field of study.

In this pathbreaking book, one of Britain’s most interesting thinkers takes us on an exuberant tour of the human head. Blending science, philosophy, and humor, Raymond Tallis discusses the head, the astonishing range of processes and phenomena that go on within in it, and how it is connected to our sense of identity and consciousness.

Every day we make decisions on topics ranging from the personal investments we select to the schools we pick for our children to the foods we eat to the causes we champion. Unfortunately, as authors Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein astutely observe, we don’t always choose well. The reason, the authors explain, is that we all are susceptible to cognitive b...

What is an emotion? Can emotion be measured? How can we know if a person is experiencing an emotion? In this sophisticated and thought-provoking book, Jerome Kagan addresses the ambiguities and controversies that surround the subject, clarifying what we do know about human emotions and which popular assumptions are incorrect.

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In this elegantly written book, an eminent psychologist traces the history of the field of psychology during the last fifty years—the period of his own career. Jerome Kagan examines seminal events in the field, reveals how his assumptions have changed, and offers penetrating critiques of many popular ideas in contemporary psychology and neurobiology.

This book is the first to integrate and describe in detail the psychology of science, a richly promising new discipline. The author examines scientific thinking and scientific genius from a psychological perspective, arguing that the psychology of science is a distinct and essential field without which we cannot fully understand human thought.

Dr. Dolittle had it wrong, says the author of this fascinating book: animals cannot use language. Linguist Stephen Anderson explains the difference between communication and language and shows that despite sophisticated and intricate communicative abilities in such species as chimpanzees and parrots, these animals do not have the specific cognitive capacities necessary to acquire language.

In this extremely readable book, two eminent behavioral scientists probe the mysteries of the animal mind and identify an advanced level of animal behavior. Providing delightful examples of animal ingenuity, they offer a new way to understand learning, intelligence, and rational behavior in both animals and humans.

The brain is at once a physical object, a living organ, and the cradle of the mind. This book introduces the general reader to its complexities through a series of clinical tales that illustrate its workings, level by level, from atom to psyche. Each narrative opens a window onto the experience of the patient, the life of the doctor, and the science that makes sense of the brain.

In this thought-provoking book, neurologist Adam Zeman offers an enlightening view of consciousness seen through the lenses of science and of philosophy. Zeman explores the physiology of the brain and nervous system, cognition and awareness, vision and the senses, and feelings and the soul, enhancing his discussion with case studies of neurological patients and observations of young children’...

This book represents the views of one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century on the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann concludes that the brain operates in part digitally, in part analogically, but uses a peculiar statistical language unlike that employed in the operation of man-made computers. This edition includes a new foreword by ...

Renowned neuroscientist and Nobel Laureate Dr. Gerald M. Edelman here offers a new theory of knowledge based on startling advancements in brain science. In accessible language he describes how our brains and bodies give rise to knowledge, creativity, and mental experience and predicts a future in which brain-based devices will be conscious.

A leading neuroscientist here explains the workings of the brain and the connections between mind and body. Nobel Laureate Dr. Gerald Edelman explores the relation of consciousness to causation, evolution, the development of the self, and the origins of feelings, learning, and memory, basing his fascinating discussion on recent remarkable advances in science and medicine.

What is love? Can we define it? What is its role in our lives? What causes love, and what dooms it? This fascinating book presents the full range of today’s psychological theories on love and the practical implications of these theories. Updated with the latest research in the field, this is a welcome and entirely new edition of the immensely popular The Psychology of Love.

Jonathan Zittrain’s extraordinary book pieces together the engine that has catapulted the Internet ecosystem into the prominence it has today—and explains that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of consumers, the Internet is on a path to a lockdown, a closing off of opportunities and innovation.

David Singh Grewal’s remarkable and ambitious book draws on several centuries of political and social thought to show how globalization is best understood in terms of a power inherent in social relations, which he calls network power. The result is a sophisticated and novel account of how globalization, and politics, work.

In this thought-provoking book, John Felstiner explores the rich legacy of poems that take nature as their subject, and he demonstrates their force and beauty. In our own time of environmental crises, he contends, poetry has a unique capacity to restore our attention to our environment in its imperiled state.  And this, in turn, may just  make us better ste...

The Maine Woods, Thoreau’s best-known book after Walden, is now available for the first time in a lavishly produced, fully-annotated gift-book edition that provides deep insights into the life and work of the great author and naturalist.

This book invites readers to enter a two-story virtual “gallery” where images of birds created by artists throughout human history are on display. These works represent a genre called science art—scientifically valid depictions of the natural world—and the authors reveal how such intertwining of art and science enriches our understanding of ea...

The first full account of Surrealism's engagement with the theory of relativity and quantum mechanics, this book also provides a new look at the work of artists including André Breton, Salvador Dalí, and Max Ernst.

Focusing on 200 vintage images of spirits and the occult, this book analyzes photography’s impact on science and popular culture as a result of developments in technology during the 19th century.

A fascinating look at the emergence of natural science in the early modern period as told through natural history and botanical images.

Begun in 1837, Thoreau’s Journal spans twenty-five years and functions as a record of his interior life and a key to his other writings. This beautifully produced gift edition of the Journal, carefully selected and annotated by Jeffrey S. Cramer, provides a fully rounded portrait of Thoreau. The volume will make a welcome addition to any book lover’s libr...

This handsome, affordable paperback edition of Walden is the most authoritative version of Thoreau’s masterpiece to date.  Cramer’s newly edited text is based on the original 1854 edition of Walden, with emendations taken from Thoreau’s draft manuscripts, his own markings on page proofs, and notes in his personal copy of the book. An elegantly produced paperbac...

This insightful and ingenious book investigates different models of the fourth dimension and how these are applied in art and physics, offering new insights into the invention of cubism.

 

Piero della Francesca was not only a great fifteenth-century painter but was also an accomplished mathematician. This book is the first full study of how these two activities were interrelated.

This anthology presents a selection of 50 stories, recollections, essays, and poems featured in the Yale Anglers’ Journal during its first remarkable decade. Accompanied by original artwork from James Prosek, these writings all celebrate fish and the experience of fishing.

This book examines perceptions of the human heart throughout human history. Encompassing images and artefacts from London’s Wellcome Library and archives across the world, the book provides a richly-illustrated account of how the heart has been understood and depicted, from the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead to 3D images used by heart surgeons today.

This unprecedented collection of thousands of science fiction and fantasy quotations draws on the best science fiction works ever created in print, film, and television. From H. G. Wells to Ursula Le Guin, from the Three Laws of Robotics to the Prime Directive, the book encompasses every topic a curious sci fi writer or enthusiast would wish to explore.

This reader-friendly quotation book is unique in its focus on modern and American quotations.  It is also the first to use state-of-the-art research methods to capture famous quotations and to trace sources of quotations to their true origins.  It contains more than 12,000 entries not only from literary and historical sources but also from popular culture, sports, computers, po...

From the publisher of the acclaimed Encyclopedia of New York City comes the first encyclopedia devoted to New England’s unique history and culture. With 1,300 entries written by more than 1,000 contributing scholars, the book explores every aspect of this distinctive region—its agriculture, performing arts, geography, literature, religion, politics, industry, sports, ethnic iden...

For anyone who feels isolated in a career or stressed at work, take heart! Ellen Daniell here explains how a cooperative problem-solving group can empower and inspire. Recounting her own experiences during 25 years as a member of a group of now-successful professionals, Daniell demonstrates the power of not navigating a career path alone and offers advice on establishing a group of your own...

Drawn to the mysteries of life in the treetops of tropical rain forests, Meg Lowman has pursued a life of scientific exploration while bringing up two sons. This rollicking, inspiring book recounts the challenges and joys of her remarkable family as they travel the world, encounter anacondas and piranhas, snack on crickets, and learn much from one another.

A pioneering tree canopy scientist for more than twenty years, Margaret D. Lowman first gained access to the treetops with ropes and ladders, later a cherry picker, and recently with such advanced methods as hot-air balloons and treetop walkways. In this absorbing book, Lowman describes her scientific studies in forest canopies around the world and her challenges as a field biologist, wife, and si...

A leading oncologist demystifies cancer in this essential guide for patients and their families. In plain language Dr. Richard C. Frank explains what cancer is, how to confront it, how to choose among treatment options, and much more. Readers will find in this book the accurate information—and the hope—that every cancer patient yearns for.

This invaluable handbook is the first to show families of adult patients how to join with hospital personnel to ensure the best care for their loved one. Inspired by his own struggles to be supportive when his partner was suddenly hospitalized, Patrick Conlon provides a wealth of empowering information, practical strategies, and clear advice.

This brand new guide by an orthopedic surgeon presents detailed and medically accurate information on painful joints, what causes them, how to prevent them, and how best to treat them. The book offers clear advice and beneficial exercises for the young athlete, the weekend warrior, people suffering from degenerative arthritis, and all others contending with jo...

The only authoritative guide specifically for pregnant working women, this book addresses all the subjects one expects to find in a comprehensive book on pregnancy plus issues of special concern to wage-earning women. Is my workplace safe for my developing baby? When should I tell my employer that I am expecting? What laws protect me if I must take medical lea...

This indispensable guide is written for the millions of Americans with heart disease who are looking for accurate and up-to-date information about heart care. There is no one-size-fits-all treatment program, explains cardiologist Barry L. Zaret. Instead, patients should have tailor-made treatment programs that take individual needs and variables into account.

This clear, accessible book provides the best current information and practical advice on dry eye syndrome, a painful condition for as many as twenty million Americans. Dr. Steven L. Maskin explains how dry eye can develop and how it can be effectively treated, organizing the book so that readers can easily find the answers to the specific questions that concern them.

This accurate and up-to-date guide is written for those diagnosed with melanoma as well as those concerned about preventing it. The authors—a melanoma survivor and a renowned melanoma physician—provide vital new information on the disease, including the latest techniques for detection and how to obtain the best treatment.

Anger, fatigue, obsessions, memory loss, sexual performance problems, suicidal thoughts. Are these signs of mental illness? How can you tell? Should you consult your physician? This reassuring book is for anyone seeking to understand their own symptoms or those of a loved one. Organized for easy use, the highly readable guide offers a wide range of information and advice on mental illness.

This book is for the hundreds of thousands of men who are diagnosed with prostate cancer each year. Written by a doctor who has himself survived the disease, Surviving Prostate Cancer can help men and their families come to terms with this frightening diagnosis, evaluate the severity of the disease, and assess treatment options. It is the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical guide ...

In this essential guide, a leading plastic surgeon explains the pros and cons of cosmetic surgery and other skin care procedures to help you determine what is--or isn’t--right for you. From traditional procedures (facelifts, breast implants, liposuction) to recent innovations (laser treatments, cosmeceuticals), the book offers reliable information on every treatment available today.

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Dr. Ruth Grobstein, a caring physician who has treated thousands of breast cancer patients, offers in this book clear and reassuring information on the disease, its prevention, and its treatment. Emphasizing how informed patients can be their own best advocates, this jargon-free book provides a wealth of information for making the best health decisions.

In this timely book, Claude Hagège, a renowned linguist and leading French public intellectual, ranges over all continents and language families to uncover not only how languages die, but also how they can be revitalized.

In this beautifully curated collection of essays, Steven Johnson heralds the arrival of a new generation of technology writing.  Whether it is Nicholas Carr worrying that Google is making us stupid, Dana Goodyear chronicling the rise of the cellphone novel, or Andrew Sullivan explaining the rewards of blogging, this new generation does not waste time speculating...