EXPLORE YOUR WORLD 



LIFE IN THE 



Undergrowth 



"The very best 

 in his series. 



Companion book to the 

 Animal Planet Program 

 to air Spring 2006 



This beautifully illustrated book 

 by veteran naturalist Sir David 

 Attenborough offers a rare 

 glimpse into the secret life of 

 invertebrates. Life in the 

 Undergrowth, part of his inno- 

 vative series on natural history 

 topics, looks at invertebrates the 

 world over, their arrival on land 

 and mastery of every habitat, 

 and their fantastic variety of 

 hunting, mating, and highly 

 organized social behaviors. 



*-Brian D. Farrell, 

 Museum of Comparative Zoology, 

 Harvard University 



Cloth: $29.95 



For sale only in the United States 

 and Canada 



"An intelligent 

 and stimulating 

 account of the 

 islands."* 



A renowned 

 ecologist and 

 Galapagos 

 ecotour guide 

 presents a 

 detailed natural 

 history of this 

 spectacular 

 archipelago, 

 weaving the 

 intriguing history 

 of evolutionary biology that is intimately connected 

 with the islands, and describes Darwin's adventures 

 and observations while he was visiting in 1835. 

 * -Peter R. Grant, 



author of Ecology and Evollution of Darwin's Finches 

 New in paper $19.95 85 illus. 



"Douglas Erwin blends care- 

 ful scholarship and graceful 

 prose in this authoritative 

 elucidation of Earth's greatest 

 mass extinction. Although 

 framed in terms of hypotheses 

 and their tests, Erwin's story 

 unfolds as a gripping who- 

 done-it for the ages." 

 —Andrew H. Knoll, author of 

 Life on a Young Planet 

 Cloth $24.95 



"An engrossing and well- 

 written book. . . . Simon 

 Lamb has done a masterful 

 job in piecing together the 

 Andean puzzle in a way that 

 seems to make perfect sense." 

 — David E. James, Nature 



"Lamb gives his readers a 

 wonderful feel for how geolo- 

 gy works." — Carl Zimmer, 

 New York Times Book Review 



New in paper $17.95 Due July 



"The book skillfully weaves 

 together descriptions of El 

 Nino physics, the historical 

 backdrop that led to wide- 

 spread interest in El Nino, 

 and the philosophical 

 perspectives on the role of 

 scientific research in address- 

 ing present-day environmen- 

 tal problems." 

 — Michael J. McPhaden, 

 Nature 



New in paper $17.95 23 illus. 

 Due May 



"Clive D. L. Wynne . . . 

 seems to take delight in 

 animals, and possesses great 

 knowledge about them, yet 

 he prefers them at arm's 

 length. The constant message 

 is that animals are not 

 people." 



— Frans B.M. de Waal, 

 Natural History 



New in paper $1 7.95 



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