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HOW WHY , 

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What Bugged 

 the Dinosaurs? 



Insects, Disease, and Death 

 in the Cretaceous 

 GEORGE POINAR, JR. & 

 ROBERTA POINAR 



A scientific adventure story 

 from the authors whose 

 research inspired Jurassic Park, 

 What Bugged the Dinosaurs? 

 offers compelling evidence 

 of how insects directly and 

 indirectly contributed to the 

 dinosaurs' demise. 



Cloth S29.95 February 2008 



How and Why 

 Species Multiply 



The Radiation of Darwin's Finches 

 PETER R. GRANT & 

 B. ROSEMARY GRANT 



"This is a book that summarizes 

 decades of research on Darwin's 

 finches and integrates it into 



a very accessible synthesis 



Readers will benefit enormously 

 from the scholarship in this book." 

 —David B. Wake, 

 University of California, Berkeley 



Princeton Series in Evolutionary Biology 

 Cloth $35.00 January 2008 



Birder's Conservation 

 Handbook 



100 North American Birds at Risk 

 JEFFREY V.WELLS 



"A gold mine of information 



No other book provides as much 

 information on the threats to 

 each species, the conservation 

 measures that have been taken 

 thus far, and the steps that still 

 need to be taken to ensure the 

 well-being of these birds." 

 — David Wilcove, 

 Princeton University 



Paper 535.00 Cloth 579.50 



The New Encyclopedia 

 of Snakes 



CHRIS MATTISON 



Organized thematically, this 

 book addresses the origin 

 and evolution of snakes; their 

 morphology and function; 

 how and where they live; their 

 methods of feeding, defense, 

 and reproduction; their taxonomy 

 and classification; and their 

 interaction with humans. 



Cloth 535.00 



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PLOWS, 



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WIII1AM I RUr»l>IMAN 



The Horse, the Wheel, 

 and Language 



How Bronze-Age Riders from 

 the Eurasian Steppes Shaped 

 the Modern World 



DAVID W.ANTHONY 



The Horse, the Wheel, and 

 Language solves a puzzle that 

 has vexed scholars for two 

 centuries — the source of the 

 Indo-European languages and 

 English — and recovers a magnifi- 

 cent and influential civilization 

 from the past. 



Cloth $35.00 January 2008 



Trying Leviathan 



The Nineteenth-Century New York 

 Court Case That Put the Whale 

 on Trial and Challenged the 

 Order of Nature 



D. GRAHAM BURNETT 



"Graham Burnett is a brilliant 

 writer and he has transformed a 

 nineteenth-century legal battle 

 over the taxonomic classification 

 of whales into a wonderful and 

 engaging book." 

 —Richard Ellis, 

 author of Men and Whales 



Cloth 529.95 December 



Seashells of 

 Southern Florida 



Living Marine Mollusks of 

 the Florida Keys and 

 Adjacent Regions: Bivalves 

 PAULA M.MIKKELSEN& 

 RUDIGER BIELER 



"This book provides the most 

 thorough treatment of living mol- 

 lusks in this region ever written. 

 It provides anatomical details 

 of many species for which the 

 anatomy had not been described 

 previously." — Gary Rosenberg, 

 Academy of Natural Sciences 



Cloth 579.50 December 



Plows, Plagues, 

 and Petroleum 



How Humans Took Control 

 of Climate 



WILLIAM F.RUDDIMAN 



"Well-written Ruddiman's 



argument makes it clear that 

 there is no 'natural' baseline of 

 climate in the late Holocene 

 from which to reckon the human 

 impact of the past two centuries." 

 — Wolfgang H. Berger, 

 American Scientist 



Winner of the 2006 Phi Beta Kappa Book 



Award in Science 



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