Biology

February 2010

Highlights

The Mediterranean Region Biological Diversity in Space and Time Jacques Blondel, James Aronson, Jean-Yves Bodiou, and Gilles Boeuf This is a detailed, illustrated and up-to-date study of the fauna, flora, landscapes, coastal areas and seascapes of the entire Mediterranean Basin, and the Sea itself. Since the publication of the first edition in 1999, the field has advanced in significant ways and this revision is timely. Paperback | 392 pages £34.95 | 28 January 2010 | 978-0-19-955799-8 Also Available as: Hardback

Conservation Biology for All Edited by Navjot S. Sodhi and Paul R. Ehrlich Conservation Biology for All provides cutting-edge but basic conservation science to a global readership. A series of authoritative chapters have been written by the top names in conservation biology with the principal aim of disseminating cutting-edge conservation knowledge as widely as possible. Hardback | 360 pages £70.00 | 7 January 2010 | 978-0-19-955423-2 Also Available as: Paperback

New in Paperback
Orangutans
Geographic Variation in Behavioral Ecology and Conservation
Edited by Serge A. Wich, S. Suci Utami Atmoko, Tatang Mitra Setia, and   Carel P. van Schaik

Orangutan populations show extensive variation in behaviour and  demography.The two main aims of this book are to carefully compare data from all orangutan research sites, examining the differences and similarities between orangutan species, subspecies and populations and to develope a theoretical framework in which these can be explained.

Paperback | 440 pages
£29.95 | 7 January 2010 | 978-0-19-958415-4
Also Available as: Hardback

New in Paperback
Why Evolution is True
Jerry A. Coyne

Why Evolution is True focuses on the hard evidence that proves evolution by natural selection to be a fact. Weaving together and explaining the latest discoveries and ideas from many disparate areas of modern science, this succinct and important book will leave no one with an open mind in any doubt about the truth-and the beauty-of evolution

Paperback | 331 pages
£8.99 | 14 January 2010 | 978-0-19-923085-3

Man's Emerging Mind
Berrill

Paperback | 326 pages
£8.99 | 14 January 2010 | 978-0-19-543398-2

The Making of Human Concepts
Edited by Denis Mareschal, Paul C. Quinn, and Stephen E.G. Lea

Paperback | 416 pages
£34.95 | 13 January 2010 | 978-0-19-954922-1

An Odyssey with Animals
A Veterinarian's Reflections on the Animal Rights & Welfare Debate
Adrian R Morrison

Hardback | 286 pages
£19.99 | 29 October 2009 | 978-0-19-537444-5

Online Resources

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