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Chinese Medicine and HealingAn Illustrated HistoryEditEd by TJ Hinrichs and Linda L. Barnes

“A rich exploration of the

evolution and impact of

Chinese medicine . . . Medical

professionals and alternative

medicine aficionados will find

plenty to appreciate in this

compelling study.”

—Publishers Weekly

“Will change the way we learn

about and teach the history

of health and healing in China

and beyond. Chinese Medi-

cine and Healing collects ten

chronologically-organized

chapters that each explore

practices of health and heal-

ing in a specific historical

period, ranging from oracle

bones in the pre-Han period

to modern McDonald’s restau-

rant décor . . . It’s a phenom-

enal accomplishment and

makes for an enjoyable and

compelling read.”

— Carla Nappi, New Books in

East Asian Studies

Belknap Press 2013 480 pp. 76 halftones, 25 line illus., maps, tables 9780674047372 cloth $45.00 • £33.95

Curious BehaviorYawning, Laughing, Hiccupping, and BeyondRobert R. Provine

H PROSE Award, Biomedicine & Neuroscience Category

H A Library Journal Best Book of the Year

“Neuroscientist Robert Provine turns an evolutionary lens

on everything from the gross to the faintly improper.

The ‘contagiousness’ of yawning, for instance, hints at

the roots of empathy and herd behavior. Burping and

farting were involved in the development of speech, says

Provine. . . Some of it speculative, all of it fascinating.”

—Nature

“Charmingly written and profoundly informative . . . [A]

marvelous book. . . ‘Small science’ at its best.”

—Carol Tavris, Wall Street Journal

“Begs you to continue where curiosity leads you, down

the boulevards and back alleys of science.”

—James Gorman, New York Times

Belknap Press 2012 288 pp. 9780674048515 cloth $24.95 • £18.95

AdrenalineBrian B. Hoffman

“[This] is medical history at its best, revealing the blend

of genius, guts, and luck that transformed a hunch into

a breakthrough—from 19th-century physician Thomas

Addison’s insights into the function of the adrenal glands

to the beginnings of endocrinology.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“As Hoffman beautifully demonstrates, adrenaline is part

of a whole host of fundamental physiological processes

besides fight or flight. It influences our emotions and is

part of the cycle of sugar metabolism.”

—William Bynum, Wall Street Journal

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Triumphs of ExperienceThe Men of the Harvard Grant StudyGeorge E. Vaillant

“Of the 31 men in the study incapable of establishing

intimate bonds, only four are still alive . . . It’s not that the

men who flourished had perfect childhoods. Rather, as

Vaillant puts it, ‘What goes right is more important than

what goes wrong’ . . . The beauty of the Grant Study is

that, as Vaillant emphasizes, it has followed its subjects

for nine decades. The big finding is that you can teach

an old dog new tricks. The men kept changing all the

way through, even in their 80s and 90s.”

—David Brooks, New York Times

Belknap Press 2012 480 pp. 5 figures 9780674059825 cloth $27.95 • £20.95

Eugene Braunwald and the Rise of Modern MedicineThomas H. Lee

“A splendid biography of the pioneer cardiovascular

researcher. Lee is highly knowledgeable, a clear writer,

and Eugene Braunwald is an absorbing subject—bril-

liant, resourceful, and idealistic. Eugene Braunwald and

the Rise of Modern Medicine is a compelling story, and I

found myself increasingly fascinated.”

— David McCullough, two-time Pulitzer Prize winner

“Braunwald remains far too little-known. The span of his

work in cardiology has transformed medicine and human

life. And Tom Lee has wrapped Braunwald’s life story in

the tale of how American medicine changed the world,

giving us a book that is as engrossing as it is inspiring.”

—Atul Gawande

2013 400 pp. 16 halftones, 10 line illus., 1 table 9780674724976 cloth $35.00 • £25.95

The Fragile WisdomAn Evolutionary View on Women’s Biology and Health

Grazyna Jasienska

“Women may aim for perfect

health through diet, exercise

and close attention to medi-

cal advice, but still develop

breast cancer or osteopo-

rosis. Reproductive fitness

often wars with general physi-

cal fitness over a woman’s

lifetime, argues public-health

specialist Grazyna Jasienska.

Drawing on a raft of research

in evolutionary biology and

beyond, she points to fac-

tors such as the disjunction

between ‘palaeo’ and current

lifestyles, hormonal dispari-

ties and longer lifespans as

key to informing disease-

prevention strategies.”

—Nature

2013 336 pp. 9780674047129 cloth $35.00 • £25.95

Cover image: Eastern Screech- Owl from Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology, Edited by Edward H. Burtt, Jr., and William E. Davis, Jr. (p. 4).

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Life in a ShellA Physiologist’s View of a Turtle

Donald C. Jackson

H A Choice Outstanding Academic Title

“Over 200 million years of existence, turtles have shared the

planet with dinosaurs, witnessed the diversification of mam-

mals and seen the spread of humans. Physiologist Donald

Alexander WilsonThe Scot Who Founded American OrnithologyEdward H. Burtt, Jr., and William E. Davis, Jr.

“Burtt and Davis argue convincingly for Wilson’s contribution to

modern scientific ornithology and celebrate Wilson as the man

who inspired John James Audubon . . . This book . . . give[s] us

Wilson’s wonderful illustrations—and a sense of the spirit of an

extraordinary man whose curiosity reached far beyond the man-

made world.”

—karin Altenberg, Wall Street Journal

“It is as the author of American Ornithology—a nine-volume work

that aimed to list every species in the U.S.—that Wilson will be

remembered. [His] books were revolutionary . . . Wilson’s life and

his struggle to publish American Ornithology are fascinating.”

—Peter Ranscombe, The Scotsman

Belknap Press 2013 464 pp. 146 color illus., 6 tables 9780674072558 cloth $35.00 • £25.00

Planet without ApesCraig B. Stanford

“In this study of the plight of gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans

and bonobos, primatologist Craig Stanford reveals how mining

coltan, a mineral used in electronics, destroys primate habitats

and fuels the illegal bush meat trade. In his wide-ranging call for

action, Stanford—co-director of the Jane Goodall Research Cen-

ter in Los Angeles, California—lays out the critical threats, argu-

ing that humanity’s closest cousins are viewed as savage ‘others’

and subjected to a genocidal urge last seen in the colonial era.”

—Nature

“Stanford examines the threats to apes’ survival and explores

approaches to reversing or at least neutralizing those pressures.

He reveals a complex web of cultural, social, economic and

biological issues that explain why this problem is so exceedingly

difficult to solve.”

—Sarah Halzack, Washington Post

Belknap Press 2013 272 pp. 4 halftones 9780674067042 cloth $25.95 • £19.95

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Jackson conveys his love of the reptile in his book. He explains

how its slow movements help it to survive winters under ice

and describes how its shell functions as a home, armour and

a buoyancy aid. By focusing on the physiology of this one

familiar beast, he also reveals how scientific understanding

evolves by building on the work of others.”

— Nature

2013 192 pp. 11 halftones, 12 line illus. 9780674072305 paper $18.95 • £14.95

Concealing Coloration in AnimalsJudy Diamond and Alan B. Bond

“Combining a naturalist’s eye with scientific rigor, the authors

report on modern experiments on the mechanisms of the selec-

tive process that support these observations.”

—Kirkus Reviews

“This book is a lovely survey, for the general public, of all that is

known about concealing coloration, and very nicely weaves the

history of the subjects with the facts.”

— John A. Endler, Professor of Sensory Ecology and Evolution, Deakin University, Australia

Belknap Press 2013 288 pp. 52 color illus. 9780674052352 cloth $29.95 • £22.95

BioluminescenceLiving Lights, Lights for LivingThérèse Wilson and J. Woodland Hastings

“Wilson and Hastings demonstrate that what appears on the

surface to be a biological oddity is actually a marvelous entry

port into examining the intricacies of biochemistry as molded by

evolution. I found this book absolutely captivating.”

— Jim Morin, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University

“Wilson and Hastings have given us a masterful biology lesson

showing how addressing a seemingly simple question (How do

different organisms produce light?) leads to fascinating natural

history, intriguing ecology, and exciting biochemistry. They show

how the study of bioluminescence has given us new tools, new

insights, and new questions that need to be answered.”

—Martin Chalfie, winner of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

2013 208 pp. 74 color illus., 3 halftones, 11 line illus., 6 graphs 9780674067165 cloth $45.00 • £33.95






The Spirit of the HiveThe Mechanisms of Social EvolutionRobert E. Page, Jr.ForEword by Bert Hölldobler

“Fascinating . . . Page’s book is a delightful example of how

one dedicated career in science can dramatically deepen

and broaden our perceptions of the world around us.”

—Mark L. Winston, Nature

One of the foremost honey bee geneticists in the world,

sheds light on how the coordinated activity of hives

arises naturally when worker bees respond to stimuli in

their environment. The actions they take in turn alter

the environment and so change the stimuli for their

nestmates. For example, a bee detecting ample stores

of pollen in the hive is inhibited from foraging for more,

whereas detecting the presence of hungry young larvae

will stimulate pollen gathering. Division of labor, Page

shows, is an inevitable product of group living.

2013 240 pp. 39 halftones, 30 line illus., 4 tables 9780674073029 cloth $39.95 • £29.95

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A World of InsectsThe Harvard University Press ReaderEditEd by Ring T. Cardé and Vincent H. Resh

“The editors have gathered some of the finest and most

entertaining entomological writing I’ve ever read.”

— Amy Stewart, Washington Post

James Costa, Vincent Dethier, Thomas Eisner, Lee Goff,

Bernd Heinrich, Bert Hölldobler, Kenneth Roeder, Andrew

Ross, Thomas Seeley, Karl von Frisch, Gilbert Wald-

bauer, E. O. Wilson, and Mark Winston—each writer, in

his unique voice, paints a close-up portrait of the ways

insects explore their environment, outmaneuver their

enemies, mate, and care for kin.

2012 416 pp. 12 halftones, 31 line illus., 1 table 9780674046191 paper $19.95 • £14.95

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The Fire AntsWalter R. Tschinkel

H Honorable Mention, Association of American Publishers, Biology

“I have been reading bits and

pieces of the book, dipping in

here and there like a chim-

panzee with a twig, fishing

for ants, and each time I have

come up with something tasty

and nutritious . . . My favorite

[‘Interlude’], an economical

two-page essay called ‘The

Porter Wedge Micrometer:

Mental Health for Myrmecolo-

gists,’ ought to be required

reading for any scientist

who wants to write for the

public . . . This brief essay is

entertaining and significant,

a real glimpse of what sci-

ence is and how it is done by

human beings, rational and

un-, grappling with technique,

nature and the gathering of

information. This is what the

public needs to know about

science, not just the results

presented in the driest form

possible.”

— James Gorman, New York Times

Belknap Press 2013 752 pp. 53 color illus., 23 halftones, 188 line illus., 9 tables 9780674072404 paper $29.95 • £22.95

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Yellowstone’s Wildlife in TransitionEditEd by P. J. White, Robert A. Garrott, and Glenn E. Plumb

This is the most comprehensive survey of research on

North America’s flagship national park available today.

Highly readable and fully illustrated, Yellowstone’s

Wildlife in Transition will be welcomed by ecologists and

nature enthusiasts alike.

“As a people and nation, we consistently invest in Yellow-

stone science, as the wildlife populations wax and wane

and as the climate changes, migrations are allowed or

prevented, wolves are eliminated and restored, and inva-

sive species of animals and plants press in. Translation of

this science into twenty-first century stewardship is the

intent of the present volume. The information is timeless

and valuable beyond measure.”

—from the Foreword by Edward O. Wilson

2013 368 pp. 31 halftones, 8 line illus., 1 map 9780674073180 cloth $45.00 • £33.95

The Mind of the HorseAn Introduction to Equine CognitionMichel-Antoine LeblancTranslated by Giselle Weiss

“The Mind of the Horse provides an extensive review of all

the physiological studies on horse perception. It is an es-

sential reference work for researchers of horse behavior.”

— Temple Grandin, editor of Genetics and the Behavior of Domestic Animals

Much of what we know—or think we know—about “the

intelligence of the horse” derives from fragmentary re-

ports and anecdotal evidence. Putting this accumulated

wisdom to the test, Leblanc introduces readers to rigor-

ous experimental investigations into how horses make

sense of their world under varying conditions.

2013 436 pp. 16 color illus., 60 halftones, 52 line illus., 15 tables 9780674724969 cloth $39.95 • £29.95

Animal KingdomsHunting, the Environment, and Power in the Indian Princely States

Julie E. Hughes

“This admirable and well-

written study of hunting and

elite identity in north Indian

princely states in the later

nineteenth and early twenti-

eth century is a welcome ad-

dition to social and environ-

mental history of this period.”

— kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Professor of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University

2013 320 pp. 12 color illus., 5 maps 9780674072800 cloth $49.95 • £36.95










Evolution, Games, and GodThe Principle of CooperationEditEd by Martin A. Nowak and Sarah Coakley

“Martin Nowak is undeniably a great artist, working in the me-

dium of mathematical biology.”

— Sean Nee, Nature

“I have been anticipating this book for years and it has exceeded

my high expectations. Nowak and Coakley combine the courage

of applying a specific evolutionary theory to altruism with the

prudence of recruiting sharp minds to explore and challenge

their own thesis. The result is essential reading for anyone

interested in carefully bringing science into conversation with

moral and theological phenomena while avoiding the pitfalls of

reductionism.”

—Ariel Glucklich, Georgetown University

2013 416 pp. 14 halftones, 1 line illus., 2 tables 9780674047976 cloth $35.00 • £25.95

Evolution and Human Sexual BehaviorPeter B. Gray and Justin R. Garcia

“I am convinced this book will become a classic, and I don’t use

this term lightly. It is a superb overview and synthesis of the lit-

erature, along with discussion of the newest data from a remark-

ably wide range of academic disciplines. I am impressed.”

— Helen Fisher, Rutgers University

2013 376 pp. 9780674072732 cloth $39.95 • £29.95

Genetic ExplanationsSense and Nonsense

EditEd by Sheldon krimsky and Jeremy Gruber

“Important and optimistic, Genetic Explanations clears the

way for an open discourse on human identity in the age of

DNA, clearly demonstrating the many ways in which the

information in our DNA interacts with our experience over the

course of a lifetime.”

— Robert Pollack, Columbia University

“A welcome contribution . . . a valuable resource for those seek-

ing to sort exaggerated claims about genetic causation from

solid scientific achievements.”

— Troy Duster, author of Backdoor to Eugenics

2013 384 pp. 2 graphs, 4 tables 9780674064461 cloth $45.00 • £33.95








3An Inquiry into Modes of ExistenceAn Anthropology of the ModernsBruno LatourTranslated by Catherine Porter

H Bruno Latour is Winner of the Holberg International Memorial Prize

“[An Inquiry into Modes of Existence] is not just a book;

it is also a project in interactive metaphysics. In other

words, a book, plus website . . . Intrigued readers of

Latour’s text can go online and find themselves drawn

into a collaborative project. Collective collaboration—

some would call it ‘crowdsourcing’—is rare in philosophy,

but Latour, a sociologist and anthropologist by training,

is used to collaboration with scientists . . . Latour’s work

makes the world—sorry, worlds—interesting again.”

—Stephen Muecke, Los Angeles Review of Books

2013 520 pp. 9780674724990 cloth $39.95 • £29.95

TychomancyInferring Probability from Causal StructureMichael Strevens

“It seems almost magical how we infer facts about objec-

tive probabilities from symmetries and other physical

properties of systems. Physicists such as Maxwell have

done it with stunning success; so too evolutionary

biologists since Darwin, ecologists, climate scientists,

astronomers, and other scientists. Strevens argues that

such reasoning comes so easily to us that even babies

can do it, and we don’t notice when we do it ourselves.

In this remarkable and engaging book, he plays with

great aplomb the roles of such scientists—as well as

the role of historian of science, of cognitive psycholo-

gist, and especially of philosopher . . . Channel your inner

tychomaniac, and read this book!”

—Alan Hájek, Australian National University

2013 280 pp. 18 line illus. 9780674073111 cloth $39.95 • £29.95

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The Ecological ThoughtTimothy Morton

“Timothy Morton has a unique

take on ecology that chal-

lenges much of the alterna-

tive consciousness that floats

around on the periphery of

environmental circles. He

offers a profound take on hu-

man possibilities. To Morton,

human society and Nature are

not two distinct things but

rather two different angles on

the same thing.”

—Tikkun

2012 184 pp. 9780674064225 paper $19.95 • £14.95









MeasurementPaul Lockhart

“This invitation to tackle mathematical questions is in-

fused with the joys of the rarefied reality of maths. Paul

Lockhart largely avoids complex formulae and the wilder

shores of jargon, opting instead for simple geometric

drawings, lucid instructions and honest warnings about

the hurdles. Covering size, shape, space and time, Lock-

hart, a maths teacher, gets through scores of problems,

from showing that a cone in a hemisphere occupies half

the volume to determining the size of the largest circle

that can sit at the bottom of a parabola. Elegant, amus-

ing and challenging.”

—Nature

Belknap Press 2012 416 pp. 416 line illus. 9780674057555 cloth $29.95 • £20.00

A History in Sum150 Years of Mathematics at Harvard (1825–1975)Steve Nadis and Shing-Tung Yau

“A beautiful tribute to a beautiful subject, one that illumi-

nates mathematics through the lens of some of its most

remarkable practitioners. The authors’ love of mathemat-

ics shines through every chapter, as they use accessible

and spirited language to describe a wealth of heady

insights and the all-too-human stories of the minds that

discovered them. There is perhaps no better book for

immersion into the curious and compelling history of

mathematical thought.”

—Brian Greene, Columbia University

2013 280 pp. 21 halftones 9780674725003 cloth $39.95 • £29.95

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The Theology of ArithmeticNumber Symbolism in Platonism and Early ChristianityJoel kalvesmaki

In the second century, gnosticizing Christians used numerical structures and symbols to describe God, interpret the Bible, and frame the universe. In this study of the controversy that resulted, Joel kalvesmaki shows how earlier neo-Pythagorean and Platonist number symbol-ism provided the impetus for this theology of arithmetic, and describes the ways in which gnosticizing groups attempted to engage both the Platonist and Christian traditions. Arguing that the early dispute influenced the very tradition that inspired it, kalvesmaki explains how, in the late third and early fourth centuries, numbers became increasingly important to Platonists, who engaged in arithmological constructions and disputes that mirrored the earlier Christian ones.

Center for Hellenic Studies 2013 242 pp. 9780674073302 paper $22.95 • £16.95








A Palette of ParticlesJeremy Bernstein

“Physicist Jeremy Bernstein pays homage to the subatom-

ic, tinting particles according to era of discovery . . . The

abstractions come alive as Bernstein meshes history and

science with anecdotes on everyone from Murray Gell-

Mann to Richard Feynman.”

—Nature

“General readers share in the excitement of epoch-

making science without shouldering the burden of

rigorous analysis . . . Sprinkled with anecdotes revealing

the piquant personalities of pioneering scientists.”

—Bryce Christensen, Booklist (starred review)

Belknap Press 2013 224 pp. 11 halftones, 11 line illus., 3 tables 9780674072510 cloth $18.95 • £14.95

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101 Quantum QuestionsWhat You Need to Know About the World You Can’t Seekenneth W. Ford

“Kenneth Ford’s question-and-answer-style guide to the

weirdness of the quantum realm is a clear and handy ref-

erence. Ford’s easy-going prose will help you feel right at

home at nature’s tiniest and most counterintuitive scale.”

— Amanda Gefter, New Scientist

“Using humor and straight talk to answer questions that

often bedevil the non-scientist who attempts to grasp

this knotty subject, Ford has created an entertaining

read.”

— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

2012 304 pp. 39 halftones, 64 line illus., 9 tables 9780674066076 paper $17.95 • £13.95

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A Short History of Physics in the American CenturyDavid C. Cassidy

“A Short History of Physics

in the American Century by

David Cassidy presents a

brisk but excellent institu-

tional and political history of

the discipline, ornamented by

lucid descriptions of physics

concepts and discoveries . . .

[It] deserves a wide audience,

including physicists curi-

ous about their discipline’s

prominent role in modern U.S.

history . . . A snappy and enjoy-

able read.”

— Benjamin Wilson,

Physics Today

2013 224 pp. 9780674725829 paper $19.95 • £14.95








The Lost Art of Finding Our WayJohn Edward Huth

“Even the most confused of us can improve our navigational un-

derstanding by paying closer attention to the world around us . . .

A learned and encyclopedic grab bag, packed with information

drawn from study and Huth’s own experience.”

—Michael Dirda, Washington Post

“Physicist John Edward Huth turns explorer in this rich, wide-

ranging and lucidly illustrated primer on how to find yourself in

the middle of somewhere. Huth’s prescription for navigating fog,

darkness, open ocean, thick forests or unknown terrain rests

first on harnessing compass, Sun and stars; then on the subtle-

ties of weather forecasting and decoding markers such as the

wind, waves and tides.”

—Nature

Belknap Press 2013 544 pp. 171 halftones, 54 line illus., 3 tables 9780674072824 cloth $35.00 • £25.00

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Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the PoorRob Nixon

H American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation

H Harold and Margaret Sprout Award, Environmental Studies

H Association for the Study of Literature & Environment Award

“Slow Violence is inspiring, innovative, and passionate. Nixon

forces us to confront some of the most urgent issues facing the

continued existence of humans on the planet. He re-energizes

environmental literature, infusing the field with the transnational

concerns of world literature, and creatively reinvigorates post-

colonial studies.”

—Hazel Carby, Yale University

“This is a fine book, disturbing and revealing in content, and

worthy of lengthy study.”

—Jules Pretty, Times Higher Education

2012 5 halftones 370 pp. 9780674072343 paper $19.95 • £14.95

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Designing Wildlife HabitatsEditEd by John Beardsley

This book gathers essays by designers, scientists, and histori-

ans to explore how they might better collaborate to promote

zoological biodiversity and how scientific ambitions might be

expressed in culturally significant and historically informed

design.

Dumbarton Oaks Colloquium Series in the History of Landscape Architecture 2013 304 pp. 126 color illus., 13 halftones, 14 line illus., 2 tables 9780884023852 paper $50.00 • £37.95

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ThirstWater and Power in the Ancient WorldSteven Mithen

“Often riveting, Mithen . . . describes in detail how ancient civiliza-

tions, from China and Cambodia to the Middle East, Arizona,

Mayan Central America, and Incan Peru, managed their water

supplies and thus made arid land inhabitable . . . The archaeologi-

cal Middle East is where Mithen is at home. In other parts of the

world he writes as a traveller, but an exceptionally alert and well-

informed one . . . Mithen is passionately convinced that the study

of ancient water management offers us some lessons . . . A vitally

engaging book.”

—W. V. Harris, London Review of Books

2012 384 pp. 49 color illus., 17 line illus., 11 maps 9780674066939 cloth $25.95 • £19.95

On the Organic Law of ChangeA Facsimile Edition and Annotated Transcription of Alfred Russel Wallace’s Species Notebook of 1855–1859Alfred Russel WallaceAnnotated by James T. Costa

“The first detailed analysis of Wallace’s Species Notebook by an

evolutionary biologist and the most important study of the de-

velopment of Wallace’s evolutionary ideas attempted by anyone

so far. Costa is uniquely placed to have done this work; not only

does he have an excellent grasp of evolutionary theory, but he

also has a detailed understanding of the early history of the sub-

ject including the development of Darwin’s ideas about evolution.”

— George Beccaloni, Director of the A. R. Wallace Correspondence Project, Natural History Museum, London

2013 640 pp. 307 halftones, 1 line illus., 1 map, 29 tables 9780674724884 cloth $49.95 • £36.95

The Mortal SeaFishing the Atlantic in the Age of SailW. Jeffrey Bolster

H Bancroft Prize, Columbia University

H John Lyman Book Award, Society for Oceanic History

“Bolster ‘writes the ocean into history,’ tracing the currents

leading to today’s serious fish-stock depletion. Focusing on the

North Atlantic from Cape Cod to Newfoundland’s Grand Banks,

he shows how one species after another has been exploited for

centuries . . . Bolster braids marine biology into a narrative driven

by courageous chancers, such as fifteenth-century explorer John

Cabot and unnamed hordes of fishermen, to argue that the pre-

cautionary approach is key to heading off collapse.”

—Nature

Belknap Press 2013 416 pp. 59 halftones, 7 line illus., 2 maps 9780674047655 cloth $29.95 • £22.95

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Is American Science in Decline?Yu Xie and Alexandra A. killewald

“In the heated debate over the state of U.S. science, alarmists

say there are too few young high-flyers; others, too many. Enter

sociologists Yu Xie and Alexandra Killewald, whose nuanced

view is backed up by able number-crunching. The United States,

they found, is still a scientific superpower: the workforce has

grown, and numbers of new graduates at all levels of higher

education are rising. But the future is less certain: the number

of U.S. doctorate holders taking up academic posts is in decline

and earnings are stagnant, for instance.”

—Nature

2012 240 pp. 1 line illus., 21 graphs, 30 tables 9780674052420 cloth $45.00 • £33.95

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Am I Making Myself Clear?A Scientist’s Guide to Talking to the PublicCornelia Dean

“I’ve never read a better, more thorough guide to science com-

munication in all its forms. Dean’s suggestions for how to be

interviewed by a journalist—for print, radio and television—are

spot on. From the preparation you need to do, including how to

dress on TV, to always assuming everything you say is ‘on the

record,’ her book is packed full of valuable information. She also

advises on producing content for the web, writing your own

book and press releases, and dealing with politicians.”

— Gia Milinovich, Nature

2012 288 pp. 9780674066052 paper $15.95 • £11.95

Making ScientistsSix Principles for Effective College Teaching

Gregory Light and Marina Micari

“This insightful work argues for reform of collegiate science

teaching methods in clear, well-reasoned points. Light and

Micari share the history, motivation, and successes of their

Gateway Science Workshop (GSW) and Science Research

Workshop (SRW) approach to teaching undergraduate science

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courses. The goal of GSW and SRW is to make all students ‘feel

that in some limited sense they are scientists,’ not just cram-

ming for exams. Their method relies on leaving behind the lec-

ture-style teaching methods that have been leaving students

behind—especially those already underrepresented in the

sciences—for years, and instead bringing students together in

mentored, small groups to solve meaningful problems.”

—Publishers Weekly

2013 304 pp. 4 line illus., 3 graphs, 3 tables 9780674052925 cloth $24.95 • £18.95

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Science and Government is a gripping account of one of the

great scientific rivalries of the twentieth century. The antago-

nists are Sir Henry Tizard, a chemist from Imperial College, and

Frederick Lindemann (Lord Cherwell), a physicist from the

University of Oxford. The scientist-turned-novelist Charles Percy

Snow tells a story of hatred and ambition at the top of British

science, exposing how vital decisions were made in secret and

sometimes with little regard to truth or the prevailing scientific

consensus.

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This illustrated volume presents a selection of the manuscripts,

herbals, and printed botanical texts from the Rare Book Col-

lection at Dumbarton Oaks. Representing pivotal works in the

intellectual history of Europe from the sixteenth to the twentieth

centuries, these drawings, books, and manuscripts are among

the most significant materials conserved in the Rare Book Read-

ing Room. They offer an illuminating overview of the history of

botany as a modern science, from its inception to the present

day. Each text is accompanied by a remarkable set of botanical

illustrations. Their scientific accuracy and aesthetic beauty tes-

tify to the importance of the visual image once the efficacy of

the printing press as an instrument for the furtherance of knowl-

edge in the sciences and technology had been fully recognized.

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Financing Health in Latin AmericaVolume 1: Household Spending and ImpoverishmentEditEd by Felicia Marie knaul, Rebeca Wong, and Héctor Arreola-Ornelas

This book analyzes the level and determinants of catastrophic

health expenditures among households in Argentina, Brazil,

Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Mexico,

and Peru. The results demonstrate that out-of-pocket health

spending is pushing large segments of the population into im-

poverishment and that the most vulnerable segments are most

at risk of financial catastrophe.

Harvard Global Equity Initiative 2013 304 pp. 38 line illus., 85 tables 9780982914427 paper $24.95 • £18.95

Closing the Cancer DivideAn Equity ImperativeEditEd by Felicia Marie knaul, Julie R. Gralow, Rifat Atun, and Afsan BhadeliaForeword by Harvey V. Fineberg and Amartya Sen

Closing the Cancer Divide presents strategies for innovation

in delivery, pricing, procurement, finance, knowledge-building,

and leadership that can be scaled up by applying a diagonal

approach to health system strengthening. The book provides

evidence-based recommendations for developing programs,

local and global policy-making, and prioritizing research. The

cases and frameworks provide a guide for developing responses

to the challenge of cancer and other chronic illnesses. The

book summarizes results of the Global Task Force on Expanding

Access to Cancer Care and Control in Developing Countries, a

collaboration among leaders from the global health and cancer

care communities worldwide, originally convened by Harvard

University.

Harvard Global Equity Initiative 2013 14 line illus., 15 tables, 2 maps 404 pp. 9780982914403 paper $24.95 • £18.95

Beauty without the BreastFelicia Marie knaulForeword by Paul Farmer and Julie R. Gralow; Epilogue by Julio Frenk

“From the perspective of a patient, knaul’s Beauty without

the Breast is an intimate and detailed account of her life with

breast cancer . . . From the perspective of a health economist,

knaul wants Beauty without the Breast to encourage people

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The Cost of InactionCase Studies from Rwanda and AngolaSudhir Anand, Chris Desmond, Habtamu Fuje, and Nadejda MarquesForeword by Amartya Sen

This book is motivated by the idea that the cost of inaction can

be much greater than the cost of action. Inaction can lead to se-

rious negative consequences—for individuals, the economy, and

society. The consequences of a failure to reduce extreme poverty,

for example, typically include malnutrition, preventable morbid-

ity, premature mortality, incomplete basic education, and other

human and social development costs. In this volume, the authors

seek to clarify exactly what is meant by “cost of inaction.” They

develop a methodology to account for the consequences and

estimate the costs of a failure to respond to the needs of children

and their families.

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Health and Human RightsBasic International Documents, Third EditionEditEd by Stephen P. Marks

This new edition is updated and expanded to provide access to

the most basic instruments of international law and policy that

express the values of human rights for advancing health. Top-

ics include professional ethics; research and experimentation;

bioethics and biotechnology; the right to health; the right to life;

freedom from torture, war crimes, and crimes against human-

ity; reproductive health; persons with disabilities; infectious and

non-communicable diseases; and sustainable development. This

book is an indispensable reference for everyone working at the

intersection of health and human rights.

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to think about how an individual with a chronic illness moves

through a health system . . . [It] made me aware of, and angry

about, the inequities in diagnosis and treatment encountered

by many women with breast cancer who live in developing

countries.”

—Farhat Yaqub, The Lancet

Harvard Global Equity Initiative 2013 410 pp. 48 color photos, 1 line illus. 9780982914410 paper $17.95 • £13.95

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Anand Cost of Inaction ....................................... 17

Beardsley Designing Wildlife Habitats..................... 12

Bernstein A Palette of Particles ................................11

Bolster Mortal Sea ............................................... 13

Burtt Alexander Wilson ......................................4

Cardé A World of Insects .....................................6

Cassidy A Short History of Physics .......................11

Dean Am I Making Myself Clear? ..................... 14

Diamond Concealing Coloration in Animals ............5

Farmer Health and Human Rights (Journal) ........ 18

Ford 101 Quantum Questions ...........................11

Gray Evolution & Human Sexual Behavior ........8

Hinrichs Chinese Medicine and Healing .................2

Hoffman Adrenaline .................................................2

Hughes Animal Kingdoms ......................................7

Huth Lost Art of Finding Our Way.................... 12

Jackson Life in a Shell .............................................4

Jasienska Fragile Wisdom ..........................................3

Kalvesmaki Theology of Arithmetic ...........................10

Knaul Beauty without the Breast ....................... 16

Knaul Closing the Cancer Divide ...................... 16

Knaul Financing Health in Latin America ......... 16

Krimsky Genetic Explanations ................................8

Latour An Inquiry into Modes of Existence..........9

Leblanc Mind of the Horse......................................7

Lee Eugene Braunwald ....................................3

Light Making Scientists .................................... 14

Lockhart Measurement ..........................................10

Lott Four Seasons of Flowers ......................... 15

Marks Health and Human Rights ....................... 17

Mithen Thirst ........................................................ 13

Morton Ecological Thought ...................................9

Nadis A History in Sum ......................................10

Nixon Slow Violence & Environmentalism ........ 12

Nowak Evolution, Games, and God ......................8

Page Spirit of the Hive .......................................6

Provine Curious Behavior .......................................2

Snow Science and Government ....................... 15

Stanford Planet Without Apes ..................................4

Strevens Tychomancy ..............................................9

Tschinkel Fire Ants .....................................................6

Vaillant Triumphs of Experience ............................3

Wallace On the Organic Law of Change .............. 13

White Yellowstone’s Wildlife in Transition ...........7

Wilson Bioluminescence .......................................5

Xie Is American Science in Decline? ............ 14

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