Achieving Sustainable Freshwater Systems: A Web of Connections. Marjorie M. Holland, Elizabeth R. Blood, and Lawrence R. Schaffer, eds. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 351 pp., illus. $30.00 (ISBN 1559639296 paper).

Bat Ecology. Thomas H. Kunz and M. Brock Fenton, eds. University of Chicago Press, 2003. 704 pp., illus. $55.00 (ISBN 0226462064 cloth).

Conservation, Ecology, and Management of African Fresh Waters. Thomas L. Crispman, et al. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, 2003. 544 pp., illus. $75.00 (ISBN 0813025974 cloth).

Darwin and the Barnacle: The Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough. Rebecca Stott. W. W. Norton, New York, 2003. 256 pp., illus. $24.95 (ISBN 0393057453 cloth).

Darwin and Design: Does Evolution Have a Purpose? Michael Ruse. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 371 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 067401023X cloth).

Ecological Niches: Linking Classical and Contemporary Approaches. Jonathan M. Chase and Mathew A. Leibold. University of Chicago Press, 2003. 216 pp., illus. $20.00 (ISBN 0226101800 paper).

Effects of Habitat Fragmentation on Birds in Western Landscapes: Contrasts with Paradigms from the Eastern United States. T. Luke George and David S. Dobkin, eds. Cooper Ornithological Society, Camarillo, CA, 2003. 270 pp., illus. $22.00 (ISBN 1891276344 paper).

Evolution, Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Hawaiian Birds: A Vanishing Avifauna. J. M. Scott, S. Conant, and C. Van Riper III, eds. Studies in Avian Biology No. 22. Cooper Ornithology Society, Camarillo, CA, 2003. 428 pp., illus. $29.00 (ISBN 1891276182 paper).

Exotic Pests and Diseases: Biology, Economics, and Public Policy for Biosecurity. Daniel A. Summer, ed. Iowa State Press, Ames, 2003. 326 pp., illus. $79.99 (ISBN 0813819660 cloth).

From Conquest to Conservation: Our Public Lands Legacy. Michael P. Dombeck, Christopher A. Wood, and Jack E. Williams. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 232 pp., illus. $22.50 (ISBN 1559639563 paper).

Horns, Tusks, and Flippers: The Evolution of Hoofed Mammals. Donald R. Prothero and Robert M. Schoch. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2003. 311 pp., illus. $69.95 (ISBN 0801871352 cloth).

How the Cows Turned Mad. Maxime Schwartz. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003. 248 pp. $24.95 (ISBN 0520235312 cloth).

Introduction to Horned Lizards of North America. Wade C. Sherbrooke. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003. 176 pp., illus. $16.95 (ISBN 0520228278 paper).

Keywords and Concepts in Evolutionary Developmental Biology. Brian K. Hall and Wendy M. Olson, eds. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2003. 476 pp., illus. $59.95 (ISBN 0674009045 cloth).

Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth. Andrew H. Knoll. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2003. 304 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 0691009783 cloth).

Mapping Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins. Steve Olson. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2003. 292 pp., illus. $14.00 (ISBN 0618352104 paper).

Microbes: An Invisible Universe, rev. ed. Howard Gest. ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2003. 220 pp., illus. $39.95 (ISBN 1555812643 cloth).

Nature via Nurture: Genes, Experience, and What Makes Us Human. Matt Ridley. HarperCollins, New York, 2003. 272 pp. $25.95 (ISBN0060006781 cloth).

Pheromones and Animal Behaviour: Communication by Smell and Taste. Tristram D. Wyatt. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003. 391 pp., illus. $40.00 (ISBN 0521485266 paper).

Population Ecology: First Principles. John H. Vandermeer and Deborah E. Goldberg. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2003. 296 pp., illus. $35.00 (ISBN 0691114412 paper).

Remaking Life and Death: Towards an Anthropology of the Biosciences. Sarah Franklin and Margaret Lock, eds. SAR Press, Santa Fe, NM, 2003. 372 pp., illus. $24.95 (ISBN 1930618204 paper).

The Species Problem: Biological Species, Ontology, and the Metaphysics of Biology. David N. Stamos. Lexington Books, Lanham, MD, 2003. 390 pp. $80.00 (ISBN 0739105035 cloth).

The Sunflower Forest: Ecological Restoration and the New Communion with Nature. William R. Jordan III. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2003. 264 pp. $27.50 (ISBN 0520233204 cloth).

Supply-Side Sustainability. Timothy F. H. Allen, Joseph A. Tainter, and Thomas W. Hoekstra. Columbia University Press, New York, 2003. 440 pp., illus. $34.50 (ISBN 0231105878 paper).

Thinking About Biology. Stephen Webster. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2003. 235 pp. $20.00 (ISBN 0521599547 paper).

The Triumph of Sociobiology. John Alcock. Oxford University Press, New York, 2003. 272 pp., illus. $15.95 (ISBN 0195163354 paper).

Wilderness: Earth's Last Wild Places. Russell A. Mittermeier, et al. University of Chicago Press, 2003. 573 pp., illus. $75.00 (ISBN 96863975698 cloth).

Wily Violets and Underground Orchids: Revelations of a Botanist. Peter Bernhardt. University of Chicago Press, 2003. 256 pp., illus. $17.00 (ISBN 0226043665 paper).