Amazonian Dark Earths: Origin, Properties, Management. Johannes Lemann, Dirse C. Kern, Bruno Glaser, and William I. Woods, eds. Kluwer Academic, Boston, 2004. 505 pp., illus. $149.00 (ISBN 1402018398 cloth).

Animal Physiology. Richard W. Hill, Gordon A. Wyse, and Margaret Anderson. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2004. 769 pp., illus. $104.95 (ISBN 0878933158 cloth).

Apes, Monkeys, Children, and the Growth of Mind. Juan Carlos Gómez. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. 352 pp., illus. $39.95 (ISBN 0674011457 cloth).

Applications of Biotechnology to Mitigation of Greenhouse Warming: Proceedings of the St. Michaels Workshop, April 13–15 2003; St. Michaels, MD. Norman J. Rosenberg, G. Blaine Metting, and R. Cesar Izaurralde, eds. Batelle Press, Columbus, OH, 2004. 213 pp., illus. $45.00 (ISBN 1574771418 paper).

Bacterial Invasion of Host Cells. Richard J. Lamont, ed. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004. 344 pp., illus. $95.00 (ISBN 0521809541 cloth).

Biotechnology: Studies in Biology. 4th ed. John E. Smith. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004. 284 pp., illus. $27.00 (ISBN 0521540771 paper).

Clinical Laboratory Management. Lynne S. Garcia, ed. ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 888 pp., illus. $149.95 (ISBN 1555812791 cloth).

Color Atlas of Medical Bacteriology. Luis M. de la Maza, Marie T. Pezzlo, Janet T. Shigei, and Ellena M. Peterson. ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 316 pp., illus. $139.95 (ISBN 1555812066 cloth).

Consanguinity, Inbreeding, and Genetic Drift in Italy. Luigi Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Antonio Moroni, and Gianna Zei. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. 315 pp., illus. $39.50 (ISBN 0691089922 paper).

The Evolution of Thought: Evolutionary Origins of Great Ape Intelligence. Anne E. Russon and David R. Begun, eds. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004. 392 pp., illus. $110.00 (ISBN 0521783356 cloth).

Farmers' Bounty: Locating Crop Diversity in the Contemporary World. Stephen B. Brush. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2004. 320 pp., $37.50 (ISBN 0300100493 cloth).

Integrated Land-Change Science and Tropical Deforestation in the Southern Yucatan: Final Frontiers. B. L. Turner II, Jaqueline Geoghegan, and David R. Foster, eds. Oxford University Press, New York, 2004. 348 pp., illus. $90.00 (ISBN 0199245304 cloth).

Intellectual Property Law for Engineers and Scientists. Howard B. Rockman. John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2004. 544 pp., illus. $79.95 (ISBN 0471449989 cloth).

An Introduction to the Environmental Physics of Soil, Water and Watersheds. Calvin W. Rose. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004. 454 pp., illus. $60.00 (ISBN 052153679 paper).

Learning from SARS: Preparing for the Next Disease Outbreak. Stacey Knobler, Adel Mahmoud, Stanley Lemon, Alison Mack, Laura Sivitz, and Katherine Oberholtzer, eds. National Academies Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 359 pp., illus. $42.00 (ISBN 0309091543 paper).

Medicinal Plants in Folk Tradition: An Ethnobotany of Britain and Ireland. David E. Allen and Gabrielle Hatfield. Timber Press, Portland, OR, 2004. 431 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 0881926388 cloth).

The New Consumers: The Influence of Affluence on the Environment. Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 190 pp. $24.00 (ISBN 1559639970 cloth).

Pest and Vector Control. H. F. van Emden and M. W. Service. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004. 362 pp., illus. $50.00 (ISBN 0521010837 paper).

Pocket Guide to Clinical Microbiology. 3rd ed. Patrick R. Murray and Yvonne R. Shea. ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 406 pp., illus. $39.95 (ISBN 1555812880 paper).

A Primer of Conservation Genetics. R. Frankham, J. D. Ballou, and D. A. Briscoe. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004. 220 pp., illus. $30.00 (ISBN 0521538270 paper).

A Primer of Ecological Statistics. Nicholas J. Gotelli and Aaron M. Ellison. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2004. 510 pp. $34.95 (ISBN 0878932690 paper).

Principles of Chemical Separations with Environmental Applications. Richard D. Noble and Patricia A. Terry. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004. 321 pp., illus. $60.00 (ISBN 0521010144 paper).

Susceptibility to Infectious Diseases: The Importance of Host Genetics. Richard Bellamy, ed. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004. 416 pp., illus. $95.00 (ISBN 0521815258 cloth).