Bears: A Brief History. Bernd Brunner. Trans. Lori Lantz. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2007. 272 pp., illus. $15.00 (ISBN 9780300143126 paper).
CO2 Rising: The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge. Tyler Volk. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 223 pp., illus. $22.95 (ISBN 9780262220835 cloth).
Design with Constructal Theory. Adrian Bejan and Sylvie Lorente. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2008. 552 pp., illus. $135.00 (ISBN 9780471998167 cloth).
Disappearing Desert: The Growth of Phoenix and the Culture of Sprawl. Janine Schipper. University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, 2008. 160 pp., illus. $19.95 (ISBN 9780806139555 cloth).
Echoes of Life: What Fossil Molecules Reveal about Earth History. Susan M. Gaines, Geoffrey Eglinton, and Jürgen Rullkötter. Oxford University Press, New York, 2008. 357 pp., illus. $35.00 (ISBN 9780195176193 cloth).
Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle. Matthew Klingle. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2009. 384 pp., illus. $20.00 (ISBN 9780300143195 paper).
Future Bioethics: Overcoming Taboos, Myths, and Dogmas. Ronald A. Lindsay. Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2008. 313 pp. $28.95 (ISBN 9781591026242 cloth).
Genomes and What to Make of Them. Barry Barnes and John Dupré. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008. 288 pp. $25.00 (ISBN 9780226172958 cloth).
The Little Owl: Conservation, Ecology, and Behavior of Athene noctua. Dries Van Nieuwenhuyse, Jean-Claude Génot, and David H. Johnson. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008. 596 pp., illus. $80.00 (ISBN 9780521886789 cloth).
The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Illustrated Dictionary of Orchid Genera. Peggy Alrich and Wesley Higgins. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2008. 512 pp., illus. $49.95 (ISBN 9780801447372 cloth).
Metal Contamination in Aquatic Environments: Science and Lateral Management. Samuel N. Luoma and Philip S. Rainbow. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008. 588 pp., illus. $120.00 (ISBN 9780521860574 cloth).
Salmonid Spawning Habitat in Rivers: Physical Controls, Biological Responses, and Approaches to Remediation. David Sear and Paul DeVries, eds. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD, 2008. 376 pp., illus. $69.00 (ISBN 9781934874035 paper).
Science and Conservation in African Forests: The Benefits of Long-term Research. Richard Wrangham and Elizabeth Ross, eds. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008. 280 pp., illus. $130.00 (ISBN 9780521896016 cloth).
Seedling Ecology and Evolution. Mary Allessio Leck, V. Thomas Parker, and Robert L. Simpson, eds. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008. 536 pp., illus. $70.00 (ISBN 9780521694667 paper).
Six-Legged Soldiers: Using Insects as Weapons of War. Jeffrey A. Lock-wood. Oxford University Press, New York, 2008. 377 pp., illus. $27.95 (ISBN 9780195333053 cloth).
Urban and Community Fisheries Programs: Development, Management, and Evaluation. Richard T. Eades, J. Wesley Neal, Thomas J. Lang, Kevin M. Hunt, and Paul Pajak, eds. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD, 2008. 463 pp., illus. $69.00 (ISBN 9781934874042 cloth).
Urban Ants of North America and Europe: Identification, Biology, and Management. John Klotz, Laurel Hansen, Reiner Pospischil, and Michael Rust. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2008. 212 pp., illus. $27.95 (ISBN 9780801474736 paper).
Wildlife and Society: The Science of Human Dimensions. Michael J. Manfredo, Jerry J. Vaske, Perry J. Brown, Daniel J. Decker, and Esther A. Duke, eds. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2008. 368 pp., illus. $49.50 (ISBN 9781597264082 paper).
