Amazon Expeditions: My Quest for the Ice-Age Equator. Paul A. Colinvaux. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008. 384 pp., illus. $32.50 (ISBN 9780300115444 cloth).

Analysis of Evolutionary Processes: The Adaptive Dynamics Approach and Its Applications. Fabio Dercole and Sergio Rinaldi. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. 352 pp., illus. $65.00 (ISBN 9780691120065 cloth).

Being Caribou: Five Months on Foot with an Arctic Herd. Karsten Heuer. Milkweed Editions, Minneapolis, MN, 2008. 340 pp., illus. $15.00 (ISBN 9781571313089 paper).

The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability. James Gustave Speth. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008. 320 pp., illus. $28.00 (ISBN 9780300136111 cloth).

Chemical Communication among Bacteria. Stephen C. Winans and Bonnie L. Bassler, eds. ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2008. 520 pp., illus. $139.95 (ISBN 9781555814045 cloth).

The Ecological World View. Charles Krebs. University of California Press, Berkeley, CA, 2008. 592 pp., illus. $59.95 (ISBN 9780520254794 paper).

Energy: Beyond Oil. Fraser Armstrong and Katherine Blundell. Oxford University Press, New York, 2007. 240 pp., illus. $49.50 (ISBN 9780199209965 cloth).

Fruits and Plains: The Horticultural Transformation of America. Philip J. Pauly. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 336 pp., illus. $39.95 (ISBN 9780674026636 cloth).

Genes in Conflict: The Biology of Selfish Genetic Elements. Austin Burt and Robert Trivers. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 632 pp., illus. $24.95 (ISBN 9780674027220 paper).

Genetic Glass Ceilings: Transgenics for Crop Biodiversity. Jonathan Gressel. Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2008. 488 pp., illus. $65.00 (ISBN 9780801887192 cloth).

Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change. William H. Calvin. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2008. 352 pp., illus. $22.50 (ISBN 9780226092041 cloth).

Gods and Goddesses in the Garden: Greco-Roman Mythology and the Scientific Names of Plants. Peter Bernhardt. Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ, 2008. 240 pp., illus. $24.95 (ISBN 9780813542669 cloth).

A Guide to the Mammals of China. Andrew T. Smith and Yan Xie, eds. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. 576 pp., illus. $60.00 (ISBN 9780691099842 cloth).

Head Case: How I Almost Lost My Mind Trying to Understand My Brain. Dennis Cass. HarperCollins, New York, 2008. 240 pp. $13.95 (ISBN 9780060594732 paper).

Humanity's Footprint: Momentum, Impact, and Our Global Environment. Walter K. Dodds. Columbia University Press, New York, 2008. 288 pp., illus. $29.50 (ISBN 9780231139670 paper).

Human: The Science behind What Makes Us Unique. Michael S. Gazzaniga. HarperCollins, New York, 2008. 446 pp., illus. $27.50 (ISBN 9780060892883 paper).

The Legacy of the Mastodon: The Golden Age of Fossils in America. Keith Stewart Thomson. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2008. 424 pp., illus. $35.00 (ISBN 9780300117042 cloth).

Life in Cold Blood. David Attenborough. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. 288 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 9780691137186 cloth).

MicroRNAs: From Basic Science to Disease Biology. Krishnarao Appasani, ed. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2008. 560 pp., illus. $195.00 (ISBN 9780521865982 cloth).

The Mycobacterial Cell Envelope. Mamadou Daffé and Jean-Marc Reyrat. ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2008. 422 pp., illus. $169.95 (ISBN 9781555814687 cloth).

On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science. Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008. 160 pp., illus. $24.95 (ISBN 9780674026889 paper).

The Private Life of Spiders. Paul Hillyard. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2008. 160 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 9780691135526 cloth).

Sensory Evolution on the Threshold: Adaptations in Secondarily Aquatic Vertebrates. J. G. M. Thewissen and Sirpa Nummela, eds. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2008. 360 pp., illus. $75.00 (ISBN 9780520252783 cloth).

Trees, Truffles, and Beasts: How Forests Function. Chris Maser, Andrew W. Claridge, and James M. Trappe. Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, NJ, 2008. 288 pp., illus. $26.95 (ISBN 9780813542263 paper).