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Among Giants: A Life with Whales. Charles “Flip” Nicklin. University of Chicago Press, 2011. 192 pp., illus. $40.00 (ISBN 9780226580999 cloth).
Animal Tool Behavior: The Use and Manufacture of Tools by Animals (rev.). Robert W. Shumaker, Kristina R. Walkup, and Benjamin B. Beck. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 304 pp., illus. $65.00 (ISBN 9780801898532 cloth).
Beyond the Brain: How Body and Environment Shape Animal and Human Minds. Louise Barrett. Princeton University Press, 2011. 304 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 9780691126449 cloth).
Biological Diversity: Exploiters and Exploited. Paul Hatcher and Nick Battey. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 440 pp., illus. $79.95 (ISBN 9780470778074 paper).
Boas and Pythons of the World. Mark O'Shea. Princeton University Press, 2011. 160 pp., illus. $19.95 (ISBN 9780691150154 paper).The Eagle Watchers: Observing and Conserving Raptors around the World. Ruth E. Tingay and Todd E. Katzner, eds. Cornell University Press, 2011. 256 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 9780801448737 cloth).
The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity in National and International Policy Making. Patrick ten Brink, ed. Earthscan, 2011. 390 pp., illus. $99.95 (ISBN 9781849712507 cloth).
The Fall and Rise of the Wetlands of California's Great Central Valley. Philip Garone. University of California Press, 2011. 448 pp., illus. $39.95 (ISBN 9780520266636 cloth).
The Great Sperm Whale: A Natural History of the Ocean's Most Magnificent and Mysterious Creature. Richard Ellis. University Press of Kansas, 2011. 432 pp., illus. $34.95 (ISBN 9780700617722 cloth).
Living Dinosaurs: The Evolutionary History of Modern Birds. Gareth Dyke and Gary Kaiser, eds. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 438 pp., illus. $129.95 (ISBN 9780470656662 cloth).
Naked Genes: Reinventing the Human in the Molecular Age. Helga Nowotny and Giuseppe Testa. MIT Press, 2011. 192 pp., illus. $25.00 (ISBN 9780262014939 cloth).
A Natural History of the Intermountain West: Its Ecological and Evolutionary Story. Gwendolyn L. Waring. University of Utah Press, 2011. 240 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 9781607810285 paper).
Plant Immunity: Methods and Protocols. John M. McDowell, ed. Springer (Humana Press), 2011. 280 pp., illus. $119.00 (ISBN 9781617379970 cloth).
Saving Sea Turtles: Extraordinary Stories from the Battle against Extinction. James R. Spotila. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011. 240 pp., illus. $24.95 (ISBN 9780801899072 cloth).
Seasonally Dry Tropical Forests: Ecology and Conservation. Rodolfo Dirzo, Hillary S. Young, Harold A. Mooney, and Gerardo Ceballos, eds. Island Press, 2011. 408 pp., illus. $50.00 (ISBN 9781597267045 paper).
Second Nature: The Inner Lives of Animals. Jonathan Balcombe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. 256 pp., illus. $17.00 (ISBN 9780230107816 paper).
Tropical Ecology. John Kricher. Princeton University Press, 2011. 640 pp., illus. $85.00 (ISBN 9780691115139 cloth).
Water Security: The Water-Food-Energy-Climate Nexus. World Economic Forum Water Initiative. Island Press, 2011. 272 pp., illus. $30.00 (ISBN 9781597267366 paper.)
Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Human Evolution (2 vols.). Bernard Wood. Wiley-Blackwell, 2011. 1264 pp., illus. $560.00 (ISBN: 9781405155106 cloth).
Work Meets Life: Exploring the Integrative Study of Work in Living Systems. Robert Levin, Simon Laughlin, Christina De La Rocha, and Alan Blackwell, eds. MIT Press, 2011. 265 pp., illus. $30.00 (ISBN 9780262014120 cloth).