SCIENCE

• 2010
 Editor’s Letter

Dear Book Browser:

Welcome to the 2010 Yale University Press Science Catalog, which features an enticing
selection of new and classic titles! From rainbow trout, environmental toxins, nature crime
and brain science, to the history of twentieth century ecology, medicinal plants, and spiders
and spider silk, we have an adventurous range of subjects for your consideration. Also of note
is our new distribution arrangement with the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History,
including Yale University Publications in Anthropology.

Visiting our website (http://www.yalebooks.com) will provide an opportunity to get

acquainted with our backlist and the range and depth of our programs in the life sciences,
environment and conservation, natural history/ornithology, history of science and
medicine, cognitive science, and related disciplines. We are happy to hear from you about
new manuscripts and proposals; within our website is information on how to prepare and
make a submission.

In advance, thank you for your interest…happy browsing!

Jean E. Thomson Black

Executive Editor, Science & Medicine

Recent award-winning Science titles from Yale University Press

Elephants on the The Last Human Paradoxical Life

Edge
What Animals Teach Us about
Humanity
G. A. Bradshaw
Favorite Science Books of 2009,
Scientific American
The Deadly Dinner
Party
and Other Medical Detective Stories
Jonathan A. Edlow, M.D
Winner of the 2010 Will Solimene Award for
Excellence in Medical Communication, given
by the New England Chapter of the American
Medical Writers Association
Flowers and Herbs of
Early America
Lawrence D. Griffith
Silver medal winner of the 2008 Book of
the Year Award in the category of Home &
Garden, presented by ForeWord magazine
A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of Extinct
Humans
Created by G. J. Sawyer and Viktor Deak
Gold medal winner of the 2008 Independent
Publisher Book Award in the category of Science
The Nature of
Entrustment
Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa
Parker Shipton
Winner of the 2008 Melville J. Herskovits Award
What Intelligence
Tests Miss
The Psychology of Rational Thought
Keith E. Stanovich
Winner of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award in Education
Vietnam:
A Natural History
Eleanor Jane Sterling, Martha Maud
Hurley, and Le Duc Minh
Winner of the Professional Scholarly Publishing
Award in the Biological Science Category
Meaning, Matter, and the Power of
Human Choice
Andreas Wagner
Gold Medal winner of the 2010 Independent
Publisher Book Award in the Science category
Green Intelligence
Creating Environments That Protect
Human Health
John Wargo
Gold Medal winner of the 2010 Independent
Publisher Book Award in the Environment/
Ecology/Nature category; Favorite Science
Books of 2009, Scientific American; Received
Honorable Mention for the 2010 Green Book
Festival Awards in the Scientific category
The Woman Who
Walked into the Sea
Huntington’s and the Making of a
Genetic Disease
Alice Wexler
Winner of the 2009 American Medical
Writers Association Medical Book Award

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 THE ENVIRONMENT/CONSERVATION POLICY
New in paper
Treasures of the
Earth
Need, Greed, and a Sustainable Future
Saleem H. Ali, University of
Vermont
An internationally recognized expert
and natural resource mediator seeks to
reconcile the tensions between envi-
ronmentalism and capitalism through a
pragmatic approach to the consump-
tion of natural resources that would
lead to a new kind of environmentally
driven material culture.
Visit www.treasurebook.info for supplemental
classroom materials; Selected as the National
Geographic Emerging Explorer for 2010
2009   304 pp.   21 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14161-0  $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16782-5  $20.00
New
A Landscape
Manifesto
Diana Balmori, Yale University
Introduction by Michel Conan
Both timely and controversial, this book
presents a new strategy for innovative
and sustainable urban landscape archi-
tecture by one of the world’s leading
designers.
Cloth  2010  272 pp.  18 b/w + 215 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15658-4  $65.00
New
Nature Crime
How We’re Getting Conservation Wrong
Rosaleen Duffy, Manchester
University, UK
In this impressively researched, alarm-
ing book, Rosaleen Duffy investigates
the world of nature conservation,
arguing that the West’s attitude to
endangered wildlife is shallow, self-
contradictory, and ultimately very
damaging.
Cloth   2010   288 pp.   30 illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15434-4  $42.00
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New
The Lomborg
Deception
Setting the Record Straight About
Global Warming
Howard Friel; Foreword by
Thomas E. Lovejoy
In this important book, Howard Friel
examines the scholarship of Bjørn Lom-
borg, the world’s leading global warming
skeptic, and finds it to be grounded in
highly questionable data and analysis.
Cloth   2010   272 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16103-8  $28.00
New
An Entirely
Synthetic Fish
How Rainbow Trout Beguiled America
and Overran the World
Anders Halverson, University
of Colorado; Foreword by Patricia
Nelson Limerick
An award-winning journalist, aquatic
ecologist, and lifelong fisherman
provides an engaging account of the
rainbow trout’s discovery and the
reasons it has become the most
commonly stocked and controversial
freshwater fish in the United States.
Cloth   2010   288 pp.   21 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14087-3  $26.00
New
Toxic Bodies
Hormone Disruptors and the Legacy of DES
Nancy Langston, University of
Wisconsin, Madison
Langston shows how hormone disrup-
tors such as DES have penetrated
into every aspect of our bodies and
ecosystems—yet the U.S. government
has largely failed to regulate them and
the industry has skillfully manipulated
scientific uncertainty to delay regulation.
Visit the author’s website at toxicbodies.org
Cloth   2010   256 pp.   11 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13607-4  $30.00
New in paper
Green Intelligence
Creating Environments That Protect
Human Health
John Wargo, Yale University
By analyzing five cases studies on
pesticides, plastics, hazardous waste sites,
vehicle emissions, and nuclear weapons
testing, environmental expert John Wargo
envisions a safer world through greener
intelligence.
“[Wargo’s] arguments are empirical, scien-
tifically literate and ultimately convincing.
. . . A powerful indictment of a flawed
system.”—Rob Edwards, New Scientist
Gold Medal winner of the 2010 Independent
Publisher Book Award in the Environment/
Ecology/Nature category; Favorite Science Books
of 2009, Scientific American
2009   400 pp.   17 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11037-1  $32.50
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16790-0  $22.00
Recommended for
course use:
Environment
An Interdisciplinary Anthology
Selected, Edited, and with
Introductions by Glenn Adelson,
James Engell, Brent Ranalli, and
K. P. Van Anglen
“This superb collection contains a
comprehensive yet highly selective
set of environmental writings. 
. . . Highly recommended for any
student or scholar of environmen-
tal studies.”—Professor Andrew
Friedland
“A goldmine. . . . Indispensable for
student writers hoping to enhance
their own powers of persuasion.”
—Kerry Walk
Selected as a 2008 AAUP University Press
Book for Public and Secondary School
Libraries
2008   984 pp.   127 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12614-3  $70.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11077-7  $45.00
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 Animal Conservation
New in paper
Elephants on the Edge
What Animals Teach Us about Humanity
G. A. Bradshaw
Drawing on accounts from India to
Africa and California to Tennessee,
and on research in neuroscience,
psychology, and animal behavior,
G. A. Bradshaw explores the minds,
emotions, and lives of elephants.
Favorite Science Books of 2009, Scientific
American; Visit the author’s website at
www.gabradshaw.com
2009   352 pp.   32 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12731-7  $28.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16783-2  $18.00
New in paper
Dolphin Mysteries
Unlocking the Secrets of Communication
Kathleen M. Dudzinski, Ph.D.,
University of Southern Mississippi,
Alaska Pacific University, and University
of Rhode Island, and Toni Frohoff,
Ph.D.; Foreword by Marc Bekoff, Ph.D.
This enthralling book takes us into
the dolphins’ world beneath the sea
to discover details of their lives, their
methods of communication, and how
they interact with one another and with
humans.
2008   256 pp.   50 b/w + 8 color illus
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12112-4  $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12114-8  $20.00
The Jaguar’s Shadow
Searching for a Mythic Cat
Richard Mahler
Award-winning writer Richard Mahler
embarks on a dogged quest to find the
elusive jaguar and paints an intimate
portrait of the magnificent animal that
humans have made both sacred and
profane.
Cloth   2009   376 pp.   41 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12225-1  $27.00
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Environmental Policy
& Regulation
New
Regulating from
Nowhere
Environmental Law and the Search for
Objectivity
Douglas A. Kysar, Yale Law School
Douglas Kysar reinvigorates environ-
mental law and policy by offering novel
theoretical insights on cost-benefit
analysis, the precautionary principle,
sustainable development, and environ-
mental constitutionalism.
Paper   2010   336 pp.   10 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12001-1  $45.00
New
Law’s Environment
How the Law Shapes the Places We Live
John Copeland Nagle, University
of Notre Dame Law School
In this insightful book, John Copeland
Nagle examines five diverse places in
the American landscape to show how
environmental laws affect the natural
environment and our sense of place.
Paper   2010   312 pp.   17 scattered b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12629-7  $38.00
New
Breaking the Logjam
Environmental Protection That Will Work
David Schoenbrod, New York Law
School, Richard B. Stewart, and
Katrina M. Wyman, both at New
York University School of Law;
Illustrations by Deborah Paulus-Jagric
In this nonpartisan call to action
through public understanding, three
leading environmental scholars identify
the core problems with current envi-
ronmental statutes and programs, and
explain how Congress can fix them.
Cloth   2010   216 pp.   10 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14960-9  $35.00
Ecology
Recommended for
course use:
New
The Art of Ecology
Writings of G. Evelyn Hutchinson
Edited by David K. Skelly,
David M. Post, and Melinda
D. Smith, all at Yale University;
Foreword by Thomas E. Lovejoy
This collection of selected writings
showcases Hutchinson’s dynamic
and wide-ranging mind as well as
his keen wit. Original essays by
scientists and historians under-
score the continuing relevance of
Hutchinson’s ideas.
“An inspiration to all of us. . . .
Having these pieces by Hutchinson
put together in one place will be
a valued tool for nurturing a sense
of history in the discipline of
ecology.”—Robert D. Holt
Paper   2011   352 pp.   14 scattered b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15449-8  $22.00
New
G. Evelyn Hutchinson
and the Invention of
Modern Ecology
Nancy G. Slack; Foreword by Ed-
ward O. Wilson
Stephen J. Gould declared G. Evelyn
Hutchinson the most important
ecologist of the twentieth century.
E. O. Wilson pronounced him “one of
the few scientists who could unabashedly
be called a genius.” In this fascinating
book, Nancy G. Slack presents for the
first time the full life story of this brilliant
scientist who was also a master teacher,
a polymath, and a delightful friend and
correspondent.
Cloth   2010   448 pp.   46 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16138-0  $40.00
 BOTANY
New
The Ambonese Herbal
Georgius Everhardus Rumphius; Translated by E.M. Beekman
“The major botanical publication of the entire 21st century.”—Paul Alan Cox
Rumphius’ complete masterwork in twelve books plus an “Auctu-
arium,” a description of the plants found on Ambon, Indonesia, is now
published for the first time in English.
Over the course of five decades, the seventeenth-century naturalist Georgius
Everhardus Rumphius assiduously gathered information on the native plants of
Ambon Island and its archipelago. By presenting descriptions of the plants and
their multiple uses, he succeeded in creating a cultural and scientific treasury of
incomparable value not only for his contemporaries but also for today’s botanists,
anthropologists, ethnobotanists, science historians, medicinal chemists, and other
scholars. Rumphius’ comprehensive reference, complete with 811 original illustra-
tions, describes in remarkable detail more than 2,000 plants, their habitats, and
their economic and medicinal uses. He also records native plant names in Malay, Latin, Dutch, and Ambonese—and often
in Macassarese and South Chinese as well.
In an illuminating introduction, E. M. Beekman discusses the Herbal’s significance for tropical botanical literature,
examines Rumphius’ influence on Linnaeus’ work, and surveys the Indonesian economic and medicinal uses of the plants
Rumphius described. Beekman also provides invaluable annotations throughout the Herbal.
Copublished with the National Tropical Botanical Garden
Volume 1: Introduction and Book I: Containing All Sorts of Trees, That Bear Edible Fruits, and Are Husbanded by People
Cloth   2010   512 pp.   124 b/w illus.; 3 color tip-in pp ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15370-5  $85.00
Volume 2: Book II: Containing the Aromatic Trees: Being Those That Have Aromatic Fruits, Barks or Redolent Wood; Book III: Containing Those Trees,
Which Produce Some Resin, Notable Flowers, or Hurtful Milk; Book IV: Containing the Wild Trees That Provide Timber;
Cloth   2010   656 pp.   183 b/w illus.; 1 color tip-in ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15371-2  $85.00
Volume 3: Book V: Dealing with the Remaining Wild Trees in No Particular Order; Book VI: Concerning Shrubs, Domesticall and Wild; Book VII: Con-
taining the Forest Ropes and Creeping Shrubs
Cloth   2010   704 pp.   211 b/w illus.; 2 color tip-ins ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15372-9  $85.00
Volume 4: Book VIII: Containing Potherbs Used for Good, Medicine, and Sport; Book IX: Concerning Bindweeds, as well as Twining and Creeping Plants;
Cloth   2010   608 pp.   136 b/w illus.; 2 color tip-ins ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15373-6  $85.00
Volume 5: Book X: Concerning Wild Plants, at Random; Book XI: Deals with the Remaining Wild Plants; Book XII: Concerning the Little Sea Trees, Stony
Sea Growths, Which Resemble Plants; The Auctuarium, or the Augmentation to The Ambonese Herbal
Cloth   2010   624 pp.   138 b/w illus.; 2 color tip-ins ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15374-3  $85.00
Volume 6: Species List and Indexes for Volumes 1-5; Cloth   2010   112 pp. ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15375-0  $85.00
Volumes 1-6, Boxed Set ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15376-7 $450.00

… and remember these recent and classic Yale titles

Flowers and Herbs of Life in the Treetops It’s a Jungle Up There

Early America
Lawrence D. Griffith;
Photography by Barbara Temple
Lombardi
This gloriously illustrated book docu-
ments 56 varieties of flowers and herbs
that were grown in early American
gardens and provides the advice of a
master gardener on how to plan and
grow your own historically authentic
garden today.
Silver medal winner of the 2008 Book of the
Year Award in the category of Home & Garden,
presented by ForeWord magazine
Cloth  2010   304 pp.   265 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16454-1  $24.00
Adventures of a Woman in Field
Biology
Margaret Lowman;
Foreword by Robert D. Ballard
A pioneering tree canopy scientist for
more than twenty years, Margaret D.
Lowman describes her scientific studies
in forest canopies around the world and
her challenges as a field biologist, wife,
and single parent.
Winner of the Eugene Odum Award for
Excellence sponsored by the Ecological Society
of America Education Award;
Winner of the Kilby Laureate Award;
Winner of the 2000 Educator’s Award
sponsored by the Delta Kappa Gamma Society
Paper   2000   240 pp.   29 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08464-1  $13.95
More Tales from the Treetops
Margaret D. Lowman, Edward
Burgess, and James Burgess; With
a Foreword by Sir Ghillean T. Prance
Drawn to the mysteries of life in the
treetops of tropical rain forests, Meg
Lowman has pursued a life of scientific
exploration while bringing up two sons.
This rollicking, inspiring book recounts
the challenges and joys of her remark-
able family as they travel the world,
encounter anacondas and piranhas,
snack on crickets, and learn much from
one another.
2006   320 pp.   35 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10863-7  $32.00
Paper  ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12923-6  $18.00

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 NATURAL HISTORY
New
Moon
A Brief History
Bernd Brunner
From the acclaimed author of Bears,
an entertaining, often surprising
cultural examination of Earth’s
moon, through history, science, and
literature, from ancient times to the
present.
“Brunner encapsulates this sense of
mystery about the moon in a relative
short and accessible work. A useful
introduction to its cultural history.”
—Roger Launius
Cloth   2010   288 pp.   93 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15212-8  $25.00
New
Back to the Future
in the Caves of
Kaua’i
A Scientist’s Adventures in the Dark
David A. Burney
Distinguished paleoecologist David
Burney tells the intriguing tale of his
work at one of the world’s richest
fossil sites and the profound implica-
tions his findings reveal about the
environmental future of the planet.
“David Burney is the great time
traveller of our age. Nobody else can
lead us into such a rich prehistoric
past and bring us back to the present
with so many urgent tasks to do.
This book is a masterpiece.”—Tim
Flannery
Cloth   2010   216 pp.   with illustrations by Joyce A. Powzyk
39 b/w + 8 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15094-0  $28.00
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New
Stepping-Stones
A Journey through the Ice Age Caves of
the Dordogne
Christine Desdemaines-Hugon;
Foreword by Ian Tattersall
An expert on prehistoric cave art and
anthropology explores the culture of the
Paleolithic shelter peoples of France’s
Dordogne region and throughout Eu-
rope, reminding us of the ties that bind
us across the ages.
“The next best thing to actually seeing the
prehistoric cave art of southern France’s
Dordogne region is reading about it,
as lovingly and meticulously described
by Christine Desdemaines-Hugon in
Stepping-Stones. . . . A rapturous guide
through five major Ice Age sites, each
open to the public, and each with its
own magical beauty.”—Peter A. Young,
Archaeology
Cloth   2010   272 pp.   
38 b/w + 8 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15266-1  $30.00
New in paper
Earthrise
How Man First Saw the Earth
Robert Poole, University of Cumbria
Earthrise tells the remarkable story of
the defining moment when the world
first saw the Apollo astronauts’
photographs of Earth from space. The
images showed a floating planet, small,
beautiful, unique, and alone, and the
human response was both unexpected
and profound.
“An absorbing account of how the first
pictures of Earth shaped mankind’s
perception of itself, and its relationship
with nature.”—The Chronicle Review
“A remarkable book.”—Susan Salter
Reynolds, Los Angeles Times
2008   236 pp.   16 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13766-8  $26.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16403-9  $17.00
Notable Backlist
Bears
A Brief History
Bernd Brunner;
Translated by Lori Lantz
This engaging book examines the
shared history of people and bears.
Selected as a 2008 AAUP University Press Book
for Public and Secondary School Libraries; A
2007 Top Seller in Zoology as compiled by YBP
Library Services
2007   272 pp.   105 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12299-2  $25.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14312-6  $15.00
Wild China
Natural Wonders of the World’s Most
Enigmatic Land
Phil Chapman, George Chan,
Gavin Maxwell, Charlotte Scott,
Kathryn Jeffs, Giles Badger, and
Hannah Boot
This dazzling book presents the most
complete and magnificently photo-
graphed natural history tour of China
ever offered.
Co-published with BBC Books,
an imprint of Ebury Publishing
PB-with Flaps   2008   224 pp.   
209 color photos, 8 maps
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14165-8  $29.95
Vietnam: A Natural
History
Eleanor Jane Sterling, Martha
Maud Hurley, and Le Duc Minh;
This book is the first English-language
guide to Vietnam’s spectacular flora and
fauna and to the diverse natural areas in
which they live.
Winner of the Professional Scholarly Publish-
ing Award in the Biological Science Category
2006   448 pp.   22 b/w + 54 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10608-4  $45.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12693-8  $22.00

New in paper
Wetware
A Computer in Every Living Cell
Dennis Bray
In easy-to-understand language, a
distinguished cell biologist explains
how living cells perform computations
and what this tells us about biological
phenomena as diverse as the behavior
of protozoa and the metabolism of
the liver. The book proposes exciting
new answers to the perennial question,
“What is life?”
“Bray has already done a great service. . . .
Wetware will get the reader thinking.”
—Science
“A beautifully written journey into the
mechanics of the world of the cell, and
even beyond, exploring the analogy with
computers in a surprising way. This
book is full of new insights. Dennis Bray
is master of his wetware.”—Denis Noble
2009   280 pp.   23 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14173-3  $28.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16784-9  $18.00
New
Spider Silk
Evolution and 400 Million Years of
Spinning, Waiting, Snagging, and
Mating
Leslie Brunetta and
Catherine L. Craig
In this, the first book-length treatment
for both general readers and specialists
in spider evolution and diversity, the
authors tell the intriguing story of how
spiders evolved over 400 million years
to add new silks and new uses for silk to
their survival “toolkit.”
“This wonderful book cures arachnopho-
bia for any lucky reader. Brunetta and
Craig combine superb scholarship with
engaging writing, providing a compel-
ling introduction to evolution in action
through the lens of spiders and their
silks.”—Simon Levin
Cloth   2010   248 pp.   12 color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14922-7  $30.00
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New
Genetics of
Original Sin
The Impact of Natural Selection on the
Future of Humanity
Christian de Duve, with Neil
Patterson; Foreword by E. O. Wilson
A Nobel Prize-winning scientist consid-
ers how and why the unprecedented
success of the human species on Earth
now threatens the future of the planet,
and he offers original ideas for changing
our destructive behaviors.
An Editions Odile Jacob Book
Cloth   2010   224 pp.   20 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16507-4  $26.00
New in paper
Seasons of Life
The Biological Rhythms That Enable
Living Things to Thrive and Survive
Russell G. Foster, University of
Oxford and Leon Kreitzman
How do plants and animals “know” the
seasons will change? How do seasonal
changes affect humans? What happens
when the timing of seasonal events is
altered? The authors of this fascinating
book explain new findings about seasons
and their connections with such biologi-
cal mysteries as migration, hibernation,
and reproduction.
2009   320 pp.   40 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11556-7  $28.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16786-3  $20.00
Also by Russell G. Foster and
Leon Kreitzman:
Rhythms of Life
The Biological Clocks that Control the
Daily Lives of Every Living Thing
This fascinating book explores biological
clocks in eye-opening detail.
Finalist for the 2005 Independent Publisher
Book Awards in the Science category
2004   288 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10574-2  $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10969-6  $20.00
LIFE SCIENCE
Recent Life Science
publications
The Plausibility
of Life
Resolving Darwin’s Dilemma
Marc W. Kirschner, and John
C. Gerhart; Illustrated by John
Norton
Winner of tthe 2005 AAP/PSP Award given for
Excellence in the Biological Science category;
Winner of the 2006 Independent Publisher
Book Awards in the Science category
Paper   2006   336 pp.   40 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11977-0  $18.00
Paradoxical Life
Meaning, Matter, and the Power of
Human Choice
Andreas Wagner
Gold Medal winner of the 2010 Independent
Publisher Book Awards in the Science category
Cloth   2009   272 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14923-4  $28.00
Life Explained
Michel Morange; Translated by
Matthew Cobb
An Editions Odile Jacob Book; 2008   224 pp.   
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13732-3  $25.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15850-2  $16.00
The Last Human
A Guide to Twenty-Two Species of
Extinct Humans
Created by G. J. Sawyer and Viktor
Deak; Text by Esteban Sarmiento,
G.J. Sawyer, and Richard Milner;
With Contributions by Donald C.
Johanson, Meave Leakey, and Ian
Tattersall
Gold Medal winner of the 2008 Independent
Publisher Book Awards in the Science category
Cloth   2007   256 pp.   63 color + 8 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10047-1  $45.00
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 SCIENCE AND RELIGION
New
Islam, Science, and the
Challenge of History
Ahmad Dallal, American University
of Beruit
In this wide-ranging and masterful
work, Ahmad Dallal examines the
significance of scientific knowledge and
situates the culture of science in rela-
tion to other cultural forces in Muslim
societies.
Cloth   2010   256 pp.   2 illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15911-0  $27.50
New in paper
Reason, Faith, and
Revolution
Reflections on the God Debate
Terry Eagleton
A renowned critic demolishes the
insistent claims of atheists and others
who assert that science has rendered
God and faith obsolete, and arrives at
the conclusion that reason and faith are
by no means mutually exclusive.
2009   200 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15179-4  $25.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16453-4  $16.00
Also by Terry Eagleton:
New in paper
On Evil
Cloth   2010   192 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15106-0  $25.00
New in paper
Theology in the
Context of Science
John Polkinghorne
A world-renowned physicist-theologian
provides a new framework for dialogue
between science and religion.
2009   192 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14933-3  $26.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16456-5  $17.00
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New
Absence of Mind
The Dispelling of Inwardness from the
Modern Myth of the Self
Marilynne Robinson
One of our best contemporary writers
explores the tension between science
and religion and reveals how our
concept of mind determines how we
understand and value human nature
and human civilization.
Cloth   2010   176 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14518-2  $24.00
New
Natural Reflections
Human Cognition at the Nexus of
Science and Religion
Barbara Herrnstein Smith, Duke
University and Brown University
An eminent scholar offers new ways to
understand the relation between science
and religion by examining current
efforts by scientists to explain religious
belief naturalistically and current efforts
by theologians to reconcile scientific
and religious accounts of nature.
Cloth   2010   224 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14034-7  $28.00
The Religion and
Science Debate
Why Does It Continue?
Edited by Harold W. Attridge
With wit and wisdom seven acclaimed
scholars in sociology, history, science,
and theology examine the debate
between creationists and evolution-
ists and the teaching of evolution in
America’s schools. This volume marks
the one-hundredth anniversary of The
Terry Lecture Series.
2009   240 pp.   4 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15298-2  $45.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15299-9  $16.00
Reference & Professional
Writing Successful
Science Proposals
Second Edition
Andrew J. Friedland and
Carol L. Folt
This fully revised edition of the most
authoritative guide to science proposal
writing is essential for any scientist em-
barking on a thesis or grant application.
Completely updated and with entirely new
chapters on private foundation funding and
interdisciplinary research, the book explains
each step of the proposal process in detail.
Paper   2009   224 pp.   9 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11939-8  $18.00
Writing for Science
Robert Goldbort
This exceptional book encompasses the
entire range of writing skills that today’s
students and professional scientists may
need to employ. Detailed chapters offer
practical advice and many extended
examples of such forms of scientific writing
as laboratory notes, abstracts, research
reports, resumes, dissertations, journal
articles, grant proposals, and more.
Selected as a 2007 AAUP University Press Book for
Public and Secondary School Libraries
2006   352 pp.   12 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11551-2  $55.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11793-6  $22.00
Planning Research
A Concise Guide for the Environmental
and Natural Resource Sciences
John C. Gordon
In this concise yet comprehensive guide,
a distinguished scientist and teacher
describes in detail how successfully to plan
and write about proposed research projects.
2007   112 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12007-3  $37.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12006-6  $16.00
 HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
New in paper
Vampires, Burial,
and Death
Folklore and Reality; With a New Preface
Paul Barber
In this engrossing book, Paul Barber
surveys centuries of folklore about
vampires and offers the first scien-
tific explanation for the origins of the
vampire legends. Sink your teeth into
this reissue, with over 25,000 copies
already in print, that includes a new
introduction.
Paper   2010   256 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16481-7  $22.00
New in paper
Boyle
Between God and Science
Michael Hunter, University of
London
This extraordinary work is the first
biography in a generation of one of
the world’s most important scientists,
Robert Boyle—a pioneer of the modern
experimental method, the champion
of a novel mechanical view of nature,
and a penetrating thinker regarding
philosophical and theological issues
related to science.
2009   400 pp.
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16931-7  $28.00
New in paper
The Atmosphere
of Heaven
The Unnatural Experiments of Dr
Beddoes and His Sons of Genius
Mike Jay
This book tells the strange story of mav-
erick doctor Thomas Beddoes, whose
medical researchers in Bristol, England
discovered the mind-altering effects of
inhaling nitrous oxide in the late 1700s.
2009   296 pp.   24 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12439-2  $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16891-4  $20.00
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New in paper
The Gates of Hell
Sir John Franklin’s Tragic Quest for
the North West Passage
Andrew Lambert, King’s College,
London
Andrew Lambert accesses to new
materials to depict the shocking fate
of Captain Sir John Franklin’s doomed
arctic expedition and how, despite his
failure, Franklin inspired future arctic
heroes such as Robert Falcon Scott.
2009   456 pp.   8 color illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15485-6  $32.50
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16788-7  $22.00
New
Colour of Paradise
The Emerald in the Age of Gunpowder
Empires
Kris Lane, College of William
and Mary
Kris Lane tracks the extraordinary
odyssey of Columbian emeralds from
the period of the time of the Conquista-
dors to the age of Napoleon and Bolívar,
and from the jungle mines to princely
courts.
Cloth   2010   320 pp.   16 pp. color illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16131-1  $40.00
New in paper
Sexual Chemistry
A History of the Contraceptive Pill
Lara V. Marks, Cambridge University
This fascinating and original history
explores the little-known origins of
the pill, the obstacles to its acceptance,
the challenges it presented to science
and society, its transformation into a
weapon against cancer, and much more.
Selected as a 2002 outstanding book by
University Press Books for Public and Secondary
School Libraries
2001 416 pp.   17 b/w illus.
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16791-7  $22.00
New in paper
The Young Charles
Darwin
Keith Thomson, University of
Oxford
What sort of person was the young
naturalist who developed an evolution-
ary idea so logical, so dangerous, that
it has dominated biological science for
150 years? This new investigation of
Charles Darwin’s early years draws the
first intimate portrait of this iconic
figure and describes how he came to
create his pathbreaking theory of
natural selection.
2009   288 pp.   5 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13608-1  $28.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16789-4  $20.00
New
Galileo
Watcher of the Skies
David Wootton, University of York
A provocative and penetrating new
biography of Galileo as author, inventor,
and astronomer, revealing both his cen-
trality to the Scientific Revolution and
the Renaissance, and his godlessness,
failures, and obstinacy.
Cloth   2010   354 pp.   24 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12536-8  $35.00
The Deadly Dinner
Party
and Other Medical Detective Stories
Jonathan A. Edlow, M.D, Harvard
Medical School
Picking up where Berton Roueché’s The
Medical Detectives left off, The Deadly
Dinner Party presents fifteen edge-of-
your-seat, real-life medical detective
stories written by a practicing physician.
Winner of the 2010 Will Solimene Award for
Excellence in Medical Communication, given
by the New England Chapter of the American
Medical Writers Association
Cloth   2009   264 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12558-0  $27.50
9
 . . . and remember these new and recent Yale
books on the history of science and medicine
Bugs and the
Victorians
John F. McDiarmid Clark
This engaging book considers how
insects and those who studied them
shaped the course of intellectual and
scientific inquiry in the Victorian era.
Filled with stories of famous and eccen-
tric entomologists, the book reveals the
surprisingly important role bugs played
in the making of modern Britain.
Cloth   2009   336 pp.   50 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15091-9  $55.00
Jacob’s Legacy
A Genetic View of Jewish History
David B. Goldstein
In this engaging book, a geneticist uses
everyday language to explain the science
of genetic history and what it can tell us
about Jewish history. David Goldstein
shows how genetic research yields rich
new insights into history, identity, and
what makes a people a people.
2008   176 pp.   5 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12583-2  $26.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15128-2  $17.00
Rebels, Mavericks,
and Heretics in
Biology
Edited and with an Introduction by
Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich,
and with an Epilogue by R.C. Lewontin
This book is the first devoted to modern
biology’s iconoclasts: scientists like
Stephen Jay Gould and Barbara Mc-
Clintock who challenged prevailing no-
tions in their fields. The stories of these
nineteen stubborn innovators provide a
refreshingly new perspective on the role
of dissent in the practice of science.
2008   416 pp.   32 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11639-7  $40.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15845-8  $23.00
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Shyness
How Normal Behavior Became a
Sickness
Christopher Lane
A 2007 Top Seller in Medicine as compiled by
YBP Library Services; Selected as a 2008 AAUP
University Press Book for Public and Secondary
School Libraries
2008   272 pp.   30 b/w illus.
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14317-1  $18.00
The Legacy of the
Mastodon
The Golden Age of Fossils in America
Keith Thomson
This exciting book tells the story of
America’s golden period of fossil
discovery, the years from 1750 to 1890.
2008   424 pp.   38 b/w illus. + 6 maps
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11704-2  $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15129-9  $23.00
Before Darwin
Reconciling God and Nature
Keith Thomson
This book looks at the conflicts between
science and religion through the
writings of Enlightenment thinkers.
Paper   2007   336 pp.   33 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12600-6  $18.00
The Woman Who
Walked into the Sea
Huntington’s and the Making of a
Genetic Disease
Alice Wexler; Foreword by Nancy
S. Wexler
Winner of the 2009 American Medical
Writers Association Medical Book Award
2008   288 pp.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-10502-5  $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15861-8  $20.00
Food Studies
New in paper
Squeezed
What You Don’t Know About Orange
Juice
Alissa Hamilton
This enlightening book explores the
history of processed orange juice and
the forces behind its emergence as an
American breakfast staple. OJ drinkers
may be dismayed to learn what goes
into the making of the product that
advertisers label “100% pure orange juice.”
2009   288 pp.   12 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12471-2  $30.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16455-8  $24.00
Potato
A History of the Propitious Esculent
John Reader
This delightful book tells the history of
the potato, from its origins in Incan gar-
dens thousands of years ago to its place
on a NASA manned rocket destined for
Mars. Less humble than it may seem,
the potato has played a crucial role in
human history wherever people have
embraced it as a staple food.
Cloth   2009   336 pp.   17 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14109-2  $28.00
Chicken
The Dangerous Transformation of
America’s Favorite Food
Steve Striffler
Steve Striffler’s vivid first-hand report
on the process of bringing chicken to
our dinner tables—from the farmer to
the factory worker to the consumer—
shows convincingly that our current
system is unhealthy for all concerned.
In this thoughtful book he proposes a
practical new model of poultry produc-
tion, one that will improve the lives of
all concerned.
2005   208 pp.   10 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-09529-6  $29.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12367-8  $19.00

New
How Intelligence
Happens
John Duncan, Universities of
Cambridge and Bangor, and
University of Oxford
From a scientist at the forefront of
revolutionary work in neuroscience, a
firsthand account of his search for the
biological basis of human intelligence.
Cloth   2010   256 pp.   10 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15411-5  $28.00
New in paper
The Master and
His Emissary
The Divided Brain and the Making of
the Western World
Iain McGilchrist
A fascinating, deeply researched
exploration of the differences between
the brain’s left and right hemispheres,
and their effect on society, history and
culture.
2009   608 pp.   15 color + 20 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14878-7   that go on within in it, and how it is
$38.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16892-1   and consciousness.
$25.00
New in paper
What Intelligence
Tests Miss
The Psychology of Rational Thought
Keith E. Stanovich, University of
Toronto
This book argues that rational thought
can be distinguished from intelligence,
that it is crucial to real-world behavior,
and that people can learn to improve
their “rationality quotient.”
Winner of the 2010 Grawemeyer Award in
Education
2009   328 pp.   8 b/w illus.
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16462-6  
$22.00
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COGNITIVE SCIENCE
New
Michelangelo’s
Finger
An Exploration of Everyday
Transcendence
Raymond Tallis, University of
Manchester, UK
A renowned British public intel-
lectual illustrates how our unique
ability to point the index finger has
shaped our amazing evolutionary
pathway as humans.
Cloth   2010   192 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16648-4  $25.00
Also by Raymond Tallis:
The Kingdom of
Infinite Space
A Portrait of Your Head
In this pathbreaking book, one of
Britain’s most interesting thinkers
takes us on an exuberant tour of the
human head. Blending science, phi-
losophy, and humor, Raymond Tallis
discusses the head, the astonishing
range of processes and phenomena
connected to our sense of identity
A 2009 Top Seller in Philosophy as
compiled by YBP Library Services
2008   344 pp.  
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14222-8   $28.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15860-1   $18.00
Yale Classics
Second Nature
Brain Science and Human Knowledge
Gerald M. Edelman, M.D., Ph.D.
Renowned neuroscientist and Nobel
Laureate Dr. Gerald M. Edelman here
offers a new theory of knowledge
based on startling advancements in
brain science.
A 2007 Top Seller in Physiology as compiled
by YBP Library Services; Selected as a 2007
AAUP University Press Book for Public and
Secondary School Libraries
2006   224 pp.   3 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12039-4   $24.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12594-8   $15.00
The Computer and
the Brain
Second Edition
John von Neumann; With a
foreword by Paul M. Churchland
and Patricia S. Churchland
This book represents the views of one
of the greatest mathematicians of the
twentieth century on the analogies
between computing machines and the
living human brain.
Paper   2000   112 pp.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-08473-3  $11.00
A Portrait of
the Brain
Adam Zeman
The brain is at once a physical object,
a living organ, and the cradle of the
mind. This book introduces the gen-
eral reader to its complexities through
a series of clinical tales that illustrate
its workings, level by level, from atom
to psyche.
2008   256 pp.   16 b/w illus.
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11416-4  $27.50
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15831-1  $18.00
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 YALE PEABODY MUSEUM PUBLICATIONS
New
The Forest Primeval
The Geologic History of Wood and
Petrified Forests
Leo J. Hickey, Yale University
Wood—perhaps no natural material
has been used longer by man, and none
seems more suited to human tastes and
needs. Its properties are the result of a
long evolutionary history as an integral
part of the earth’s forests. This story
describes what it is, explores how it is
put together, and recounts the story
of wood from its origin, giving us new
insights into this familiar material all
around us, as well as into the petrified
wood that occurs so abundantly in the
fossil record.
Distributed for the Yale Peabody Museum
Paper   2010   62 pp.   22 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-912532-64-6  $14.95
New
The Age of Reptiles
The Art and Science of Rudolph
Zallinger’s Great Dinosaur Mural at
Yale, Second Edition
Compiled and Edited by
Rosemary Volpe
Rudolph Zallinger’s painting of The
Age of Reptiles has defined our view of
the prehistoric world, and contin-
ues to teach, inform and spark the
imagination of thousands of visitors
that walk through the Yale Peabody
Museum’s Great Hall each year, as well
as to admirers around the world. This
second edition of the Peabody’s guide
to this masterwork is a compilation of
earlier material and new information
contributed by the staff and scientists
of the Yale Peabody Museum.
Distributed for the Yale Peabody Museum
PB-Concealed Spiral   2010   84 pp.    Basil G. Nafpaktitus, Richard H. Backus, James E.
90 color + 12 folded pullout
ISBN 13: 978-0-912532-76-9  $24.95
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New in the Yale University Publications in Anthropology Series
New
Yale Peruvian Scientific
Expedition Collections
from Machu Picchu
Metal Artifact
Edited by Richard L. Burger and Lucy C. Salazar
This book analyzes the metal artifacts
and evidence of metallurgy at the site.
Paper   2010   225 pp.    ISBN 13: 978-0-913516-22-5  $29.00
140 b/w illus., 23 tables
ISBN 13: 978-0-913516-27-0  $69.95
The 1912 Yale Peruvian
Scientific Expedition
Collections from Machu
Picchu
Human and Animal Remain
Edited by Richard L. Burger and Lucy C. Salazar
Paper   2010   198 pp.  
(est) 60 b/w illus., 12 charts
ISBN 13: 978-0-913516-21-8  $25.00
The Quito Manuscript
An Inca History Preserved by
Fernando de Montesinos
Sabine Hyland
Paper   2010   182 pp.    Distributed by Yale University Press. Visit
(est) 40 b/w illus., charts, maps
ISBN 13: 978-0-913516-24-9  $28.00
New in the Fishes of the Western North Atlantic Series
Soft-rayed Bony Fishes
Henry B. Bigelow, Daniel M. Cohen, Myvanwy M.
Dick, Robert H. Gibbs, Jr., Marion Grey, James E. Mor-
row, Jr., Leonard P. Schultz, Vladimir Walters, Edited by
Yngve H. Olsen
Cloth 2010 599 pp. 155 plates, maps
ISBN 13: 978-0-912532-85-1 $85.00
Order Iniomi, Order Lyomeri
William W. Anderson, Frederick H. Berry, James E.
Böhlke, Rolf L. Bolin, Jack W. Gehringer, Robert H.
Gibbs, Jr., William A. Gosline, N. B. Marshall, Giles W.
Mead, Robert R. Rofen, Norman J. Wilimovsky, Edited
by Yngve H. Olsen
Cloth 2010 647 pp. 220 plates, maps
ISBN 13: 978-0-912532-86-8 $85.00
Order Iniomi
(Myctophiformes)
Craddock, Richard L. Haedrich, Bruce H. Robison,
Charles Karnella, Edited by Robert H. Gibbs, Jr.
Cloth 2010 299 pp. 188 plates
ISBN 13: 978-0-912532-88-2 $75.00
Ancient Community and
Economy at Chinchawas
George F. Lau
Paper   2010   250 pp.   136 b/w line art, 33 tables
ISBN 13: 978-0-913516-26-3  $69.95
The Quinnipiac
Cultural Conflict in Southern New England
John Menta
Paper   2010   264 pp.   (est) 24 b/w, 10 charts/maps
Settlement, Nesting Territories
and Conflicting Legal Systems
in a Micmac Community
Daniel P. Strouthes
Paper   2010   496 pp.   7 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-913516-25-6 $69.95
The Prehistory of Nevis, a Small
Island in the Lesser Antilles
Samuel M. Wilson
Paper   2010   248 pp.   63 figures, 42 tables
ISBN 13: 978-0-913516-23-2 $49.50
All books in this series published by the
Yale Department of Anthropology and the
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History;
YaleBooks.com for a complete listing of titles
in this series.
Order Gasterosteiformes,
Suborder Syngnathoidei
C. E. Dawson, Richard P. Vari
Cloth 2010 198 pp. 129 plates
ISBN 13: 978-0-912532-89-9 $75.00
Volume 1: Orders
Anguilliformes and
Saccopharyngiformes
Eugenia B. Böhlke, James E. Böhlke, Mark
M. Leiby, John E. McCosker, E. Bertelsen,
Catherine H. Robins, C. Richard Robins, David
G. Smith, Kenneth A. Tighe, Jørgen G. Nielsen,
William H. Hulet
Cloth 2010 1055 pp. 911 plates
ISBN 13: 978-0-935868-45-6 $145.00
Memoir II
A. P. Vinogradov
Cloth 2010 647 pp. 327 tables
ISBN 13: 978-0-912532-93-6 $85.00
 YALE AGRARIAN STUDIES SERIES
New
Contesting
Development
Participatory Projects and Local
Conflict Dynamics in Indonesia
Patrick Barron, Rachael
Diprose, and Michael Woolcock
This pathbreaking book analyzes a
highly successful participatory develop-
ment program in Indonesia, exploring
its distinctive origins and design prin-
ciples and its impacts on local conflict
dynamics and social institutions.
Cloth   2011   352 pp.   31 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-12631-0  $55.00
Notes from the
Ground
Science, Soil, and Society in the
American Countryside
Benjamin R. Cohen
Integrating the history of science,
environmental history, and science
studies, Notes from the Ground examines
the cultural conditions that brought
agriculture and science together in early
America.
Cloth   2009   288 pp.   29 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-13923-5  $55.00
New
The Banana Tree at
the Gate
A History of Marginal Peoples and
Global Markets in Borneo
Michael R. Dove, Yale University
In this work Michael R. Dove reframes
the history of resource relations between
the indigenous peoples of Borneo and
the world system, standing on its head
the prevailing view of resource-poor
and economically marginal tropical
forest dwellers.
Cloth   2011   320 pp.   29 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15321-7  $55.00
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New
Managing the
Mountains
Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and
the Creation of a Federal Landscape in
Appalachia
Sara M. Gregg
This account of land use reform during
the New Deal in Appalachia adds his-
torical context to the 1930s by exploring
the planning precedents in the conser-
vation and agricultural policies of the
early twentieth century.
Cloth   2010   304 pp.   30 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-14219-8  $40.00
New
Credit Between
Cultures
Farmers, Financiers, and
Misunderstanding in Africa
Parker Shipton, Boston University
Award-winning anthropologist Parker
Shipton brings a variety of perspec-
tives—philosophical, political, and
religious—and years of field experience
to this fascinating study about people
who borrow and lend in the interior
of Africa.
Cloth  2010  384 pp. 1 map + 20 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11603-8  $55.00
Also by Parker Shipton:
Mortgaging the
Ancestors
Ideologies of Attachment in Africa
Cloth  2009  352 pp. 19 b/w illus. + 1 map
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11602-1  $55.00
The Nature of
Entrustment
Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred
in Africa
Winner of the 2008 Melville J. Herskovits
Award
Cloth   2007   312 pp.   1 map + 20 b/w illus.
ISBN 13: 978-0-300-11601-4  $60.00
New
The Art of Not Being
Governed
An Anarchist History of Upland
Southeast Asia
James C. Scott, Yale University
The acclaimed author James Scott
adopts a radically different approach to
history to tell the story of the deliber-
ately stateless peoples who occupy a vast
track of land in Asia called Zomia.
“A brilliant study rich with humanity
and cultural insights, this book will
change the way readers think about
human history—and about themselves.
It is one of the most fascinating and
provocative works in social history and
political theory I, for one, have ever
read.”—Robert W. Hefner
“Clearly argued and engaging, this is a
path-breaking and paradigm-shifting
book.”—Michael Adas
Finalist for the 2009 Book of the Year Award,
presented by ForeWord Magazine; Received
honorable mention for the 2009 PROSE Award
in Government & Politics
2009   464 pp.   2 b/w illus + 7 maps
Cloth ISBN 13: 978-0-300-15228-9  $35.00
Paper ISBN 13: 978-0-300-16917-1  $25.00
New
From Land to Mouth
The Agricultural “Economy” of the
Wola of the New Guinea Highlands
Paul Sillitoe, Durham University,
Durham, England, and Qatar University,
Doha, Qatar
After 35 years of engagement with
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Ecology.........................................4
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