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From Quarks to Culture: How we came to be

Tyler Volk
Columbia University Press, £27.95

Dance To The Tune Of Life: Biological Relativity

Denis Noble
Cambridge University Press, £17.99

Mr Lear, A Life of Art and Nonsense

Jenny Uglow
Faber & Faber, £25.00 (hardback)

Solitary Bees

Ted Benton
Pelagic Publishing,£19.99

Enhancing Learning With Effective Practical Science 11–16

Ian Abrahams & Michael J Reiss (Eds)

Bloomsbury, £22.49 (Paperback)

Ecological Mechanics: Principles of Life's Physical Interactions

Mark Denny
Princeton University Press, £55.00

An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles: Campfire Conversations with Alfred Russel Wallace on People and Nature Based on Common Travel in the Malay Archipelago

Paul Spencer Sochaczewski
Explorer's Eye Press, £16.95

Pollination Services To Agriculture

Barbara Gemmill-Herren (Ed)
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations with Routledge, £37.99