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From So Simple a Beginning, Darwin's Four Great Books • Charles Darwin • E.O. Wilson SCIENCE • 2005 • HARD COVER • 1504 PAGES A beautifully presented omnibus edition, in a slipcase, of the Voyage of the Beagle, Origin of Species, Descent of Man, and the Expression of Emotions in Man and Animals, each with an introductory essay by E.O. Wilson. (NAT83, $39.95)
Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life • David Attenborough BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2009 • DVD Attenborough weaves his own biography with a tale of Darwin and his ideas in this 4-part series, originally produced for Channel Four. He starts his journey at Down House in Kent, where Darwin worried and puzzled over the origins of life, goes off fossil hunting in Leicester and revisits Cambridge University, where Darwin (and he studied) . The series ends at the Natural History Museum in London. (NAT191, $14.98)
Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, A Graphic Adaptation • Michael Keller BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2010 • PAPER • 192 PAGES Strikingly illustrated, each of this graphic adaptation presents a major theme of the Origin of Species, drawing on Darwin's own words. With a chronology, chapters on Darwin's life and times, public reaction to the publication of the Origin of Species and an appreciation of the importance of the Origin of Species today. (SCI277, $14.99)
Creation • Randal Keynes BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2009 • PAPER • 448 PAGES In a chest of drawers bequeathed by his grandmother, author Randal Keynes, a great-great-grandson of Darwin, found the writing case of Charles Darwin's beloved daughter Annie, who died at the age of fifteen. Offering rare insight into the family's private world, Keynes gives us a fuller picture of one of our most original thinkers, as well as a wealth of previously unseen material. Originally published as Darwin, His Daughter, and Human Evolution. (GBR898, $16.00)
Darwin Slept Here: Discovery, Adventure, and Swimming Iguanas in Charles Darwin's South America • Eric Simons BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2010 • PAPER • 304 PAGES Simons captures the exhilaration of the young naturalist's adventures in this brisk account of travels in the footsteps of Darwin in South America. Skipping from Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires and Montevideo to Ushuaia, Chiloe and Coquimbo, Simons (in his 20s, just like Darwin, he points out), is refreshingly irreverent about the whole affair, mixing Darwin's observations with his own experiences. (SAF233, $14.95)
Charles Darwin, The Concise Story of an Extraordinary Man • Tim M. Berra BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 2008 • HARD COVER • 136 PAGES Published to coincide with the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth, this compact, illustrated biography tells the fascinating story of the person and the idea that changed everything. (SCI239, $19.95)
On Natural Selection • Charles Darwin SCIENCE • 2005 • PAPER • 128 PAGES Darwin's original essay on evolution presented in tandem with a paper by Alfred Russel Wallace to the Linnean Society on July 1, 1858. This is a book in Penguin's gorgeously produced Great Ideas series. (NAT84, $11.00)
Ever Since Darwin, Reflections in Natural History • Stephen Jay Gould NATURAL HISTORY • 2007 • PAPER • 288 PAGES In these delightful essays, enormously well infomed, thoughtful and a joy to read, Gould effortlessly explicates the wonders of evolution. His essay on Darwin's theory of evolution is utterly dead-on. (NAT15, $15.95)
Evolution, The First Four Billion Years • Michael Ruse • Joseph Travis SCIENCE • 2011 • PAPER • 608 PAGES A tribute, published in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin and the 150th anniversary of the Origin of Species. With opening essays on evolution and a second encyclopedic section, with accessible entries on individuals from Aristotle and Linneaus to Louis Leakey and Jean Lamarck; from T. H. Huxley and E. O. Wilson to Joseph Felsenstein and Motoo Kimura; and on subjects from altruism and amphibians to evolutionary psychology and Piltdown Man to the Scopes trial and social Darwinism. (NAT150, $44.00)

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Darwin for Beginners • Jonathan Miller • HISTORY • The man and his ideas, presented in graphic cartoon style by the talented Jonathan Miller. (NAT21, $14.00)
Living With Darwin, Evolution, Design, and the Future of Faith • Philip Kitcher • HISTORY • An exploration of Darwin's theory and its place at the center of a religious and intellectual firestorm, including some of Darwin's own writing anticipating and debunking the core ideas of Intelligent Design theory. (NAT172, $12.95)
Voyage of the Beagle • Charles Darwin • EXPLORATION • BEST SELLER • FAVORITE • The wide-eyed tale of a young man on a five-year voyage that changed his life -- and our way of thinking about the world. First published in 1839, it's still a marvelous introduction to the wildlife, nature and allure of South America. (GPS02, $12.95)
Angels and Ages: A Short Book About Darwin, Lincoln, and Modern Life • Adam Gopnik • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Gopnik celebrates the lives and meaning of the two great men born on the same day in 1809. (GEN488, $15.00)
Charles Darwin and the Beagle Adventure • A. J. Wood • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • MIDDLE READERS (Age 9-12) • Marbled endpapers, hundreds of original engravings from the Zoology of the Voyage of the Beagle and other original reports, and dozens of foldout documents add the interactive appeal of this uncommonly engaging overview of the people, places and adventures of Darwin's five-year voyage. (WLD180, $19.99)
Charles Darwin, The Power of Place • Janet Browne • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The second half of Browne's magisterial history, full of insight into Victorian science. In this big, engrossing volume she follows the fate of Darwin and his ideas, from the return of the voyage of the Beagle until his death. (GBR375, $27.95)
Charles Darwin: Voyaging, A Biography • Janet Browne • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • This first volume of the acclaimed biography of Darwin covers the first part of his life as he develops the earth-shattering ideas that culminate in the publication of On the Origin of Species. (GPS29, $27.95)
Darwin and the Science of Evolution • Patrick Tort • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • FAMILY • A pocket biography and social history of Darwin in the excellent Discoveries series featuring hundreds of archival photographs and a synopsis of Darwin's life and ideas. (GPS54, $12.95)
Darwin's Armada, Four Voyages and the Battle for the Theory of Evolution • Iain McCalman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • McCalman writes winningly of the lives, times and travels of Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Wallace. All three younger men, important in the history of science, were inspired by Darwin and, like him, set out to explore the world: Huxley aboard the Rattlesnake in Australia and New Guinea; Wallace in the Amazon and throughout Southeast Asia; and Darwin's good friend Hooker, later director of Kew Gardens, was a naturalist aboard the Erebus and Terror on James Clark Ross's voyage to the Antarctic. (NAT181, $18.95)
Darwin's Garden, Down House and the Origin of Species • Michael Boulter • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A curator at the British Museum, Boulter puts Darwin's rich family life in Kent and his gardens and experiments at the center of his evolutionary ideas. (GBR900, $15.95)
Darwin's Secret Notebooks • National Geographic Society • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Biologist Armand Leroi retraces the discoveries of Darwin aboard the Beagle in South America and the Pacific in this ground-breaking series, filmed entirely on location in stunning HD. (NAT175, $24.95)
Darwin, A Life in Poems • Ruth Padel • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • The poet and great-great granddaughter of Darwin offers this bicentenary biography in verse. (GBR907, $26.00)
Evolution's Captain • Peter Nichols • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Nichols captures the drama, import and adventure of the five-year Voyage of the Beagle in this biography of the troubled Captain Robert FitzRoy. (EXP96, $14.99)
The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882 • Charles Darwin • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • This complete autobiography of Darwin, edited by his grandaughter, contains passages previously omitted by the Darwin family. (NAT164, $14.95)
The Young Charles Darwin • Keith Stewart Thomson • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A fine writer, scientist and historian, Thomson shows how young Charles came to the ideas that would change how we think about he world in this lively, fresh intellectual biography. (NAT166, $20.00)
The Coral Thief • Rebecca Stott • LITERATURE • Stott takes the facts of young Charles Darwin's life as a medical student and early 19th century ideas about evolution and turns them into this engrossing mystery and historical novel. (GBR863, $15.00)
To the Edge of the World • Harry Thompson • LITERATURE • Thompson dramatizes not just life aboard the Beagle on Darwin's five-year-long voyage, with all its adventure, mishaps and import, but also the intellectual sparring between the religious, emotionally unstable Captain Fitzroy and Charles Darwin in this epic novel of seafaring adventure in the spirit of Patrick O'Brian. (WLD85, $26.00)
Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary • Richard Darwin Keynes • SCIENCE • Keynes provides commentary, a selection of watercolor illustrations and drawings and explanatory notes for this definitive edition of Darwin's Beagle Diary, 1831-1836. (SCI169, $52.00)
Charles Darwin's Notebooks, 1836-1844 • Sydney Smith • Sandra Herbert • Peter Gautrey • Paul H. Barrett • David Kohn • SCIENCE • This compilation of 11 notebooks and four related manuscripts, including Geology, Transmutation of Species and Metaphysical Enquiries, is an invaluable record of Darwin's scientific thinking and the development of his theory of natural selection. (NAT190, $97.00)
Charles Darwin, The Beagle Letters • Frederic Burkhardt • SCIENCE • Darwin's personal correspondence from his voyage on the Beagle offers particular insight into the mind of the man who would change science, and elucidates the climate of the impending intellectual revolution. (SCI243, $36.00)
Darwin and the Barnacle, the Story of One Tiny Creature and History's Most Spectacular Scientific Breakthrough • Rebecca Stott • NATURAL HISTORY • Darwin devoted eight years to the perplexing pedunculated cirripedes, setting the groundwork for his ideas about evolution through natural selection. (NAT65, $14.95)
Darwin Loves You, Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World • George Levine • SCIENCE • Levine, a philosopher at Rutgers, argues against the popular conception that Darwanism represents a harsh world driven by competition and chance. (NAT107, $21.95)
Darwin's Finches • Kathleen Donohue • SCIENCE • A professor of biology at Duke with an interest in speciation and the genetic basis of adaptation, Donohue includes illuminating excerpts on our understanding of the finches, from Darwin's initial field notes 150 yeaars ago to the work of David Lack, Peter and Rosemary Grant and other modern ecologists. (GPS102, $45.00)
Darwin's Ghost, The Origin of Species Updated • Steve Jones • SCIENCE • Jones uses the original chapter headings and structure of Darwin's 1859 bestseller to brilliantly and clearly illuminate our current understanding of evolutionary science. (NAT33, $17.00)
Darwin's Universe: Evolution from A to Z • Richard Milner • Ian Tattersall • SCIENCE • This new edition of Milner's Encyclopedia of Evolution is an elegant survey of the influence of evolutionary thought and ideas, abundantly illustrated and featuring hundreds of concise essays on science, culture, art, philosophy and religion. (NAT169, $45.00)
Darwinism and Its Discontents • Michael Ruse • SCIENCE • Ruse lays out the facts of evolution along with the mechanism, challenges, science and philosophy in this articulate appreciation and overview of "the single best idea anyone has ever had." (SCI164, $22.00)
Evolution, The Remarkable History of a Scientific Theory • Edward Larson • NATURAL HISTORY • A clearheaded, engrossing brief history of ideas about evolution from the 18th century to the present by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author. (NAT64, $14.95)
Evolution, The Triumph of an Idea • Carl Zimmer • SCIENCE • An excellent, concise overview of the history and concepts of evolution. (SCI155, $15.99)
Human Evolution, A Very Short Introduction • Bernard A. Wood • SCIENCE • Wood traces the history of paleoanthropology from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to today's latest fossil finds in this lively, brief guide. (ATP23, $11.95)
Human Natures: Genes, Cultures and Human Prospect • Paul Ehrlich • NATURAL HISTORY • In these marvelous essays, well-grounded in current research, Ehrlich emphasizes the importance of culture in human evolution. (NAT77, $18.00)
On the Origin of Species • Charles Darwin • Mayr Ernst • NATURAL HISTORY • A facsimile of the original 1859 edition of the book that changed our view of the world. (NAT19, $23.00)
Prehistory, The Making of the Human Mind • Colin Renfrew • SCIENCE • A leader in the field of prehistoric archaeology, Renfew looks at our understanding of human society and culture before the written word. (ATP24, $15.00)
Reluctant Mr. Darwin, An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution • David Quammen • NATURAL HISTORY • Quammen hits just the right note in this sprightly tale of the man, his ideas and their impact, weaving well-chosen anecdote, solid science and travel. (NAT94, $14.95)
Remarkable Creatures, Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species • Sean Carroll • NATURAL HISTORY • In this engaging dash through 200 years of evolutionary history, Sean Carroll traces the scientific adventures of the great men and women of science,including profiles of Alexander von Humboldt, Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace and Henry Walter Bates. (NAT165, $14.95)
The Annotated Origin, A Facsimile of the First Edition of on the Origin of Species, a Facsimile of the First Edition • Charles Darwin • James T. Costa • SCIENCE • A facsimile of the first edition of 1859 is accompanied by Costa's extensive marginal annotations, drawing on his experience with Darwin's ideas in the field, lab, and classroom. (NAT236, $22.95)
The Annotated Origin, A Facsimile of the First Edition of on the Origin of Species, a Facsimile of the First Edition • Charles Darwin • James T. Costa • SCIENCE • A facsimile of the first edition of 1859 is accompanied by Costa's extensive marginal annotations, drawing on his experience with Darwin's ideas in the field, lab, and classroom. (NAT236, $22.95)
The Beak of the Finch • Jonathan Weiner • NATURAL HISTORY • This Pulitzer Prize-winning work is an accessible look at the modern debate on the mode and rhythm of evolution, using the story of Peter and Rosemary Grant and their field work on Daphne Major as an example. (GPS08, $16.00)
The Complete World of Human Evolution • Chris Stringer • SCIENCE • A compelling, authoritative, and superbly illustrated account of the rise of humans. (ATP20, $39.95)
The Darwinian Tourist • Christopher Wills • SCIENCE • From the underwater life of Indonesia's Lambeh Strait to an earthquake's effect on coral reef off Pacific island of Yap, Wills demonstrates how ecology and evolution have interacted to yield the world we live in. (SCI291, $34.95)
The Evolutionary World • Geerat J. Vermeij • SCIENCE • With choice examples from around the world, US-Davis professor and MacArthur fellow Vermeij (A Natural History of Shells) does a marvelous job of explaining with clarity the concept of adaptation, and how it work both in the natural world and in human society. (NAT199, $27.99)
The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature • David Quammen • NATURAL HISTORY • A marvelous, witty collection of essays. Quammen's chapter on his visit to the Galapagos is terrific, and the whole book sheds light on the workings of evolution. (NAT16, $16.00)
The Greatest Show on Earth, The Evidence for Evolution • Richard Dawkins • SCIENCE • Dawkin's lays out the facts and theories of evolution with his usual flair in this persuasive primer on the development of life on Earth. (SCI294, $16.99)
The Portable Darwin • Charles Darwin • NATURAL HISTORY • A well-chosen selection from Darwin's variety of writings. (NAT20, $26.00)
The Rough Guide to Evolution • Mark Pallen • SCIENCE • This clear and concise guide to the life and work of Darwin in the excellent British series displays the trademark Rough Guide irreverence and wit. (SCI258, $16.99)
The Theory of Island Biogeography • E.O. Wilson • Robert MacArthur • SCIENCE • Wilson and MacArthur's landmark essay on the ecology and evolution of island species is not just for tropical ecologists, it's also fascinating for the general reader. (SCI203, $55.00)
The Tree of Life, A Phylogenetic Classification • Guillaume Lecointre • Herve Le Guyader • SCIENCE • If you've somehow missed the recent upheavals in classification (or our very close evolutionary relation to fungi), we recommend this clear scientific overview of modern phylogeny. With 1,500 line diagrams. (NAT130, $39.95)
Why Big Fierce Animals are Rare, An Ecologist's Perspective • Paul Colinvaux • NATURAL HISTORY • Essays on the distribution and abundance of plants and animals. (NAT14, $22.95)
Why Size Matters, From Bacteria to Blue Whales • John Tyler Bonner • NATURAL HISTORY • Bonner considers the role of physical size and its relation to function, evolution, behavior, and longevity of in this classic essay. (NAT108, $16.95)

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