Join Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss in this fascinating guide to the sounds of our most popular coastal birds, as heard on BBC Radio 4....

A Guide to British Garden Birds is a helpful, practical guide to help you sort out your blue tits from your great tits and your hedge sparrows from your tree sparrows....

Join presenter Brett Westwood and Stephen Moss in this fascinating guide to the songs of our most popular woodland birds, as heard on BBC Radio 4....

This groundbreaking book is a clarion call to awareness of the inner lives of humankind's far-too-often mistreated and neglected companions....

Drawing upon the latest research, we see how animals build, create, and entertain themselves and others; how animal 'friends' keep in touch; and how some problem-solve more effectively than humans....

Biocentrism awakens a new sense of possibility and is full of so many shocking new perspectives that the listener will never see reality the same way again....

The study of sexual physiology has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson....

At the crossroads of philosophy and science, the sometimes dry topics of evolution and ecology come alive in this new collection of essays....

The co-discoverer of DNA structure gives a lively behind-the-scenes look at the advances of molecular biology and choices they will force us to make.

Dolphins have fascinated humans for millennia, giving rise to an abundance of stories and myths about them, yet the actual details of their lives in the sea have remained elusive....

Early Humans traces the beginnings of the human species, its success and adaptability, and the development of such innovations as human language and culture....

Princeton's McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence Robert P. George and USC's Graduate Director of Philosophy Christopher Tollefsen are experts in the field of bioethics....

For over a century, opening the black box of embryonic development was the holy grail of biology. Evo Devo--Evolutionary Developmental Biology--is the new science that has finally cracked open the box.

Learn about Charles Darwin's theories of Evolution with iMinds insightful audio knowledge series....

Mauritius, the green and mountainous island in the Indian Ocean, once the home of the ill-fated dodo, by the 1970s still had many unique but seriously endangered species....

This is an entertaining, comprehensive exploration of culture, biology, and history that takes us far beyond our common understanding of sex....

The recent discovery of the diminutive Homo floresiensis (nicknamed the Hobbit) in Indonesia has sparked new interest in the study of human evolution....

in Inside of a Dog, Alexandra Horowitz fuses her perspectives as both scientist and dog owner to deliver a fresh look at the world of dogs - as seen from the animal's point of view....

R. I. M. Dunbar elaborates upon his widely cited hypothesis that the evolution of human language was dependent upon an increase in the group size of ancient hominids....

Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution's history by describing its 10 greatest inventions....

Drawing on a treasure trove of new scientific knowledge, Nick Lane expertly reconstructs evolution's history by describing its 10 greatest inventions....

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning science writer Jonathan Weiner comes a fast-paced and astonishing scientific adventure story....

Two hundred and fifty years ago, the Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus set out to order and name the entire living world and ended up founding a science....

In his groundbreaking book Natural Selection, Charles Darwin explained his theory that evolution is driven by adaptation of species to their environmental surroundings....

Incisive and engaging, this indispensable tour of evolutionary biology runs the gamut of contemporary debates, from science and religion to our place in the universe....

Incisive and engaging, this indispensable tour of evolutionary biology runs the gamut of contemporary debates, from science and religion to our place in the universe....

Roger Fouts fulfilled humankind's age-old dream of talking to animals by pioneering communication with chimpanzees through sign language....

Ian Tattersall, a highly esteemed figure in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, and paleontology, leads a fascinating tour of the history of life and the evolution of human beings....

Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species....

Here is a pilgrimage back through time - a journey on which we meet up with fellow pilgrims as we converge on our common ancestors. Chimpanzees join us at about six million years in the past....

Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spent 20 years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos, studying natural selection....

In a tour de force of science and logic, the author of Darwin's Black Box combines genetics, laboratory results, and mathematics to prove that the universe and life on Earth are designed....

Are selfishness and individuality basic to biological nature? Does a selfish gene create universial sexual conflict? Perhaps not....

This is a revolutionary and optimistic message. We are not prisoners of our DNA. We all have the potential for greatness....

Richard Dawkins takes on creationists, including followers of 'Intelligent Design' and all those who question the fact of evolution through natural selection...

Here is a stunning counterattack on advocates of Intelligent Design, explaining the evidence for evolution while exposing the absurdities of the creationist argument....

For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications....

DNA is a living chronicle of how the creatures that inhabit our planet have adapted to its many environments, from the freezing waters of the Antarctic to the lush canopy of the rain forest....

Lewis Thomas has been compared to a philosopher who uses the language of biology....

In these 14 fascinating lectures a basic overview of the human body, its physical features, biological systems, and general functioning will be presented....

In this course, we will discuss the various moral aspects of human reproduction....

This course will introduce the major themes of Darwin's works and explore their diverse, often contradictory impacts on science and society from 1859 to the present....

Wild elephants walking along a trail stop and spontaneously try to protect and assist a weak and dying fellow elephant.....

A brilliant ensemble of the world's most visionary scientists provides 25 original never-before-published essays...

Here is a scientific look at zombies - and the ultimate guide to how the other half lives (or not)....

Ornithologist Tim Dee maps his own observations and encounters over four decades of tracking birds from northern Shetland to south-west England via downtown Los Angeles....

Voyage of the Beagle foreshadows Darwin's world-changing On The Origin of Species (also a CSA Word audiobook read by Richard Dawkins), in its constant intellectual quest....

The Well-Dressed Ape, aka Homo sapiens, is a strange mammal. It thinks of itself as complex, intelligent, and in every way superior to other animals - but is it, really....

The Whale is an extraordinary journey into the world of this fascinating and mysterious animal....

The story of Seymour Benzer, the scientist whose study of genetics and experiments with fruit fly genes has helped revolutionize our knowledge of the connections between DNA and behavior....

As recently as 11,000 years ago - near time to geologists - many other large mammals roamed North America....

For years, Tom Cox might have seemed like a regular, hard-living sort of bloke - a lover of late nights, rock music and beer - but he had a dark, furry secret. Tom was a cat lover.

From brain-imaging laboratories to the high-stakes world of scent marketing, What the Nose Knows takes us on a tour of the strange and surprising realm of smell....

Dr. John Lee joins forces with breast cancer researcher David Zava to outline a hormone balance program offering strategies for the prevention and treatment of a devastating disease....

In What's Eating You? Eugene Kaplan recounts the true and harrowing tales of his adventures with parasites....

In crisp, lucid prose accessible to a wide audience, Why Evolution Is True dispels common misunderstandings and fears about evolution....

To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources....

Scientists call this the Golden Age of the Common Cold because Americans suffer up to a billion colds each year....

Animals in Translation is like no other animal book because of Temple Grandin....

Biology covers key topics, including the chemical basis of life, cells and tissues, bioenergetics, genetics, structure and function of body systems, ecology, evolution, and organic diversity....

Beautiful Minds explains how and why apes and dolphins are so distantly related yet so cognitively alike and what this teaches us about another large-brained mammal.....

Just in the last three years, a flood of new scientific findings, driven by revelations discovered in the human genome, has provided compelling new answers to many long-standing mysteries....

Neuroscientist Floyd E. Bloom has selected the most fascinating brain-related articles from Scientific American and Scientific American Mind since 1999....

A pioneering neuroscientist shows how the long-sought merger of brains with machines is about to become a paradigm-shifting reality.....

In this eye-opening call to action, Goodell explains the costs and consequences of America's addiction to coal and discusses how we can kick the habit.....

Sloan draws on his personal and professional experience to weave the strands of memoir, history, science, and culture into a fascinating tapestry of this fundamental human passage....

Includes 34 questions and answers, on such topics as science made easy; dendrites and neurons; brain parts and functions; and more....

In the 17th and 18th centuries, scientists went beyond Aristotle's four elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water) to catalogue nature's many basic elements....

Sometimes in medicine the only way to know what is truly going on in a patient is to operate...

If we could turn back the clock psychologically, could we also turn it back physically? For more than 30 years, award-winning social psychologist Ellen Langer has studied this provocative question....

Ecological Intelligence recasts the uproar over global warming and the assault of man-made toxins in terms of the collective self-deception that both created this crisis and holds its key....

Ecological Intelligence recasts the uproar over global warming and the assault of man-made toxins into our bodies in terms of the collective self-deception which both created this crisis and holds the key....

This marvelously readable yet sumptuously erudite work traces the development of the scientific theory of evolution....

David Carroll illuminates the ecology and life histories of the tree frogs, hawks, foxes, and the increasingly rare wood and spotted turtles he has been tracking for decades....

Our relationship with the ocean is undergoing a profound transformation. Just three decades ago nearly everything we ate from the sea was wild....

The genome's been mapped. But what does it mean? Find out....

Goodall illuminates the heroic efforts of dedicated environmentalists and the truly critical need to protect the habitats of these beloved species....

In movies, in novels, in comic strips, and on television, we've all seen dinosaurs - or at least somebody's educated guess of what they would look like. But what if it were possible to build a real dinosaur....

This classic book is natural history at its best...

In this brilliant portrait of the oceans' unlikely hero, H. Bruce Franklin shows how menhaden have shaped America's national-and natural-history, and why reckless overfishing now threatens their place in both....

Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer....

An in-depth look at the science that explains the hidden powers of the five senses and how to harness their potential....

Strange Bedfellows looks at how biology actually promotes monogamy in some species and how these lessons apply to human beings....

Strange Bedfellows looks at how biology actually promotes monogamy in some species and how these lessons apply to human beings.....

Joining the ranks of modern myth busters, Dr. Sharon Moalem turns our current understanding of illness on its head and challenges us to fundamentally change the way we think about our bodies....

Author Mark Plotkin, chief ethnobotanist for Conservation International, has spent much of the past 15 years tracking the shamans of the northeast Amazon....

Since the conclusion of the Human Genome Project in 2003, scientists have been racing toward a grand goal: offering individuals a decoding of their complete genetic makeup....

In a work at once deeply learned and wonderfully accessible, the neuroscientist David Linden counters the widespread assumption that the brain is a paragon of design....

Every year on January 1, a quirky crowd of adventurers storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year....

Every year on January 1, a quirky crowd of adventurers storms out across North America for a spectacularly competitive event called a Big Year....

Be an instant expert on Science and Bluff Your Way with all those who profess to know about the subject. No experimenting required, just a sense of humour....

Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a reciprocal relationship....

An astonishing new scientific discovery called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the adult human brain is fixed and unchanging....

The Brain: A Very Short Introduction provides a non-technical introduction to the main issues and findings in current brain research....

In humanity's more than 100,000 year history, we have evolved from vulnerable creatures clawing sustenance from Earth to a sophisticated global society manipulating every inch of it....

For 200 years, a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains....

Now, pioneering neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, M.D., brings together the latest findings to show how the unique structure of the female brain determines how women think and what they value....

From one of the world's most influential scientists (and two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author) comes his most timely and important book yet...

A scientific and medical revolution has crept up on us, based on study after study, from hundreds of laboratories around the world....

Every human is composed of an amazing assortment of cells and tissues that carry out myriad functions necessary for sustaining life....

Professor Betsey Dexter Dyer of Wheaton College examines the role of bacteria as major players in Earth's biodiversity....

Despite everything that has been written about the brain, a very important part of this vital organ has been overlooked in most books - until now....

Gerald Durrell is internationally famous for his amusing books about collecting wild animals. The Overloaded Ark describes an expedition to the Cameroons....

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson reveals startling evidence that barnyard creatures have complex feelings too - among them, love, loyalty, friendship, sadness, grief, and sorrow....

Dr. Piers Steel explains why procrastination is dangerously on the rise and tells us how to overcome the destructive patterns that affect our health and happiness to create more positive lives....

Richard Dawkins dubbed V. S. Ramachandran the Marco Polo of neuroscience. Now, in a major new work, Ramachandran sets his sights on the mystery of human uniqueness....

From the acclaimed New York Times science writer George Johnson, an irresistible book on the 10 most fascinating experiments in the history of science....

It's December 1997, and a man-eating tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East....

Darwin's journal is now considered by many to be the greatest scientific travel narrative ever written.....

Hidden away in foggy, uncharted rain forest valleys in Northern California are the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained: the coast redwood trees, Sequoia sempervirens....

With The Wisdom of Your Cells, this internationally recognized authority on cellular biology takes listeners on an in-depth exploration into the microscopic world....

The animal kingdom relies on staggering evolutionary innovations to survive winter....