Acid Rain Science and Politics in Japan: A History of Knowledge and Action toward Sustainability. Kenneth E. Wilkening. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2004. 340 pp., illus. $19.00 (ISBN 0262731665 paper).

After the Fires: The Ecology of Change in Yellowstone National Park. Linda L. Wallace, ed. Yale University Press, New Haven, CT, 2004. 390 pp., illus. $55.00 (ISBN 0300100485 cloth).

Assembly Rules and Restoration Ecology: Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice. Vicky M. Temperton, Richard J. Hobbs, Tim Nuttle, and Stefan Halle. Island Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 439 pp., illus. $45.00 (ISBN 1559633751 paper).

Biodiversity of Fungi: Inventory and Monitoring Methods. Gregory M. Mueller, Gerald F. Bills, and Mercedes S. Foster, eds. Academic Press, New York, 2004. 777 pp., illus. $99.95 (ISBN 0125095511 cloth).

Biological Psychology: An Introduction to Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience. 4th ed. Mark R. Rosenzweig, S. Marc Breedlove, and Neil V. Watson. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2004. 622 pp., illus. $99.95 (ISBN 0878937544 cloth).

California Desert Flowers: An Introduction to Families, Genera, and Species. Sia Mirnhardt and Emil Mornhardt. University of California Press, Berkeley, 2004. 284 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 0520240030 paper).

Constantine Samuel Rafinesque: A Voice in the American Wilderness. Leonard Warren. University Press of Kentucky, Lexington, 2004. 272 pp., illus. $40.00 (ISBN 081312316X cloth).

Dental Functional Morphology: How Teeth Work. Peter W. Lucas. Cambridge University Press, 355 pp., illus. $130.00 (ISBN 0521562368 cloth).

Early Life History of Fishes in the San Francisco Estuary and Watershed. Frederick Feyer, Larry R. Brown, Randall L. Brown, and James J. Orsi, eds. American Fisheries Society, Bethesda, MD, 2004. 295 pp., illus. $60.00 (ISBN 188856959X paper).

Ecology and Conservation of Birds of the Salton Sink: An Endangered Ecosystem. W. David Shuford and Kathy C. Molina, eds. Cooper Ornithological Society, Camarillo, CA, 2004. 169 pp., illus. $17.00 (ISBN 1891276379 paper).

Ecology and Evolution of Cooperative Breeding in Birds. Walter Koenig and Janis Dickinson, eds. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004. 293 pp., illus. $45.00 (ISBN 0521530997 paper).

Fitness Landscapes and the Origin of Species. Sergey Gavrilets. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. 432 pp., illus. $39.50 (ISBN 069111983X paper).

Foundations of Biogeography: Classic Papers with Commentaries. Mark V. Lomolino, Dov F. Sax, and James H. Brown, eds. University of Chicago Press, 2004. 1328 pp., illus. $45.00 (ISBN 0226492370 paper).

The Geese of Beaver Bog. Bernd Heinrich. HarperCollins, New York, 2004. 217 pp., illus. $24.95 (ISBN 0060197455 cloth).

The Heretic in Darwin's Court: The Life of Alfred Russel Wallace. Ross A. Slotten. Columbia University Press, New York, 2004. 302 pp., illus. $39.50 (ISBN 0231130104 cloth).

High Noon for Natural Gas: The New Energy Crisis. Julian Darley. Chelsea Green, White River Junction, VT, 2004. 280 pp. $18.00 (ISBN 1931498539 paper).

Hollows, Peepers, and Highlanders: An Appalachian Mountain Ecology. 2nd ed. George Constantz. West Virginia University Press, Morgantown, 2004. 359 pp., illus. $18.50 (ISBN 0937058866 paper).

The Immune System. 2nd ed. Peter Parham. Garland Science, New York, 2004. 512 pp., illus. $59.95 (ISBN 0815340931 paper).

The Innate Immune Response to Infection. Stefan H. E. Kaufmann, Ruslan Medzhitov, and Siamon Gordon. ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 465 pp., illus. $115.95 (ISBN 1555812910 cloth).

An Introduction to Astrobiology. Iain Gilmour and Mark A. Sephton, eds. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004. 358 pp., illus. $65.00 (ISBN 0521546214 paper).

Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update. Donella Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and Dennis Meadows. Chelsea Green, White River Junction, VT, 2004. 338 pp., illus. $22.50 (ISBN 193149858X paper).

Managing Food Industry Waste: Common Sense Methods for Food Processors. Robert R. Zall. Blackwell, Ames, IA, 2004. 182 pp., illus. $79.99 (ISBN 0813806313 cloth).

Metabolic Engineering in the Post Genomic Era. Boris N. Kholodenko and Hans V. Westerhoff, eds. BIOS Scientific, New York, 2004. 456 pp. $159.95 (ISBN 0954523229 cloth).

Microbe–Vector Interactions in Vector-borne Diseases. Stephen H. Gillespie, Geoffrey L. Smith, and Anne Osbourn, eds. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2004. 383 pp., illus. $125.00 (ISBN 052184312X cloth).

Microbial Biofilms. Mahmoud Ghannoum and George O'Toole, eds. ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 440 pp., illus. $115.95 (ISBN 1555812945 cloth).

Modularity in Development and Evolution. Gerhard Schlosser and Gunter P. Wagner, eds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004. 600 pp., illus. $35.00 (ISBN 0226738558 paper).

Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: Principles and Practices. Lee W. Riley. ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 348 pp. $109.95 (ISBN 1555812686 cloth).

On the Origin of Phyla. James W. Valentine. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004. 608 pp., illus. $55.00 (ISBN 0226845486 cloth).

Phylogenic Trees Made Easy: A How-to Manual. 2nd ed. Barry G. Hall. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2004. 221 pp., illus. $31.95 (ISBN 0878933123 paper).

Pioneering Research: A Risk Worth Taking. Donald W. Braben. John Wiley and Sons, Hoboken, NJ, 2004. 198 pp., illus. $39.95 (ISBN 0471488526 paper).

The Pneumococcus. Elaine I. Tuomanen, Timothy J. Mitchell, Donald A. Morrison, and Brian G. Spratt, eds. ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2004. 466 pp., illus. $115.95 (ISBN 155581297X cloth).

A Primer of Conservation Biology. 3rd ed. Richard B. Primack. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, MA, 2004. 320 pp., illus. $44.95 (ISBN 0878937285 paper).

Protein Microarrays. Mark Schena, ed. Jones and Bartlett, Boston, 2004. 469 pp., illus. $88.95 (ISBN 0763731277 cloth).