Carpenter Ants of the United States and Canada. Laurel D. Hansen and John H. Klotz. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2005. 224 pp., illus. $35.00 (ISBN 0801442621 cloth).

Designs on Nature: Science and Democracy in Europe and the United States. Sheila Jasanoff. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2005. 363 pp., illus. $35.00 (ISBN 0691118116 cloth).

Ecology and Evolution in the Tropics: A Herpetological Perspective. Maureen A. Donnelly, Brian I. Crother, Craig Guyer, Marvalee H. Wake, and Mary E. White, eds. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005. 584 pp., illus. $45.00 (ISBN 0226156583 paper).

Environmental Science: A Self-Teaching Guide. Barbara W. Murck. Wiley, Hoboken, NY, 2005. 360 pp., illus. $19.95 (ISBN 0471269883 paper).

Evolution of the Insects. David Grimaldi and Michael S. Engel. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2005. 768 pp., illus. $75.00 (ISBN 0521821495 cloth).

The Evolutionary Biology of Flies. David K. Yeates and Brian M. Wiegmann, eds. Columbia University Press, New York, 2005. 440 pp., illus. $89.50 (ISBN 0231127006 cloth).

Exploring Animal Behavior: Readings from American Scientist. 4th ed. Paul W. Sherman and John Alcock, eds. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA, 2005. 321 pp., illus. $24.95 (ISBN 0878938168 paper).

The Geographic Mosaic of Coevolution. John N. Thompson. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005. 400 pp., illus. $28.00 (ISBN 0226797627 paper).

The Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture. Eugene Thacker. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2005. 416 pp., illus. $35.00 (ISBN 0262201550 cloth).

In the Beginning Was the Worm: Finding the Secrets of Life in a Tiny Hermaphrodite. Andrew Brown. Columbia University Press, New York, 2005. 244 pp. $19.95 (ISBN 023113147X paper).

Microbial Forensics. Roger G. Breeze, Bruce Budowle, and Steven E. Schutzer, eds. Elsevier, Burlington, MA, 2005. 456 pp., illus. $129.95 (ISBN 0120884836 cloth).

Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds. 2nd ed. Paul J. Baicich and Colin J. O. Harrison. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2005. 416 pp., illus. $29.95 (ISBN 0691122954 paper).

Petroleum Microbiology. Bernard Ol-livier and Michel Magot, eds. ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2005. 378 pp., illus. $119.95 (ISBN 1555813275 cloth).

Phylogeny and Evolution of Angiosperms. Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Peter K. Endress, and Mark W. Chase. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA, 2005. 370 pp., illus. $59.95 (ISBN 0878938176 paper).

Present at the Flood: How Structural Molecular Biology Came About. Richard E. Dickerson. Sinauer, Sunderland MA, 2005. 300 pp., illus. $34.95 (ISBN 0878931686 paper).

The Republican War on Science. Chris Mooney. Basic Books, New York, 2005. 340 pp. $24.95 (ISBN 0465046754 paper).

Riparia: Ecology, Conservation, and Management of Streamside Communities. Robert J. Naiman, Henri Décamps, and Michael E. McClain. Elsevier, Burlington, MA, 2005. 448 pp., illus. $79.95 (ISBN 0126633150 cloth).

Simulating Human Origins and Evolution. Ken Wessen. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2005. 264 pp., illus. $120.00 (ISBN 0521843995 cloth).

Spatial Analysis: A Guide for Ecologists. Marie-Josée Fortin and Mark Dale. Cambridge University Press, New York, 2005. 380 pp., illus. $55.00 (ISBN 0521009731 paper).

Species Invasions: Insights into Ecology, Evolution, and Biogeography. Dov F. Sax, John J. Stachowicz, and Steven D. Gaines, eds. Sinauer, Sunderland, MA, 2005. 480 pp., illus. $49.95 (ISBN 0878938117 paper).

Structural Biology of Bacterial Pathogenesis. Gabriel Waksman, Michael Caparon, and Scott Hultgren, eds. ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2005. 326 pp., illus. $115.95 (ISBN 1555813011 cloth).

Tick-borne Diseases of Humans. Jesse L. Goodman, David T. Dennis, and Daniel E. Sonenshine, eds. ASM Press, Washington, DC, 2005. 418 pp., illus. $119.95 (ISBN 1555812384 cloth).

Virtual Reconstruction: A Primer in Computer-assisted Paleontology and Biomedicine. Christoph P. E. Zollikofer and Marcia S. Ponce de León. Wiley, Hoboken, NJ, 2005. 352 pp., illus. $89.95 (ISBN 0471205079 cloth).