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Alan Boss

Basic Books, 2009; 227 pages, $26.00

Jonathan Silvertown

University of Chicago Press, 2009; 224 pages, $25.00

Gordon Hempton and John Grossmann

Free Press, 2009; 368 pages, $26.00

John Frederick Walker

Atlantic Monthly Press, 2009; 312 pages, $25.00

Jo Marchant

Da Capo Press, 2009; 328 pages, $25.00

Meg Daley Olmert

Da Capo Press, 2009; 291 pages, $26.00

Nancy C. Lutkehaus

Princeton University Press, 2008; 374 pages, $29.95)

Sharon Waxman

Times Books, 2008; 414 pages, $30.00

Mario Livio

Simon and Schuster, 2009; 308 pages, $26.00

Charles Seife

Viking, 2008; 294 pages; $25.95

Teeth that stab or crush to match their meal

To walk on walls and ceilings, your feet have to stick, but they have to get unstuck, too.

Ferns and fungi that explosively reproduce

The seemingly unwieldy shape of a fish is anything but a drag.

Hear author Xiaoming Wang interviewed by Vittorio Maestro, Editor in Chief of Natural History. (MP3, 17 minutes)

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