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1	Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach more books like this by John Alcock add to wishlist This new edition of Animal Behavior maintains the organizational structure of previous editions, but has been completely rewritten with coverage of much recent work in animal behaviour, resulting in a thoroughly up-to-date text. Notable is the inclusion, for the first time, of discussion questions embedded in the text itself, rather than appended ... see all copies from £5.21! new only from £19.32! \| first editions
2	Animal Behavoir more books like this by John Alcock add to wishlist This classic text continues to offer a balanced treatment of the underlying mechanisms and evolutionary bases of behaviour with a focus on the importance of evolutionary theory for the unification of the different behavioural disciplines. The new edition has been thoroughly rewritten with coverage of recent work in the field. see all copies from £43.62! new only from £47.97!
3	Exploring Animal Behavior: Readings from American Scientist more books like this by Paul W Sherman (Editor), John Alcock (Editor) add to wishlist This anthology contains 34 articles published since 1977 in American Scientist, the journal of the scientific society Sigma Xi. Articles illustrate how behaviourists think about and conduct their research, and provide greater insight into the behaviour of selected vertebrate and invertebrate species than most textbook accounts. While sequenced ... see all copies from £5.40! new only from £5.75! \| first editions
4	An Enthusiasm for Orchids: Sex and Deception in Plant Evolution more books like this by John Alcock add to wishlist The male thynnine wasp's extreme sexual enthusiasm is crucial to reproduction of hammer orchids in the wild. Hammer orchids have co-evolved to produce odors identical to those manufactured by female thynnine wasps. The male wasp's superb sensitivity to the scent of his female mate is the basis for the hammer orchid's deceit--in effect, orchids ... see all copies from £6.02! new only from £6.02! \| first editions
5	The Archaeology of Southern Africa more books like this by Peter John Mitchell, Norman Yoffee (Editor), Susan Alcock (Editor) add to wishlist Some of the earliest human populations lived in Southern Africa, and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and on the emergence of modern humans. The sub-continent has one of the world's richest heritages of rock art, and specialists have developed innovative theories about its meaning and significance that have ... see all copies from £36.52! new only from £36.52!
6	In a Desert Garden: Love and Death Among the Insects more books like this by John Alcock add to wishlist With insight and wit, John Alcock, a specialist in the ecology of the American Southwest, introduces us to the lives and loves of the desert insects as they forage through his backyard. Creating his own desert garden behind his suburban home in Arizona, Alcock scrutinizes every square inch of soil - detailing the exotic plant life he finds and ... see all copies from £5.29! new only from £7.16! \| first editions
7	Animal Behavior more books like this by John Alcock add to wishlist This fifth edition of "Animal Behavior" shows how biologists analyze all aspects of animal behaviour. The book is contains a balanced treatment of both the underlying mechanisms and the evolutionary causes of behaviour. Important concepts are explained by reference to illustrative studies which are described in sufficient detail to help students ... see all copies from £1.49! new only from £27.41! \| first editions
8	The Triumph of Sociobiology more books like this by John Alcock add to wishlist Alcock, a professor of biology at Arizona State University, defends E. O. Wilson's controversial brand of sociobiology as a valuable and scientifically sound discipline. In this text, published 25 years after Wilson's SOCIOBIOLOGY inaugurated the orthodoxly Darwinist ideas behind the science, seeks to explain humankind as part of the natural order ... see all copies from £7.82! new only from £10.47!
9	The Masked Bobwhite Rides Again more books like this by John Alcock add to wishlist 'To love the Sonoran desert is to leave it alone. Here's a manual for lovers and a warning about the most dangerous thing in the arid lands--not the rattlesnakes, not the Gila monster or the scorpion, but something far more lethal: the cow.' ---Charles Bowden, author of Blue Desert and Desierto see all copies from £4.98! new only from £5.20! \| first editions
10	Sonoran Desert Summer more books like this by John Alcock add to wishlist see all copies from £4.98! new only from £12.75! \| first editions
11	Pausanias: Travel and Memory in Roman Greece more books like this by Pausanias, Susan E Alcock (Editor), Jas Elsner (Editor) add to wishlist A collection of specially commissioned essays addressing the most important travel book to survive from antiquity. Pausanias' "Guide to Greece" has for centuries been the key source for archaeologists and art historians researching the monuments and landscape of ancient Greece, as well as one of the major documants of ancient Greek history and ... see all copies from £8.81! new only from £8.81!
12	The kookaburras' song : exploring animal behavior in Australia. more books like this by John Alcock add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! new only from £12.62! \| first editions
13 view cover	Sonoran Desert Spring more books like this by John Alcock add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! new only from £33.72! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Evolution of Insect Mating Systems more books like this by Randy Thornhill add to wishlist see all copies from £10.78! new only from £24.30!
15	Perspectives on animal behavior; a first course. more books like this by Gordon Bermant, John Alcock add to wishlist see all copies from £5.02! first editions
16	Our transatlantic flight more books like this by Sir John Alcock, Sir Arthur Whitten Brown add to wishlist see all copies from £18.25! first editions
17	Desert Rain Desert Bloom: A Wild Horizons Post Card Book by Thomas Wiewandt, John Alcock (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from £5.61! signed copies
18 view cover	Five Generations of the Family of Burr Harrison of Virginia, 1650-1800 more books like this by John P Alcock add to wishlist see all copies from £22.43! new only from £22.43!
19 view cover	Side by Side Survey: Comparative Regional Studies in the Mediterranean World more books like this by John Cherry, Susan E Alcock (Editor) add to wishlist Twenty years ago, John Cherry looked forward to the day when archaeological survey projects working around the Mediterranean region (the 'Frogs round the pond') would begin to compare and synthesize the information they had collected. He anticipated researchers tackling big questions of inter-regional scope in new and interesting ways, working at ... see all copies from £85.36! new only from £85.36!
20 view cover	Companies ACT 2006: The New Law more books like this by Alistair Alcock, John Birds, Steve Gale add to wishlist The Companies Act 2006 promises to be the most radical reform of company law for decades. This very substantial piece of draft legislation with over 1200 sections and 16 schedules representing a seismic change to the company law landscape. Following the highly regarded "Jordans New Law" series format, this book, written by leading company law ... see all copies from £91.56! new only from £91.56!
21 view cover	When the Rains Come: A Naturalist's Year in the Sonoran Desert more books like this by John Alcock add to wishlist Life in the desert is a waiting game: waiting for rain. And in a year of drought, the stakes are especially high. John Alcock knows the Sonoran Desert better than just about anyone else, and in this book he tracks the changes he observes in plant and animal life over the course of a drought year. Combining scientific knowledge with years of ... see all copies from £11.10! new only from £11.10!
22	Cheshire Inns and Inn Signs by John Alcock add to wishlist see all copies from £9.52! new only from £9.52!
23 view cover	Animal Behavior: Das Original Mit Ubersetzungshilfen: An Evolutionary Approach more books like this by John Alcock add to wishlist "John Alcocks Standardwerk Animal Behavior - jetzt in Form eines vAllig neuen Lehrbuchtyps, der speziell fA1/4r die Studiensituation im deutschsprachigen Raum konzipiert wurde." Das erfolgreiche Lehrbuch "Animal Behavior" stellt die verschiedenen Aspekte tierischen Verhaltens in einen evolutionsbiologischen Rahmen. Es behandelt die grundlegenden ... see all copies* from £17.77! new only from £17.77!
24	Playstage : six primary school plays more books like this by John Alcock add to wishlist see all copies from £6.81!

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