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Titles published by the Transcript Publishing, Fernwood Publishing, and the Chinese University Press of Hong Kong are available from Columbia only in North America, Australia, and New Zealand. To order titles from these publishers in other parts of the world, please contact each press directly. There Is Life After the Nobel Prize

Eric R. Kandel

Neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel recounts his remarkable career since receiving the Nobel in 2000. He takes readers through his lab’s scientific advances as well as his efforts to promote public understanding of science and to put brain science and art into conversation.

$19.95 /£14.99 cloth 978-0-231-20014-1 December 2021 120 pages 11 illus.

Great Minds Don’t Think Alike

Debates on Consciousness, Reality, Intelligence, Faith, Time, AI, Immortality, and the Human Edited and with commentary by Marcelo Gleiser

Leading scientists, philosophers, historians, and public intellectuals debate the big questions. These public dialogues model constructive engagement between the sciences and the humanities—and show why intellectual cooperation is necessary to shape our collective future.

$19.95 / £14.95 paper 978-0-231-20411-8 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-20410-1 February 2022 280 pages

What Are the Chances?

Why We Believe in Luck Barbara Blatchley

What Are the Chances? reveals how psychology and neuroscience explain the significance of the idea of luck. Barbara Blatchley explores how people react to random events in a range of circumstances, examining the evidence that the belief in luck helps us cope with a lack of control.

$27.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19868-4 2021 248 pages 9 illus. Bernoulli's Fallacy

Statistical Illogic and the Crisis of Modern Science Aubrey Clayton

Aubrey Clayton traces the history of the flaw that underlies modern statistics, beginning with the seventeenth-century mathematician Jacob Bernoulli and winding through gambling, astronomy, and genetics. Ranging across math, philosophy, and culture, Bernoulli’s Fallacy explains why something has gone wrong with how we use data—and how to fix it.

$34.95 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19994-0 2021 368 pages 12 illus.

Racism, Not Race

Answers to Frequently Asked Questions Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman

In this book, two distinguished scientists tackle common misconceptions about race, human biology, and racism. Using an accessible question-and-answer format, Joseph L. Graves Jr. and Alan H. Goodman show readers why antiracist principles are both just and backed by sound science.

$27.95 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-20066-0 December 2021 320 pages 17 illus. Partial Truths

How Fractions Distort Our Thinking James C. Zimring

James C. Zimring argues that many of the mistakes that the human mind consistently makes boil down to misperceiving fractions. Blending key scientific research in cognitive psychology with accessible real-life examples, Partial Truths helps readers spot the fallacies lurking in everyday information, from politics to the criminal justice system, from religion to science, from business strategies to New Age culture.

$30.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-20138-4 April 2022 248 pages

The Carriers

What the Fragile X Gene Reveals About Family, Heredity, and Scientific Discovery Anne Skomorowsky

The Carriers investigates a common but still little-known genetic condition and its lifealtering consequences. Anne Skomorowsky reveals how fragile X syndrome afflicts families across generations, telling the stories of the mothers and grandparents of fragile X patients and considering how genes interact with family dynamics.

$28.00 / £22.00 cloth 978-0-231-19766-3 April 2022 264 pages 10 illus. The Altruistic Urge

Why We’re Driven to Help Others Stephanie D. Preston

Stephanie D. Preston explores how and why we developed a surprisingly powerful drive to help the vulnerable. She argues that the neural and psychological mechanisms that evolved to safeguard offspring also motivate people to save strangers in need of immediate aid.

$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-20440-8 May 2022 312 pages 20 illus.

The Brain and Pain

Breakthroughs in Neuroscience Richard Ambron

Illustrated by Ahmet Sinav

The Brain and Pain explores the present and future of pain management, providing a comprehensive understanding based on the latest discoveries from many branches of neuroscience. Current and thorough, it will be invaluable for a range of people seeking to understand their options for treatment as well as students in neuroscience and medicine.

$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20487-3 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20486-6 March 2022 216 pages 41 illus. Artificial Intimacy

Virtual Friends, Digital Lovers, and Algorithmic Matchmakers Rob Brooks

The evolutionary biologist Rob Brooks explores the latest research on intimacy and desire to consider how new technologies and fundamental human behaviors interact. He details how existing artificial intelligences can already learn and exploit human social needs—and are getting better at what they do.

$32.00 / £25.00 cloth 978-0-231-20094-3 2021 304 pages 2 illus.

Chimpanzee Memoirs

Stories of Studying and Saving Our Closest Living Relatives Edited by Stephen Ross and Lydia Hopper

Illustrations by Dawn Shuerman

This book brings together a range of chimpanzee experts who tell powerful personal stories about their lives and careers. It features some of the world’s preeminent primatologists— including Jane Goodall and Frans de Waal—as well as representatives of a new generation from varied backgrounds. All are united by a common purpose: to study and understand chimpanzees in order to protect them in the wild and care for them in zoos and sanctuaries.

$19.95 / £14.99 paper 978-0-231-19929-2 $80.00 / £62.00 cloth 978-0-231-19928-5 April 2022 216 pages 15 illus.

Explorers of Deep Time

Paleontologists and the History of Life Roy Plotnick

Roy Plotnick provides a behind-the-scenes look at paleontology as it exists today in all its complexity. He explores the field’s aims, methods, and possibilities, with an emphasis on the compelling personal stories of the scientists who have made it a career.

$35.00 / £28.00 cloth 978-0-231-19534-8 January 2022 344 pages 20 illus. Travels with Trilobites

Adventures in the Paleozoic Andy Secher

Forewords by Niles Eldredge, Mark Norell, and Kirk Johnson

In Travels with Trilobites, Andy Secher invites readers to come along in search of the fossilized remains of ancient arthropods. The book features hundreds of photographs of unique specimens drawn from Secher’s private collection, showcasing stunning fossil finds that highlight the diversity, complexity, and beauty of trilobites.

$44.95 / £35.00 cloth 978-0-231-20096-7 February 2022 392 pages 298 illus.

The Botany of Beer

An Illustrated Guide to More Than 500 Plants Used in Brewing Giuseppe Caruso

This book is a comprehensive and beautifully illustrated compendium of the characteristics and properties of the plants used in making beer around the world. The botanical expert Giuseppe Caruso presents scientifically rigorous descriptions, accompanied by his own handdrawn ink images, of more than 500 species.

$39.95 / £34.00 cloth 978-0-231-20158-2 July 2022 576 pages

ARTS AND TRADITIONS OF THE TABLE: PERSPECTIVES ON CULINARY HISTORY

Sex in City Plants, Animals, Fungi, and More

A Guide to Reproductive Diversity Kenneth D. Frank

Foreward by Jonathan Silvertown

Kenneth D. Frank offers a guide to urban reproductive diversity across a range of conditions, showing how understanding of sex and mating furthers the appreciation of biodiversity. He presents reproductive diversity as elegant but vulnerable, underscoring the consequences of human activity. Featuring compelling photographs of a multitude of life forms in their city habitats, this book provides a new lens on urban natural history.

$35.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20607-5 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-20606-8 March 2022 216 pages 258 illus. Microbial Biotechnology in the Laboratory and Practice

Theory, Exercises, and Specialist Laboratories Edited by Jerzy Długoński

This book examines fundamental issues in microbial biotechnology, such as microorganism culturing and uses in industry and environmental protection. It details modern analytical techniques, known as omics, as well as digital techniques used to record adverse changes in the environment resulting from the harmful activity of bacteria and fungi.

$60.00 / £48.00 paper 978-83-2334-984-6 February 2022 580 pages 176 illus.

JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY PRESS

Dinosaurs

The Textbook Seventh Edition Spencer G. Lucas

Geared toward a broad variety of students, Dinosaurs: The Textbook offers a concise and lucid presentation of the core biological and geological concepts of dinosaur science. This seventh edition of the leading text for introductory courses on dinosaurs has been revised throughout based on recent fossil discoveries and the latest research.

$90.00 / £74.00 paper 978-0-231-2060-3 $180.00 / £148.00 cloth 978-0-231-20600-6 April 2022 416 pages 311 illus. A Primer in Biological Data Analysis and Visualization Using R

Second Edition

Gregg Hartvigsen

This text is an engaging, practical, and laboriented introduction to R for students in the life sciences. This second edition has been revised to be current with the versions of R software released since the book’s original publication. It features updated terminology, sources, and examples throughout.

$38.00 / £30.00 paper 978-0-231-20213-8 $150.00 / £116.00 cloth 978-0-231-2021-1 2021 216 pages 65 illus.