Edward Osborne Wilson, Author . Knopf $22 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-45078-8
Legendary Harvard biologist Wilson (On Human Nature; The Ants;
etc.) founded sociobiology, the controversial branch of evolutionary biology, and won the Pulitzer Prize twice. This volume, his manifesto to the public at large, is a meditation on the...
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Edward Osborne Wilson, Author , read by Ed Begley. New Millennium Audio $34.95 (, unabridged, six cassettes, 9 hrs., $34.95 ISBN ) ISBN 978-1-59007-083-3
The bad news: biodiversity is the key to saving our planet, and in the comparatively short time that humans have inhabited the earth, we have "accelerated the erasure of entire ecosystems and the extinction of thousands of million-year-old...
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Edward Osborne Wilson, Author . Norton $21.95 (174p) ISBN 978-0-393-06217-5
With his usual eloquence, patience and humor, Wilson, our modern-day Thoreau, adds his thoughts to the ongoing conversation between science and religion. Couched in the form of letters to a Southern Baptist pastor, the Pulitzer Prize–winning...
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Edward Osborne Wilson, Author . Norton $24.95 (378p) ISBN 978-0-393-07119-1
A Pulitzer Prize–winning nonfiction author and Harvard entomology professor, Wilson (The Ants
) channels Huck Finn in his creative coming-of-age debut novel. Split into three parallel worlds—ants, humans, and the biosphere—the...
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Edward Osborne Wilson, Author Island Press $30 (416p) ISBN 978-1-55963-288-1
``Most children have a bug period,'' writes the author. ``I never grew out of mine.'' Winner of two Pulitzer prizes, pioneer in sociobiology, distinguished entomologist and teacher, Wilson has written an absorbing memoir that charts his development...
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Edward Osborne Wilson, Author W. W. Norton & Company $14.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-393-31047-4
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author calls for collective initiatives to confront the deterioration of biodiversity. (Oct.)
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Edward O. Wilson. Norton/Liveright, $27.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-87140-413-8
In this wide-ranging book, Wilson, the Pulitzer Prize–winning Harvard scientist (The Ants), addresses the large question of “why advanced social life exists at all, and has occurred so rarely in the history of life.” Wilson, the world’s leading...
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Edward O. Wilson. Norton/Liveright, $21.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-87140-377-3
Two-time Pulitzer Prize–winning Harvard biologist Wilson (On Human Nature) muses on the nature of scientific investigation, his illustrious career, and what it takes to be a scientist in this thoroughly enjoyable collection of faux epistles. Though...
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Edward O. Wilson, photographs by Piotr Naskrecki. Simon & Schuster, $30 (228p) ISBN 978-1-4767-4741-5
Wilson (Letters to a Young Scientist) presents a lyrical ode to biodiversity within the framework of a memoir of his work in Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, helping to rebuild it from the loss of nearly all of its megafauna as it was neglected,
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Edward O. Wilson. Norton/Liveright, $23.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-87140-100-7
In his typically elegant style, two-time Pulitzer Prize–winner Wilson (Letters to a Young Scientist) cannily and candidly probes the nature of human existence. Wilson ranges from natural selection and eusociality to extraterrestrial life and the “all
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Edward O. Wilson, photos by Alex Harris. Norton/Liveright, $39.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-87140-470-1
Pulitzer Prize–winning naturalist and Harvard professor Wilson (On Human Nature) and acclaimed photographer and Duke University professor Harris (River of Traps) team up to convey the spirit of Mobile, Ala., through text and images. Wilson writes of
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Edward Osborne Wilson, Author, Laura Simonds Southworth, Illustrator Island Press $22 (224p) ISBN 978-1-55963-215-7
In this collection of essays, which reprises the themes of his scientific career, Pulitzer Prize winner Wilson (The Ants and On Human Nature) contrasts wild nature with human nature as two similar products of evolution, focusing on both genetic and...
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Bert Holldobler, Author, Edward Osborne Wilson, Author, Margaret C. Nelson, Illustrator W. W. Norton & Company $55 (522p) ISBN 978-0-393-06704-0
The vast majority of insect species are solitary; only a relatively few orders of ants, bees and wasps are truly ""eusocial,"" living in colonies with only one or a few reproductive females (ensuring all members are related) and workers who...
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