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The Man in the Monkeynut Coat: William Astbury and the Forgotten Road to the Double Helix

The Man in the Monkeynut Coat

Kersten T Hall

Oxford University Press, £18.99
A Column of Smoke

A Column of Smoke

Rebecca Nesbit

Brambleby Books, £8.99

Forests and Global Change

David A Coomes, David F R P Burslem and William D Simonson (Eds)

Cambridge University Press, £35.00
The Choanoflagellates

The Choanoflagellates: Evolution, Biology and Ecology

Barry F C Leadbeater

Cambridge University Press, £80.00
The Biologist’s Imagination: Innovation in the Biosciences

The Biologist’s Imagination: Innovation in the Biosciences

William Hoffman and Leo Furcht

Oxford University Press, £22.95
The Lagoon

The Lagoon: How Aristotle Invented Science

Armand Marie Leroi

Bloomsbury Circus, £25.00
Claxton

Claxton: Field Notes from a Small Planet

Mark Cocker

Jonathan Cape, £14.99
Opulent Oceans

Opulent Oceans

Melanie L J Stiassny

Sterling Signature, New York, £40.00
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