Product Description: The synchronized flashing of fireflies at night. The spiraling patterns of an aggregating slime mold. The anastomosing network of army-ant trails. The coordinated movements of a school of fish. Researchers are finding in such patterns--phenomena that have fascinated naturalists for centuries--a fertile new approach to understanding biological systems: the study of self-organization...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Photographs and forty short essays explore flora and fauna by taking a close look at their small details, including a swan's feather and the gills of an anamita mushroom (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book consists of 26 chapters, corresponding to every two weeks throughout the year. Each chapter provides a discussion of a particular biological, geological, botanical or zoological phenomenon that could be easily observed at that particular time of the year...read more