New eBook Reveals Intimate Lives of Animals and Plants

Dec. 9, 2011 - PRLog -- How To Have Sex If You’re Not Human, award-winning science writer Mary Batten’s new eBook, takes readers on an amazing journey into the wild, often bizarre, reproductive antics of animals and plants. Yes, the blooming plants “do it,” too.

“Despite all our love songs and romantic fantasies, reproduction is the name of the game in biology,” says Batten. All forms of life are genetically programmed to reproduce. “Nothing is off limits so long as it produces babies,” she adds.

Sex-changing fishes, fierce sperm competition among males, and plants that deceive and seduce are just some of the topics in this collection of a dozen of Batten’s natural history articles.

Mary Batten is writer for television, film and publishing. She is the author of some 15 nature/science books for adults and children, dozens of magazine articles and more than 30 television scripts for Time-Life Films, National Geographic, Walt Disney Educational Media, and others. Her work has taken her into tropical rainforests, scientific laboratories and medical research centers. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the Children’s Television Workshop’s 3-2-1 CONTACT series. Her books include Sexual Strategies: How Females Choose Their Mates, which The New York Times called “Fun and delightful to read, offering an abundance of fascinating facts.” This book led to an appearance on OPRAH. Her children’s book, Aliens from Earth: When Animals and Plants Invade Other Ecosystems, won the 2006 Izaak Walton League of America Conservation Book of the Year Award and was adopted by New York City Public Schools in support of the 4th grade science requirement for study of ecosystems. Her magazine articles have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Modern Maturity and others.  Her magazine article for Science Digest, “Sexual Choice: The Female’s Newly Discovered Role,” won The Newswomen’s Club of New York’s Front Page Award for best feature story. She is married to composer Ed Bland.

Read a sample of How To Have Sex If You’re Not Human at:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/111297
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006CVU7TU
Twitter: http://twitter.com/MaryBatten

Contact Mary Batten

website: http://www.marybatten.com
email: First initial M second initial T Batten (at) Verizon.net

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Writer for television, film and publishing. Author of some 15 nature/science books for adults and children, dozens of magazine articles and 30 television scripts for Time-Life Films, National Geographic, Walt Disney Educational Media, and others. She was nominated for an Emmy for her work on the Children’s Television Workshop’s 3-2-1 CONTACT series. Her books include Sexual Strategies: How Females Choose Their Mates, which The New York Times called “Fun and delightful to read, offering an abundance of fascinating facts.” This book led to an appearance on OPRAH. Her children’s book, Aliens from Earth: When Animals and Plants Invade Other Ecosystems, won the 2006 Izaak Walton League of America Conservation Book of the Year Award and was adopted by New York City Public Schools in support of the 4th grade science requirement for study of ecosystems. Her magazine articles have appeared in Cosmopolitan, Ladies Home Journal, Modern Maturity and others.