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The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art
The breathtakingly beautiful
art created deep inside the
caves of western Europe has
the power to dazzle even the
most jaded observers.
Emerging from the narrow
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Planet Earth: As You've Never Seen It Before
A visual odyssey that will
change the way we see our
planet, this remarkable
book, companion to the
acclaimed Discovery Channel/
BBC series, is an enduring
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Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
This entertaining Very Short
Introduction reflects the
enduring popularity of
archaeology-a subject which
appeals as a pastime,
... > full story
Fandex Family Field Guides: Trees (Fandex Family Field Guides)
Bringing the world of Trees
to your fingertips, Fandex
presents a foolproof field
guide. Four visual keys -
die-cut leaf, bark pattern,
flower, nut or seed, and
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Origin and Evolution of Earth: Principles of Historical Geology
Appropriate for one-semester courses in historical geology. This text assumes basic prerequisite coursework in physical geology.This exceptionally readable text gives students an in-depth and ... > read more -
Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus
"Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been ... > read more -
Field Adventures in Paleontology
Have you ever wondered what it's really like to dig for dinosaur bones on Alaska's North Slope? To excavate cave fossils high in the mountains of Colorado? To hunt for trilobites in the Utah ... > read more -
Moons and Planets
Author William Hartmann has fully updated this text, which retains a comparative approach to the principles of planetology, including organization by physical topic rather than by planet. This unique ... > read more -
Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary (International Geophysics)
Raymond S. Bradley provides his readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date review of all of the important methods used in paleoclimatic reconstruction, dating and paleoclimate modeling. Two ... > read more -
Sun, Earth and Sky
This Second Edition of Sun, Earth and Sky updates the popular text by providing comprehensive accounts of the most recent discoveries made by five modern solar spacecraft during the past decade. ... > read more -
Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory---How New Science Is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners
For decades the issue seemed moot. The first settlers, we were told, were big-game hunters who arrived from Asia at the end of the Ice Age some 12,000 years ago, crossing a land bridge at the Bering ... > read more -
Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird
Pigeons have been worshipped as fertility goddesses and revered as symbols of peace. Domesticated since the dawn of man, they’ve been used as crucial communicators in war by every major ... > read more -
Saxons, Vikings, and Celts: The Genetic Roots of Britain and Ireland
WASPs finally get their due in this stimulating history by one of the world's leading geneticists.Saxons, Vikings, and Celts is the most illuminating book yet to be written about the genetic history ... > read more -
Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions
This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth. The most famous is the mass ... > read more
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