Coral Reef Books

• Biodiversity
  Nature
  Land Management
  Endangered Plants
  Endangered Animals
  Extinction
   
  

  The Diversity of Life (Penguin Press Science)

  Humans, the Harvard University entomologist Edward O. Wilson has observed, have an innate--or at least extremely ancient--connection to the natural world, and our continued divorce from it has led to ...  > read more
• Seeds
  Nature
  Computational Biology
  Botany
  Anthropology
  Endangered Plants
   
  

  Paleoethnobotany: A Handbook of Procedures (2nd Edition)

  This new edition of the definitive work on "doing paleoenthnobotany" follows the steady growth in the quantity and sophistication of paleoenthnobotanical research. It features a rewritten chapter on ...  > read more
• Extinction
  Origin of Life
  Early Climate
  Earth Science
  Fish
  Nature
   
  

  Rivers in Time

  -- BioscienceSeveral times in the distant past, catastrophic extinctions have swept the Earth, causing more than half of all species -- from single-celled organisms to awe-inspiring behemoths -- to ...  > read more
• Weapons Technology
  Space Policy
  Space Exploration
  Engineering
  Space Probes
  Astronomy
   
  

  Project Orion: The True Story of the Atomic Spaceship

  Like cheap, shiny space suits and bug-eyed rubber monsters, nuclear-powered spaceships today seem like little more than laughably naïve 1950s science fiction tropes. It might have been ...  > read more
• Dinosaurs
  Fish
  Marine Biology
  Fossils
  Frogs and Reptiles
  Nature
   
  

  Sea Dragons: Predators Of The Prehistoric Oceans

  In the days when dinosaurs dominated the earth, their marine counterparts-every bit as big and ferocious-reigned supreme in prehistoric seas. In this entrancing book, Richard Ellis, one of the ...  > read more
• Dinosaurs
  Paleontology
  Fossils
  Ancient Civilizations
  Archaeology
  Tyrannosaurus Rex
   
  

  The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt

  The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a ...  > read more
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Nature
  Women's Health
  Cultures
   
  

  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

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