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• Ancient Civilizations
  Fossils
  Earth Science
  Archaeology
  Anthropology
  Ice Ages
   
  

  The Oracle: Ancient Delphi and the Science Behind Its Lost Secrets

  A gripping modern-day detective story about the scientific quest to understand the Oracle of Delphi Like Walking the Bible, this fascinating book turns a modern eye on an enduring legend. The Oracle ...  > read more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Lost Treasures
  New Species
  Fossils
  Earth Science
  Ice Ages
   
  

  The First American: The Suppressed Story of the People Who Discovered the New World

  Forty years ago, an amateur prehistorian discovered an engraved mastodon bone near Mexico City, showing a virtual bestiary from the Ice Age. Harvard University took notice and excavated nearby ...  > read more
• Forest
  Trees
  Ecology
  Nature
  Land Management
  Evolution
   
  

  Reading the Forested Landscape: A Natural History of New England

  An original portrait of New England's forests, tracing their evolution from precolonial days to the present through a study of the patterns we see today.Landscape is much more than scenery to be ...  > read more
• Charles Darwin
  Religion
  Spirituality
  Physics
  Big Bang
  Anthropology
   
  

  When Science Meets Religion: Enemies, Strangers, or Partners?

  We're closing in on the 150th anniversary of Darwin's Origin of Species, but clearly not closing in on any resolution of the debates that the book stirred up between science and religion. In this ...  > read more
• Mars
  Space Missions
  NASA
  Space Policy
  Space Exploration
  Solar System
   
  

  A Traveler's Guide to Mars

  A Traveler's Guide to Mars revitalizes the Red Planet, leaving readers with the urge to don a spacesuit and take a long trip. With the look and heft of a guide to someplace you might actually go, the ...  > read more
• Ice Ages
  Early Climate
  Early Mammals
  Nature of Water
  Geography
  Climate
   
  

  Ice Age Mammals of North America

  The time is the Pleistocene epoch, about 2 million to 10,000 years ago. Continent-size ice sheets cover 30 percent of the earth's landmass, and strange creatures rove the landscape. Ice Age Mammals ...  > read more
• Fossils
  Paleontology
  Dinosaurs
  Archaeology
  Ancient Civilizations
  Early Mammals
   
  

  Fossil Legends of the First Americans

  The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago. Those hills were, much later, also home to the Sioux, the Crows, and ...  > read more
• Extinction
  Dinosaurs
  Endangered Animals
  Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Origin of Life
  Nature
   
  

  When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

  "The focus is the most severe mass extinction known in earth's history….The science on which the book is based is up-to-date, thorough, and balanced. Highly recommended."—ChoiceToday it ...  > read more
• Nature
  Origin of Life
  Early Climate
  Early Mammals
  Fossils
  Global Warming
   
  

  After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals (Life of the Past)

  Perhaps nudged over the evolutionary cliff by a giant boloid striking the earth, the incredible and fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for ...  > read more
• Educational Psychology
  Educational Policy
  Weather
  Children's Health
  El Nino and La Nina
  Memory
   
  

  Essentials of Meteorology: An Invitation to the Atmosphere

  This updated and enhanced Fourth Edition of ESSENTIALS OF METEOROLOGY is written by the most widely read, trusted author in introductory meteorology. Ahrens' ability to explain relatively complicated ...  > read more

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