Early Cultures Books

• Fossils
  Evolution
  Paleontology
  Evolutionary Biology
  Origin of Life
  Charles Darwin
   
  

  Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils

  What if U.S. history began in 1963, and everything that happened before that year was shrouded in mystery? There would be plenty of events to study, but we wouldn't have a complete picture of the ...  > read more
• Fish
  Sea Life
  Marine Biology
  Dinosaurs
  Ocean Policy
  Oceanography
   
  

  Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep

  Sharks and dinosaurs, dinosaurs and sharks, we find them both alien and awe-inspiring, at once utterly inhuman and somehow irresistibly compelling. But forget Jaws and Jurassic Park—nothing can ...  > read more
• Lost Treasures
  Educational Policy
  Ancient Civilizations
  Educational Psychology
  Teen Health
  Archaeology
   
  

  Archaeology: Down to Earth

  This new brief edition pairs two of archaeology's most recognized names-- David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History and Robert L. Kelly of the University of Wyoming-to bring a ...  > read more
• Dinosaurs
  Paleontology
  World Development
  Monkeys
  Fossils
  Tyrannosaurus Rex
   
  

  Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World (Life of the Past)

  The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, whose rocks are exposed from Wyoming down through the red rock region of the American Southwest, have yielded one of the most complete pictures of ...  > read more
• Space Station
  Aviation
  Astronomy
  Space Policy
  Space Probes
  Space Exploration
   
  

  Space Flight

  Published to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first space flight, this beautifully illustrated book about the history of man in space covers every detail of the quest for the final frontier, ...  > read more
• Lost Treasures
  Early Climate
  Archaeology
  Mathematics
  Mathematical Modeling
  Biology
   
  

  Principles of Archaeology

  This new text offers an engaging, straightforward, and profusely illustrated introduction to archaeological method and theory. It captures the excitement and complexity of the field by focusing on ...  > read more
• Virology
  Viruses
  Nature
  Anthropology
  Microbes and More
  Bioethics
   
  

  The American Plague

  In this account, a journalist traces the course of yellow fever, stopping in 1878 Memphis to "vividly [evoke] the Faulkner-meets-'Dawn of the Dead' horrors,"*-and moving on to today's strain of the ...  > read more
• Trees
  Geography
  New Species
  Botany
  Forest
  Exotic Species
   
  

  The Illustrated Book of Trees: The Comprehensive Field Guide to More Than 250 Trees of Eastern North America

  225 drawings * 6 x 9 * Completely revised and updated, with range maps and quick-reference identification keys * More than 30 new species described and illustrated William Carey Grimm's classic ...  > read more
• Albert Einstein
  Black Holes
  Physics
  Quantum Physics
  Astrophysics
  Astronomy
   
  

  Einstein's Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath

  Einstein's Enigma or Black Holes in My Bubble Bath is a humourous and informal rendition of the story of gravitation theory from the early historic origins to the latest developments in astrophysics, ...  > read more
• Sun
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Solar Flare
  Astronomy
  Vitamin D
  Earth Science
   
  

  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

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