Dinosaur Books

• Nature
  Evolution
  Fossils
  World Development
  Biochemistry Research
  Sea Life
   
  

  Seashells

  Artist Josie Iselin celebrates the diversity and beauty of nature with her exquisite portraits of seashells. Like her extremely popular Beach Stones and Leaves & Pods, Seashells is not a field ...  > read more
• Photography
  Fish
  Geography
  Sea Life
  Apes
  Venus
   
  

  The Devil's Teeth: A True Story of Obsession and Survival Among America's Great White Sharks

  In a post-Jaws/Discovery Channel world, unearthing fresh data on great white sharks is a feat. So credit Susan Casey not just with finding and spotlighting two biologists who have done truly ...  > read more
• Prions
  Mad Cow Disease
  Sleep Disorders
  Sleep Disorder Research
  Cows, Sheep, Pigs
  Insomnia Research
   
  

  The Family That Couldn't Sleep: A Medical Mystery

  For two hundred years a noble Venetian family has suffered from an inherited disease that strikes their members in middle age, stealing their sleep, eating holes in their brains, and ending their ...  > read more
• Evolution
  Evolutionary Biology
  Origin of Life
  Developmental Biology
  Healthy Aging
  Charles Darwin
   
  

  Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo

  "Every animal form is the product of two processes--development from an egg and evolution from its ancestors," writes Sean B. Carroll in his introduction to Endless Forms Most Beautiful. The new ...  > read more
• Alternative Medicine
  Anthropology
  Popular Culture
  Sports Science
  Nature
  Religion
   
  

  The Arts of China (An Ahmanson Murphy Fine Arts Book)

  For the fourth edition of his much-heralded The Arts of China, last published in 1984, Michael Sullivan has thoroughly revised and expanded this classic history of Chinese art from the Neolithic ...  > read more
• Evolutionary Biology
  Charles Darwin
  Evolution
  Human Evolution
  Nature
  Anthropology
   
  

  Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin's Theory Can Change the Way We Think About Our Lives

  What is the biological reason for gossip?For laughter? For the creation of art?Why do dogs have curly tails?What can microbes tell us about morality?These and many other questions are tackled by ...  > read more
• Charles Darwin
  Evolution
  Evolutionary Biology
  Nature
  World Development
  Earth Science
   
  

  The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould

  The most entertaining and enlightening writings by the beloved paleontologist, evolutionary biologist, and celebrant of the wonder of life."Nature is so wondrously complex and varied that almost ...  > read more
• Solar Energy
  Energy Issues
  Energy and the Environment
  Renewable Energy
  Solar Flare
  Sun
   
  

  The Solar House: Passive Heating and Cooling

  Passive solar heating and passive cooling--approaches known as natural conditioning--provide comfort throughout the year by reducing, or eliminating, the need for fossil fuel. Yet while heat from ...  > read more
• Scientific Conduct
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Behavioral Science
  Early Humans
  Nature
   
  

  The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation

  Human life, scientific journalist Matt Ridley suggests, is a complex balancing act: we behave with self-interest foremost in mind, but also in ways that do not harm, and sometimes even benefit, ...  > read more
• Global Warming
  Climate
  Ice Ages
  Nature
  Early Climate
  Nature of Water
   
  

  After the Ice: A Global Human History 20,000-5000 BC

  20,000 B.C., the peak of the last ice age--the atmosphere is heavy with dust, deserts, and glaciers span vast regions, and people, if they survive at all, exist in small, mobile groups, facing ...  > read more

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