Early Bird Books

• 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
• Birds
  Anthropology
  Cultures
  Social Psychology
  Human Evolution
  Early Humans
   
  

  In the Company of Crows and Ravens

  “Crows and people share similar traits and social strategies. To a surprising extent, to know the crow is to know ourselves.”—from the PrefaceFrom the cave walls at Lascaux to the ...  > 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
• Ancient Civilizations
  Anthropology
  Ice Ages
  Archaeology
  Cultures
  Fossils
   
  

  Aegean Art and Architecture (Oxford History of Art)

  The amazing discovery of the 'first European civilization' in Crete, Greece and the Aegean islands during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was beyond what anyone had imagined. ...  > read more
• Dinosaurs
  Paleontology
  Extinction
  Tyrannosaurus Rex
  Evolutionary Biology
  Evolution
   
  

  Introduction to the Study of Dinosaurs

  This highly accessible introduction to dinosaurs places scientific method at the crux of the studies, teaching students about scientific research and principles as they learn about dinosaurs. Now in ...  > read more
• Dinosaurs
  Paleontology
  Extinction
  Biology
  Evolutionary Biology
  Tyrannosaurus Rex
   
  

  The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs

  Written for non-specialists, this detailed survey of dinosaur origins, diversity, and extinction is designed as a series of successive essays covering important and timely topics in dinosaur ...  > 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
• Early Birds
  Evolutionary Biology
  Dinosaurs
  Evolution
  Charles Darwin
  Cosmology
   
  

  Glorified Dinosaurs: The Origin and Early Evolution of Birds

  The last few years have witnessed an unparalleled rate of discoveries of early birds and their dinosaurian predecessors. Written by a recognised authority in the field, Glorified Dinosaurs: The ...  > read more
• Religion
  Archaeology
  Ancient Civilizations
  Spirituality
  Anthropology
  Fossils
   
  

  The Complete Gods and Goddesses of Ancient Egypt

  Worshiped for over three-fifths of recorded history, ancient Egypt's gods and goddesses are among the most fascinating of human civilization. The lives of pharaohs and commoners alike were dominated ...  > read more

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