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  Mexico: From the Olmecs to the Aztecs (Fifth Edition)

  Michael D. Coe's Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region's ancient civilizations. This companion to his best-selling The Maya has now been ...  > read more
• Fossils
  Geography
  Photography
  Lost Treasures
  Apes
  Geochemistry
   
  

  Florida's Fossils: Guide to Location, Identification and Enjoyment

  Revised edition. Updated directions (with maps) on where and how to hunt for fossils in the Sunshine State. Complete photo identification section and insightful comments on the history of the fossil ...  > read more
• Anthropology
  Bioethics
  Government Regulation
  Nature
  Cosmology
  Archaeology
   
  

  History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History

  Which civilization had the first system of law? The first formal educational system? The first tax cut? The first love song? The answers were found in excavations of ancient Sumer, a society so ...  > read more
• Space Policy
  Human Biology
  Anthropology
  Space Exploration
  Aviation
  Today's Healthcare
   
  

  Stiff

  An oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers-some willingly, some unwittingly-have been involved in science's ...  > read more
• Brain Injury
  Brain Tumor
  Intelligence
  Psychology Research
  Neuroscience
  Disorders and Syndromes
   
  

  Train Your Mind, Change Your Brain: How a New Science Reveals Our Extraordinary Potential to Transform Ourselves

  Is it really possible to change the structure and function of the brain, and in so doing alter how we think and feel? The answer is a resounding yes. In late 2004, leading Western scientists joined ...  > read more
• Origin of Life
  Extinction
  Healthy Aging
  Nature
  Dinosaurs
  Earth Science
   
  

  Dawn of the Dinosaurs: Life in the Triassic (Life of the Past)

  Before the Age of Dinosaurs there was an age in Earth's history known as the Triassic. It was a world of truly fantastic creatures, a genetic stew of the ancient and the modern. During this time ...  > read more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Cultures
  Anthropology
  Fossils
  Lost Treasures
  Origin of Life
   
  

  Ancient Turkey: A Traveller's History

  Seton Lloyd's lively account of Turkey's early history is for the ever-increasing number of people visiting the ancient sites of this fabled land. Written by an archaeologist who has spent much of ...  > read more
• Caving
  Archaeology
  Extreme Survival
  Ancient Civilizations
  Nature
  Anthropology
   
  

  The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art

  The breathtakingly beautiful art created deep inside the caves of western Europe has the power to dazzle even the most jaded observers. Emerging from the narrow underground passages into the chambers ...  > read more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Lost Treasures
  Nature
  World Development
  Fossils
  Monkeys
   
  

  The Leopard's Tale: Revealing the Mysteries of Catalhoyuk

  A firsthand account of the discoveries at this seminal ancient site in Turkey, one of the first farming settlements in history.Çatalhöyük, in central Turkey, became internationally ...  > read more
• Geography
  Popular Culture
  Perception
  Internet
  Computer Programming
  Communications
   
  

  Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications

  “The core technologies of Ajax are quite straightforward; the hard part is applying them in the real world. Fortunately, the authors have been putting Ajax into practice since long ...  > read more

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