Bioarchaeology: Interpreting Behavior from the Human Skeleton
Human remains recovered from
archaeological sites can
help us interpret lifetime
events such as disease,
physiological stress, injury
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Zooarchaeology (Cambridge Manuals in Archaeology)
Most archaeological sites
contain remains of animals.
The identity and condition
of these animals,
represented by fragments of
their skeletons or shells
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Sea Dragons: Predators Of The Prehistoric Oceans
In the days when dinosaurs
dominated the earth, their
marine counterparts-every
bit as big and
ferocious-reigned supreme in
prehistoric seas. In this
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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
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National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils (National Audubon Society Field Guide Series)
This, the first all-photographic field guide to cover fossils found throughout North America north of Mexico, includes nearly 500 full-color photographs identifying corals, trilobites, shells, teeth, ... > read more -
Killer Germs
Everything readers ever wanted to know about deadly viruses, killer parasites, flesh-eating microbes, and other lifethreatening beasties but were afraid to ask What disease, known as "the White ... > read more -
Fossil Shark Teeth of the World
An easy to understand book on fossil shark tooth identification. Clear photos and simple terminology. This book is a must for any fossil ... > read more -
Clinical Microbiology Made Ridiculously Simple (Medmaster)
A brief, clear, thorough, and highly enjoyable approach to clinical microbiology, brimming with mnemonics, humor, summary charts and illustrations, from AIDS to "flesh-eating bacteria" to ebola, mad ... > read more -
The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet One Simple Step at a Time
Ellen DeGeneres, Robert Redford, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Aniston, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, Martha Stewart, Tyra Banks, Dale Earnhardt, Jr., Tiki Barber, Owen Wilson, and Justin Timberlake tell you how ... > read more -
Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease
Read it. You're already living it. Was diabetes evolution's response to the last Ice Age? Did a deadly genetic disease help our ancestors survive the bubonic plagues of Europe? Will a visit to ... > read more -
Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial And America's Continuing Debate over Science And Religion
If you haven't seen the film version of Inherit the Wind, you might have read it in high school. And even people who have never heard of either the movie or the play probably know something about the ... > read more -
Human Osteology, Second Edition
Human Osteology, Second Edition is designed for students and professionals who wish to advance their osteological skills in terms of accurately identifying human skeletal remains, however isolated ... > read more -
The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time (P.S.)
A book chronicling one of the worst human disasters in recorded history really has no business being entertaining. But John Kelly's The Great Mortality is a page-turner despite its grim subject ... > read more -
Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization
Humans are not native to the Earth. So posits astronautical engineer Bob Zubrin in the opening of Entering Space. We're native to just a small sliver of it, the spot where our species originated in ... > read more
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