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Bursting the Limits of Time: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Revolution
During a revolution of discovery in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, geologists reconstructed the immensely long history of the earth—and the relatively recent arrival of ... > read more -
Here Be Dragons: The Scientific Quest for Extraterrestrial Life
"Experts in many diverse disciplines have come together to form a new science: astrobiology," report astronomer David Koerner and biologist-writer Simon LeVay. It is a fundamentally new enterprise, ... > read more -
The Piltdown Forgery
On 21 November 1953, one of the most fascinating puzzles in science was finally solved. Three scientists--Joseph Weiner, Kenneth Oakley, and Wilfrid Le Gros Clark--described their investigations into ... > read more -
Miss Leavitt's Stars: The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe (Great Discoveries) (Great Discoveries)
A forgotten heroine of science and how she solved one of the crucial mysteries of the universe. "A short, excellent account of [Leavitt's] extraordinary life and achievements."—Simon Singh, New ... > read more -
The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt
The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a ... > read more -
Beasts of Eden: Walking Whales, Dawn Horses, and Other Enigmas of Mammal Evolution
Mammals first evolved at about the same time as dinosaurs, and their story is perhaps the more fascinating of the two--in part because it is also our own story. In this literate and entertaining ... > read more -
Dragon Bone Hill: An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus
"Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been ... > read more -
Quaternary Environments
The second edition of this authoritative introduction to the global environmental fluctuations of the Quaternary period has been thoroughly revised and updated, and now includes two new chapters: one ... > read more -
The Limits to Growth
In 1972, three scientists from MIT created a computer model that analyzed global resource consumption and production. Their results shocked the world and created stirring conversation about global ... > read more
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