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• 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
  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
• Lost Treasures
  Internet
  Popular Culture
  World Development
  Monkeys
  Fossils
   
  

  The Medici Conspiracy: The Illicit Journey of Looted Antiquities, From Italy's Tomb Raiders to the World's Greatest Museums

  Their names are splashed all over the newspapers: Marion True, Robert Hecht, Giacomo Medici. The Medici Conspiracy tells the complete history behind the headlines. The story begins with a botched ...  > read more
• Behavioral Science
  Behavior
  Human Evolution
  Evolutionary Biology
  Evolution
  Social Psychology
   
  

  Animal Behavior: An Evolutionary Approach

  This new edition of Animal Behavior has been completely rewritten, resulting in a more compact yet thoroughly up-to-date text. Notable is the inclusion, for the first time, of four-color photographs ...  > read more
• Archaeology
  Racial Issues
  Anthropology
  Ancient Civilizations
  Fossils
  Exotic Species
   
  

  Skull Wars: Kennewick Man, Archaeology, and the Battle for Native American Identity

  Since its discovery in 1996, the issues surrounding Kennewick Man have grown ever more complicated and controversial. Out of this fracas comes Skull Wars, David Hurst Thomas's masterful contribution ...  > read more
• Astrophysics
  Cosmology
  Astronomy
  Big Bang
  Solar System
  Galaxies
   
  

  The Essential Cosmic Perspective Media Update with Astronomy Place website, Skygazer Planetarium Software, eBook CDROM and Astronomy media workbook (3rd Edition)

  The Essential Cosmic Perspective, Third Edition Media Update features a new an effective learning program that uses chapter openers, headers, callouts in the text, and highly-visual chapter ...  > read more
• Origin of Life
  Healthy Aging
  Solar System
  Cosmology
  Batteries
  Charles Darwin
   
  

  Life in the Universe (2nd Edition)

  Key Message: Life in the Universe takes readers on a journey through the solar system and beyond, using a rigorous yet accessible introduction to astronomy, biology, chemistry, and geology to explain ...  > read more
• Sun
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Solar Flare
  Earth Science
  Astronomy
  Geology
   
  

  The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began

  In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph ...  > read more
• Acoustics
  Perception
  Popular Culture
  Nature
  Language Acquisition
  Intelligence
   
  

  This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession

  In this groundbreaking union of art and science, rocker-turned-neuroscientist Daniel J. Levitin explores the connection between music—its performance, its composition, how we listen to it, ...  > read more
• Physics
  Quantum Physics
  Educational Policy
  Astrophysics
  Atmosphere
  Nuclear Energy
   
  

  College Physics, Volume 2 (with PhysicsNOW) (College Physics)

  Open the door to the fascinating world of physics! The most fundamental of all natural sciences, physics will reveal to you the basic principles of the Universe. And while physics can seem ...  > read more

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