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• 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
• Mars
  Space Missions
  NASA
  Space Policy
  Space Exploration
  Solar System
   
  

  A Traveler's Guide to Mars

  A Traveler's Guide to Mars revitalizes the Red Planet, leaving readers with the urge to don a spacesuit and take a long trip. With the look and heft of a guide to someplace you might actually go, the ...  > read more
• Engineering
  Civil Engineering
  Computational Biology
  Disability
  Energy Technology
  Medical Imaging
   
  

  Introduction to Biomedical Engineering, Second Edition (Biomedical Engineering)

  Under the direction of John Enderle, Susan Blanchard and Joe Bronzino, leaders in the field have contributed chapters on the most relevant subjects for biomedical engineering students. These chapters ...  > read more
• Astrophysics
  Physics
  Astronomy
  Quantum Physics
  Albert Einstein
  Nuclear Energy
   
  

  The Physics of Astrophysics Volume II: Gas Dynamics

  Presented in two volumes, The Physics of Astrophysics is ideally suited for a year-long astrophysics course for university seniors and first-year graduate students. This second volume deals with the ...  > read more
• Geography
  Ancient Civilizations
  Archaeology
  Anthropology
  Racial Disparity
  Psychology
   
  

  The Incas (The Peoples of America)

  The great empire of the Incas at its height encompassed an area of western South America comparable in size to the Roman Empire in Europe. This book describes and explains its extraordinary progress ...  > 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
• 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

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