Planet Uranus Books

• 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
• Ancient Civilizations
  Lost Treasures
  Fish
  Anthropology
  Oceanography
  Marine Biology
   
  

  Underworld: The Mysterious Origins of Civilization

  What secrets lie beneath the deep blue sea? Underworld takes you on a remarkable journey to the bottom of the ocean in a thrilling hunt for ancient ruins that have never been found—until now. ...  > read more
• Fossils
  Early Humans
  Origin of Life
  Cultures
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
   
  

  The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors

  In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind?Following four ...  > read more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Lost Treasures
  New Species
  Fossils
  Earth Science
  Ice Ages
   
  

  The First American: The Suppressed Story of the People Who Discovered the New World

  Forty years ago, an amateur prehistorian discovered an engraved mastodon bone near Mexico City, showing a virtual bestiary from the Ice Age. Harvard University took notice and excavated nearby ...  > read more
• Ice Ages
  Early Climate
  Early Mammals
  Nature of Water
  Geography
  Climate
   
  

  Ice Age Mammals of North America

  The time is the Pleistocene epoch, about 2 million to 10,000 years ago. Continent-size ice sheets cover 30 percent of the earth's landmass, and strange creatures rove the landscape. Ice Age Mammals ...  > 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
• 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
• Ice Ages
  Climate
  Early Climate
  Fossils
  Statistics
  Trees
   
  

  Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary (International Geophysics)

  Raymond S. Bradley provides his readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date review of all of the important methods used in paleoclimatic reconstruction, dating and paleoclimate modeling. Two ...  > read more
• Early Climate
  Nature
  Geography
  Extinction
  Ice Ages
  Early Mammals
   
  

  Twilight of the Mammoths:: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America (Organisms and Environments)

  As recently as 11,000 years ago--"near time" to geologists--mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals ...  > read more
• Fossils
  Evolution
  Paleontology
  Evolutionary Biology
  Origin of Life
  Charles Darwin
   
  

  Cradle of Life: The Discovery of Earth's Earliest Fossils

  What if U.S. history began in 1963, and everything that happened before that year was shrouded in mystery? There would be plenty of events to study, but we wouldn't have a complete picture of the ...  > read more

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