End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
By: Ross D.E. MacPhee
3.97
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller—including gor…
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1. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
By: Neil Shubin
4.03
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more
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"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
2. Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
By: Dan Flores
3.41
Format: 331 pages, Hardcover
Finalist for thePEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award "A masterly synthesis of scientific … read more
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3. Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America
By: Harry W. Greene , Paul S. Martin
4.17
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
As recently as 11,000 years ago--"near time" to geologists--mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, grou… read more
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4. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
By: Jared Diamond
3.93
Format: 608 pages, Paperback
Brilliant, illuminating, and immensely absorbing, Collapse is destined to take its place as one of … read more
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"...neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"[T]he values to which people cling most stubbornly under inappropriate conditions are those values that were previously the source of their greatest triumphs."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
"The Anasazi did manage to construct in stone the largest and tallest buildings erected in North America until the Chicago steel girder skyscrapers of the 1880s."-Jared Diamond, Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed
5. 1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created
By: Charles C. Mann
4.22
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Over 200 million years ago, geological forces split apart the continents. They developed different … read more
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6. Once & Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us about the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals
By: None
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, c… read more
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7. The Wild Places
By: Robert Macfarlane
3.73
Format: None pages,
"An eloquent (and compulsively readable) reminder that, though we're laying waste the world, nature… read more
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8. The Drowned World
By: Martin Amis , J.G. Ballard
4.50
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
First published in 1962, J.G. Ballard's mesmerizing and ferociously prescient novel imagines a terr… read more
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9. Battle Cry of Freedom
By: James M. McPherson
3.91
Format: None pages, Paperback
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more
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10. The Ends of the World: Supervolcanoes, Lethal Oceans, and the Search for Past Apocalypses
By: Peter Brannen
3.59
Format: 464 pages, ebook
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11. Eruption: The Untold Story of Mount St. Helens
By: Steve Olson
4.06
Format: 32 pages, Paperback
For months in early 1980, scientists, journalists, sightseers, and nearby residents listened anxiou… read more
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12. The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals
By: Donald R. Prothero , None
3.69
Format: None pages, Hardcover
After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terres… read more
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13. The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
By: Riley Black
3.95
Format: 287 pages, Hardcover
Winner of the AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books! "This is top-drawer science writi… read more
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"That's the goal of paleontology, after all - to start with the offerings of death and work back towards life."-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"It's an extension of how we often cope in the wake of our own personal traumas, remembering the wounds as we struggle to see the growth stimulated by terrible events. Resilience has no meaning withou…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
"In time, extinction comes for all species. Some leave descendants. Others do not. Beautiful as the image is, there is no tree of life. The shape of biodiversity is more like a chaotic blanket, indivi…"-Riley Black, The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World
14. The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
By: Steve Brusatte
4.38
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
In his acclaimed bestseller The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, American paleontologist Steve Brusa… read more
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15. The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
By: Steve Brusatte
4.20
Format: 404 pages, Hardcover
The dinosaurs. Sixty-six million years ago, the Earth’s most fearsome creatures vanished. Today the… read more
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"There is a dinosaur outside my window. I'm watching it as I write this."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"The Great Hall of Dinosaurs at Yale's Peabody Museum may not bill itself as a place of spiritual pilgrimage, but that's sure what it feels like to me."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...let's not forget about those birds--they are dinosaurs, they survived, they are still with us. The dinosaur empire may be over, but the dinosaurs remain."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
"...another trove of spectacular fossils, found in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia...provide unprecedented insight into the lifestyles of dinosaurs and early birds."-Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
16. Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
By: Thomas Halliday
4.13
Format: 385 pages, Hardcover
A stirring, eye-opening journey into deep time, from the Ice Age to the first appearance of microb… read more
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"In their own sweepstake fashion, hippopotamuses will reach Malta, Sicily and Crete over the water, and become dwarfed to tiny forms. In many islands, dwarf elephants will roam. With a single, large n…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
"To talk of the first humans is to hammer a signpost into an ancient river saying 'no humans beyond this point', no matter the ever flowing stream around it's base. There is nothing essential to human…"-Thomas Halliday, Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds
17. Pure Invention: How Japan Made the Modern World
By: Matt Alt
4.20
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that ca… read more
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18. Under Alien Skies: A Sightseer's Guide to the Universe
By: Philip Plait
4.27
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A rip-roaring tour of the cosmos with the Bad Astronomer, bringing you up close and personal with t… read more
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19. Pests: How Humans Create Animal Villains
By: Bethany Brookshire
4.03
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
An engrossing and revealing study of why we deem certain animals “pests” and others not—from cats t… read more
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20. Dinosaurs Rediscovered: The Scientific Revolution in Paleontology (The Rediscovered Series)
By: Michael J. Benton
4.39
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Over the past twenty years, the study of dinosaurs has transformed into a true scientific disciplin… read more
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21. End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals
By: Ross D.E. MacPhee
3.97
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
Until a few thousand years ago, creatures that could have been from a sci-fi thriller—including gor… read more
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22. Sexus Animalis: There Is Nothing Unnatural in Nature
By: Emmanuelle Pouydebat
4.05
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
An illustrated guide to the amazingly multifarious sex lives of animals, from elephants and bonobos… read more
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23. Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies
By: Edward O. Wilson
3.83
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, one shorn of “religious and politi… read more
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24. 恋と弾丸 10 [Koi to Dangan 10] (Yakuza Lover, #10)
By: Nozomi Mino
3.96
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
桜夜才臣の衝撃の過去が明かされる…! 幼い頃の桜夜才臣と、腹違いの兄・マオは跡目を争う立場でありながら、 兄弟の情を育んでいた。 しかし、“ある事件”を境にマオは才臣に憎しみを抱くようにな… read more
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25. 恋と弾丸 11 [Koi to Dangan 11] (Yakuza Lover, #11)
By: Nozomi Mino
4.00
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
桜夜が生還し、再びその腕に抱かれるユリ。 激しく熱を交わし、お互いをどれほど愛しているか確かめ合う。 そこへ乗り込んできたのは、ユリの家族――!! 危険な男との関係を、許すわけがない。… read more
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26. Homer: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
By: Barbara Graziosi
3.84
Format: 122 pages, Paperback
Homer's mythological tales of war and homecoming, the Iliad and the Odyssey, are widely considered … read more
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27. Rewilding: The Radical New Science of Ecological Recovery
By: Paul Jepson
4.10
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
Nature conservation in the 21st century has taken a radical new turn. Instead of conserving particu… read more
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28. 恋と弾丸 12 [Koi to Dangan 12] (Yakuza Lover, #12)
By: Nozomi Mino
3.77
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
桜夜の異変とは…若頭×女子大生の恋、完結 桜夜の母が、桜夜に見合いを強要…! ヤクザの世界を知らない、一般人であるユリとは別れるように迫る。 桜夜の母が、桜夜に見合いを強要…! ヤク… read more
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29. How Fast Did T. rex Run?: Unsolved Questions from the Frontiers of Dinosaur Science
By: David Hone
3.78
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of dinosaurs In just the past twe… read more
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30. The Re-Origin of Species: A Second Chance for Extinct Animals
By: Torill Kornfeldt
3.93
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
What does a mammoth smell like? Do dinosaurs bob their heads as they walk, like today’s birds? Do a… read more
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