Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More
By: Darren Naish
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Dive into prehistoric waters and discover extraordinary sea monsters who reigned the ocean for 150 …
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1. Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library)
By: Andrew H. Knoll
4.00
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled wit… read more
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2. Pterosaurs: Natural History, Evolution, Anatomy
By: Mark P. Witton
3.87
Format: 54 pages, Hardcover
For 150 million years, the skies didn't belong to birds--they belonged to the pterosaurs. These fly… read more
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- animals
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3. Mosquito: A Natural History of Our Most Persistent and Deadly Foe
By: Andrew Spielman
4.26
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From a world-renowned expert on mosquitoes and a prize-winning reporter comes a fascinating work of… read more
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4. The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found
By: Mary Beard
3.63
Format: 143 pages, Hardcover
Pompeii is the most famous archaeological site in the world, visited by more than two million peopl… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
5. Cyteen (Cyteen, #1-3)
By: C.J. Cherryh
3.38
Format: None pages, Paperback
A brilliant young scientist rises to power on Cyteen, haunted by the knowledge that her predecessor… read more
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7. The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs
By: David Hone
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
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8. The Horse, the Wheel and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World
By: None
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
Roughly half the world's population speaks languages derived from a shared linguistic source known … read more
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9. Cannibalism: A Perfectly Natural History
By: Bill Schutt , None
4.32
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
For centuries scientists have written off cannibalism as a bizarre phenomenon with little biologica… read more
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10. Red Land, Black Land: Daily Life in Ancient Egypt
By: Barbara Mertz
0.00
Format: 152 pages,
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11. 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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- palaeontology
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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
12. The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
By: Adam Nicolson
3.51
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
Few places are as familiar as the shore – and few as full of mystery and surprise. In the sea is… read more
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"The sea is not made of water. Creatures are its genes."-Adam Nicolson, The Sea Is Not Made of Water: Life Between the Tides
13. How to Survive History: How to Outrun a Tyrannosaurus, Escape Pompeii, Get Off the Titanic, and Survive the Rest of History's Deadliest Catastrophes
By: Cody Cassidy
4.06
Format: 195 pages, Paperback
A detailed guide to surviving history’s most challenging threats, from outrunning dinosaurs to maki… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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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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- palaeontology
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- nature
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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. What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds
By: Jennifer Ackerman
4.16
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An instant New York Times bestseller! From the author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a… read more
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18. Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods
By: Danna Staaf
4.07
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, the… read more
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- palaeontology
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19. The Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World
By: Michael J. Benton
4.40
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Dinosaurs are not what you thought they were—or at least, they didn’t look like you thought they di… read more
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20. Cryptozoologicon
By: John Conway
3.94
Format: 102 pages, None
The Biology, Evolution, and Mythology of Hidden Animals By John Conway, C. M. Kosemen and Dr. Darr… read more
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21. Ancient Sea Reptiles: Plesiosaurs, Ichthyosaurs, Mosasaurs, and More
By: Darren Naish
4.26
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
Dive into prehistoric waters and discover extraordinary sea monsters who reigned the ocean for 150 … read more
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22. Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
By: Elsa Panciroli
4.03
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dino… read more
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23. Secrets of the Whales
By: James Cameron
4.69
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
This provocative book of photography offers bold new insight into the lives of the world's largest … read more
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24. Tutankhamun and the Tomb that Changed the World
By: Bob Brier
4.47
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A major new look at the treasures and mysteries of Tutankhamun's tomb on the centenary of its disco… read more
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25. Life Through the Ages II: Twenty-First Century Visions of Prehistory
By: Mark P. Witton
4.38
Format: 166 pages, Hardcover
What was life like on our planet long before the early humans emerged? Paleontologist Dr. Mark P. … read more
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26. Mesozoic Art: Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals in Art
By: Steve White
4.68
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Showcases the work of twenty leading paleoartists who expertly bring these extinct animals to life … read more
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27. The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles
By: Gregory S Paul
4.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
An authoritative illustrated guide to the mighty reptiles that dominated the seas of the Mesozoic f… read more
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28. Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils
By: Dean R. Lomax
4.47
Format: 296 pages, Hardcover
Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to kno… read more
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29. Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe
By: Trenton W. Holliday
4.14
Format: None pages, ebook
During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, r… read more
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30. The Secret Life of Flies
By: Erica McAlister
4.13
Format: 248 pages, Hardcover
Stories and science about nature's most complex, crucial and highly adaptive insect. The Secret … read more
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31. Europasaurus: Life on Jurassic Islands / Urzeitinseln voller Leben
By: Oliver Wings
4.82
Format: 184 pages, Hardcover
Are you ready for an exciting time travel 154 million years back into the past? In the Late Jura… read more
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