Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World
By: George McGhee
4.31
Format: None pages, ebook
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1. The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
By: Stephen Jay Gould
4.12
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of Gould'… read more
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"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."-Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
"I had learned that a dexterous, opposable thumb stood among the hallmarks of human success. We had maintained, even exaggerated, this important flexibility of our primate forebears, while most mammal…"-Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
"El mundo está repleto de señales que no percibimos. Las criaturas diminutas viven en un mundo diferente de fuerzas poco familiares. Muchos animales “de nuestra escala exceden en mucho el alcance de n…"-Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History
2. 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
3. Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms: The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
By: Richard Fortey
3.94
Format: None pages, Hardcover
From one of the world's leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
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- evolution
4. The Rise of Fishes: 500 Million Years of Evolution
By: John A. Long
4.29
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
Armored fishes and monster sharks, fishes with arms and fishes that breathe air--these and many oth… read more
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- history
- evolution
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- science
5. When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time
By: Michael J. Benton
3.54
Format: 230 pages,
Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million yea… read more
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- history
- evolution
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- nonfiction
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6. Jurassic West: The Dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and Their World
By: John Foster , John Foster
3.52
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
The famous bone beds of the Morrison Formation, whose rocks are exposed from Wyoming down through t… read more
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- palaeontology
- nonfiction
- science
7. Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
By: Daniel C. Dennett
4.07
Format: 588 pages, Paperback
In a book that is both groundbreaking and accessible, Daniel C. Dennett, whom Chet Raymo of The Bos… read more
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"Problems in science are sometimes made easier by adding complications."-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
"I'm the guy who reputedly denies that people experience colors or pains, and thinks that thermostats think — just ask my critics."-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
"There is no such thing as philosophy-free science; there is only science whose philosophical baggage is taken on board without examination. —Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, 1995"-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
"Science, however, is not just a matter of making mistakes, but of making mistakes in public. Making mistakes for all to see, in the hopes of getting the others to help with the corrections."-Daniel C. Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Similar categories in Shelby Foote's The Civil War: A Narrative book and George McGhee's Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World
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- history
9. The Golem and the Jinni (The Golem and the Jinni, #1)
By: Helene Wecker
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
In The Golem and the Jinni, a chance meeting between mythical beings takes readers on a dazzling jo… read more
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10. Lock In (Lock In, #1)
By: John Scalzi
3.14
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A blazingly inventive near-future thriller from the best-selling, Hugo Award-winning John Scalzi. N… read more
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11. The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs
By: David Hone
5.00
Format: 64 pages, Hardcover
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12. Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History
By: Stephen Jay Gould
3.67
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
Over a century after Darwin published the Origin of Species, Darwinian theory is in a "vibrantly he… read more
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13. Ever Since Darwin: Reflections in Natural History
By: Stephen Jay Gould
3.92
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Ever Since Darwin, Stephen Jay Gould's first book, has sold more than a quarter of a million copies… read more
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14. Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
By: Richard Fortey
3.75
Format: None pages, Hardcover
'Dry Store Room No. 1' is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the ecce… read more
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15. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- science
"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
16. 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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- evolution
- palaeontology
- nonfiction
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17. 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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- history
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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
18. A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
By: Andrew H. Knoll
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering… read more
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- history
- science
- evolution
19. The Ministry for the Future
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
3.88
Format: 563 pages, Hardcover
Established in 2025, the purpose of the new organization was simple: To advocate for the world's fu… read more
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"What's the monetary value of human civilization? Trying to answer that question proves you are a moral and practical idiot."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change."-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"It was so hard to imagine that a mind could be gone. All those thoughts that you never tell anyone, all those dreams, all that entire pocket universe: gone. A character unlike any other character, a …"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
"Ideology, n. An imaginary relationship to a real situation. In common usage, what the other person has, especially when systematically distorting the facts. But it seems to us that an ideology is a n…"-Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future
20. Head On (Lock In, #2)
By: John Scalzi
4.01
Format: 335 pages, Hardcover
John Scalzi returns with Head On, the standalone follow-up to the New York Times bestselling and cr… read more
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21. 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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- evolution
- palaeontology
- nonfiction
- science
22. Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves
By: Michael J. Benton
4.08
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
A journey through the great mass extinction events that have shaped our Earth. This timely and orig… read more
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- nonfiction
- history
- science
23. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
By: Stanislas Dehaene
4.33
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
“There are words that are so familiar they obscure rather than illuminate the thing they mean, and … read more
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- science
"Yann LeCun's strategy provides a good example of a much more general notion: the exploitation of innate knowledge. Convolutional neural networks learn better and faster than other types of neural net…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
"Our brain is therefore not simply passively subjected to sensory inputs. From the get-go, it already possesses a set of abstract hypotheses, an accumulated wisdom that emerged through the sift of Dar…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
"The moral here is that nature and nurture should not be opposed. Pure learning, in the absence of any innate constraints, simply does not exist. Any learning algorithm contains, in one way or another…"-Stanislas Dehaene, How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
24. 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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- nonfiction
- history
- science
25. 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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- evolution
- palaeontology
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26. 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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- history
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27. A Sea without Fish: Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region (Life of the Past)
By: Richard Arnold Davis
4.09
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the world for the abundant and beautiful fo… read more
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28. Triassic Life on Land: The Great Transition (The Critical Moments and Perspectives in Earth History and Paleobiology)
By: Hans-Dieter Sues
4.17
Format: 236 pages, Hardcover
The Triassic period is generally viewed as the beginning of the Age of Dinosaurs. For paleontologis… read more
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29. Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World
By: George McGhee
4.31
Format: None pages, ebook
Picture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a car; tropical rainforests with t… read more
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30. When the Invasion of Land Failed: The Legacy of the Devonian Extinctions
By: George R. McGhee
4.17
Format: 447 pages, Kindle Edition
The invasion of land by ocean-dwelling plants and animals was one of the most revolutionary events … read more
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31. Earth before the Dinosaurs (Life of the Past)
By: Sébastien Steyer
4.06
Format: 200 pages, Paperback
This beautiful volume introduces the incredible animals that populated the planet before the Age of… read more
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