Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals of Big Bend (The Corrie Herring Hooks)
By: Cindi Sirois Collins
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A time-traveling field guide to the ancient version of Big Bend National Park. The sheer beauty of…
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1. Dinotopia: The World Beneath
By: James Gurney
4.29
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
After they are shipwrecked on a mysterious island called Dinotopia, Professor Arthur Denison and hi… read more
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"The only thing that will be born here will be scientific understanding. And the only thing that will die will be myth and superstition."-James Gurney, Dinotopia: The World Beneath
2. Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
By: James Gurney
4.28
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
In the year 1860, biologist and explorer Arthur Denison and his son, Will, set out on a sea voyage … read more
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"I can't imagine,' I said one afternoon after a long silence, 'how it would be possible for such a small island to support enough artists and stonecutters to build all these wonders. And I can't imagi…"-James Gurney, Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
"You of the west,' Malik said, 'think of time moving in a straight line, from past to present to future. You eastern brothers regard time as a circle, returning endlessly in a cycle of decay and rebir…"-James Gurney, Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
"Time for Kentrosaurus to hatch. Time to plant the millet. Time for the magnolia buds to open. Professor Denison, I'm afraid you persist in thinking of time as numbers. You think of meaningless units …"-James Gurney, Dinotopia: A Land Apart from Time
3. The Sting of the Wild
By: Justin O. Schmidt
4.07
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
Entomologist Justin O. Schmidt is on a mission. Some say it's a brave exploration, others shake the… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
4. 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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- nonfiction
- science
5. Dinotopia: Journey to Chandara
By: James Gurney
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
Critics have gushed over Gurney's phantasmagorical creation, likening him to such venerated literar… read more
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6. Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds
By: John Pickrell
3.88
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
Dinosaurs didn't die out when an asteroid hit Earth 66 million years ago. Get ready to unthink what… read more
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7. The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
By: J.R.R. Tolkien
4.36
Format: 524 pages, Paperback
A fantastic starter set for new Tolkien fans or readers interested in rediscovering the magic of Mi… read more
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8. A Walk in the Woods
By: Bill Bryson
3.20
Format: 160 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Subtitle: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail stretches from Geor… read more
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9. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
By: Merlin Sheldrake
4.35
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
There is a lifeform so strange and wondrous that it forces us to rethink how life works…Neither pla… read more
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- science
"I have tried to find ways to enjoy the ambiguities that fungi present, but it's not always easy to be comfortable in the space created by open questions. Agoraphobia can set in. It's tempting to hide…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Anthropomorphism is usually thought of as an illusion that arises like a blister in soft human minds: untrained, undisciplined, unhardened. There are good reasons for this: when we humanise the world…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
"Fungi make worlds. They also unmake them. There are lots of ways to catch them in the act. When you cook mushroom soup, or just eat it. When you go out gathering mushrooms, or buy them. When you ferm…"-Merlin Sheldrake, Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures
10. 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
11. From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
By: Caitlin Doughty
4.30
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times and Los Angeles Times Bestseller “Doughty chronicles [death] practices with ten… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"My next drone folk album will be called "The Cremation Reforms of Octavius B. Frothingham"."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"What dignity translates to, more often than not, is silence, a forced poise, a rigid formality."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"All that surrounds us comes from death, every part of every city, and every part of every person."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
"In death, corpses don't hold themselves together. They no longer have to play by the living's rules."-Caitlin Doughty, From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
12. Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
By: Adrian Tchaikovsky
4.02
Format: 486 pages, Kindle Edition
The modern classic of space opera that began with Children of Time continues in this extraordinary … read more
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"The essential fallacy,' Ghoti picks up, 'is that humans and other biologically evolved, calculating engines feel themselves to be sentient, when sufficient investigation suggests this is not so. And …"-Adrian Tchaikovsky, Children of Memory (Children of Time, #3)
13. Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
By: Suzanne Simard
4.22
Format: 348 pages, Hardcover
From the world's leading forest ecologist who forever changed how people view trees and their conne… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Plants are attuned to one another's strengths and weaknesses, elegantly giving and taking to attain exquisite balance. There is grace in complexity, in actions cohering, in sum totals."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"Such a marvel, the tenacity of the buds to surge with life every spring, to greet the lengthening days and warming weather with exuberance, no matter what hardships were brought by winter."-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"This Mother Tree was the central hub that the saplings and seedlings nested around, with threads of different fungal species, of different colors and weights, linking them, layer upon layer, in a str…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
"I was lucky to become one of the first in the new generation of women in the logging industry, but what I found was not what I had grown up to understand. Instead I discovered vast landscapes cleared…"-Suzanne Simard, Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest
14. 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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- science
"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
15. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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- nonfiction
16. Flights of Fancy: Defying Gravity by Design and Evolution
By: Richard Dawkins
4.13
Format: 282 pages, Kindle Edition
Richard Dawkins on how nature and humans have learned to overcome the pull of gravity and take to t… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
17. Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
By: Gloria Dickie
4.25
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year An Economist Best Book of 2023 A Scientific American Best… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
"Whenever people had asked me which bear was my favorite, I had dithered and hedged. "I like them all equally," I would say, diplomatically. Sun bears were cute with lolling tongues. Grizzlies were em…"-Gloria Dickie, Eight Bears: Mythic Past and Imperiled Future
18. 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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- nonfiction
- science
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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- science
20. 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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21. 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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- nonfiction
- science
22. Mushrooming: An Illustrated Guide to the Fantastic, Delicious, Deadly, and Strange World of Fungi
By: Diane Borsato
4.36
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
“A merry, idiosyncratic guide, charmingly illustrated.”—Eugenia Bone, The Wall Street Journal An… read more
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- science
23. Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils
By: Dale E. Greenwalt
4.10
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct life We used to thin… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
24. Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record
By: Michael J. Benton
4.26
Format: 592 pages, Paperback
This book presents a comprehensive overview of the science of the history of life. Paleobiologists … read more
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- nonfiction
- science
25. 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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- nonfiction
- science
26. Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America's Main Street
By: Rick Antonson
3.74
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
“You’ll never understand America until you’ve driven Route 66—that’s old Route 66—all the way,” a t… read more
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- nonfiction
27. The Desert Bones: The Paleontology and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa (Life of the Past)
By: Jamale Ijouiher
4.20
Format: 326 pages, Hardcover
An essential introduction to the age of dinosaurs in Africa. Once Africa was referred to as the ''L… read more
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28. My Life with Sea Turtles: A Marine Biologist’s Quest to Protect One of the Most Ancient Animals on Earth
By: Christine Figgener
4.39
Format: 280 pages, Hardcover
“A wonderful book that will appeal to anyone interested in the world around us.”—DR. JANE GOODALL … read more
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- science
"Optimismus ist eine Entscheidung. Mich selbst würde ich als kritisch-optimistisch bezeichnen: Ich glaube fest daran, dass es in Zukunft besser werden kann – ansonsten könnte ich mir gleich die Kugel …"-Christine Figgener, My Life with Sea Turtles: A Marine Biologist’s Quest to Protect One of the Most Ancient Animals on Earth
29. Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals of Big Bend (The Corrie Herring Hooks)
By: Cindi Sirois Collins
4.27
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A time-traveling field guide to the ancient version of Big Bend National Park. The sheer beauty of… read more
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- nonfiction
- science
30. The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs (Princeton Field Guides Book 155)
By: Gregory S. Paul
4.22
Format: 184 pages, Kindle Edition
The most up-to-date and authoritative illustrated guide to the marvelous flying reptiles that domin… read more
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- science
31. Ocean Life in the Time of Dinosaurs
By: Nathalie Bardet
4.33
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
A richly illustrated introduction to the spectacular reptiles that swam the oceans when dinosaurs r… read more
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