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Otherlands: A World in the Making - A Sunday Times bestseller by Dr Thomas Halliday
RRP: €13.08€9.25FOYLES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERTHE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDEDLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONA BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, PROSPECT, THE... -
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: The Untold Story of a Lost World by Steve Brusatte
RRP: €14.27€9.70The Times Science Book of the Year.A Sunday Times Bestseller.66 million years ago the dinosaurs were wiped from the face of the earth. Today, Dr. Steve Brusatte, one of the leading scientists of a new generation of dinosaur hunters, armed with cutting... -
Encyclopedia Of Dinosaurs: The ultimate reference to 355 dinosaurs from the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, including more than 900 illustrations, maps, timelines and photographs by Dougal Dixon 9781782143604
RRP: €17.85€14.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782143604Author Dougal DixonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Hermes HousePublisher Anness Publishing -
Fossils & Fossil Collecting, The Illustrated Guide to: A reference guide to over 375 plant and animal fossils from around the globe and how to identify them, with over 950 photographs and artworks by Steve Parker
RRP: €17.85€14.23Fossils offer an unparalleled insight into the amazing history of our planet. This practical volume explains the best ways to hunt fossils from plants, invertebrate and vertebrate animals, including how to plan a field trip and present your finds. A... -
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes
RRP: €14.27€8.47** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 ** 'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox 'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval... -
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution by Elsa Panciroli 9781472983985
RRP: €15.46€11.35For most of us, the story of mammal evolution starts after the asteroid impact that killed the dinosaurs, but over the last 20 years scientists have uncovered new fossils and used new technologies that have upended this story. In Beasts Before Us,... -
Scars of Eden, The: Has humanity confused the idea of God with memories of ET contact? by Paul Wallis
RRP: €13.08€11.15From the author of the bestselling ESCAPING FROM EDEN. Do our world mythologies convey our ancestors' ideas about God? Or are they in reality ancestral memories of extra-terrestrial contact? How do ancient stories of contact, adaptation and abduction... -
First Steps: How Walking Upright Made Us Human by Jeremy DeSilva 9780008342876
RRP: €13.08€8.63Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from... -
Life: an Unauthorized Biography by Richard A. Fortey
RRP: €15.46€10.09A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science writers. What do any of us know about the history of our planet before the arrival... -
Paleontology: An Illustrated History by David Bainbridge
RRP: €29.75€24.01An illustrated look at the art and science of paleontology from its origins to todayHumans have been stumbling upon the petrified remains of ancient animals since prehistoric times, leading to tales of giant dogs, deadly dragons, tree gods, sea serpents,... -
Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual Guide to Prehistoric Animals by DK
RRP: €35.70€27.79Dive into an unprecedented survey of millions of years of life on planet Earth. Dinosaurs and Prehistoric Life is a beautifully crafted encyclopedia of prehistoric species that the whole family can enjoy. Featuring an incredible mix of 3D... -
The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife: Britain and Ireland between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution by Lee Raye
RRP: €53.55€43.73What was the state of wildlife in Britain and Ireland before modern records began? The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife looks at the era before climate change, before the intensification of agriculture, before even the Industrial Revolution. In the... -
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us by Steve Brusatte
RRP: €13.08€8.47'Steve Brusatte, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, brings mammals out from the shadow of their more showy predecessors in a beautifully written book that . . . makes the case for them as creatures who are just as engaging as dinosaurs.' -... -
The Little Book of Palaeontology: The Pocket Guide to Our Fossilized Past by Rasha Barrage 9781837990139
RRP: €8.32€5.95If you want to know your ichthyosaur from your iguanodon, and your belemnites from your brachiopods, strap in for this whirlwind tour of the highlights of palaeontology Life as we know it now has a long history, buried beneath the ground. Palaeontology... -
Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology by Donald R. Prothero 9780231158930
RRP: €109.48€85.89One of the leading textbooks in its field, Bringing Fossils to Life applies paleobiological principles to the fossil record while detailing the evolutionary history of major plant and animal phyla. It incorporates current research from biology, ecology,... -
Turtles as Hopeful Monsters: Origins and Evolution by Olivier Rieppel
RRP: €47.60€41.32Where do turtles hail from? Why and how did they acquire shells? These questions have spurred heated debate and intense research for more than two hundred years. Brilliantly weaving evidence from the latest paleontological discoveries with an accessible,... -
The Story of the Human Body: Evolution, Health and Disease by Daniel Lieberman
RRP: €15.46€10.82In The Story of the Human Body, Daniel Lieberman, Professor of human evolutionary biology at Harvard, shows how we need to change our world to fit our hunter-gatherer bodiesThis ground-breaking book of popular science explores how the way we use our... -
Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
RRP: €13.08€9.25'Vivid, thrilling, a delight ... Tim Flannery is a palaeontologist and ecologist of global standing, and this is a compelling and authoritative narrative of the evolution of Europe's flora and fauna, from the formation of the continent to its near... -
Trilobite! by Richard A. Fortey
RRP: €13.08€8.63'In Richard Fortey's capable hands the humble grey trilobite has been transformed into the E.T. of the Lower Palaeozoic - a remarkable and fascinating book.' SIMON WINCHESTER Richard Fortey is one of Britain's leading popular scientists. Life:... -
The Walking Whales: From Land to Water in Eight Million Years by J. G. M. 'Hans' Thewissen 9780520305601
RRP: €29.75€23.30Hans Thewissen, a leading researcher in the field of whale paleontology and anatomy, gives a sweeping first-person account of the discoveries that brought to light the early fossil record of whales. As evidenced in the record, whales evolved from... -
The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles by Gregory S. Paul
RRP: €35.70€25.45An authoritative illustrated guide to the mighty reptiles that dominated the seas of the Mesozoic for 185 million yearsNew discoveries are revealing that many ancient oceangoing reptiles were energetic animals capable of inhabiting an array of watery... -
The Smart Neanderthal: Bird catching, Cave Art, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson
RRP: €16.65€11.60Since the late 1980s the dominant theory of human origins has been that a 'cognitive revolution' (C.50,000 years ago) led to the advent of our species, Homo sapiens. As a result of this revolution our species spread and eventually replaced all existing... -
The Earth: An Intimate History by Richard A. Fortey
RRP: €17.84€11.54The paperback of the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals how the earth became the shape it is today. This book will change the way you see the world - permanently. The face of the earth, criss-crossed by chains of mountains like the scars of... -
Who Ate the First Oyster?: The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History by Cody Cassidy
RRP: €15.46€10.23Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing... -
The Princeton Field Guide to Pterosaurs by Gregory S. Paul
RRP: €29.75€24.01The most up-to-date and authoritative illustrated guide to the marvelous flying reptiles that dominated the skies of the Mesozoic for 160 million yearsOnce seen by some as evolutionary dead-enders, pterosaurs were vigorous winged reptiles capable of... -
Leviathan by Philip Hoare
RRP: €17.84€11.54The story of a man's obsession with whales, which takes him on a personal, historical and biographical journey - from his childhood to his fascination with Moby-Dick and his excursions whale-watching. All his life, Philip Hoare has been... -
British Palaeozoic Fossils by Natural History Museum 9780565093037
RRP: €17.84€11.66The opening of the Palaeozoic era, some 540 million years ago, coincides with a remarkable burst of evolutionary activity. In British Paleozoic Fossils 443 species from this time, and the following 300 million years, are described and classified and... -
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs by David Hone
RRP: €14.27€10.03'Gripping and wonderfully informative' Tom Holland, New Statesman Adored by children and adults alike, Tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur in the world, one that pops up again and again in pop culture, often battling other beasts such as King... -
The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet by Anthony J. Martin 9781681776569
RRP: €34.45€28.18Humans have "gone underground" for survival for thousands of years, from underground cities in Turkey to Cold War-era bunkers. But our burrowing roots go back to the very beginnings of animal life on earth. Without burrowing, the planet would be very... -
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals by Steve Brusatte
RRP: €23.80€16.91'Steve Brusatte, the author of The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs, brings mammals out from the shadow of their more showy predecessors in a beautifully written book that . . . makes the case for them as creatures who are just as engaging as dinosaurs.' -... -
Almost Human by Lee Berger
RRP: €26.17€20.49In 2013, Lee Berger, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, caught wind of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators--men and women small and adventurous enough... -
The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals by Donald R. Prothero 9780691156828
RRP: €35.70€28.35After the mass extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago, mammals became the dominant terrestrial life form on our planet. Roaming the earth were spectacular beasts such as saber-toothed cats, giant mastodonts, immense ground sloths, and gigantic... -
Dinosaur Art: The World's Greatest Paleoart by Steve White
RRP: €29.74€22.86A paleoartist is an illustrator who specialises in the science and art of reconstructing ancient animals and their world. In Dinosaur Art, ten of the top contemporary paleoartists reveal a selection of their work and exclusively discuss their working... -
The History of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Michael J. Benton
RRP: €10.70€7.68There are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. This Very Short Introduction presents a succinct guide to the key episodes in that story - from the very origins of life four million years ago to the extraordinary diversity of... -
Cro-Magnon: The Story of the Last Ice Age People of Europe by Trenton W. Holliday 9780231204972
RRP: €29.75€22.82During the Last Ice Age, Europe was a cold, dry place teeming with mammoths, woolly rhinoceroses, reindeer, bison, cave bears, cave hyenas, and cave lions. It was also the home of people physically indistinguishable from humans today, commonly known as... -
The Dinosaur Hunters: The Extraordinary Story of the Discovery of Prehistoric Life by Lowell Dingus
RRP: €23.80€16.36Dinosaur bones had been found centuries before scientists understood what they were and what creatures they came from; ancient Chinese writings spoke of 'dragon' bones, and large fossils discovered in the UK were thought to belong to human giants. It was... -
Mesozoic Art: Dinosaurs and Other Ancient Animals in Art by Steve White
RRP: €35.70€24.72Showcases the work of twenty leading paleoartists who expertly bring these extinct animals to life in exquisite detail. Dinosaurs are endlessly fascinating to people of every age, from the youngest child who enjoys learning the tongue-twisting names... -
Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils by Dale Greenwalt
RRP: €26.18€20.22The revolution in science that is transforming our understanding of extinct lifeWe used to think of fossils as being composed of nothing but rock and minerals, all molecular traces of life having vanished long ago. We were wrong. Remnants of Ancient Life... -
British Mesozoic Fossils by Natural History Museum
RRP: €17.84€11.66The Mesozoic era ranged from 240 million to 65 million years ago. In British Mesozoic Fossils 365 species from this period are classified and illustrated with accurate line drawings. This new edition has been fully revised and updated by Dr Andrew Smith,... -
Discover Dorset Fossils by Richard Edmonds 9781874336655
RRP: €7.08€6.41Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781874336655Author Richard EdmondsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint The Dovecote PressPublisher The Dovecote PressDimensions(mm) 200mm * 134mm * 6mm