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British Palaeozoic Fossils by Natural History Museum 9780565093037
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.27The 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... -
Marvelous Microfossils: Creators, Timekeepers, Architects by Patrick De Wever 9781421436739
RRP: £51.50Booksplease Price: £46.06Training a powerful lens on the microscopic wonders of the universe, hundreds of photos, both exquisite and strange, accompany this startling expose of a secret world invisibly evolving around us for billions of years.Silver Winner of the 2021 IBPA... -
Impossible Monsters: Dinosaurs, Darwin and the War Between Science and Religion by Michael Taylor 9781847926791
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.77Impossible Monsters is the captivating story of the discovery of the dinosaurs and how it upended our understanding of the origins of the world.‘An astonishing book about an extraordinary subject' PETER FRANKOPAN'As thrilling as it is sweeping' TOM... -
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils by Dean R. Lomax 9780231197298
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.15Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures-how they reproduce and raise their young, how... -
The Origin of Our Species by Chris Stringer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21Chris Stringer's bestselling The Origin of our Species tackles the big questions in the ongoing debate about the beginnings of human life on earth. Do all humans originate from Africa? How did we spread across the globe? Are we separate from... -
Wonderful Life Stephen Jay Gould 9780099273455
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.56High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago. Called the Burgess Shale, it holds the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived - a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in incredible... -
The Holocene: An Environmental History Neil Roberts (University of Plymouth) 9781405155212
RRP: £37.95Booksplease Price: £33.50The Holocene provides students, researchers and lay-readers with the remarkable story of how the natural world has been transformed since the end of the last Ice Age around 15,000 years ago. This period has witnessed a shift from environmental changes... -
Life through the Ages II: Twenty-First Century Visions of Prehistory by Mark P. Witton
RRP: £21.99Booksplease Price: £21.94What was life like on our planet long before the early humans emerged?Paleontologist Dr. Mark P. Witton draws on the latest twenty-first century discoveries to re-create the appearances and lifestyles of extinct, fascinating species, the environments... -
T. rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez 9780691169668
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.73Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact,... -
The Skeleton Revealed: An Illustrated Tour of the Vertebrates by Steve Huskey 9781421421483
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £38.82The vertebrate skeleton is one of nature's most amazing feats. Composed of cartilage and bone, it forms the supportive structure for all the remaining aspects of our anatomy. Stripped of skin, we can see the body's fascinating underlying architecture. ... -
Fossils at a Glance by Clare Milsom 9781405193368
RRP: £38.95Booksplease Price: £34.46Fossils provide a powerful tool for the study of the nearly 4-billion-year history of life, and its role in the evolution of Earth systems. They also provide important data for evolutionary studies, and contribute to our understanding of the extinction... -
The History of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Michael J. Benton
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.87There 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... -
Europe: The First 100 Million Years by Tim Flannery
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.13'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... -
The Atlas of Early Modern Wildlife: Britain and Ireland between the Middle Ages and the Industrial Revolution by Lee Raye
RRP: £45.00Booksplease Price: £37.25What 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... -
Trilobite! by Richard A. Fortey
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.68'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:... -
Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain by Chris Stringer
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.21Chris Stringer's Homo Britannicus is the epic history of life in Britain, from man's very first footsteps through to the present day. When did the first people arrive here? What did they look like? How did they survive? Who were the Neanderthals? Chris... -
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils by Dean R. Lomax
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £16.25Fossils allow us to picture the forms of life that inhabited the earth eons ago. But we long to know more: how did these animals actually behave? We are fascinated by the daily lives of our fellow creatures-how they reproduce and raise their young, how... -
Species Coexistence: Ecological and Evolutionary Perspectives M. Tokeshi (Kyushu University, Fukuoka) 9780865427440
RRP: £130.95Booksplease Price: £114.21As a novel endeavour in ecological science, this book focuses on a major issue in organismal life on Earth:species coexistence. The book crosses the usual disciplinary boundaries between palaeobiology, ecology and evolutionary biology and provides a... -
Once and Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals by Sharon Levy
RRP: £21.49Booksplease Price: £15.35Until about 13,000 years ago, North America was home to a menagerie of massive mammals. Mammoths, camels, and lions walked the ground that has become Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles and foraged on the marsh land now buried beneath Chicago's streets... -
Life's Solution: Inevitable Humans in a Lonely Universe by Simon Conway Morris
Booksplease Price: £38.96The assassin's bullet misses, the Archduke's carriage moves forward, and a catastrophic war is avoided. So too with the history of life. Re-run the tape of life, as Stephen J. Gould claimed, and the outcome must be entirely different: an alien world,... -
The Princeton Field Guide to Prehistoric Mammals by Donald R. Prothero 9780691156828
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.28After 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... -
The Tyrannosaur Chronicles: The Biology of the Tyrant Dinosaurs David Hone 9781472911285
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.88'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... -
Human Devolution: A Vedic Alternative to Darwin's Theory by Michael A. Cremo 9780892133345
Booksplease Price: £36.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892133345Author Michael A. CremoFormat HardbackPage Count 554Imprint Bhaktivedanta Book TrustPublisher Bhaktivedanta Book TrustWeight(grams)... -
Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages by Douglas Macdougall
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.74In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from the earliest known glaciation - nearly three billion years ago - to the present. Following the... -
Dinosaur Tracks: The Next Steps by Daniel Marty
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £30.61The latest advances in dinosaur ichnology are showcased in this comprehensive and timely volume, in which leading researchers and research groups cover the most essential topics in the study of dinosaur tracks. Some assess and demonstrate... -
Introduction to the Study of Dinosaurs Anthony J. Martin (Emory University) 9781405134132
RRP: £59.95Booksplease Price: £53.10This highly accessible introduction to dinosaurs places scientific method at the crux of the studies, teaching students about scientific research and principles as they learn about dinosaurs. Now in its second edition, the text includes updates on recent... -
The Fossil Hunter: Dinosaurs, Evolution, and the Woman Whose Discoveries Changed the World by Shelley Emling 9780230103429
Booksplease Price: £13.98At a time when women were excluded from science, a young girl made a discovery that marked the birth of paleontology and continues to feed the debate about evolution to this day. Mary Anning was only twelve years old when, in 1811, she discovered the... -
The Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs: Second Edition by Gregory S. Paul 9780691167664
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £25.08The best-selling Princeton Field Guide to Dinosaurs remains the must-have book for anyone who loves dinosaurs, from amateur enthusiasts to professional paleontologists. Now extensively revised and expanded, this dazzlingly illustrated large-format... -
The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Sea Reptiles by Gregory S. Paul
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £20.19An 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... -
Paleoclimate by Michael L. Bender 9780691145556
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £24.33Earth's climate has undergone dramatic changes over the geologic timescale. At one extreme, Earth has been glaciated from the poles to the equator for periods that may have lasted millions of years. At another, temperatures were once so warm that the... -
Chocolate Wars: From Cadbury to Kraft: 200 years of Sweet Success and Bitter Rivalry by Deborah Cadbury
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.93The delicious true story of the early chocolate pioneers by the award-winning writer, and direct descendant of the famous chocolate dynasty, Deborah Cadbury In 'Chocolate Wars' bestselling historian and award-winning documentary maker Deborah... -
After the Dinosaurs: The Age of Mammals by Donald R. Prothero
RRP: £33.00Booksplease Price: £30.05Perhaps nudged over the evolutionary cliff by a giant boloid striking the earth, the incredible and fascinating group of animals called dinosaurs became extinct some 65 million years ago (except for their feathered descendants). In their place evolved an... -
Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human by Madelaine Boehme
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £9.72"Splendid and important... Scientifically rigorous and written with a clarity and candor that create a gripping tale... [Boehme's] account of the history of Europe's lost apes is imbued with the sweat, grime, and triumph that is the lot of the... -
Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils by Dale Greenwalt
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.50The 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... -
Paleoclimate and Evolution, with Emphasis on Human Origins by Elisabeth S. Vrba 9780300063486
Booksplease Price: £99.23This book focuses on how climatic change during the last fifteen million years-especially the last three million-has affected human evolution and other evolutionary events. Leading evolutionists and physical geologists from all over the world-authorities... -
The Top 256 Rules of Paleontology: ...Practical Advice for Fossil Technicians by Walter W Stein 9780971620612
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971620612Author Walter W SteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Dragons Claw PressPublisher Dragons Claw PressWeight(grams) 331gDimensions(mm) 229mm... -
Dinosaurs: A Very Short Introduction by David Norman
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.87Dinosaurs are fascinating creatures and their popularity seems never ending, fuelled by films such as Jurassic Park and documentaries such as Walking with Dinosaurs. Yet dinosaurs (or more precisely non-avian dinosaurs) last trod the Earth 65 million... -
Hands-on Palaeontology: a practical manual by Stephen K. Donovan
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £22.59A comprehensible reference manual for palaeontologists on many aspects of their science. Topics discussed range from the esoteric, such as palaeoecology and preservation, to the practical, such as the storing of specimens and photography.Book... -
Dinosaurs and the Expanding Earth by Stephen William Hurrell 9780952260370
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £17.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952260370Author Stephen William HurrellFormat HardbackPage Count 218Imprint One-off PublishingPublisher One-off PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Deep Time: A journey through 4.5 billion years of our planet Riley Black 9781787397439
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.10Deep time is the timescale of the geological events that have shaped our planet. Whilst so immense as to challenge human understanding, its evidence is nonetheless visible all around us. Through explanations of the latest research and over 200...