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The Lost Tomb: And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder by Douglas Preston 9781538741221
RRP: $51.46$28.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538741221Author Douglas PrestonFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)... -
Essential Ornithology by Graham Scott
RRP: $72.88$68.51Essential Ornithology provides the reader with a concise but comprehensive introduction to the biology of birds, one of the most widely studied taxonomic groups. The book begins by considering the dinosaur origins of birds and their subsequent evolution... -
Ancient Bones: Unearthing the Astonishing New Story of How We Became Human by Madelaine Boehme
RRP: $24.00$15.88"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... -
Vanished Ocean: How Tethys Reshaped the World by Dorrik Stow
RRP: $18.85$13.33This is a book about an ocean that vanished six million years ago - the ocean of Tethys. Named after a Greek sea nymph, there is a sense of mystery about such a vast, ancient ocean, of which all that remains now are a few little pools, like the Caspian... -
End of the Megafauna: The Fate of the World's Hugest, Fiercest, and Strangest Animals by Ross D E MacPhee 9780393249293
RRP: $48.01$44.70Until a few thousand years ago, creatures-"megafauna"-that could have been from a sci-fi thriller roamed the earth. With a handful of exceptions, all are now gone. Ross MacPhee explores the question of what caused the disappearance of these prehistoric... -
Once and Future Giants: What Ice Age Extinctions Tell Us About the Fate of Earth's Largest Animals by Sharon Levy
RRP: $34.29$26.12Until 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... -
The Holocene: An Environmental History by Neil Roberts
RRP: $65.10$57.91The 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... -
Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World by Professor Martin J. S. Rudwick 9780226731056
RRP: $48.03$47.67How did the earth look in prehistoric times? Scientists and artists collaborated during the years prior to the publication of Darwin's "Origin of Species" to produce the first images of dinosaurs and the world they inhabited. Their interpretations,... -
The Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep Time by Lance Grande
RRP: $68.61$60.36The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain desert community. But during the early Eocene, more than... -
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition by Andrew H. Knoll 9780691165530
RRP: $29.14$20.29Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly... -
Hands-on Palaeontology: a practical manual by Stephen K. Donovan
RRP: $42.87$35.49A 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... -
Crinoids: Fossil Focus Guide by Mark Woods 9780852723302
$3.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780852723302Author Mark WoodsImprint British Geological SurveyPublisher British Geological Survey -
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution by Elsa Panciroli
RRP: $34.31$31.20For 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,... -
The Trilobite Book: A Visual Journey by Riccardo Levi-Setti
RRP: $68.61$67.87Distant relatives of modern lobsters, horseshoe crabs, and spiders, trilobites swam the planet's prehistoric seas for 300 million years, from the Lower Cambrian to the end of the Permian eras-and they did so very capably. Trilobite fossils have been... -
Tropical Arctic: Lost Plants, Future Climates, and the Discovery of Ancient Greenland by Jennifer McElwain
RRP: $46.31$39.25While today's Greenland is largely covered in ice, in the time of the dinosaurs the area was a lushly forested, tropical zone. Tropical Arctic tracks a ten-million-year window of Earth's history when global temperatures soared and the vegetation of the... -
Extinction: How Life on Earth Nearly Ended 250 Million Years Ago - Updated Edition by Douglas H. Erwin 9780691165653
RRP: $29.14$23.23Some 250 million years ago, the earth suffered the greatest biological crisis in its history. Around 95 percent of all living species died out--a global catastrophe far greater than the dinosaurs' demise 185 million years later. How this happened remains... -
Our Oldest Companions: The Story of the First Dogs by Pat Shipman
RRP: $37.65$29.59How did the dog become man's best friend? A celebrated anthropologist unearths the mysterious origins of the unique partnership that rewrote the history of both species.Dogs and humans have been inseparable for more than 40,000 years. The relationship... -
The Bone Hunters: Heroic Age of Palaeontology in the American West by H. J. Ford 9780486269177
RRP: $21.42$14.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486269177Author H. J. FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 280gDimensions(mm)... -
Sabertooth by Mauricio Anton
RRP: $77.19$67.70With their spectacularly enlarged canines, sabertooth cats are among the most popular of prehistoric animals, yet it is surprising how little information about them is available for the curious layperson. What's more, there were other sabertooths that... -
The Talking Ape: How Language Evolved by Robbins Burling
$24.61In this mind-opening book, Robbins Burling presents the most convincing - and the most readable - account of the origins of language yet published. He sheds new light on how language affects the way we think, behave, and relate to each other, and he... -
The Palaeontological Association Field Guide to Fossils: Fossils of the Rhaetian Penarth Group by Andrew Swift 9780901702654
RRP: $30.79$27.48The Rhaetian Penarth Group includes the former Westbury Beds, Cotham Beds, and White Lias. It crops out in a narrow strip from the Devon and Dorset coast to the mouth of the Tees, and is particularly well known from the exposures along the Bristol... -
Avian Evolution: The Fossil Record of Birds and its Paleobiological Significance by Gerald Mayr
RRP: $121.70$105.65Knowledge of the evolutionary history of birds has much improved in recent decades. Fossils from critical time periods are being described at unprecedented rates and modern phylogenetic analyses have provided a framework for the interrelationships of the... -
Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs by Kenneth Carpenter
RRP: $77.19$67.70Horns and Beaks completes Ken Carpenter's series on the major dinosaur types. As with his volumes on armored, carnivorous, and sauropodomorph dinosaurs, this book collects original and new information, reflecting the latest discoveries and research on... -
Carboniferous Giants and Mass Extinction: The Late Paleozoic Ice Age World by George McGhee
RRP: $77.19$59.47Picture a world of dog-sized scorpions and millipedes as long as a car; tropical rainforests with trees towering over 150 feet into the sky and a giant polar continent five times larger than Antarctica. That world was not imaginary; it was the earth more... -
Why Dinosaurs Matter by Kenneth Lacovara 9781471164439
RRP: $15.42$9.98What can long-dead dinosaurs teach us about our future? Plenty, according to world-renowned paleontologist and recent star of BBC show The Day the Dinosaurs Died Dr Kenneth Lacovara, who has discovered some of the largest creatures to ever walk the... -
Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew by John Pickrell 9780231180986
RRP: $42.88$31.89From the outback of Australia to the Gobi Desert of Mongolia and the savanna of Madagascar, the award-winning science writer and dinosaur enthusiast John Pickrell embarks on a world tour of new finds, meeting the fossil hunters who work at the frontier... -
Dinosaur Facts and Figures: The Theropods and Other Dinosauriformes by Ruben Molina-Perez 9780691180311
RRP: $42.88$39.13An illustrated record book of theropod facts and figures-from the biggest to the fastest to the smartestThe theropod dinosaurs ruled the planet for millions of years, with species ranging from the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex to feathered raptors no bigger... -
Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The causes of mass extinctions by Tony Hallam
RRP: $17.14$15.44This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth. The most famous is the mass extinction that happened about 65 million years ago, and... -
The Smart Neanderthal: Bird catching, Cave Art, and the Cognitive Revolution by Clive Finlayson 9780198797524
RRP: $36.86$26.88Since 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 Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China: The Flowering of Early Animal Life by Xian-Guang Hou 9781118896389
RRP: $159.44$141.27The celebrated lower Cambrian Chengjiang biota of Yunnan Province, China, represents one of the most significant ever paleontological discoveries. Deposits of ancient mudstone, about 520 million years old, have yielded a spectacular variety of... -
Deep Time: An Illustrated Exploration of 4.5 Billion Years of Time Through Artefacts, Places and Phenomena by Riley Black
RRP: $42.88$30.84Deep 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... -
Across the Bridge: Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates by Henry Gee
RRP: $41.17$39.50Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques allow genetic inspection of even nonmodel organisms. But... -
The Dinosaur Artist: obsession, betrayal, and the quest for Earth's ultimate trophy by Paige Williams 9781911617907
RRP: $25.71$17.50New Yorker magazine staff writer Paige Williams delves into the surprisingly perilous world of fossil collectors in this riveting true tale. In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: 'a superb Tyrannosaurus skeleton'. In fact,... -
On the Prowl: In Search of Big Cat Origins by Mark Hallett
RRP: $51.46$39.83Big cats such as lions, tigers, leopards, and jaguars fascinate us like few other creatures. They are enduring symbols of natural majesty and power. Yet despite the magnetic appeal of the big cats, their origins and evolutionary history remain poorly... -
The Dinosauria, Second Edition by David B. Weishampel 9780520254084
RRP: $84.05$68.70When "The Dinosauria" was first published more than a decade ago, it was hailed as 'the best scholarly reference work available on dinosaurs' and 'an historically unparalleled compendium of information.' This second, fully revised edition continues in... -
The Star-crossed Stone: The Secret Life, Myths, and History of a Fascinating Fossil by Kenneth J. McNamara 9780226514697
$53.86Throughout the four hundred thousand years that humanity has been collecting fossils, sea urchin fossils - or echinoids - have continually been among the most prized, from the Paleolithic era, when they decorated flint axes, to today, when... -
Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary by Raymond S. Bradley 9780123869135
RRP: $121.77$115.70Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary, Third Edition-winner of a 2015 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from The Text and Academic Authors Association-provides a thorough overview of the methods of paleoclimatic reconstruction and... -
Fundamentals of Geobiology by Andrew H. Knoll 9781405187527
RRP: $89.11$79.182012 PROSE Award, Earth Science: Honorable Mention For more than fifty years scientists have been concerned with the interrelationships of Earth and life. Over the past decade, however, geobiology, the name given to this interdisciplinary endeavour, has... -
The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of Proconsul by A. Walker 9780674016750
RRP: $61.67$48.73This book offers a unique insider's perspective on the unfolding discovery of a crucial link in our evolution: Proconsul, a fossil ape named whimsically after a performing chimpanzee called Consul. The Ape in the Tree is written in the voice of Alan... -
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America by Craig Childs
RRP: $25.71$18.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345806314Author Craig ChildsFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc