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The Meaning of Fossils: Episodes in the History of Palaeontology by Martin J.S. Rudwi 9780226731032
RRP: £33.00£32.05"It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person's view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick's book should do for many paleontologists' view of the history of their own field."-Stephen J. Gould, Paleobotany and Palynology"Rudwick has... -
The New Dinosaurs by William Stout 9780743407243
£21.32A FANTASTIC NEW VIEW OF A LOST ERA. Here are dinosaurs as you've never seen them before in a dramatically expanded new edition of the book that started the renaissance in dinosaur books. Here are dinosaurs that are swift, stunning, scary and stupendous,... -
Vertebrate Paleobiology: A Form and Function Approach Sergio F. Vizcaíno 9780253070470
RRP: £83.00£69.92An essential introduction to the paleobiology of animal body size, locomotion, and feeding.Paleobiology is the branch of evolutionary biology involved in the reconstruction of the life histories of extinct organisms. It answers the questions, How do we... -
The Desert Bones: The Paleontology and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa by Jamale Ijouiher 9780253063311
RRP: £54.00£46.79An essential introduction to the age of dinosaurs in Africa.Once Africa was referred to as the ''Lost World of the dinosaur era,'' so poorly known were its ancient flora and fauna. Worse still, many priceless fossil specimens from the Sahara Desert were... -
Weird Dinosaurs: The Strange New Fossils Challenging Everything We Thought We Knew by John Pickrell 9780231180986
RRP: £25.00£17.47From 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... -
Dinosaurs 101: What Everyone Should Know about Dinosaur Anatomy, Ecology, Evolution, and More by Philip J Currie 9780998289342
RRP: £10.90£9.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998289342Author Philip J CurrieFormat PaperbackPage Count 190Imprint Van Rye Publishing, LLCPublisher Van Rye Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 227g -
Oceans of Kansas, Second Edition: A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea by Michael J. Everhart
RRP: £39.00£33.71Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs... -
Cetacean Paleobiology Felix G. Marx (University of Otago) 9781118561539
RRP: £46.95£41.34Cetaceans (whales, dolphins, and porpoises) have fascinated and bewildered humans throughout history. Their mammalian affinities have been long recognized, but exactly which group of terrestrial mammals they descend from has, until recently, remained in... -
Cambrian Ocean World: Ancient Sea Life of North America by John Foster 9780253011824
RRP: £54.00£47.79This volume, aimed at the general reader, presents life and times of the amazing animals that inhabited Earth more than 500 million years ago. The Cambrian Period was a critical time in Earth's history. During this immense span of time nearly every... -
The Worst of Times: How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions by Paul B. Wignall
RRP: £16.99£13.65Two hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on... -
The Complete Dinosaur by Michael K. Brett-Surman 9780253357014
RRP: £70.00£51.37Praise for the first edition:"A gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts" -Science "The amount of information in [these] pages is amazing. This book should be on the shelves of dinosaur freaks as well as those who need to know more about the paleobiology of... -
Dynamics of Dinosaurs: and other Extinct Giants by R.McNeill Alexander 9780231066679
RRP: £35.00£27.74How did the larger dinosaurs run? How and why did they fight? The author applies laws of physics, mechanical engineering and aerodynamics to answer these and other questions.How did the larger dinosaurs run? How and why did they fight? The author applies... -
Scenes from Deep Time: Early Pictorial Representations of the Prehistoric World by Professor Martin J. S. Rudwick 9780226731056
RRP: £28.00£27.79How 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,... -
Microfossils Howard Armstrong (University of Durham) 9780632052790
RRP: £59.95£52.31This is a new and completely rewritten edition of the well-known text Microfossils (first published in 1980) covering all the major microfossil groups, with information on taxonomy, phylogeny, ecology and palaeoecology. particular attention is given to... -
Atlas of Taphonomic Identifications: 1001+ Images of Fossil and Recent Mammal Bone Modification by Yolanda Fernandez-Jalvo 9789401774307
RRP: £99.99£89.01The aim of the atlas is to provide images of taphonomic modifications, making it as comprehensive as possible with evidence presently available. This volume is intended both as a field guide for identifying taphonomic modifications in the field, and for... -
Fossil Identification Field Guide by Patrick Nurre 9780998283258
£13.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998283258Author Patrick NurreFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Northwest TreasuresPublisher Northwest TreasuresWeight(grams) 263g -
Fossils: The Story of Life by Sue Rigby 9780852722848
RRP: £6.50£6.02This book focuses on British fossils and the story of life on our islands, including details of the great fossil collections of Britain.Book InformationISBN 9780852722848Author Sue RigbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint British Geological... -
Visions of a Vanished World: The Extraordinary Fossils of the Hunsruck Slate by Gabriele Kuhl
RRP: £40.00£38.95A spectacular collectible volume, with masterful photographs and expert commentary on some of the world's most striking fossils About four hundred million years ago earthquake activity and possibly major storms caused sudden movements of large quantities... -
Magnificent Mihirungs: The Colossal Flightless Birds of the Australian Dreamtime by Peter Murray
RRP: £39.00£35.12Over millions of years, Australia's unique biodiversity has produced a large cabinet of curiosities. Among the weirder members of this group were the Mihirungs, members of the now extinct family Dromornithidae. Made up of several genera of flightless... -
African Dinosaurs Unearthed: The Tendaguru Expeditions by Gerhard Maier
RRP: £39.00£34.52From 1907 to 1931 at Tendaguru, a remote site in present-day Tanzania, teams of German (and later British) paleontologists unearthed 220 tons of fossils, including the bones of a new dinosaur, one of the largest then known. For decades the mounted... -
Twilight of the Mammoths: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America by Paul S. Martin 9780520252431
RRP: £25.00£19.59As recently as 11,000 years ago - 'near time' to geologists - mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of... -
Dinosaur Odyssey: Fossil Threads in the Web of Life by Scott D. Sampson 9780520269897
RRP: £30.00£23.69This captivating book, laced with evocative anecdotes from the field, gives the first holistic, up-to-date overview of dinosaurs and their world for a wide audience of readers. Situating these fascinating animals in a broad ecological and evolutionary... -
The Trilobite Book: A Visual Journey by Riccardo Levi-Setti
£49.18Distant 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... -
An Introduction to the Earth-Life System by Charles S. Cockell
RRP: £58.99£52.44This concise undergraduate textbook brings together Earth and biological sciences to explore the co-evolution of the Earth and life over geological time. Written for a one-semester course, it explores the Earth system at and above the surface of the... -
Tyrannosaurid Paleobiology by J. Michael Parrish
RRP: £50.00£43.81The opening of an exhibit focused on "Jane," a beautifully preserved tyrannosaur collected by the Burpee Museum of Natural History, was the occasion for an international symposium on tyrannosaur paleobiology. This volume, drawn from the symposium,... -
Life Sculpted: Tales of the Animals, Plants, and Fungi That Drill, Break, and Scrape to Shape the Earth by Anthony J. Martin
RRP: £22.00£18.96"There is much to love between this book's covers. . . . There are many eureka moments in Life Sculpted-and some truly beautiful ones."-Eugenia Bone, Wall Street Journal Meet the menagerie of lifeforms that dig, crunch, bore, and otherwise reshape our... -
Lucy's Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins by Dr Donald Johanson 9780307396402
RRP: £14.99£9.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307396402Author Dr. Donald JohansonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Three Rivers PressPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 289gDimensions(mm)... -
Rereading the Fossil Record: The Growth of Paleobiology as an Evolutionary Discipline by David Sepkoski
RRP: £31.00£30.59Rereading the Fossil Record presents the first-ever historical account of the origin, rise, and importance of paleobiology, from the mid-nineteenth century to the late 1980s. Drawing on a wealth of archival material, David Sepkoski shows how the movement... -
Bringing Fossils to Life: An Introduction to Paleobiology by Donald R. Prothero 9780231158930
RRP: £92.00£73.41One 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,... -
The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of Proconsul by A. Walker 9780674016750
RRP: £35.95£28.96This 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... -
Horns and Beaks: Ceratopsian and Ornithopod Dinosaurs by Kenneth Carpenter
£44.36Horns 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... -
Bonehunters' Revenge by David Rains Wallace 9780618082407
£15.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rebels, Scholars, Explorers: Women in Vertebrate Paleontology by Annalisa Berta
RRP: £43.00£38.12Unearthing the amazing hidden stories of women who changed paleontology forever.For centuries, women have played key roles in defining and developing the field of vertebrate paleontology. Yet very little is known about these important paleontologists,... -
Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
RRP: £13.99£13.14High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived-a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In... -
Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered <i>Tyrannosaurus rex</i> by Lowell Dingus
RRP: £30.00£23.29From his stunning discovery of Tyrannosaurus rex one hundred years ago to the dozens of other important new dinosaur species he found, Barnum Brown led a remarkable life (1873-1963), spending most of it searching for fossils - and sometimes oil - in... -
Vertebrate Palaeontology Michael J. Benton (University of Bristol) 9781118407554
RRP: £98.95£96.64Vertebrate palaeontology is a lively field, with new discoveries reported every week... and not only dinosaurs! This new edition reflects the international scope of vertebrate palaeontology, with a special focus on exciting new finds from China. A key... -
Applied Factor Analysis in the Natural Sciences by Richard A. Reyment 9780521575560
RRP: £41.99£32.28This graduate-level text aims to introduce students of the natural sciences to the powerful technique of factor analysis and to provide them with the background necessary to be able to undertake analyses on their own. A thoroughly updated and expanded... -
Explorers of Deep Time: Paleontologists and the History of Life by Roy Plotnick
RRP: £30.00£23.29Paleontology is one of the most visible yet most misunderstood fields of science. Children dream of becoming paleontologists when they grow up. Museum visitors flock to exhibits on dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. The media reports on fossil... -
Pleistocene Environments in the British Isles by R. L. Jones 9780412441905
£90.27Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Rivers in Time: The Search for Clues to Earth's Mass Extinctions by Peter Ward 9780231118637
RRP: £21.95£17.13Several times in the distant past, catastrophic extinctions have swept the Earth, causing more than half of all species-from single-celled organisms to awe-inspiring behemoths-to suddenly vanish and be replaced by new life forms. Today the rich diversity...