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Vertebrate Palaeontology Michael J. Benton 9781394195084
RRP: £55.95Booksplease Price: £54.01All-new edition of the world's leading vertebrate palaeontology textbook, now addressing key evolutionary transitions and ecological drivers for vertebrate evolution Richly illustrated with... -
Introduction to Paleobiology and the Fossil Record by Michael J. Benton
Booksplease Price: £54.81This book presents a comprehensive overview of the science of the history of life. Paleobiologists bring many analytical tools to bear in interpreting the fossil record and the book introduces the... -
The Age of Dinosaurs in Russia and Mongolia by Michael J. Benton 9780521545822
RRP: £57.00Booksplease Price: £55.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The History of Life: A Very Short Introduction by Michael J. Benton
Booksplease Price: £10.20There 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... -
Dinosaur Behavior: An Illustrated Guide by Michael J. Benton 9780691244297
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.82A stunningly illustrated guide to these extraordinary creatures from a world-renowned paleontologistPaleobiology has advanced from a speculative subject to a cutting-edge science. Today, researchers... -
Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World Michael J. Benton 9780500298046
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.75An illustrated guide to our astonishing new understanding of dinosaurs, with the latest science and the most accurate and visually stunning palaeoart. Dinosaurs are not what you thought they were -... -
The History of Life: A Very Short Introduction Michael J. Benton 9780198950080
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring There are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. Where did humans come from? Where did life come from? New fields... -
Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves Michael J. Benton 9780500298633
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26A journey through the great mass-extinction events that have shaped our Earth: 'Deeply informed and readable' Nature In this vast sweep of our Earth's history, Michael Benton brings the deep past to... -
The Dinosaurs Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting History by Michael J. Benton
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26If you want to know how we know what we know about dinosaurs, read this book! Steve Brusatte 'I defy anyone who is, like me, a non-scientist to read it and not feel a sense of wonder' Tom Holland,... -
Literary Biography: An Introduction Michael J. Benton (University of Southampton, UK) 9781119060116
RRP: £27.95Booksplease Price: £26.91Literary Biography: An Introduction illustrates and accounts for the literary genre that merges historical facts with the conventions of narrative while revealing how the biographical context can... -
Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves by Michael J. Benton 9780500025468
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37A journey through the great mass-extinction events that have shaped our Earth. In this vast sweep of our Earth's history, Michael Benton brings the deep past to life as never before. Deploying the... -
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time by Michael J. Benton
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £16.33The greatest mass extinction in Earth's history happened some 251 million years ago. In this cataclysm at least 90% of life was killed, both on land and in the sea, almost bringing evolution to a... -
Dinosaurs: 10 Things You Should Know by Dr Dean Lomax
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'A warp-speed tour of dinosaurs, with an expert guide' PROF. STEVE BRUSATTE, bestselling author of The Rise and Fall of Dinosaurs'A fun, speedy read for grown-ups who love dinosaurs - a great way to... -
Extinction and Radiation: How the Fall of Dinosaurs Led to the Rise of Mammals by J. David Archibald 9780801898051
RRP: £55.50Booksplease Price: £40.87In the geological blink of an eye, mammals moved from an obscure group of vertebrates into a class of planetary dominance. Why? J. David Archibald's provocative study identifies the fall of dinosaurs... -
The Origin of Higher Taxa: Palaeobiological, developmental, and ecological perspectives by T. S. Kemp 9780199691890
Booksplease Price: £52.75How do radically new kinds of organisms evolve? The Origin of Higher Taxa addresses this essential question, specifically whether the emergence of higher taxa such as orders, classes, and phyla... -
Born of Ice and Fire: How Glaciers and Volcanoes (with a Pinch of Salt) Drove Animal Evolution by Graham Shields 9780300242591
Booksplease Price: £21.05An exploration of how the Cryogenian Period, when our planet was covered in ice for millions of years, created today's remarkable biodiversity More than half a billion years ago, our world was... -
Extinction: A Very Short Introduction by Paul B. Wignall
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Most people are familiar with the dodo and the dinosaur, but extinction has occurred throughout the history of life, with the result that nearly all the species that have ever existed are now extinct... -
The Rise of Reptiles: 320 Million Years of Evolution by Hans-Dieter Sues 9781421428673
Booksplease Price: £81.69The defining masterwork on the evolution of reptiles.Over 300 million years ago, an early land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be deposited on land... -
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction and the Beginning of Our World by Riley Black 9781803996530
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.60Some 66 million years ago, an asteroid some seven miles across slammed into the Earth, leaving a geologic wound over 50 miles in diameter. In the terrible mass extinction that followed, more than... -
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils by Dean R. Lomax
RRP: £19.95Booksplease Price: £17.30Fossils 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... -
Locked in Time: Animal Behavior Unearthed in 50 Extraordinary Fossils by Dean R. Lomax 9780231197298
RRP: £14.95Booksplease Price: £13.35Fossils 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... -
What Bugged the Dinosaurs?: Insects, Disease, and Death in the Cretaceous by George O. Poinar, Jr.
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £21.70Millions of years ago in the Cretaceous period, the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex--with its dagger-like teeth for tearing its prey to ribbons--was undoubtedly the fiercest carnivore to roam the Earth. Yet...