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The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy
Paige Williams · Hachette Books
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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New Yorker magazine staff writer Paige Williams delves into the riveting and perilous world of fossil collectors in this "tremendous" (David Grann) true tale of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a "beautifully written story steeped in natural... |
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A Lakeside Companion
Ted Rulseh · University of Wisconsin Press
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
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Why do fish jump? Why don't lakes freeze all the way down to the bottom? Which lake plants are invasive? What are those water bugs? Is that lake healthy? Whether you fish, paddle, swim, snowshoe, ski, or just gaze upon your favorite lake, A Lakeside Companion will deepen your appreciation... |
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Animal Lessons: Discovering Your Spiritual Connection with Animals
DANIELLE MACKINNON · LLEWELLYN
Pages: 240
Format: Print book
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Develop a deeper, more positive relationship with the animals in your life and become a better person along the way. All around you, animals are acting as therapists, trainers, mentors, and gurus -- if you pay attention. They guide you toward the next step in your personal evolution through... |
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How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler
RYAN NORTH · Riverhead Books
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
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Get ready to make history. . . better.What would you do if a time machine hurled you thousands of years into the past . . . and then broke? How would you survive? Could you improve on humanity's original timeline? And how hard would it be to domesticate a giant wombat?Don't worry: in How to Invent... |
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Systematic: How Systems Biology Is Transforming Modern Medicine
James R Valcourt · Bloomsbury
Pages: 288
Format: Print book
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SYSTEMATIC is the first book to introduce general readers to systems biology, which is improving medical treatments and our understanding of living things. In traditional bottom-up biology, a biologist might spend years studying how a single protein works, but systems biology studies how networks... |
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The Comet Sweeper: Caroline Herschel's Astronomical Ambition
Claire Brock · Icon Books
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
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Having escaped domestic servitude in Germany by teaching herself to sing, and established a career in England, Caroline Herschel learned astronomy while helping her brother William, then Astronomer Royal.Soon making scientific discoveries in her own right, she swept to international scientific... |
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Improbable Destinies: Fate, Chance, and the Future of Evolution
Jonathan B Losos · Riverhead Books
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
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A major new work overturning our assumptions about how evolution works Earth's natural history is full of fascinating instances of convergence: phenomena like eyes and wings and tree-climbing lizards that have evolved independently, multiple times. But evolutionary biologists also point... |
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