Natural History
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Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party: How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the WorldFrom the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, a historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history. In the early 1800s the world was a safe...
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The Horse: A Galloping History of HumanityFrom New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito, the incredible story of how the horse shaped human history Timothy C. Winegard's The Horse is an epic history unlike any other. Its story begins more than 5,500 years ago on the windswept grasslands of...
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We Are Agora: How Humanity Functions as a Single Superorganism That Shapes Our World and Our FutureDiscover a groundbreaking new way of thinking about life, society, and the future of our species that bridges science and human history. Could humans unknowingly be a part of a larger superorganism--one with its own motivations and goals, one that is alive, and conscious,...
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The Emotional Lives of Animals (Revised): A Leading Scientist Explores Animal Joy, Sorrow, and Empathy -- And Why They MatterIn this revised and expanded edition of a seminal and award-winning exploration of animal emotion, sentience, and cognition, a prominent animal researcher discusses and incorporates the surge of new science in a fascinating and vital field of study When award-winning scientist Marc Bekoff penned...
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The Other Side of Nowhere: Exploring Big Bend Ranch State Park and Its FloraAcquired by the State of Texas in 1988 and first opened to the public as Big Bend State Natural Area in 1991, Big Bend Ranch State Park (BBR) lies within the southern Big Bend of the Trans-Pecos, encompassing some 492 square miles of the...
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The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World's SpidersA beautifully illustrated guide to the natural history and breathtaking diversity of spiders around the world Spiders are dominant predators in virtually every terrestrial ecosystem on the planet. A marvel of evolution with species numbering in the tens of thousands, they have been walking...
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The Lives of Lichens: A Natural HistoryA richly illustrated guide to lichens and their biology Existing at the margins of life, lichens are the result of symbiotic relationships between fungi and photosynthesizing partners in the form of algae or cyanobacteria. Comprising more than twenty thousand species, lichens are pioneers in...
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The Lives of Bees: A Natural History of Our Planet's Bee LifeA beautifully illustrated guide to the vibrant and richly diverse world of bees The Lives of Bees provides a one-of-a-kind look at the life and natural history of bees. Blending stunning photographs and illustrations with illuminating profiles of selected species, this incisive guide takes...
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Tenacious Beasts: Wildlife Recoveries That Change How We Think about Animals"Conventional wisdom is that wild animals are being wiped out. But conventional wisdom skips some important details. Wildlife is rebounding. Not everywhere. Not every species. But a handful of wildlife populations have reached numbers unimaginable in a century. Red deer in Europe, bison in...
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Imperfection: A Natural HistoryIn praise of imperfection: how life on our planet is a catalog of imperfections, errors, alternatives, and anomalies. In the beginning, there was imperfection, which became the source of all things. Anomalies and asymmetries caused planets to take shape from the bubbling void and...
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Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History"[An] extraordinary book . . . Mr. Gould is an exceptional combination of scientist and science writer . . . He is thus exceptionally well placed to tell these stories, and he tells them with fervor and intelligence."--James Gleick, New York Times Book Review...
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The Shortest History of Our Universe: The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to UsA complete history of the universe, spanning 13.8 billion years in an ultra-accessible, uncommonly illuminating, exhilarating chronicle of key events In this thrilling history, David Baker captures the longest-possible time span--from the Big Bang to the present day--in an astonishingly concise retelling. His impressive...
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The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History"Gould is a natural writer; he has something to say and the inclination and skill with which to say it." --P. B. Medawar, New York Review of Books With sales of well over one million copies in North America alone, the commercial success of...
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Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern ScienceA captivating portrait of the poet and the scientist who shared an enchanted view of nature Emily Dickinson and Charles Darwin were born at a time when the science of studying the natural world was known as natural philosophy, a pastime for poets, priests,...
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Migrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific WorldMigrant Ecologies: Environmental Histories of the Pacific World is the first volume explicitly dedicated to the environmental history of Earth's largest ocean. Covering nearly one-third of the planet, the Pacific Ocean is remarkable for its diverse human and non-human inhabitants, their astounding long-distance migrations...
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The Suburban WildSet in the North Shore suburbs of Chicago, amid traffic, pollution, and ever-increasing neighborhoods of houses and apartments, these meditative personal essays explore the importance of our connection with the natural world, history, and memory. The Suburban Wild follows the seasons from one spring...
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Planet Earth IIIThe iconic series that started it all returns: accompanying an 8-part program narrated by David Attenborough, Planet Earth IIItakes you closer than ever to the world's most fascinating animals and landscapes - and humanity's irrevocable impact upon them. There are over 100 billion planets...
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Naturalist Histories: Making Nature, Knowledge, and People in OceaniaFrom early explorers to contemporary scientists, naturalists have examined island flora and fauna of Oceania, discovering new species, carefully documenting the lives of animals, and creating work central to the image of Oceania. These "discoveries" and exploratory moves have had profound local and global...
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Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All LifeAn epic, extraordinary account of rivalry and obsession in the quest to survey all of life on Earth--a competition whose consequences still reverberate today--from the bestselling author of A Sense of the World In the eighteenth century, two men--exact contemporaries and polar opposites--dedicated their...
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El origen de las especies mediante la selección natural: (Edición completa y anotada)Edici n en tapa blanda completa, ampliada, anotada y bien maquetada del cl sico de Charles Darwin que cambi para siempre la comprensi n de si misma que ten a la humanidad.El t tulo completo de la primera edici n fue On the Origin...
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