Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth
10 best books like Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth (Jay Hosler): Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Fetch: How a Bad Dog Brought Me Home, The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA, Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins, Low Moon, The Little Man: Short Strips, 1980-1995, Paying for It, The Neandertal Enigma: Solving the Mystery of Human Origins, Evolution: The First Four Billion Years, Pemmican Wars
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0739467352 |
"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of...
| Author | Nicole J. Georges |
| ISBN | 0544577833 |
From an award-winning artist, a memoir of life with a difficult, beloved dog that will resonate with anybody who has ever had a less than perfectly behaved pet
When Nicole Georges was sixteen she adopted Beija, a dysfunctional shar-pei/corgi mix—a troublesome combination of tiny and attack,...
The Stuff of Life: A Graphic Guide to Genetics and DNA
| Author | Mark Schultz |
| ISBN | 0809089386 |
Let's face it: From adenines to zygotes, from cytokinesis to parthenogenesis, even the basics of genetics can sound utterly alien. So who better than an alien to explain it all? Enter Bloort 183, a scientist from an asexual alien race threatened by disease, who's been charged with researching the fundamentals...
Fifty thousand years ago—merely a blip in evolutionary time—our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their precursors had done for millions of years. Yet something about our species distinguished it from the pack, and ultimately led...
| Author | Jason |
| ISBN | 1606991558 |
The acclaimed graphic novelist Jason returns with his most eagerly awaited book yet, thanks to the inclusion of the title story, the world’s first (and likely last) chess western, originally serialized in 2008 in the New York Times Sunday Magazine “Funny Pages” section.
This...
The Little Man: Short Strips, 1980-1995
| Author | Chester Brown |
| ISBN | 1896597130 |
"One of the medium's brilliant mavericks." --Time.com
The Little Man: Short Strips, 1980-1995 is a collection of short-story works by the celebrated and bestselling Louis Riel cartoonist Chester Brown. From his early experimental comedic surrealism to his later autobiographical and...
| Author | Chester Brown |
| ISBN | 1770460489 |
A CONTEMPORARY DEFENSE OF THE WORLD'S OLDEST PROFESSION
Chester Brown has never shied away from tackling controversial subjects in his work. In his 1992 book, The Playboy, he explored his personal history with pornography. His bestselling 2003 graphic novel, Louis Riel, was a biographical...
| Author | James Shreeve |
| ISBN | 0380728818 |
This prehistoric journey through Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, addressing the controversy surrounding the fate of the Neandertals, is "an extraordinarily clear presentation of the issues and the scientists behind them." -- New York Times Book Review. "Reading The Neanderthal Enigma is...
In this meaty tome (979 pages long!), the editors (Michael Ruse and Joseph Travis) present numerous articles written by renowned scientists on various aspects of modern evolutionary theory. Jeffrey Bada and Antonio Lazcano discuss developments in understanding the origin of life; Michael Benton...
| Author | Katherena Vermette |
| ISBN | 1553796780 |
Echo Desjardins, a 13-year-old Métis girl adjusting to a new home and school, is struggling with loneliness while separated from her mother. Then an ordinary day in Mr. Bee’s history class turns extraordinary, and Echo’s life will never be the same. During Mr. Bee’s lecture, Echo finds herself...
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
| Author | Charles Seife |
| ISBN | 0670020338 |
The author of Zero looks at the messy history of the struggle to harness fusion energy .
When weapons builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, they tapped into the vastest source of energy in our solar system--the very same phenomenon that makes the sun shine. Nuclear fusion was a...
