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How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction

9 best books like How to Clone a Mammoth: The Science of De-Extinction (Beth Shapiro): Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator, The Poetry of Pablo Neruda, Betrayal, Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, Incarnadine: Poems, Bestiary: Poems, Late Empire, Reconnaissance

Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
AuthorNeil Shubin
ISBN0375424474
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources:...
The Mosquito: A Human History of Our Deadliest Predator
AuthorTimothy C. Winegard
ISBN0735235791
A pioneering and groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction that offers a dramatic new perspective on the history of humankind, showing how through millennia, the mosquito has been the single most powerful force in determining humanity's fate

Why was gin and tonic the cocktail of choice...
The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
AuthorPablo Neruda
ISBN0374529604
The most comprehensive English-language collection of work ever by "the greatest poet of the twentieth century - in any language" - Gabriel García Márquez

"In his work a continent awakens to consciousness." So wrote the Swedish Academy in awarding the Nobel Prize to Pablo Neruda, the author...
Betrayal
AuthorHarold Pinter
ISBN0571160824
Betrayal is Pinter's latest full-length play since the enormous success of No Man's Land. The play begins in 1977, with a meeting between adulterous lovers, Emma and Jerry, two years after their affair has ended. During the nine scenes of the play, we move back in time, through the states of their affair,...
Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals
AuthorPatricia Lockwood
ISBN0143126520
A breathtaking new collection from one of today’s boldest and most adventurous poets

Colloquial and incantatory, the poems in Patricia Lockwood’s second collection address the most urgent questions of our time, like: what if a deer did porn? Is America going down on Canada? What happens...
Incarnadine: Poems
AuthorMary Szybist
ISBN1555976352
The troubadours
knew how to burn themselves through,
how to make themselves shrines to their own longing.
The spectacular was never behind them.
                        -from “The Troubadours etc.”
 
In Incarnadine, Mary Szybist restlessly...
Bestiary: Poems
AuthorDonika Kelly
ISBN1555977588
Across this remarkable first book are encounters with animals, legendary beasts, and mythological monsters--half human and half something else. Donika Kelly's Bestiary is a catalogue of creatures--from the whale and ostrich to the pegasus and chimera to the centaur and griffin. Among them too...
Late Empire
AuthorLisa Olstein
ISBN1556595182
Lisa Olstein was born and raised near Boston, Massachusetts. She earned a B.A. from Barnard College and an M.F.A. from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst, undertaking additional studies at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts and Harvard Divinity School. She is the recipient of a Pushcart Prize...
Reconnaissance
AuthorCarl Phillips
ISBN0374248281
A powerful, inventive collection from one of America's most respected poets

There's
a trembling inside the both of us,
there's a trembling, inside us both.

The territory of Reconnaissance is one where morals threaten to become merely "what the light falls through," "suffering...
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