Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth
10 best books like Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth (David Burnie): The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, The Great Dinosaur Debate: New Theories Unlocking the Mystery of the Dinosaurs and Their Extinction, The Epigenetics Revolution, My Beloved Brontosaurus: On the Road with Old Bones, New Science, and Our Favorite Dinosaurs, The Tangled Bank, The World Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs & Prehistoric Creatures, Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages, A Life in Letters, The Cave
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
| Author | Stephen Brusatte |
| ISBN | 0062490451 |
Brusatte traces the evolution of dinosaurs from their inauspicious start as small shadow dwellers—themselves the beneficiaries of a mass extinction caused by volcanic eruptions at the beginning of the Triassic period—into the dominant array of species every wide-eyed child memorizes today,...
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0060845503 |
Another great book from Jared Diamond. I found this to be just as engaging as Guns, Germs, and Steel, and also an easier read. I find that his books have so much information that it is helpful for me to outline them as I go. Here are my favorite bullet points from The Third Chimpanzee. Not at all a comprehensive...
| Author | Robert T. Bakker |
| ISBN | 0806522607 |
This groundbreaking book reveals that, far from being sluggish reptiles, dinosaurs were actually agile, fast, warm-blooded, and intelligent. The author explodes the old orthodoxies and gives us a convincing picture of how dinosaurs hunted, fed, mated, fought and died.Containing over 200 detailed...
The Epigenetics Revolution
At the beginning of this century enormous progress had been made in genetics. The Human Genome Project finished sequencing human DNA. It seemed it was only a matter of time until we had all the answers to the secrets of life on this planet. The cutting-edge of biology, however, is telling us that we still...
| Author | Brian Switek |
| ISBN | 0374135061 |
Dinosaurs, with their awe-inspiring size, terrifying claws and teeth, and otherworldly abilities, occupy a sacred place in our childhoods. They loom over museum halls, thunder through movies, and are a fundamental part of our collective imagination. In My Beloved Brontosaurus, the dinosaur fanatic...
| Author | Carl Zimmer |
| ISBN | 0981519474 |
The Tangled Bank is the first textbook about evolution intended for the general reader. Zimmer, an award-winning science writer, takes readers on a fascinating journey into the latest discoveries about evolution. In the Canadian Arctic, paleontologists unearth fossils documenting the move of...
This is my current obsession...The illustrations are splendid.As the title indicates, it's not just dinosaurs...the book comes up into relatively recent times and recently extinct creatures (read a few hundred to a few thousand years). It's interesting to learn that we may just be in an extended...
| Author | Thomas R. Holtz Jr. |
| ISBN | 0375824197 |
WRITTEN BY A PROFESSIONAL paleontologist for young readers, this award-winning guide to the complete Dinosauria is packed with enough detail and insider information to satisfy even adult dinophiles! The text includes brief entries on all 800+ "named" species of Mesozoic dinosaurs, as well as chapters...
| Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| ISBN | 0684801531 |
A vibrant self-portrait of an artist whose work was his life.
In this new collection of F. Scott Fitzgerald's letters, edited by leading Fitzgerald scholar and biographer Matthew J. Bruccoli, we see through his own words the artistic and emotional maturation of one of America's most enduring...
| Author | José Saramago |
| ISBN | 0156028794 |
José Saramago is a master at pacing. Readers unfamiliar with the work of this Portuguese Nobel Prize winner would do well to begin with The Cave, a novel of ideas, shaded with suspense. Spare and pensive, The Cave follows the fortunes of an aging potter, Cipriano Algor, beginning with his weekly delivery...
