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Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods

10 best books like Squid Empire: The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods (Danna Staaf): The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World, The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness, The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms, The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life, The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People, Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees, Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology, Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us, Insektenes planet: Om de rare, nyttige og fascinerende småkrypene vi ikke kan leve uten

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
AuthorStephen Brusatte
ISBN0062490451
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 Body: A Guide for Occupants
AuthorBill Bryson
ISBN0385539304
In the bestselling, prize-winning A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson achieved the seemingly impossible by making the science of our world both understandable and entertaining to millions of people around the globe.

Now he turns his attention inwards to explore the human...
Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness
AuthorPeter Godfrey-Smith
ISBN0374227764
A philosopher dons a wet suit and journeys into the depths of consciousness

Peter Godfrey-Smith is a leading philosopher of science. He is also a scuba diver whose underwater videos of warring octopuses have attracted wide notice. In this book, he brings his parallel careers together to tell...
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms
AuthorAmy Stewart
ISBN1565124685
In The Earth Moved, Amy Stewart takes us on a journey through the underground world and introduces us to one of its most amazing denizens. The earthworm may be small, spineless, and blind, but its impact on the ecosystem is profound. It ploughs the soil, fights plant diseases, cleans up pollution, and...
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life
AuthorDavid Quammen
ISBN1476776628
Nonpareil science writer David Quammen explains how recent discoveries in molecular biology can change our understanding of evolution and life’s history, with powerful implications for human health and even our own human nature.

In the mid-1970s, scientists began using DNA sequences...
The Universe Within: Discovering the Common History of Rocks, Planets, and People
AuthorNeil Shubin
ISBN0307378438
**Kirkus Best Books of the Year (2013)**

From one of our finest and most popular science writers, and the best-selling author of Your Inner Fish, comes the answer to a scientific mystery as big as the world itself: How are the events that formed our solar system billions of years ago embedded...
Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
AuthorThor Hanson
ISBN0465052614
From the award-winning author of The Triumph of Seeds and Feathers, a natural and cultural history of the buzzing wee beasties that make the world go round.
Bees are like oxygen: ubiquitous, essential, and, for the most part, unseen. While we might overlook them, they lie at the heart of relationships...
Underbug: An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
AuthorLisa Margonelli
ISBN0374282072
This book is about termites the way the Bible is about men with beards. Yes, it takes you into the mounds and inside the bugs, but also deep into the strange labs and pulsing, eclectic minds of the roboticists, geneticists, physicists, and ecologists who try to figure them out. Perhaps best of all, it takes...
Slime: How Algae Created Us, Plague Us, and Just Might Save Us
AuthorRuth Kassinger
ISBN0544432932
“No organisms are more important to life as we know it than algae. In Slime, Ruth Kassinger gives this under-appreciated group its due.” —Elizabeth Kolbert

Say “algae” and most people think of pond scum. What they don’t know is that without algae, none of us would exist.

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Insektenes planet: Om de rare, nyttige og fascinerende småkrypene vi ikke kan leve uten
AuthorAnne Sverdrup-Thygeson
Bli med inn i insektenes forunderlige verden! For hvert menneske som lever på jorden, finnes det 200 millioner insekter. Insektene er overalt - i skogen og i enga, i bekken og i parken. De lever i seks tusen meters høyde, i de dypeste grotter, i døpefonter, inne i datamaskiner og i hvalrossens nesebor....
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