Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums
7 best books like Stuffed Animals and Pickled Heads: The Culture and Evolution of Natural History Museums (Stephen T. Asma): Cities of the Plain, Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World, Sex on Six Legs: Lessons on Life, Love, and Language from the Insect World, The Authentic Animal: Inside the Odd and Obsessive World of Taxidermy, Sugar: A Bittersweet History, A History Of Celibacy, The Body Artist
| Author | Cormac McCarthy |
| ISBN | 0679747192 |
The concluding volume of the Border trilogy. In this magnificent new novel, the National Book Award-winning author of All the Pretty Horses and The Crossing fashions a darkly beautiful elegy for the American frontier. It is 1952 and John Grady Cole and Billy Parham are working as ranch hands in New Mexico,...
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World
| Author | Dan Koeppel |
| ISBN | 1594630380 |
A gripping biological detective story that uncovers the myth, mystery, and endangered fate of the world's most humble fruit
To most people, a banana is a banana: a simple yellow fruit. Americans eat more bananas than apples and oranges combined. In others parts of the world, bananas are what...
Insects have inspired fear, fascination, and enlightenment for centuries. They are capable of incredibly complex behavior, even with brains often the size of a poppy seed. How do they accomplish feats that look like human activity— personality, language, childcare—with completely different...
| Author | Dave Madden |
| ISBN | 0312643713 |
Why would someone want to create or own the mounted skin of a dead animal? That’s the question Dave Madden explores in The Authentic Animal. Madden starts his journey with the life story of Carl Akeley, the father of modern taxidermy. Akeley started small by stuffing a canary, but by the end...
| Author | Elizabeth Abbott |
| ISBN | 0143017136 |
Sugar: A Bittersweet History offers a perceptive and provocative investigation of a commodity that most of us savour every day yet know little about. Impressively researched and commandingly written, this thoroughly engaging book follows the history of sugar to the present day. It is a revealing...
| Author | Elizabeth Abbott |
| ISBN | 0306810417 |
Celibacy is a worldwide practice that is often adopted, rarely discussed. Now, in Elizabeth Abbott's fascinating and wide-ranging history, it is examined in all its various forms: shaping religious lives, conditioning athletes and shamans, surfacing in classical poetry and camp literature,...
| Author | Don DeLillo |
| ISBN | 0743203968 |
The Barnes & Noble Review
In whatever form Don DeLillo chooses to write, there is simply no other American author who has so consistently pushed the boundaries of fiction in his effort to capture the zeitgeist. In The Body Artist, DeLillo tells the hallucinatory tale of performance artist...
