The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder

5 best books like The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder (David Quammen): Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife, Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, Underground Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube, Einstein's Universe

AuthorPeggy Vincent
ISBN0743219341
An inspiring collection of birth stories by a charming midwife.

Each time she knelt to “catch” another wriggling baby—nearly three thousand times during her remarkable career—California midwife Peggy Vincent paid homage to the moment when pain bows to joy and the world makes way...
AuthorBill Schutt
ISBN0307381129
For centuries, blood feeders have inhabited our nightmares and horror stories, as well as the shadowy realms of scientific knowledge. In Dark Banquet, zoologist Bill Schutt takes readers on an entertaining voyage into the world of some of nature’s strangest creatures—the sanguivores. Using...
AuthorRichard Fortey
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

"Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New York Times Book Review

"A marvelous museum of the past four billion years on earth--capacious, jammed with treasures, full of learning...
AuthorAndrew Martin
ISBN1846684773
An entertaining and enlightening social history of the world's most famous underground railway

Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from Kings Cross to Kings Cross on the Circle line?The London Underground is the oldest, most sprawling...
Einstein's Universe
AuthorNigel Calder
ISBN0517385708
This has, in effect, redefined the way I look at the world. Calder goes through both the special and general theories or relativity, strips out all the math, and explains everything in plain English with clear analogies. I think this was published somewhere around 1979, so much has transpired in the...
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