The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals
9 best books like The Crucible of Creation: The Burgess Shale and the Rise of Animals (Simon Conway Morris): Walden, The Warehouse, The Parisian, Lanny, The Alteration, The 27th Kingdom, A Glimpse of Nothingness: Experiences in an American Zen Community, The Summer House: A Trilogy, Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution
| Author | Henry David Thoreau |
| ISBN | 0691096120 |
Originally published in 1854, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, is a vivid account of the time that Henry D. Thoreau lived alone in a secluded cabin at Walden Pond. It is one of the most influential and compelling books in American literature. This new paperback edition-introduced by noted American writer...
| Author | Rob Hart |
| ISBN | 1984823795 |
Cloud isn’t just a place to work. It’s a place to live. And when you’re here, you’ll never want to leave.
“On the surface, The Warehouse is a thrilling story of corporate espionage at the highest level, but dig a little deeper and you’ll find a terrifying cautionary tale of the...
| Author | Isabella Hammad |
| ISBN | 1473547679 |
As the First World War shatters families, destroys friendships and kills lovers, a young Palestinian dreamer sets out to find himself.
Midhat Kamal picks his way across a fractured world, from the shifting politics of the Middle East to the dinner tables of Montpellier and a newly tumultuous...
| Author | Max Porter |
| ISBN | 0571340288 |
There’s a village sixty miles outside London. It’s no different from many other villages in England: one pub, one church, red-brick cottages, council cottages and a few bigger houses dotted about. Voices rise up, as they might do anywhere, speaking of loving and needing and working and dying and...
| Author | Kingsley Amis |
| ISBN | 0881844322 |
In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart’s...
| Author | Alice Thomas Ellis |
| ISBN | 0140067043 |
My 2nd foray into AT Ellis's world. Not wholly satisfying. . .
Valentine is my favorite - unflappable and sure in her belief, an infinity symbol of philosophical circularity that assures salvation (and makes a pretty cute bracelet if so bended metallically around a wrist).
The other...
| Author | Janwillem van de Wetering |
| ISBN | 0312209452 |
I had another book on the go that I was having trouble getting through when I had a moment of despair and decided to pick this one up, having a feeling that it would be more appealing, since I really enjoyed the first book in the series, An Empty Mirror. I was right - I breezed through this one in a week. Not sure...
| Author | Alice Thomas Ellis |
| ISBN | 1589880862 |
A New York Times Notable Book
In The Summer House trilogy, three very different women, with three very distinct perspectives, narrate three very witty novels concerning one disastrous wedding in the offing.
The Clothes in the Wardrobe: Nineteen-year-old Margaret feels more trepidation...
| Author | Richard Fortey |
| ISBN | 0375706216 |
With Trilobite, Richard Fortey, paleontologist and author of the acclaimed Life, offers a marvelously written, smart and compelling, accessible and witty scientific narrative of the most ubiquitous of fossil creatures.
Trilobites were shelled animals that lived in the oceans over five...
