The Descent of Woman
9 best books like The Descent of Woman (Elaine Morgan): The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía, 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, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, Lucy: the beginnings of humankind, The Messianic Legacy, Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions
| Author | David Quammen |
| ISBN | 0684827123 |
David Quammen's book, The Song of the Dodo, is a brilliant, stirring work, breathtaking in its scope, far-reaching in its message -- a crucial book in precarious times, which radically alters the way in which we understand the natural world and our place in that world. It's also a book full of entertainment...
A nineteenth century French priest discovers something in his mountain village at the foot of The Pyrenees which enables him to amass and spend a fortune of millions of pounds. The tale seems to begin with buried treasure and then turns into an unprecedented historical detective story - a modern Grail...
Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Andalucía
| Author | Chris Stewart |
| ISBN | 0953522709 |
No sooner had Chris Stewart set eyes on El Valero than he handed over a check. Now all he had to do was explain to Ana, his wife, that they were the proud owners of an isolated sheep farm in the Alpujarra Mountains in Southern Spain. That was the easy part.
Lush with olive, lemon, and almond groves,...
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...
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...
| Author | Donald C. Johanson |
| ISBN | 0671724991 |
“A glorious success…The science manages to be as exciting and spellbinding as the juiciest gossip” (San Franscisco Chronicle) in the story of the discovery of “Lucy”—the oldest, best-preserved skeleton of any erect-walking human ancestor ever found.
When Donald Johanson...
| Author | Michael Baigent |
| ISBN | 0099664216 |
The startling, frighteningly convincing sequel to The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail that reveals the very nature of the Messianic Legacy.
After the shocking revelations of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail the authors, in their quest to determine the discrepancies between early and modern...
Babel: Around the World in Twenty Languages
| Author | Gaston Dorren |
| ISBN | 0802128793 |
English is the world language, except that most of the world doesn't speak it--only one in five people does. Dorren calculates that to speak fluently with half of the world's 7.4 billion people in their mother tongues, you would need to know no fewer than twenty languages. He sets out to explore these...
