The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet
6 best books like The Evolution Underground: Burrows, Bunkers, and the Marvelous Subterranean World Beneath our Feet (Anthony J. Martin): The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World, Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live, When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of all Time, Bugged: The Insects Who Rule the World and the People Obsessed with Them, Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell, Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World
| Author | Stephen Brusatte |
| ISBN | 0062490451 |
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,...
Never Home Alone: From Microbes to Millipedes, Camel Crickets, and Honeybees, the Natural History of Where We Live
| Author | Rob Dunn |
| ISBN | 1541645766 |
A natural history of the wilderness in our homes, from the microbes in our showers to the crickets in our basements
Even when the floors are sparkling clean and the house seems silent, our domestic domain is wild beyond imagination. In Never Home Alone, biologist Rob Dunn introduces us to the...
Today it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe that took place at the end of the Permian period 251 million years ago: 90 percent of life was destroyed,...
| Author | David MacNeal |
| ISBN | 1250095506 |
Insects have been shaping our ecological world and plant life for over 400 million years. In fact, our world is essentially run by bugs--there are 1.4 billion for every human on the planet. In Bugged, journalist David MacNeal takes us on an off-beat scientific journey that weaves together history,...
| Author | J.R.R. Tolkien |
| ISBN | 0007590083 |
The translation of Beowulf by J.R.R. Tolkien was an early work completed in 1926: he returned to it later to make hasty corrections, but seems never to have considered its publication.Suitable for tablets. Some special characters may not display correctly on older devices.We recommend that you download...
| Author | Thor Hanson |
| ISBN | 0465052614 |
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...
