The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology In Greek And Roman Times
10 best books like The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology In Greek And Roman Times (Adrienne Mayor): Lud-in-the-Mist, Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves, The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World, The Machine Stops, Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat, Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina, A Time to Keep Silence, Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women, Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book, Where Is Baby's Belly Button?
| Author | Hope Mirrlees |
| ISBN | 1593600410 |
Lud-in-the-Mist, the capital city of the small country Dorimare, is a port at the confluence of two rivers, the Dapple and the Dawl. The Dapple has its origin beyond the Debatable Hills to the west of Lud-in-the-Mist, in Fairyland. In the days of Duke Aubrey, some centuries earlier, fairy things had...
Mama's Last Hug: Animal Emotions and What They Tell Us about Ourselves
| Author | Frans de Waal |
| ISBN | 0393635066 |
New York Times best-selling author and primatologist Frans de Waal explores the fascinating world of animal and human emotions.
Frans de Waal has spent four decades at the forefront of animal research. Following up on the best-selling Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?, which...
The Darkening Age: The Christian Destruction of the Classical World
The Darkening Age is the largely unknown story of how a militant religion deliberately attacked and suppressed the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in centuries of unquestioning adherence to 'one true faith'.
Despite the long-held notion that the early Christians were meek and...
The Machine Stops is a science fiction short story (12,300 words) by E. M. Forster. After initial publication in The Oxford and Cambridge Review (November 1909), the story was republished in Forster's The Eternal Moment and Other Stories in 1928.
After being voted one of the best novellas...
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat
| Author | Bill Watterson |
| ISBN | 0836217691 |
Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat chronicles the multifarious adventures of this wild child and his faithful, but skeptical, friend. If the best cartoons compel readers to identify themselves within the funny frames, then all who enjoy Calvin and Hobbes are creative, imaginative, and ... bad, bad, bad!...
Claudius the God and His Wife Messalina
| Author | Robert Graves |
| ISBN | 0679725733 |
Miracles do happen ask Claudius the unread historian the idiot, the clown, as his family perceives him, the people also yet becomes Emperor ( one of the best too) of the Roman Empire... These events unfold with the assassination of his mad nephew Caligula, the Praetorian Guard needs a ruler or else they...
| Author | Patrick Leigh Fermor |
| ISBN | 1590172442 |
While still a teenager, Patrick Leigh Fermor made his way across Europe, as recounted in his classic memoirs, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water. During World War II, he fought with local partisans against the Nazi occupiers of Crete. But in A Time to Keep Silence, Leigh Fermor writes about...
Jesus Feminist: An Invitation to Revisit the Bible's View of Women
| Author | Sarah Bessey |
| ISBN | 1476717575 |
Written with poetic rhythm, a prophetic voice, and a deeply biblical foundation, this loving yet fearless book urges today’s church to move beyond man-made restrictions and fully welcome women’s diverse voices and experiences.
A freedom song for the church.
Sarah Bessey...
Dear Zoo: A Lift-the-Flap Book
A child writes to the zoo for a pet. The zoo send a series of unsuitable pets, revealed behind flaps in the form of crates and packing cases. These animals are all sent back for different reasons, except the last one, which is perfect!
Dear Zoo is twenty-five years old -- and still as popular as ever!...
Where Is Baby's Belly Button?
| Author | Karen Katz |
| ISBN | 0689835604 |
The suspense is built from the very beginning with the enigmatic title, "Where is Baby's Belly Button?" Karen Katz's exciting thriller for newborns pits the young reader in a race against time to find the elusive belly button. First, though, she deftly navigates the young reader through a checklist...
| Author | Robert A. Heinlein |
| ISBN | 0441653049 |
Here in one monumental volume are all 21 of the stories, novellas and novels making up Heinlein's famous Future History—the rich, imaginative architecture of Man's destiny that many consider his greatest and most prophetic work.
Contents:
* Introduction - Damon Knight
* Life-Line
*...
Acclaimed author Anthony Everitt, whose Augustus was praised by the Philadelphia Inquirer as “a narrative of sustained drama and skillful analysis,” is the rare writer whose work both informs and enthralls. In Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome–the first major account of the emperor in nearly...
All Yesterdays is a book about the way we see dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. Lavishly illustrated with over sixty original artworks, All Yesterdays aims to challenge our notions of how prehistoric animals looked and behaved. As a critical exploration of palaeontological art, All Yesterdays...
The Dead Yard: Tales of Modern Jamaica
| Author | Ian Thomson |
| ISBN | 0571227619 |
Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain's wealth, an island where slaves grew sugar and the money flowed in vast quantities. It was a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. It became independent in 1962.
Jamaica is now a country...
Vogue® Knitting The Ultimate Knitting Book: Completely Revised Updated
| Author | Vogue Knitting |
| ISBN | 1942021690 |
“An essential addition to the knitter's bookshelf.” —Library Journal (starred review)
The ultimate knitting reference, from the world’s most recognized knitting magazine, gets a thorough update—including 1,600 color images and brand-new sections with techniques and designs! ...
1177 B.C.: The Year Civilization Collapsed
| Author | Eric H. Cline |
| ISBN | 0691140898 |
In 1177 B.C., marauding groups known only as the "Sea Peoples" invaded Egypt. The pharaoh's army and navy managed to defeat them, but the victory so weakened Egypt that it soon slid into decline, as did most of the surrounding civilizations. After centuries of brilliance, the civilized world of the...
