The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures that Have Ever Lived
9 best books like The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of All the Creatures that Have Ever Lived (Colin Tudge): Trainspotting, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America, Cartoon History of the Universe I, Vol. 1-7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great, The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, Endless Forms Most Beautiful: The New Science of Evo Devo and the Making of the Animal Kingdom, Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters
| Author | Irvine Welsh |
| ISBN | 0099465892 |
The bestselling novel by Irvine Welsh that provided the inspiration for Danny Boyle’s hit film Choose us. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food...
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
| Author | Jared Diamond |
| ISBN | 0739467352 |
"Diamond has written a book of remarkable scope ... one of the most important and readable works on the human past published in recent years."
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a national bestseller: the global account of the rise of civilization that is also a stunning refutation of ideas of...
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
| Author | Erik Larson |
| ISBN | 0739303406 |
Erik Larson's gifts as a storyteller are magnificently displayed in this rich narrative of the master builder, the killer, and the great fair that obsessed them both.
Two men, each handsome and unusually adept at his chosen work, embodied an element of the great dynamic that characterized...
Cartoon History of the Universe I, Vol. 1-7: From the Big Bang to Alexander the Great
| Author | Larry Gonick |
| ISBN | 0385265204 |
This is a really fun—and actually quite comprehensive—historical overview. It's very handy as sort of a quick-reference guide and/or as a supplemental companion to the reading of primary source history texts. (I found it to be fabulously helpful along these lines with respect to Herodotus.)
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The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution
The renowned biologist and thinker Richard Dawkins presents his most expansive work yet: a comprehensive look at evolution, ranging from the latest developments in the field to his own provocative views. Loosely based on the form of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, Dawkins's Tale takes us modern humans...
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...
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"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 | Sean B. Carroll |
| ISBN | 0393327795 |
Dnf'd. Not because it is a bad book, boring or not well-written, but because it turns out that my appetite for evolutionary biology does not extend as far as embryology. I just cannot summon up the interest to concentrate and have to keep rereading and looking (again and again) at the illustrations. Maybe...
| Author | Donald R. Prothero |
| ISBN | 0231139624 |
Over the past twenty years, paleontologists have made tremendous fossil discoveries, including fossils that mark the growth of whales, manatees, and seals from land mammals and the origins of elephants, horses, and rhinos. Today there exists an amazing diversity of fossil humans, suggesting we...
