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A Short History of Nearly EverythingClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Bryson takes subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and makes them comprehensible to the average person. Interested not only in finding out what we know, but ...
author: Bill Bryson |
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Autobiography of Charles Darwin: 1809-1882Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Darwin's classic autobiography, written in simple, straightforward language. Covers a range of issues not known to those who have only read his Origin of Species. Appendix containing letters adds muc...
author: Charles Darwin |
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Beak of the FinchClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Weiner introduces us to the work of Peter and Rosemary Grant, evolutionary biologists who have spent the last 20 years on an island in the Galapagos studying the finches there. Because the islands ar...
author: Jonathan Weiner |
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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Contains 28 essays from 20 different periodicals. Articles range in topic from the farthest reaches of space to the everyday world around us to the secrets hidden in our own bodies. The mix of hard...
author: Richard Preston, editor |
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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Twenty-one articles from a wide assortment of scientific fields, chosen by editor Elizabeth Kolbert and series editor Tim Folger.
author: Elizabeth Kolbert, editor |
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Best American Science Writing 2006Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2006 edition of this annual series. Series editor Jesse Cohen and editor Atul Gawande bring together 21 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists. Topics of interest to and accessib...
author: Atul Gawande, editor |
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Best American Science Writing 2009Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
This year's edition contains 24 essays on contemporary science issues, written by new as well as established authors. Topics include animal language and intelligence, evolutionary biology, computer sc...
author: Jesse Cohen, series editor |
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Charles and Emma - The Darwins' Leap of FaithClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A biography of Darwin which focuses on how his wife's religious convictions affected his own thinking and made him rethink how the world would receive his ideas. An intriguing look at the marriage of ...
author: Deborah Heiligman |
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Evolution - The Triumph of an IdeaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
This companion book to the PBS series by the same name explores the history and future of the Theory of Evolution, with many photos, anatomic diagrams and timelines. "Zimmer's text is fresh and expans...
author: Carl Zimmer |
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Lucy Long Ago - Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came FromClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Follows the discovery in 1974 of skeletal bones of a human ancestor (hominid) in Ethiopia, and what has been learned since then about ?Lucy.? Heavily illustrated with photos and diagrams, and a text ...
author: Catherine Thimmesh |
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On the Origin of Species - The Illustrated EditionClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
This illustrated edition marks the 150th anniversary of the first publication of On the Origin of Species. Using hundreds of excerpts and historical images from The Autobiography of Charles Darwin, Th...
author: Charles Darwin; David Quammen, general editor |
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Origin of SpeciesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The landmark work that set forth Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection. Based largely on the observations from his five year voyage on the HMS Beagle, the book challenged the beliefs of ...
author: Charles Darwin |
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Sandwalk AdventuresClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
In this graphic novel story, Darwin engages in conversations with the follicle mites that live in his left eyebrow. The mites have been raised on many myths, one of which being that Darwin is a god. ...
author: Jay Hosler |
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Short History of Nearly EverythingClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Bryson takes subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and makes them comprehensible to the average person. Interested not only in finding out what we know, but ...
author: Bill Bryson |
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The Beak of the FinchClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Weiner introduces us to the work of Peter and Rosemary Grant, evolutionary biologists who have spent the last 20 years on an island in the Galapagos studying the finches there. Because the islands ar...
author: Jonathan Weiner |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2007Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Contains 28 essays from 20 different periodicals. Articles range in topic from the farthest reaches of space to the everyday world around us to the secrets hidden in our own bodies. The mix of hard...
author: Richard Preston, editor |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Twenty-one articles from a wide assortment of scientific fields, chosen by editor Elizabeth Kolbert and series editor Tim Folger.
author: Elizabeth Kolbert, editor |
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The Best American Science Writing 2006Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2006 edition of this annual series. Series editor Jesse Cohen and editor Atul Gawande bring together 21 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists. Topics of interest to and accessib...
author: Atul Gawande, editor |
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The Best American Science Writing 2009Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
This year's edition contains 24 essays on contemporary science issues, written by new as well as established authors. Topics include animal language and intelligence, evolutionary biology, computer sc...
author: Jesse Cohen, series editor |
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The Origin of SpeciesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The landmark work that set forth Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection. Based largely on the observations from his five year voyage on the HMS Beagle, the book challenged the beliefs of ...
author: Charles Darwin |
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The Sandwalk AdventuresClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
In this graphic novel story, Darwin engages in conversations with the follicle mites that live in his left eyebrow. The mites have been raised on many myths, one of which being that Darwin is a god. ...
author: Jay Hosler |
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Young Charles Darwin and the Voyage of the BeagleClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
This biography begins with Darwin receiving the invitation in 1831 to sail aboard the Beagle to the coast of South American and across the Pacific Ocean to Australia and Southeast Asia. In short, enga...
author: Ruth Ashby |
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