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  • Assembling the Dinosaur

    Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle

    by Lukas Rieppel ...
    A lively account of the dinosaur's role in Gilded Age America, examining the connection between business, paleontology, and museums.Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world's largest industrial economy, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Phylogeny of Anguinomorph Lizards

    by RIEPPEL ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

    $98.99 CAD

  • Mesozoic Sea Dragons

    Triassic Marine Life from the Ancient Tropical Lagoon of Monte San Giorgio

    by Olivier Rieppel ...
    An extensive, illustrated study of the ancient fish and marine reptiles who once lived in a tropical lagoon that is now a Swiss mountain.Told in rich detail and with gorgeous color recreations, this is the story of marine life in the age before the dinosaurs. During the Middle Triassic Period (247–237 million years ago), the mountain of Monte San Giorgio in Switzerland was a tropical lagoon. Today ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Turtles as Hopeful Monsters

    Origins and Evolution

    by Olivier Rieppel ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    Where do turtles hail from? Why and how did they acquire shells? These questions have spurred heated debate and intense research for more than two hundred years. Brilliantly weaving evidence from the latest paleontological discoveries with an accessible, incisive look at different theories of biological evolution and their proponents, Turtles as Hopeful Monsters tells the fascinating evolutionary ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Assembling the Dinosaur

    by Lukas Rieppel ...
    Narrated by Pete Cross ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 52 min

    Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world’s largest industrial economy, and creatures like tyrannosaurus, brontosaurus, and triceratops became emblems of American capitalism. Large, fierce, and spectacular ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Osiris, Volume 33: Science and Capitalism

    Entangled Histories

    Edited by Lukas Rieppel, William Deringer, Eugenia Lean ...
    Series Book 33 - Osiris
    The historical relationship between science and capitalism has long stood as a central question in science studies, at least since its foundations in the 1930s. Taking inspiration from the recent surge of scholarly interest in the “history of capitalism,” as well as from renewed attention to political economy by historians of science and technology, this Osiris volume revisits this classic ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • Phylogenetic Systematics

    Haeckel to Hennig

    by Olivier Rieppel ...
    Series series Species and Systematics
    Phylogenetic Systematics: Haeckel to Hennig traces the development of phylogenetic systematics against the foil of idealistic morphology through 100 years of German biology. It starts with the iconic Ernst Haeckel-the German Darwin from Jena-and the evolutionary morphology he developed. It ends with Willi Hennig, the founder of modern phylogenetic ... Read more

    $126.99 CAD

  • Evolutionary Theory and the Creation Controversy

    by Olivier Rieppel ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Evolutionary theory addresses the phenomenon of the origin and diversity of plant and animal species that we observe. In recent times, however, it has become a predominant ideology which has gained currency far beyond its original confines. Attempts to understand the origin and historical development of human culture, civilization and language, of the powers of human cognition, and even the origin ... Read more

    $179.39 CAD

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    Inside the Strange and Wonderful World of the Federal Duck Stamp Contest

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  • Eyewitnesses to the Indian Wars, 1865–1890

    The Struggle for Apacheria

    Edited by Peter Cozzens ...
    This volume explores the history of the Apache Wars of the late 19th century Southwest through diaries, army reports, and other primary sources.Stretching from the Colorado River to the mountains east of the Rio Grande, and from northern Arizona into Sonora, Mexico, is the sprawling region once known as Apacheria. By the time the first Americans ventured into the region, the indigenous peoples ... Read more

    $25.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • So Very Small

    How Humans Discovered the Microcosmos, Defeated Germs--and May Still Lose the War Against Infectious Disease

    by Thomas Levenson ...
    “An elegant, wide-ranging history” (The New York Review of Books) of the centuries-long quest to discover the critical role of germs in disease thatreveals as much about human reasoning—and the pitfalls of ego—as it does about microbes.“Levenson takes readers through an entertaining . . . journey of missed opportunities in microbiology and the eventual advances that arose in this field.” ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

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  • Platypus Matters

    The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals

    by Jack Ashby ...
    A "charming, informative" firsthand account of Australia's wonderfully unique mammals—and how our perceptions impact their future (Tim Flannery, New York Review of Books ).Think of a platypus: They lay eggs (that hatch into so-called platypups), produce milk without nipples and venom without fangs, and can detect electricity. Or a wombat: Their teeth never stop growing, they poop cubes, and they ... Read more

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