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  • The Cycad Botanists

    by Roy Osborne, Dennis Wm. Stevenson ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This work provides short biographies of 50 historical figures in cycad biology. It covers those starting in the early 17th century through the 21st century. Each of the biographies covers a career including birth and death, schooling, places of employment, travel in field work, publications, place of their cycad type specimens, list of species described and list of species named for them. The ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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    How They Mastered the Elements and Shaped the World

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    LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING• The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2025 • The Telegraph’s Best Nature Books of 2025The mesmerizing, mind-expanding global story of how trees have learned to use the soil, air, water, plants, fungi, fire, animals and people around them to shape our world—possessing an agency beyond ... Read more

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  • The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science Is Rewriting Their Story

    by Dimitra Papagianni, Michael A. Morse ...
    Series Book 0 - The Rediscovered Series
    “Even-handed, up-to-date, and clearly written. . . . If you want to navigate between the Scylla and Charybdis of Neanderthal controversies, you’ll find no better guide.” —Brian Fagan, author of Cro-MagnonIn recent years, the common perception of the Neanderthal has been transformed thanks to new discoveries and paradigm-shattering scientific innovations. It turns out that the Neanderthals’ ... Read more

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  • Herbarium

    The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World's Plants

    by Barbara M. Thiers ...
    “A sweeping history of the origins, development, and future of herbaria and their role in plant consternation.” —The American GardenerSince the 1500s, scientists have documented the plants and fungi that grew around them, organizing the specimens into collections. Known as herbaria, these archives helped give rise to botany as its own scientific endeavor.Herbarium is a fascinating enquiry into ... Read more

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  • The Hidden History of the Human Race (The Condensed Edition of Forbidden Archeology)

    by Richard L. Thompson, Michael A. Cremo ...
    Hidden History is a detective novel as much as a scholarly tour de force. But the murder is not the butler. Neither is the victim a rich old man with many heirs. The victim is man himself, and the role of the assassin is played by numerous scientists. Dr. Michael Rothstein, Politiken Newspaper, Denmark ... Read more

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  • Too Big to Walk

    The New Science of Dinosaurs

    by Brian J. Ford ...
    Ever since Jurassic Park we thought we knew how dinosaurs lived their lives. In this remarkable new book, Brian J. Ford reveals that dinosaurs were, in fact, profoundly different from what we believe, and their environment was unlike anything we have previously thought.In this meticulous and absorbing account, Ford reviews the latest scientific evidence to show that the popular accounts of ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Desert Bones

    The Paleontology and Paleoecology of Mid-Cretaceous North Africa

    by Jamale Ijouiher ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    "Ijouiher chronicles the Cretaceous fossil record of North Africa, one of the most exciting frontiers in paleontology research today." ―Steve Brusatte, New York Times -bestselling authorOnce Africa was referred to as the "Lost World of the dinosaur era," so poorly known were its ancient flora and fauna. Worse still, many priceless fossil specimens from the Sahara Desert were destroyed during the ... Read more

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  • Trilobites of Black Cat Mountain

    by George P. Hansen ...
    A photographic guide to Oklahomas Devonian trilobites. The geological history of Coal County, Oklahoma. Descriptions of rock formations where trilobites are found. Excavation and restoration of trilobites. A photographic atlas of the Lower Devonian trilobites of Oklahoma, with helpful information to aid in their identification.Trilobites are a well-known fossil group, possibly second most famous ... Read more

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  • Transylvanian Dinosaurs

    by David B Weishampel, Coralia-Maria Jianu ...
    The history and science of a cluster of dinosaurs found in the Hungarian region and the story of the aristocrat who discovered them.At the end of the time of the dinosaurs, Transylvania was an island in what was to become southeastern Europe. The island's limited resources affected the size and life histories of its animals, resulting in a local dwarfism. For example, sauropods found on the island ... Read more

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  • Dragonflies

    by Philip Corbet, Stephen Brooks ...
    Series Book 106 - Collins New Naturalist Library
    Dragonflies are among the most ancient of living creatures – few insect groups fascinate as much or are more immediately recognisable.In this seminal new work, Philip Corbet and Stephen Brooks examine the behaviour, ecology and distribution of dragonflies in Britain and Ireland, placing emphasis on the insects' habitats and also on measures needed to conserve them.Published in 1960 – with Philip ... Read more

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  • Paleontology

    An Illustrated History

    by David Bainbridge ...
    An illustrated look at the art and science of paleontology from its origins to todayHumans have been stumbling upon the petrified remains of ancient animals since prehistoric times, leading to tales of giant dogs, deadly dragons, tree gods, sea serpents, and all manner of strange and marvelous creatures. In this richly illustrated book, David Bainbridge recounts how legends like these gradually ... Read more

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  • The Art of Biodiversity

    Artists & Naturalists, 1700–1900

    by Eric Himmel ...
    Strikingly original and abundantly illustrated, The Art of Biodiversity surveys the golden age of natural history art, exploring the alliance between scientists and artists that first revealed the astonishing diversity of life on Earth.With more than 330 color illustrations of surpassing beauty, this book reveals a story about art that’s not in the art history books, and a story about science that ... Read more

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