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  • The Scars of Eden

    Has Humanity Confused the Idea of God with Memories of ET Contact?

    by Paul Wallis, Author of Escaping from E ...
    'Exciting. I absolutely recommend The Scars of Eden.' Erich Von DanikenFrom the author of the bestselling ESCAPING FROM EDEN. Do our world mythologies convey our ancestors' ideas about God? Or are they in reality ancestral memories of extra-terrestrial contact? How do ancient stories of contact, adaptation and abduction relate to people's experiences around the world today? The Scars of Eden will ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Escaping from Eden

    Does Genesis Teach that the Human Race was Created by God or Engineered by ETs?

    by Paul Wallis, Author of Escaping from E ...
    'This generation's 'Chariots of the Gods'', George Noory, Coast to Coast AMThe familiar stories of the book of Genesis affirm that God made the universe, planet earth, and you and me. However, various anomalies in the text clue us that we are not reading the original version of these stories. So what were the original narratives and what did they say about who we are and where we all came from? ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs

    A New History of a Lost World

    by Steve Brusatte ...

    $15.99 USD

  • Tamed: From Wild to Domesticated, the Ten Animals and Plants That Changed Human History

    by Alice Roberts ...

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Adapted Mind

    Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture

    Edited by Jerome H. Barkow, Leda Cosmides, John Tooby ...
    Although researchers have long been aware that the species-typical architecture of the human mind is the product of our evolutionary history, it has only been in the last three decades that advances in such fields as evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and paleoanthropology have made the fact of our evolution illuminating. Converging findings from a variety of disciplines are leading to ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Fossil Men

    The Quest for the Oldest Skeleton and the Origins of Humankind

    by Kermit Pattison ...

    $14.99 USD

  • The Fossil Chronicles

    How Two Controversial Discoveries Changed Our View of Human Evolution

    by Dean Falk ...
    Two discoveries of early human relatives, one in 1924 and one in 2003, radically changed scientific thinking about our origins. Dean Falk, a pioneer in the field of human brain evolution, offers this fast-paced insider’s account of these discoveries, the behind-the-scenes politics embroiling the scientists who found and analyzed them, and the academic and religious controversies they generated. ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Sabertooth

    by Mauricio Antón ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    “A unique review of the many unusual and nearly worldwide occurrences of sabertooths and their relatives over more than 50 million years.” —ChoiceWith their spectacularly enlarged canines, sabertooth cats are among the most popular of prehistoric animals, yet it is surprising how little information about them is available for the curious layperson. What’s more, there were other sabertooths that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries

    The Evidence and the People Who Found It

    by Donald R. Prothero ...
    The theory of evolution unites the past, present, and future of living things. It puts humanity’s place in the universe into necessary perspective. Despite a history of controversy, the evidence for evolution continues to accumulate as a result of many separate strands of amazing scientific sleuthing.In The Story of Evolution in 25 Discoveries, Donald R. Prothero explores the most fascinating ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Secret Chambers

    The inside story of cells and complex life

    by Martin Brasier ...
    In the follow up to Darwin's Lost World, Martin Brasier introduces the quest for the missing history of life and the cell. Through a series of journeys it emerges that the modern plant cell is one of the most deeply puzzling and unlikely steps in the whole history of life. Decoding this puzzle is a great adventure that has mainly taken place over the last half century. Brasier puts the big ... Read more

    $20.99 USD $15.99 USD

  • The Rise and Reign of the Mammals

    A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us

    by Steve Brusatte ...

    $17.99 USD

  • Birds of Stone

    Chinese Avian Fossils from the Age of Dinosaurs

    by Luis M. Chiappe, Meng Qingjin ...
    Captivating photographs of the world’s most detailed bird fossils illuminate the early diversity of avifauna.When fossils of birds from China’s Jehol region first appeared in scientific circles, the world took notice. These Mesozoic masterpieces are between 120 and 131 million years old and reveal incredible details that capture the diversity of ancient bird life. Paleontologists all over the ... Read more

    $71.99 USD

  • Dinosaurs 101 Super Fun Facts And Amazing Pictures (Featuring The World's Top 16 Dinosaurs With Coloring Pages)

    by Janet Evans ...
    A book of dinosaurs from Janet Evans featuring the world's top 16 most loved dinosaurs. This book brings these magnificent creatures back to life again with its amazing pictures, numerous fun facts and featuring various dinosaurs that in land, water and in even in the flying dinosaurs. This book also contains coloring pages of these dinosaurs for your children to enjoy after reading the book. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Otherlands

    A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds

    by Thomas Halliday ...
    “Immersive . . . bracingly ambitious . . . rewinds the story of life on Earth—from the mammoth steppe of the last Ice Age to the dawn of multicellular creatures over 500 million years ago.”—The EconomistLONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE • “One of those rare books that’s both deeply informative and daringly imaginative.”—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Under a White SkyONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Brief History of Earth

    Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters

    by Andrew H. Knoll ...

    $14.49 USD

  • Kindred

    Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

    by Rebecca Wragg Sykes ...
    ** WINNER OF THE PEN HESSELL-TILTMAN PRIZE 2021 **'Beautiful, evocative, authoritative.' Professor Brian Cox'Important reading not just for anyone interested in these ancient cousins of ours, but also for anyone interested in humanity.' Yuval Noah HarariKindred is the definitive guide to the Neanderthals. Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from th... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Eternal Frontier

    An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples

    by Tim Flannery ...
    A comprehensive history of the continent, “full of engaging and attention-catching information about North America’s geology, climate, and paleontology” (The Washington Post Book World).Here, “the rock star of modern science” tells the unforgettable story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Dinosaur Artist

    Obsession, Betrayal, and the Quest for Earth's Ultimate Trophy

    by Paige Williams ...
    **In this 2018 New York Times Notable Book,**Paige Williams "does for fossils what Susan Orlean did for orchids" (Book Riot) in her account of one Florida man's attempt to sell a dinosaur skeleton from Mongolia--a story "steeped in natural history, human nature, commerce, crime, science, and politics" (Rebecca Skloot).In 2012, a New York auction catalogue boasted an unusual offering: "a superb ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Unbound

    How Eight Technologies Made Us Human and Brought Our World to the Brink

    by Richard L. Currier ...
    Like Guns, Germs, and Steel, a work of breathtaking sweep and originality that reinterprets the human story.Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Complete Dinosaur

    by M. K. Brett-Surman, Thomas R. Holtz Jr., James O. Farlow ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    A new edition of the illustrated compendium that is “a gift to serious dinosaur enthusiasts” (Science).What do we know about dinosaurs, and how do we know it? How did they grow, move, eat, and reproduce? Were they warm-blooded or cold-blooded? How intelligent were they? How are the various groups of dinosaurs related to each other, and to other kinds of living and extinct vertebrates? What can the ... Read more

    $18.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lost Tomb

    And Other Real-Life Stories of Bones, Burials, and Murder

    by Douglas Preston ...
    **A GOODREADS READER'S CHOICE AWARD FINALISTFrom the #1 bestselling author of The Lost City of the Monkey God, a jaw-dropping discovery of an Egyptian tomb opens up a slew of archaeological mysteries and deadly tales.**What’s it like to be the first to enter an Egyptian burial chamber that’s been sealed for thousands of years? What horrifying secret was found among the prehistoric ruins of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Last Days of the Dinosaurs

    An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World

    by Riley Black ...
    In The Last Days of the Dinosaurs, Riley Black walks readers through what happened in the days, the years, the centuries, and the million years after the impact, tracking the sweeping disruptions that overtook this one spot, and imagining what might have been happening elsewhere on the globe. Life’s losses were sharp and deeply-felt, but the hope carried by the beings that survived sets the stage ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Before the Dawn

    Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors

    by Nicholas Wade ...
    “Meaty, well-written.” —Kirkus Reviews“Timely and informative.” —The New York Times Book Review“By far the best book I have ever read on humanity’s deep history.” —E. O. Wilson, biologist and author of The Ants and On Human NatureNicholas Wade’s articles are a major reason why the science section has become the most popular, nationwide, in the New York Times. In his groun... ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The Accidental Species

    Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

    by Henry Gee ...
    “With a delightfully irascible sense of humor, Henry Gee reflects on our origin . . . an excellent primer on how—and how not—to think about human evolution.” —Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite RexThe idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus