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British Fossils

Written by Peter Doyle

Format: Trade Paperback, 64 pages
On Sale: March 24, 2009
Price: $12.95

The fossil-bearing rocks of the British Isles represent life from the last 2,900 million years and the UK is seen by many as the cradle of modern geology. Using the geological map of Britain, expert palaeontologist Peter Doyle offers a comprehensive guide to fossils in the UK, plotting the main fossil... Read more >

Lucy's Legacy
The Quest for Human Origins
Written by Dr. Donald Johanson and Kate Wong

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: March 3, 2009
Price: $25.00

“Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged.”–From Lucy’s Legacy

In his New York Times bestseller, Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind,... Read more >

Lucy's Legacy
The Quest for Human Origins
Written by Dr. Donald Johanson and Kate Wong

Format: eBook
On Sale: March 3, 2009
Price: $25.00

“Lucy is a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton who has become the spokeswoman for human evolution. She is perhaps the best known and most studied fossil hominid of the twentieth century, the benchmark by which other discoveries of human ancestors are judged.”–From Lucy’s Legacy

In his New York Times bestseller, Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind,... Read more >

Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs
Soft Tissues and Hard Science
Written by Phillip Manning

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: January 20, 2009
Price: $16.95

Drawing on new breakthroughs and cutting edge techniques to scan and analyze this rare and remarkable discovery, Dr. Manning takes us on a thrilling, globe-spanning tour of dinosaur mummy finds—from the first such excavation in 1908 to a baby dinosaur unearthed in 1980, from a dino with a heart in South... Read more >

Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs
Soft Tissues and Hard Science
Written by Dr. Phil Manning

Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $28.00

Many of us have seen dinosaur bones and skeletons, maybe even dinosaur eggs...but what did those fearsome animals really look like in the flesh? Soft-tissue fossils give tantalizing clues about the appearance and physiology of the ancient animals. In this exciting book, paleontologist Phillip Manning presents the most astonishing dinosaur fossil... Read more >

Grave Secrets of Dinosaurs
Soft Tissues and Hard Science
Written by Dr. Phil Manning

Format: eBook, 320 pages
On Sale: January 8, 2008
Price: $13.95

Many of us have seen dinosaur bones and skeletons, maybe even dinosaur eggs...but what did those fearsome animals really look like in the flesh? Soft-tissue fossils give tantalizing clues about the appearance and physiology of the ancient animals. In this exciting book, paleontologist Phillip Manning presents the most astonishing dinosaur fossil... Read more >

Sea Monsters
Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep
Written by Michael Everhart

Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
On Sale: October 2, 2007
Price: $30.00

Sharks and dinosaurs, dinosaurs and sharks, we find them both alien and awe-inspiring, at once utterly inhuman and somehow irresistibly compelling. But forget Jaws and Jurassic Park—nothing can prepare you for Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep, an amazing plunge into the Cretaceous oceans of 80 million years ago, a... Read more >

The First Human
The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
Written by Ann Gibbons

Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $14.95

In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind?

Following four intensely competitive international teams of scientists in a heated race to find the “missing link”–the fossil of the earliest human ancestor–Gibbons ventures... Read more >

The First Human

Written by Ann Gibbons

Format: eBook
On Sale: April 10, 2007
Price: $14.95

This dynamic chronicle of the race to find the “missing links” between humans and apes transports readers into the highly competitive world of fossil hunting and into the lives of the ambitious scientists intent on pinpointing the dawn of humankind.
 
The quest to find where and when the earliest human ancestors first... Read more >

The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt

Written by William Nothdurft and Josh Smith

Format: eBook
On Sale: September 24, 2002
Price: $13.95

The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr... Read more >

The Lost Dinosaurs of Egypt

Written by Josh Smith and William Nothdurft
Read by Michael C. Hall

Format: Abridged Audiobook Download
On Sale: September 24, 2002
Price: $14.95

The date is January 11, 1911. A young German paleontologist, accompanied only by a guide, a cook, four camels, and a couple of camel drivers, reaches the lip of the vast Bahariya Depression after a long trek across the bleak plateau of the western desert of Egypt. The scientist, Ernst Freiherr... Read more >

Into The Dinosaurs' Graveyard
Canadian Digs And Discoveries
Written by David Spalding

Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: June 20, 2000
Price: $13.95

Since Confederation, evidence of some 50 classes of dinosaurs has been gathered in Canada. Many of these fossils came from the single most bountiful dinosaur site in the world, Dinosaur Provincial Park in Alberta, which to date has yielded more than 250 skeletons of 36 species of dinosaurs, and has helped... Read more >