The life, death and afterlife of one of the true icons of extinction, the Great AukThe great auk was a flightless, goose-sized bird superbly adapted for life at sea.
The life, death and afterlife of one of the true icons of extinction, the Great AukThe great auk was a flightless, goose-sized bird superbly adapted for life at sea.
This extensive, three-volume handbook, intensively updated and enlarged, is a superb new resource for students, researchers, and practitioners in paleoanthropology.
This volume provides an overview of (1) the physical and chemical foundations of dating methods and (2) the applications of dating methods in the geological sciences, biology, and archaeology, in almost 200 articles from over 200 international authors.
This book is a unique text that illustrates and describes all the nominal genera of Cretaceous ammonites and their Jurassic progenitors on the basis of their type species.
This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth.
This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth.
Affenähnlich und kognitiv nicht fähiger als Vieh – so beurteilte die Fachwelt die ersten bekannten Knochen eines Neandertalers, die 1856 bei Düsseldorf aus einem Steinbruch purzelten.
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'An outstanding book' SpectatorThe story of the short life and tragic death of Bowland Beth - an English Hen Harrier - which dramatically highlights the major issues in UK conservation.
An easy-to-use and authoritative guide to over 220 species of snake from around the world, each entry specially selected to show the diversity of size, shape and colour of these respected creatures.
Für den Blick nach vorn hilft meist ein gründlicher Blick zurück: Wie sah das Klima vergangener Zeiten aus, überliefert in Eisbohrkernen oder Korallen?
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Earned Outstanding Academic Title distinction for Earth Sciences titles 2010 from the library magazine CHOICE While the human imprint is becoming increasingly apparent, Earth's climate has shifted dramatically and frequently during the last few million years, alternating between ice ages, when vast glaciers covered Northern Europe and much of North America, and interglacials - warm periods much like today.
Hans Dominiks Flug in den Weltraum ist ein bahnbrechender Dystopie-Klassiker, der in einer fiktiven Zukunft spielt, in der die Menschheit den Weltraum erobert hat.
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A top researcher proposes a controversial new theory of human evolution in a book "e;combining the thrill of a novel with a remarkable depth of perspective"e; (Nature).
