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Category Archives: science
Dinosaur Lives
Dinosaur Lives: Unearthing an Evolutionary Saga© 1998 John Horner256 pages I picked up John Horner’s Dinosaur Lives out of idle curiosity, not having read anything about dinosaurs since childhood. They remain of interest, of course, but it’s not an … Continue reading
Africa
Africa: a Biography of the Continent© 1997 John Reader816 pages And we are scatterlings of Africa, both you and I We’re on the road to Phelemanga, beneath a copper sky; And we are scatterlings of Africa, on a journey to … Continue reading
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The Life of Birds
The Life of Birds © 1998 Sir David Attenborough 320 pages As I drove home from the library last week, I watched a beautiful white bird soar above the highway for several minutes. As it passed close by overhead, I … Continue reading
The Trials of Life
The Trials of Life: a Natural History of Animal Behavior© 1990 Sir David Attenborough320 pages Following up on last week’s The Private Life of Plants, I enjoyed another of Attenborough’s books documenting the extraordinary natural world: this with a focus … Continue reading
The Private Life of Plants
The Private Life of Plants © 1995 David Attenborough 320 pages I spend a little time every week contemplating my home library’s eviscerated science section, hoping against hope to find some interesting volume amid the remains. Last week, picking through … Continue reading
Lost Discoveries
Lost Discoveries: the Ancient Roots of Modern Science — from the Babylonians to the Maya© 2002 Dick Teresi453 I spotted this while collecting books for a paper on the emergence of Renaissance science, and it looked so interesting that I … Continue reading
It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes!
It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes: Four Seasons of Natural Phenomena and Oddities of the Sky© 1992 Jerry Dennis; illustrations by Glenn Wolff323 pages It’s Raining Frogs and Fishes is a collection of nearly forty essays on the many mysteious of … Continue reading
The Greatest Show on Earth
The Greatest Show on Earth: the Evidence for Evolution© Richard Dawkins 2009 470 pages 2009 is the “Year of Darwin”, giving us nice round anniversaries for both Charles Darwins’ birth and the publication of his most famous work, The Origin … Continue reading
The Cosmic Connection
The Cosmic Connection: An Extraterrestrial Perspective© 1973 Carl Sagan273 pages Carl Sagan penned The Cosmic Connection in the interests of communicating his own exhilaration at the human exploration of space. He begins by expressing his appreciating for being alive when … Continue reading
Beautiful Minds
Beautiful Minds: The Parallel Lives of Great Apes and Dolphins © 2008 Maddalena Bearzi, Craig B. Stanford 368 pages As this was a personal reccommendation from a friend, I opted to read it before continuuing in Saylor’s Roma sub Rosa … Continue reading
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