David Quammen
Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and natural selection has been debated and disparaged over time, but there is no dispute that he is responsible for some of the most remarkable and groundbreaking scientific findings in history. His five-year ... [... more]
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001
 From Amazon.com: From abstract reflections on the nature of mathematical thought to an all-too-concrete tale of teetering on the edge of an active volcano, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2001 delivers exactly what it promises. Editor Edward [... more]
CDN$14.95
Amazon CA |
Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent ...
Science investigates a non-science: If certain "terrorist" groups hold the USA to be "The Great Satan", then people in that country have a "Great Satan" of their own - Charles Robert Darwin. David Quammen declares that " [... more]
CDN$19.95
Amazon CA |
The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes
mind-bending yet fulfilling book: For all those of you who have questioned your surroundings, this is the perfect book to get you started on a long journey. I read this book over the summer, and it taught me a lot. Not only does Rucker accurately cover [... more]
CDN$23.95
Amazon CA |
Reluctant Mr Darwin
"Darwinism doesn't exist" !: This opening declaration throws down the gauntlet, challenging those who deem evolution an ideology, or "belief system". Darwin's great idea, Quammen stresses, doesn't rely on "belief". Instead, [... more]
CDN$28.50
Amazon CA |
The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
From Amazon.com: David Quammen, a highly regarded popular-science writer (Song of the Dodo) and novelist, brings a range of qualities to his work as an interpreter of nature: a journalist's talent for finding a good story and telling it well, a scholar's [... more]
CDN$21.00
Amazon CA |
Wild Thoughts from Wild Places
From Amazon.com: In this collection of "Natural Acts" columns from the pages of Outside magazine, wide-ranging ecojournalist David Quammen turns his attention to all manner of earthly matters: the physics of flowing water and the thrills of [... more]
CDN$19.99
Amazon CA |
Reluctant Mr Darwin
"Darwinism doesn't exist" !: This opening declaration throws down the gauntlet, challenging those who deem evolution an ideology, or "belief system". Darwin's great idea, Quammen stresses, doesn't rely on "belief". Instead, [... more]
CDN$18.50
Amazon CA |
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of ...
From Amazon.com: In a wonderful weave of science, metaphor, and prose, David Quammen, author of The Flight of the Iguana, applies the lessons of island biogeography - the study of the distribution of species on islands and islandlike patches of landscape [... more]
CDN$24.99
Amazon CA |
The Flight of the Iguana: A Sidelong View of Science and ...
good: i had to read this book for my ecology class in college. it was probably the first text outside of literature class that i actually enjoyed reading; it didn't seem like homework. it made me laugh too. i don't even like science that much, but i [... more]
CDN$17.50
Amazon CA |
Monster Of God
Amazon.ca: The human mind, for reasons that were once obvious, has long been haunted by intimations of things that go bump in the night. And nothing, as the eminent natural historian David Quammen writes in Monster of God, goes bump quite like what he [... more]
CDN$40.00
Amazon CA |
Monster Of God
Amazon.ca: The human mind, for reasons that were once obvious, has long been haunted by intimations of things that go bump in the night. And nothing, as the eminent natural historian David Quammen writes in Monster of God, goes bump quite like what he [... more]
CDN$23.50
Amazon CA |
