Meredith Small
Meredith F. Smaill is a professor of anthropology at Cornell University and the author of Our Babies, Ourselves; What's Love Got to Do with It?; and Female Choices. She writes frequently for Natural History Magazine, Discover, Scientific ... [... more]
Random House |
The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern ...
 unoriginal and arrogant: I understand Fussell's aim: to disabuse us of the notion that World War II was a "good war," that combat is somehow romantic. In the end, the goal of WWII was noble, but the war was as base and destructive as any other; [... more]
CDN$16.95
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Raymond Sokolov
Raymond SokoloV was a food columnist for Natural History magazine for twenty years and is the author of several cookbooks, a much-praised novel, Native Intelligence, and a biography of New Yorker critic A. J. Liebling. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Jake Page from HarperCollins Publishers
Jake Page was the founding editor of Doubleday's Natural History Press, as well as editorial director of Natural History magazine and science editor of Smithsonian magazine. He has written more than forty books on the natural sciences, zoological ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
The Lying Stones of Marrakech: Penultimate Reflections ...
From Amazon.com: Celebrated paleontologist and science writer Stephen Jay Gould has honed and matured his voice over almost 30 years of writing for Natural History. His tenure at that magazine closes with the end of the century, so The Lying Stones of [... more]
CDN$22.00
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Eight Little Piggies
Great Gould! He sure does make natural history fun!: Written in a somewhat reflective style, this set of essays, originally from Natural History magazine, provides a great introduction to the quirks of nature and evolutionary processes. Intended to be [... more]
CDN$23.50
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Pandas Thumb
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould is classic Gould with a more open and approachable style. This is Gould's second in a series of books gleamed from his [... more]
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The Boys' Crusade: The American Infantry in Northwestern ...
unoriginal and arrogant: I understand Fussell's aim: to disabuse us of the notion that World War II was a "good war," that combat is somehow romantic. In the end, the goal of WWII was noble, but the war was as base and destructive as any other; [... more]
CDN$29.95
Amazon CA |
Triumph And Tragedy In Mudville
From Amazon.com: The late Stephen Jay Gould was a man of strong opinions--and not just about evolutionary theory and paleontology, the subjects of fine books of his such as Ever Since Darwin and Wonderful Life. Just get him going on baseball, as readers [... more]
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Dinosaur in a Haystack: Reflections in Natural History
Storytelling Dinosaurs: Evolution is probably the most exciting natural truth that science has ever discovered. And Stephen Jay Goulds essays tells about it with an infectious enthusiasm. On the way everything from flat earth myths to ancient Greece and [... more]
CDN$21.00
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Operation Iraqi Freedom: What Went Right, What Went ...
Publisher Weekly's childish review: This book is a fine work. Obviously, publisher weekly's reviewer must be one of those individuals (without much of a life experience) that cannot stand the recent successes of our military in Iraq and elsewhere. [... more]
CDN$38.95
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What Were the Crusades?
Useful background and approach: Thanks to Islamism, the subject of the Crusades has gained new currency, indeed urgency. This is the third edition of a very useful introduction to the crusading enterprise by a distinguished professor of history at [... more]
CDN$13.49
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