Marlene Hill Donnelly
Marlene Hill Donnelly is a staff artist at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago. [... more]
Harper Collins |
Neil Shubin
Neil Shubin is provost of The Field Museum as well as professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago, where he also serves as an associate dean. Educated at Columbia, Harvard, and the University of California at Berkeley, he lives in ... [... more]
Random House |
Splendors of China's Forbidden City: The Glorious Reign ...
 Beautiful in Many Aspects: This must be one of the most beautiful book that I have ever come acrossed. The cover is very imposing and impressive with the portrait of the Emperor Qian Long, the 4th emperor of the Ching Dynasty. The book contains wonderful [... more]
CDN$72.50
Amazon CA |
The Relic (Widescreen)
From Amazon.com: Do yourself a favor: pick up a copy of Alien, Ridley Scott's brilliant sci-fi/horror masterpiece, instead of wasting your time on The Relic. This patent rip-off of just about every other worthy horror and/or disaster flick certainly [... more]
CDN$11.99
Amazon CA |
Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics
Author: Simon Mawer Author: Field Museum of Chicago Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 576.5092 EAN: 9780810957480 ISBN: 0810957485 Number Of Pages: 176 Publication Date: 2006-09-01 [... more]
CDN$38.95
Amazon CA |
Vivekananda: A Biography
Captivating...: This is the first biography I owned and at the end of reading, left a feeling that is a combination of optimism, enthusiasm and a fire in the belly to accomplish something in life. Swami Vivekananda, a Saint/Patriot of India is an amazing [... more]
CDN$16.15
Amazon CA |
The New Dinosaurs
From Amazon.com: "Nothing changes like the past." No part of the past has changed more in the last few decades than our picture of the dinosaurs. When William Stout drew the pictures for the first edition of Dinosaurs, in 1981, the ancient [... more]
CDN$35.12
Amazon CA |
Frommer's Irreverent Guide to Chicago
irreverent guide to chicago: disappointing to say the least - much of the book looked as if it had been recopied at kinko's. the maps were extremely hard to read - no color at all. i can't quite figure what's supposed to be irreverent in the book unless [... more]
CDN$16.99
Amazon CA |
Scholastic Reader: A Dinosaur Named Sue: The Find of the ...
Sue: Dinosaurs are a hot topic right now...and A Dinosaur Named Sue: The Find of the Century really teaches young kids about the job of a paleontologist--in a positive light. SUE, the most complete T. rex fossil ever found, is an amazing discovery, both [... more]
CDN$5.50
Amazon CA |
Discoveries: Forbidden City
Wonderful Armchair Guide: I think this slim guide, that slips easily into a pocket, is the perfect beginner's guide to the Forbidden City. It does have great photos, historical drawings and the maps (arial and drawn) of this World Culture Site, but in [... more]
CDN$18.95
Amazon CA |
Painting Wildlife in Watercolor
Fearless technique to painting wildlife: This book is outstanding! Peggy shows approaches to watercolor that make if fun for the beginer as well as an advanced painter. Her tecniques could be used in many aplications, not just wildlife. A beautifuly [... more]
CDN$30.05
Amazon CA |
Ghosts of Tsavo: Stalking the Mystery Lions of East Africa
The Outlaw Lions: "Tsavo" means "place of slaughter" - the lions there are abnormally large, have maneless males, and are historically known as man-eaters. In 1898 two rogue lions terrorized a railway construction project; these lions [... more]
CDN$42.00
Amazon CA |
