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  • William Alphonso Murrill: The Naturalist

    by Ronald H. Petersen ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    For the casual naturalist, William Alphonso Murrill’s name is associated with a plethora of new species of fungi, his mysterious resignation from the New York Botanical Garden, his disappearance from New York, and rediscovery as a free spirit in Florida. Pivotal were his years in New York City, of course, but the process through which he arrived there, the people who acted to shape him, and his ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

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  • The Ghost Orchard

    by Helen Humphreys ...
    For readers of H is for Hawk and The Frozen Thames, The Ghost Orchard is award-winning author Helen Humphreys’ fascinating journey into the secret history of an iconic food. Delving deep into the storied past of the apple in North America, Humphreys explores the intricate link between agriculture, settlement, and human relationships. With her signature insight and exquisite prose, she brings light ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Great Fossil Enigma

    The Search for the Conodont Animal

    by Simon J. Knell ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology's greatest mysteries: "Deserves to be widely read and enjoyed" ( Priscum).Stephen Jay Gould borrowed from Winston Churchill when he described the eel-like conodont animal as a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. The search for its identity confounded scientists for more than a century. Some thought ... Read more

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    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Remarkable Creatures

    Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origins of Species

    by Sean B. Carroll ...
    National Book Award Finalist: A biologist's "thoroughly enjoyable" account of the expeditions that unearthed the history of life on our planet ( Publishers Weekly).Not so long ago, most of our world was an unexplored wilderness. Our sense of its age was vague and vastly off the mark, and much of the knowledge of our own species' history was a set of fantastic myths and fairy tales. But scientists ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Bees in America

    How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation

    by Tammy Horn ...
    "Integrates history, technology, sociology, economics, and politics with this remarkable insect serving as the unifying concept" ( Buffalo News).The tiny, industrious honey bee has become part of popular imagination—reflected in our art, our advertising, even our language itself with such terms as queen bee and busy as a bee. Honey bees—and the values associated with them—have influenced American ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Monster's Bones

    The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World

    by David K. Randall ...
    **One of Smithsonian Magazine's Ten Best Books of 2022A gripping narrative of a fearless paleontologist, the founding of America’s most loved museums, and the race to find the largest dinosaurs on record.**In the dust of the Gilded Age Bone Wars, two vastly different men emerge with a mission to fill the empty halls of New York’s struggling American Museum of Natural History: Henry Fairfield ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Pencil

    A History of Design and Circumstance

    by Henry Petroski ...
    Henry Petroski traces the origins of the pencil back to ancient Greece and Rome, writes factually and charmingly about its development over the centuries and around the world, and shows what the pencil can teach us about engineering and technology today. ... Read more

    $20.99 CAD

  • A Sea without Fish

    Life in the Ordovician Sea of the Cincinnati Region

    by David L. Meyer, Richard Arnold Davis, Steven M. Holland ...
    Series series Life of the Past
    A "superbly written, richly illustrated" guide to the animals who lived 450 million years ago—in the fossil-rich area where Cincinnati, Ohio now stands ( Rocks & Minerals).The region around Cincinnati, Ohio, is known throughout the world for the abundant and beautiful fossils found in limestones and shales that were deposited as sediments on the sea floor during the Ordovician Period, about 450 ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Assembling the Dinosaur

    Fossil Hunters, Tycoons, and the Making of a Spectacle

    by Lukas Rieppel ...
    A lively account of the dinosaur's role in Gilded Age America, examining the connection between business, paleontology, and museums.Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America into a world center for vertebrate paleontology. At the same time, the United States emerged as the world's largest industrial economy, ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Woodworking Tools (Illustrated)

    by Peter C. Welsh ...
    This history of woodworking hand tools from the 17th to the 20th century is one of a very gradual evolution of tools through generations of craftsmen. As a result, the sources of changes in design are almost impossible to ascertain.Published sources, moreover, have been concerned primarily with the object shaped by the tool rather than the tool itself. The resulting scarcity of information is ... Read more

    $1.40 CAD

  • Urban Forests

    A Natural History of Trees and People in the American Cityscape

    by Jill Jonnes ...
    **“Far-ranging and deeply researched, Urban Forests reveals the beauty and significance of the trees around us.” *—*Elizabeth Kolbert, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sixth Extinction“Jonnes extols the many contributions that trees make to city life and celebrates the men and women who stood up for America’s city trees over the past two centuries. . . . An authoritative account.” —Gerard ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Double Fold

    Libraries and the Assault on Paper

    by Nicholson Baker ...
    The ostensible purpose of a library is to preserve the printed word. But for fifty years our country’s libraries–including the Library of Congress–have been doing just the opposite, destroying hundreds of thousands of historic newspapers and replacing them with microfilm copies that are difficult to read, lack all the color and quality of the original paper and illustrations, and deteriorate with ... Read more

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