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FictionSilent Invasion
by Jenaro Martínez
Deep in the Mexican desert, paleontologist David Fernández makes an unsettling discovery among the fossilized bones of a dinosaur.News of the discovery of a strange object goes viral create deep divisions in the scientific community. After recent statements by the United States government, regarding the existence of unidentified flying phenomena, and a growing wave of sightings across the world, a frenzied race starts to uncover the truth behind the discovery of a supposedly alien artifact.Everybody wants a piece of it: fans, UFO researchers, scientists – even a band of local drug dealers. But it is NASA researcher Victoria Collins who has the means to analyze it and prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.What David does not know is that Victoria is an agent from a covert American organization – one who will do whatever it takes to fulfill their mission.
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Earth’s Epic: How Far is 4.6 Billion Years
by Miao Desui
Earth’s Epic: How Far is 4.6 Billion Years is a new book from Professor Miao Desui, an internationally renowned paleontologist and science writer. He has written many popular science works with good sales and reputation, and has won dozens of honors. In Earth’s Epic, he explains earth science to teenagers for the first time. In Earth’s Epic: How Far is 4.6 Billion Years, the author tells about the history of earth’s evolution, secrets in rocks, crustal movement, life evolution history recorded by fossils, earth minerals using popular and poetic language, showing readers the epic scene of earth’s evolution. As a popular science book, the Earth’s Epic is characterized by the concept of general education. In the book, Professor Miao Desui uses straightforward language, builds a scientific and rigorous knowledge system with multiple humane philosophies interwoven within the text, eliminates the barriers between science and liberal arts, and integrates geography, biology, history, physics, chemistry, literature, and other multiple disciplines. The book transmits the spirit of science, inspires interdisciplinary thinking, and enables readers of all ages to read and obtain knowledge from it. Since published, Earth’s Epic has repeatedly appeared on the authoritative lists of the industry and won the Best China Books of 2021. It has been recommended by multiple media, such as China Book Review, China Publishing Today, China Reading Weekly, China Science Daily, China Press Publication Radio Film and Television Journal, and We Love Science. Besides, Shen Shuzhong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences; Chen Qifan, vice chairman of the China Science Writers Association; and Zhou Shangyi, professor of the Faculty of Geographical Science of Beijing Normal University, and many other experts have also given it high praise.
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MAMMOTH AND OTHER ANCIENT ANIMALS OF SIBERIA
by Albert Protopopov et al
Asian Northeast has been excavating over 75% of all mammoth bones globally. There is a research centre focused on these ancient animals here. Palaeontologists of the Fauna Department of the Academy of Sciences of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia) worked to compile this encyclopaedia. This book presents unique contents related to sensational findings of mammoth’s, cave lion’s, woolly rhino’s and other ancient animals’ bones excavated in the northern Siberia. Text bodies go along with illustrations visualizing the animals’ images, as well as with real photos of paleontological findings. The book would be a real catch for those who take interest in the history of the Earth and its ancient inhabitants.
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Biography: science, technology & engineeringCharles Doolittle Walcott, Paleontologist
by Ellis Yochelson (author)
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850–1927) is one of the most important and highly respected figures in the history of geology. This in-depth biography documents his career and life from birth to retirement from the U.S. Geological Survey in 1907, when he became Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.With very little formal education (he did not complete high school), Walcott became special assistant to James Hall, State Paleontologist of New York, and made a fundamental contribution to the study of trilobites by describing their limbs. He joined the new U.S. Geological Survey in 1879 and rose through the ranks to become its director in 1894, a position he held for 13 years. Walcott is known best for having documented in detail the “Cambrian,” the oldest richly fossiliferous rocks in the world. His primary efforts for the U.S. Geological Survey were in keying fossils to the sequence of rocks, and he brought new precision to the biostratigraphy of the older rocks of North America.A talented and productive scientist, he also applied his talents to administration and made the USGS the most successful scientific organization in the world. At one time he was Director of the USGS, Chief of the Reclamation Service (effectively in charge of national forests), Secretary of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, and chairman of two committees appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt. The publication of his biography will serve to illuminate the life of an important but little-known American scientist.[tab:Author]Ellis Yochelson is past-president of the Paleontological Society and cofounder and past-president of the History of Earth Sciences Society. He is the author of The National Museum of Natural History: Seventy-Five Years in the Natural History Building and editor of the two-volume Proceedings of the North American Paleontological Convention.“Ellis Yochelson leads us to a new, much deeper understanding of Charles D. Walcott and the institutions with which he was associated. He captures an era of geology that is gone, and in so doing may help educate modern readers about the goals and rigors of geoscience in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.”—Kennard Bork, past editor of History of Earth Science
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Biography: science, technology & engineeringCharming The Bones
A Portrait of Margaret Matthew Colbert
by Anne Brimacombe Elliot (author)
Born in 1911 to an unconventional, free-spirited artist mother and an eminent paleontologist father, Margaret Matthew chose a career as an artist specializing in restorations of extinct animals. She began her career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City drawing fossil bones, and there she met her husband, the noted paleontologist Edwin (Ned) Colbert.Charming the Bones portrays Margaret’s life as the wife of a famous man and the mother of five sons and, later in her life, as a respected restoration artist, illustrator, and sculptor.Margaret Matthew Colbert’s paintings, drawings, and sculptures grace museums worldwide and enable the general public, as well as professional paleontologists, to visualize extinct creatures.
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Children's & YAAugust 2021Dinosaur
by John Allan
We know much more about dinosaurs today than when they were first studied over 200 years ago. The answers are not always easy to find and some guesswork has been used by experts in the past. The next discovery may confirm if the guess was right or wrong. Piece by piece, as the answers have come together we find out more about these fascinating prehistoric beasts. Find the answers to all your dinosaur questions that have been puzzling you and many more you would never have thought of asking. Essential facts to gory details it’s all you need to know about Dinosaurs!
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Earth Adventures – Tracking Chinese Dinosaurs
by Xing Lida
The most important stop on the “Earth Adventure” is China. In China, 166 named dinosaurs have been found. With the passage of time and the continuous digging and discovery by the archaeologists, we believe that more dinosaurs will be found. Let's follow Xing Lida who is a paleontologist to “Track Chinese Dinosaurs” through mysterious fossils and footprints.
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Biography: science, technology & engineeringSmithsonian Institution Secretary, Charles Doolittle Walcott
by Ellis Yochelson (author)
Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) is a highly respected figure in the history of geology and paleontology. Perhaps his most notable contribution to his field was his discovery of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale, one of the most important fossil discoveries ever made. In addition to his distinguished field work, Walcott’s career included years of service as an administrative leader in the scientific community: as director of the U.S. Geological Survey, as secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, as organizer of the National Space and Aeronautics Administration, as a founding member of the National Academy of Sciences.Smithsonian Institution Secretary continues the story Ellis L. Yochelson began in Charles Doolittle Walcott, Paleontologist (1998). Using Walcott’s letters and journals and the recollections of friends and colleagues, Yochelson discusses Walcott’s life and career as secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.Accompanied by illustrations and photographs from private collection
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HistoryFossils, Apes and Humans
by Carlo GInzburg
Today we regard paleontology and connoisseurship as very distant spheres of knowledge. But are they not sharing a commitment to the decipherment of clues, either natural or cultural? This richly illustrated collection of essays will substantiate this argument through a series of case studies, starting from Agostino Scilla, a painter and collector, author of an early work on paleontology: La vana speculazione disingannata dal senso (Empty speculation disproven by senses, 1670). The reconstruction of this complex intellectual trajectory will go on, focusing on two friends, Petrus Camper (1722-1789) and François-Xavier de Burtin (1743-1818). The former, a well-known Dutch anatomist, was interested in painting and physiognomy: his argument about “facial lines” was reworked (and distorted) by 19th and 20th century racism. The latter, a paleontologist and a collector, moved from the study of fossils in the region of Brussels to the study of paintings. Burtin’s work inspired on the one hand, Georges Cuvier, the founder of comparative anatomy; on the other, Giovanni Morelli, the founder of “scientific” connoisseurship. This divergent, but connected reception will throw much light on the central theme of the book: the intricate relationship between paleontology and connoisseurship.
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Humanities & Social SciencesJanuary 2021Vanished Giants
The Lost World of the Ice Age
by Stuart, Anthony J.
After the extinction of dinosaurs and before the rise of humans, there existed another group of incredible creatures. Among its ranks were woolly rhinos, mastodons, sabre-tooth tigers, giant ground sloths, and many other spectacularly large animals that are no longer with us. Today, we think of these animals as part of a group known as “Pleistocene megafauna,” named for the geological era in which they lived, also known as the Ice Age. In Vanished Giants: The Lost World of the Ice Age, palaeontologist Anthony Stuart explores the lives and environments of these animals, moving between five continents and several key islands that showcase their variety and evolution. Stuart examines the animals themselves via what we’ve learned from fossil remains, and he describes the landscapes, climates, vegetation, ecological interactions, and other likely aspects of their surroundings. It’s a picture of the world as it was at the dawn of our arrival. Unlike the case of dinosaurs, however, there is no asteroid to blame for the end of that world. Instead, it seems likely that the giants of the Ice Age were driven extinct by climate change, human evolution, or perhaps both. Stuart discusses the possibilities using the latest evidence provided by radiocarbon dating, a record that is incomplete but vast and growing. Throughout, a question arises: was the extinction of Ice Age megafauna the beginning of the so-called Sixth Extinction, which is happening now? If so, what might it teach us about contemporary climate change and its likely course?
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Hobbies, quizzes & games (Children's/YA)February 2021My Dinosaur Activity Book
Fun Facts and Puzzle Play
by Dougal Dixon, Jean Claude
My Dinosaur Activity Book is bursting with fun, colourful and fact-filled activities for kids who are wild about dinosaurs. My Dinosaur Activity Book is the first title in Buster’s new ‘Learn and Play’ activity book series – where fun, playful activities for young children and a love of learning meet.
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Children's & YAOctober 2018Dinosaur Scalebook
The vividly colourful scalebooks put things – and us humans! – in proportion by scaling different animals to everyday objects and distances.
by Carlos da Cruz & Maija Karala
Carlos da Cruz’s Scalebooks are inspiring children’s science books about the amazing size of animals. Some creatures make human beings feel like giants, others like Tom Thumb. In Dinosaur Scalebook you learn how large was a microraptor, one of the smallest dinosaurs, and how small is a human compared to the largest found fossil of a dinosaur. But which dinosaur had feathers similar to a chicken?
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Geography & the EnvironmentIce
Tales from a Disappearing Continent
by Marco Tedesco, Alberto Flores D’Arcais
When people think about the Arctic, they think about a monotone expanse of white snow, devoid of distinguishing figures. They could not be more wrong. Snow can be blue, or purple, or even green under the right light, and in tiny holes under the surface of the ice a strange kind of biome flourishes, which may hold the solution to the mystery of life. Marco Tedesco is one of the scientists living among the fast-disappearing ice. Every facet of his life revolves around it, whether mapping the geography of rivers or studying the bacteria inside the cryoconite holes or the remains of the High Arctic camel. Ice. Tales from a Disappearing Continent is an exciting scientific adventure much like Charles Darwin’s The Voyage of the Beagle, but, at the same time, it is a heartfelt plea to treasure ice, because without it we would lose not only the roots of our past, but also our future.
