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The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum
by Richard Fortey
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by Cristin O'Keefe Aptowicz
Published Sep 2015
Read ReviewsA mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities
by Rob Dunn
Published Dec 2014
Read ReviewsA biologist shows the influence of wild species on our well-being and the world and how nature still clings to us - and always will.
by Tracy Chevalier
Published Oct 2010
Read ReviewsA voyage of discoveries, a meeting of two remarkable women, and an extraordinary time and place enrich bestselling author Tracy Chevalier's enthralling new novel.
by Rebecca Stott
Published May 2010
Read ReviewsThe Coral Thief, as riveting and beautifully rendered as Ghostwalk, Rebecca Stotts first novel, is a provocative and tantalizing mix of history, philosophy, and suspense. It conjures up vividly both the feats of Napoleon and the accomplishments of those working without fame or glory to change our ideas of who we are and the world in which we ...
by Richard Preston
Published Feb 2008
Read ReviewsRichard Preston unfolds the spellbinding story of Steve Sillett, Marie Antoine, and the tiny group of daring botanists and amateur naturalists that found a lost world above California, a world that is dangerous, hauntingly beautiful, and unexplored: The world of the largest and tallest organisms the world has ever sustained the coast redwood...
by Tom Zoellner
Published Jun 2007
Read ReviewsA journey across six continents to uncover the secrets behind one of our most luxurious and costly status symbols. Diamonds are not particularly rare in nature. Nor do they have any intrinsic value. So how did they become the birdcages for our deepest feelings of romantic love and commitment? The answers will surprise you, as this book takes a ...
by Annie Cheney
Published Mar 2007
Read ReviewsAn audacious, disturbing, and compellingly written investigative exposé of a little known aspect of the "death care" world: the lucrative business of procuring, buying, and selling human cadavers and body parts.
by Michael C. Carroll
Published Aug 2005
Read ReviewsIn the shadow of New York City lies an unimposing 840-acre island unidentified on most maps. Lab 257 takes you deep inside Plum Island's laboratories and presents startling revelations including virus outbreaks, biological meltdowns and the connections between Plum Island, Lyme disease and the West Nile virus.
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