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Arthropod RelationshipsISBN 0412754207 (0-412-75420-7)
Hardcover, Springer
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Dry Store Roomby Richard ForteyISBN 0007209886 (0-00-720988-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Publishers Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dry Store Room'Book summary:'Dry Store Room No. 1' is an intimate biography of the Natural History Museum, celebrating the eccentric personalities who have peopled it and capturing the wonders of scientific endeavour, academic rigour and imagination. [via]
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Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museumby Richard ForteyISBN 0307263622 (0-307-26362-2)
Hardcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum'Book summary:Richard Forteyone of the worlds most gifted natural scientists and acclaimed author of Life, Trilobite and Earthdescribes this splendid new book as a museum of the mind. But it is, as well, a perfect behind-the-scenes guide to a legendary place. Within its pages, Londons Natural History Museum, a home of treasuresplants from the voyage of Captain Cook, barnacles to which Charles Darwin devoted years of study, hidden accursed jewelspulses with life and miraculous surprises. In an elegant and illuminating narrative, Fortey acquaints the reader with the extraordinary people, meticulous research and driving passions that helped to create the timeless experiences of wonder that fill the museum. And with the museums hallways and collection rooms providing a dazzling framework, Fortey offers an often eye-opening social history of the scientific accomplishments of the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Forteys scholarship dances with wit. Here is a book that is utterly entertaining from its first page to its last. [via]More editions of Dry Storeroom No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum:
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Earth : An Intimate Historyby Richard ForteyISBN 0006551378 (0-00-655137-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Earth : An Intimate History'Book summary:In Earth, the acclaimed author of Trilobite! and Life takes us on a grand tour of the earths physical past, showing how the history of plate tectonics is etched in the landscape around us.
Beginning with Mt. Vesuvius, whose eruption in Roman times helped spark the science of geology, and ending in a lab in the West of England where mathematical models and lab experiments replace direct observation, Richard Fortey tells us what the present says about ancient geologic processes. He shows how plate tectonics came to rule the geophysical landscape and how the evidence is written in the hills and in the stones. And in the process, he takes us on a wonderful journey around the globe to visit some of the most fascinating and intriguing spots on the planet. [via]More editions of Earth : An Intimate History:
- Earth: An Intimate History: ISBN 0375706208 (0-375-70620-8)
Softcover, Vintage Books - The Earth: An Intimate History: ISBN 0002570114 (0-00-257011-4)
Hardcover, Harpercollins - Earth : An Intimate History: ISBN 0375406263 (0-375-40626-3)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Earth : An Intimate History: ISBN 0006551378 (0-00-655137-8)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
- Earth: An Intimate History: ISBN 0375706208 (0-375-70620-8)
Fossils: The Key to the Pastby Richard ForteyISBN 0565008846 (0-565-00884-6)
Softcover, William Rudolf Sabbott
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fossils the Key to the Past'Book summary:A straightforward introduction to fossils, their study and their use in reconstructing the history of the Earth. [via]
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- Fossils : The Key to the Past: ISBN 0565091638 (0-565-09163-8)
Softcover, Natural History Museum Publications - Fossils: The Key to the Past: ISBN 0113100191 (0-11-310019-1)
Softcover, Stationery Office, The - Fossils: The Key to the Past: ISBN 0442226152 (0-442-22615-2)
Hardcover, Van Nostrand Reinhold - Fossils the Key to the Past: ISBN 0565008846 (0-565-00884-6)
Softcover, William Rudolf Sabbott
- Fossils : The Key to the Past: ISBN 0565091638 (0-565-09163-8)
Hidden Landscape of Britainby Richard ForteyISBN 0224036513 (0-224-03651-3)
Hardcover, Random House
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Life : A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earthby Richard ForteyISBN 037570261X (0-375-70261-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth'Book summary:"The excitement of discovery cannot be bought, or faked, or learned from books," London Natural History Museum senior paleontologist Richard Fortey writes in Life. The first chapter, an engrossing account of an Arctic fossil-hunting expedition he undertook as a university student, will bring shivers to anyone who has ever ignored cold hands, hunger, and filthy socks to keep looking for something new, some piece of rock or bit of plant that may hold the key to the gleaming certainty of understanding. Fortey's descriptions of scruffy field assistants and eccentrically brilliant scientists are easily as interesting as the billions of years of evolution he so imaginatively describes. After all, the fossil record has not been accepted without controversy, and the arguments among fallible evolutionary biologists as they refined their theories make for great reading. But it is the little animals that make up our distant ancestry that are the focus here. The often mysterious fossils they left behind are like a history book in a language we don't know--the history of bugs and birds, humans and cauliflowers. One by one, Fortey reveals how the puzzles of paleontology have been subjected to the scientific method and to the politics and personal ambitions of academia, until a beautifully clear path is traced from the very first traces of life all the way across the eons to the advent of Homo sapiens. Fortey's elegantly written tour lets us share his passion for ancient seas and the animals that frolicked in them, and understand how time and chance contributed to the biography of us all. --Therese Littleton [via]
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- Life : A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth: ISBN 0002555603 (0-00-255560-3)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited - Life : A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth: ISBN 0375401199 (0-375-40119-9)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group - Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth: ISBN 037570261X (0-375-70261-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc
- Life : A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth: ISBN 0002555603 (0-00-255560-3)
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Life : An Unauthorised Biography : A Natural History of the First Four Thous& Million Years of Life on Earthby Richard ForteyISBN 000638420X (0-00-638420-X)
Softcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Life : An Unauthorised Biography : A Natural History of the First Four Thous& Million Years of Life on Earth'Book summary:A magisterial exploration of the natural history of the first four thousand million years of life on and in the earth, by one of Britain's most dazzling science writers. What do any of us know about the history of our planet before the arrival of man? Most of us have a dim impression of a swirling mass of dust solidifying to form a volcanic globe, briefly populated by dinosaurs, then by woolly mammoths and finally by our own hairy ancestors. This book, aimed at the curious and intelligent but perhaps mildly uninformed reader, brilliantly dispels such lingering notions forever. At the end of the book we understand the complexity of the history of life on earth, and the complexity of how it has come to be understood, as, perhaps, from no other single volume. The result is enthralling. [via]
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Triboliteby Richard ForteyISBN 0006551386 (0-00-655138-6)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolutionby Richard ForteyISBN 0375706216 (0-375-70621-6)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution'Book summary:With his new book Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution, Richard Fortey confirms his status as one of the best communicators of science around today. His hugely enjoyable previous book, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, was shortlisted for the 1998 Rhone-Poulenc science book prize, but Trilobite! is sure to receive even greater acclaim. Whereas Life took the reader on a whistle-stop tour of evolution from start to present--a huge undertaking that necessarily granted little space to each time period or taxonomic group--Trilobite! sees Fortey indulging in a whole book about his overriding paleontological passion, the long extinct and enigmatic creatures of the title. The result is a joy.
Trilobites--woodlicelike creatures that dominated the world's oceans long before the time of the dinosaurs--are, arguably, the most beautiful animals that have ever been chipped out of the fossil record. Fortey certainly seems to think so. His enthusiastic, almost loving explanations of the anatomy, ecology, and long evolutionary history of these fascinating vanished creatures carry the reader on an inspirational journey into the Earth's distant past. But the book is much more than a technical treatise on trilobites. We learn about Fortey himself, his formative years as an amateur then professional paleontologist, about his much-loved teachers and colleagues, and above all, about that strange but addictive pastime known as science. You may not find arthropods as charming as Fortey does, but you will not fail to be charmed by the author. A delightful read. --Chris Lavers, Amazon.co.uk [via]
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