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Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

Product Description: The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed in headlines as revealing the elusive transitional step, the moment when we stopped being “animal” and started being “human...read more

By Henry Gee

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Hardcover:

9780226284880, titled "The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution" | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 15, 2013, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being.

Paperback:

9780226271200, titled "The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution" | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, April 29, 2015), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being.

9780387557830, titled "Fraktale: Selbstahnlichkeit-Chaosspiel-Dimension : Ein Arbeitsbuch" | Springer Verlag, September 1, 1992, cover price $15.00 | also contains Fraktale: Selbstahnlichkeit-Chaosspiel-Dimension : Ein Arbeitsbuch

By the Sea

Product Description: Horrific bereavement has forced Detective Inspector Persephone Sheepwool to leave London and make a new life on the remote North Norfolk coast. But horror is never far behind, as she discovers when a body is found at a museum in a decaying clifftop mansion whose shadowy staff is dedicated to discovering the secrets of the sea...read more

By Henry Gee

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9781500247942 | Createspace Independent Pub, June 19, 2014, cover price $12.99 | About this edition: Horrific bereavement has forced Detective Inspector Persephone Sheepwool to leave London and make a new life on the remote North Norfolk coast.

A Field Guide to Dinosaurs: The Essential Handbook for Travelers in the Mesozoic

Product Description: Sensational discoveries during the past decade have shed new light on the most intimate details of dinosaursâ lives, including their appearance and behavior, their family structures, and their sex lives. The latest dinosaur findings present a far more vivid and complete picture of this extraordinarily successful group of animals than would have been thought possible only a few years ago...read more

By Henry Gee and Luis V. Rey

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9780785829027 | Reprint edition (Chartwell Books, January 30, 2012), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: Sensational discoveries during the past decade have shed new light on the most intimate details of dinosaursâ lives, including their appearance and behavior, their family structures, and their sex lives.

A Field Guide to Dinosaurs: The Essential Handbook for Travelers in the Mesozoic

Presents a detailed look at approximately 100 dinosaurs from the Triassic to the Late Cretaceous Period, including what they looked like, where they lived, and how they acted.

By Henry Gee and Luis V. Rey

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9780764155116 | 1 edition (Barrons Educational Series Inc, February 1, 2003), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Presents a detailed look at approximately 100 dinosaurs from the Triassic to the Late Cretaceous Period, including what they looked like, where they lived, and how they acted.

The Elizabethan Prayer-book & Ornaments

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

By Henry Gee

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9781110291700 | Bibliolife, May 30, 2009, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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9781110291687 | Bibliolife, May 30, 2009, cover price $29.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

The Elizabethan Clergy and the Settlement of Religion, 1558-1564

By Henry Gee

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Hardcover:

9780559357695 | Bibliolife, October 31, 2008, cover price $32.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

Paperback:

9780559357688 | Bibliolife, October 31, 2008, cover price $19.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

The Elizabethan Prayer-Book And Ornaments, With An Appendix Of Documents

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

By Henry Gee

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9780548702031 | Kessinger Pub Co, November 30, 2007, cover price $30.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

Futures from Nature

Product Description: Are aliens really not interested in us at all? Is there a significant health benefit from drinking your own urine? Is loading your personality into a computer the best way to survive the death of the body? Is the death of the body really necessary? Here are a very large number of very small fictions on the subject of the future and what it might be like...read more

By Henry Gee (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780765318053 | Tor Books, November 13, 2007, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: A collection of one hundred short stories--each about eight-hundred words long and originally published between 1999 and 2006 in Nature--by notable scientists, journalists, and science fiction authors offers speculation about the world of the future, in works by Arthur C.

Paperback:

9780765318060 | Tor Books, October 28, 2008, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Are aliens really not interested in us at all?

Miscellaneous:

9781429925372 | 1 edition (Tor Books, November 13, 2007), cover price $9.99

Documents Illustrative of English Church History

Product Description: This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact...read more

By Henry Gee and William John Hardy

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9780404198985 | Reprint edition (Ams Pr Inc, November 30, 2011), cover price $68.75 | About this edition: This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work.

La escalera de Jacob / Jacob's Ladder: La historia del genoma humano / The history of the human genome

Product Description: La escalera de Jacob nos ofrece una explicaciÃ³n lÃºcida y sencilla de lo que realmente nos revela la secuenciaciÃ³n del genoma humano. El biÃ³logo evolutivo Henry Gee muestra que conocer la secuenciaciÃ³n es sÃ³lo el comienzo de una gran aventura, como ver las letras y las palabras en el acto de leer...read more

By Yolanda Fontal (trans) and Henry Gee

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9788449318962 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, June 1, 2006), cover price $28.95 | About this edition: La escalera de Jacob nos ofrece una explicaciÃ³n lÃºcida y sencilla de lo que realmente nos revela la secuenciaciÃ³n del genoma humano.

The Reformation Period

By Henry Gee

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9781428604520 | Kessinger Pub Co, May 30, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

The Science Of Middle-earth: Explaining The Science Behind The Greatest Fantasy Epic Ever Told!

An exploration of the scientific principles behind the magical occurrences in the popular Lord of the Rings series, written by a senior editor at Nature magazine, discusses why elves can see farther than humans, why Frodo's sword turns blue, how the rings of power work, and more. Original.

By Henry Gee

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9781593600235 | Cold Spring Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $14.00 | About this edition: An exploration of the scientific principles behind the magical occurrences in the popular Lord of the Rings series, written by a senior editor at Nature magazine, discusses why elves can see farther than humans, why Frodo's sword turns blue, how the rings of power work, and more.

Jacob's Ladder: The History of the Human Genome

An accessible discussion of what can be understood through human genome sequencing describes how the interactions of genes direct the growth of individuals, revealing what gene research will enable in the future. 20,000 first printing.

By Henry Gee

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Hardcover:

9780393050837 | W W Norton & Co Inc, July 1, 2004, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: Discusses what can be understood through human genome sequencing, describes how the interactions of genes direct the growth of individuals, and reveals what gene research will enable in the future.

Dinosaurios: Guia De Campo

By Henry Gee and Luis V. Rey

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Hardcover:

9788475562681 | Oceano De Mexico, November 1, 2003, cover price $33.24

Shaking the Tree: The History of Life

By Henry Gee

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Hardcover:

9780412834509 | Subsequent edition (Chapman & Hall, September 1, 2002), cover price $55.01 | also contains Eco-cities: Scenarios for Innovation and Sustainability

Rise of the Dragon: Readings from Nature on the Chinese Fossil Record

Product Description: Over the past decade, fossil finds from China have stunned the world, grabbing headlines and changing perceptions with a wealth of new discoveries. Many of these finds were first announced to English speakers in the journal Nature...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Henry Gee (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780226284903 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $106.00 | About this edition: Over the past decade, fossil finds from China have stunned the world, grabbing headlines and changing perceptions with a wealth of new discoveries.

Paperback:

9780226284910 | Univ of Chicago Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $43.00

Elizabethan Clergy and the Settlement of Religion, 1558-64

By Henry Gee

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Hardcover:

9780404198992 | Ams Pr Inc, January 1, 2002, cover price $39.50

In Search of Deep Time: Beyond the Fossil Record to a New History of Life

Product Description: Cladisticsâthe science of comparisonâis transforming the way paleontologists view evolution. In Search of Deep Time strips away conventional assumptions about the evolution of life to reveal a world that may be far stranger and more humbling than had been previously imagined...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Hardcover:

9780684854212 | Free Pr, December 1, 1999, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: A revolutionary approach to biology and evolution uses DNA research and the study of cladistics to compare fossilized remains and model the most likely common ancestor of many dinosaur species

Paperback:

9780801487132 | Cornell Univ Pr, February 1, 2001, cover price $25.50 | About this edition: Cladisticsâthe science of comparisonâis transforming the way paleontologists view evolution.

Shaking the Tree: Readings from Nature in the History of Life

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By Henry Gee (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780226284965 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $118.00

Paperback:

9780226284972 | Univ of Chicago Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $34.00

Before the Backbone: Views on the Origin of the Vertebrates

Product Description: We cannot catechise our stony ichthyolites, as did the necromantic lady of the Arabian Nights did the coloured fishes of the lake which had once been a city, when she touched their dead bodies with her wand, and they straightaway raised their heads and rephed to her queries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Henry Gee

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9780412483004 | Chapman & Hall, June 1, 1996, cover price $239.00 | About this edition: We cannot catechise our stony ichthyolites, as did the necromantic lady of the Arabian Nights did the coloured fishes of the lake which had once been a city, when she touched their dead bodies with her wand, and they straightaway raised their heads and rephed to her queries.

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