B- Reviews / Book Reviewsanthropology / colonization / fantasy/scifi / novella / science / sorcerer / space flight2 Comments
In Adrian Tchaikovsky’s Elder Race, a junior anthropologist on a distant planet must help the locals he has sworn to study to save a planet from an unbeatable foe. Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way. But a demon is terrorizing the ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsanimals / biology / Ethics / law-enforcement / nature / nature writing / non-fiction / outdoors / science / scientific research / Scientist3 Comments
Join “America’s funniest science writer” (Peter Carlson, Washington Post), Mary Roach, on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law ... more >
B Reviews / Book Reviewsastronaut / immigrants / inventors / NASA / non-fiction / science / space flight2 Comments
8:36 P.M. EST, December 12, 1972: Apollo 17 astronauts Gene Cernan and Jack Schmitt braked to a stop alongside Nansen Crater, keenly aware that they were far, far from home. They had flown nearly a quarter-million miles to the man in the moon’s left eye, landed at its edge, and ... more >
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A tale of some of the most amazing creatures ever to grace this tiny planet—unearth how the science fiction of the Jurassic World franchise inspired the evolution of dinosaur science. It all began in 1993. Jurassic Park was a movie landmark in the development of computer-generated imagery and animatronic visual ... more >
B Reviews / Book ReviewsAustralian / British / friendship / medium / non-fiction / prison / prisoner of war / psychology / science / spiritualism / Turkey / War / Military / World War I2 Comments
The astonishing true story of two World War I prisoners who pulled off one of the most ingenious escapes of all time. Imprisoned in a remote Turkish POW camp during World War I, having survived a two-month forced march and a terrifying shootout in the desert, two British officers, Harry ... more >
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From the author of All That Remains, a tour through the human skeleton and the secrets our bones reveal. In her memoir All That Remains, internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist Dame Sue Black recounted her life lived eye to eye with the Grim Reaper. During the course of ... more >