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1	To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa more books like this by Pat Shipman A portrait drawn from historical documents discusses the nineteenth-century adventurer's rescue from slavery, her education under and marriage to English adventurer Sam Baker, and her life in the uncharted interior of Africa. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari more books like this by Pat Shipman In this persuasive new biography, Shipman takes a fresh look at the alluring, scandalous, and most notorious female spy in history. see all copies from $5.66! new only from $5.66! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind more books like this by Erik Trinkaus, Pat Shipman In 1856, the disovery of the remains of Neandertal Man in a Swiss mountain valley forced scientists to face what Thomas Huxley called "The question of questions". What precisely was man's ancestry? Coming just as Darwin published "Origin of Species", Neandertal Man instantly became the focus of controversy and has remained so, in various ways, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight more books like this by Pat Shipman A bird's-eye view of evolution through the story of Archaeopteryx, the fossil skeleton of a transitional bird-reptile that offers a stunning glimpse into the origins of flight -- and the drama with which scientific understanding unfolds. A few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species, the scientific world was set ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.82! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science more books like this by Pat Shipman In an intellectually engaging narrative that mixes science and history, theories and personalities, Pat Shipman asks the question: Can we have legitimate scientific investigations of differences among humans without sounding racist? Through the original controversy over evolutionary theory in Darwin's time; the corruption of evolutionary theory ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins more books like this by Alan Walker, Pat Shipman In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists in northern Kenya discovered the most complete skeleton to date of a classic "missing link" between apes and humans. Now team leader Alan Walker and his wife Pat Shipman tell the full story of this epochal find, giving an unprecedented, detailed yet lively portrait of our earliest ancestors. Illustrations and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of "Proconsul" more books like this by Alan Walker, Pat Shipman This book offers a unique insider's perspective on the unfolding discovery of a crucial link in our evolution: "Proconsul," a fossil ape named whimsically after a performing chimpanzee called Consul. "The Ape in the Tree" is written in the voice of Alan Walker, whose involvement with "Proconsul" began when his graduate supervisor analyzed the ... see all copies from $9.99! new only from $17.97! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The wisdom of bones : in search of human origins more books like this by Alan Walker, Pat Shipman This work tells the story of the excavation of the "Nariokotome Boy", found in Kenya in 1984 by Richard Leakey and Walker, and the most complete skeleton of Homo erectus ever found. The book also details the detective work that followed the find and the insights into our species that were revealed. The "Nariokotome Boy" has been able to tell ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugene DuBois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right more books like this by Pat Shipman Eugene Dubois was born on January 28, 1858, an interesting between-time in science. It was some eighteen months after the first Neanderthal skeleton was found in Germany and a little more than a year before Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species" in England. Believing that a powerful truth must lie in Darwin's deceptively simple ideas, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
10	The man who found the missing link : the life and times of Eugene Dubois more books like this by Pat Shipman Written in the style of a novel, this biography tells the story of one the greatest turn-of-the-century scientists, the Dutchman Eugene Dubois, whose discovery of the "missing link" completely altered our view of human origins. Through sheer force of personality, intellect and luck, Dubois pulled off one of the most amazing scientific coups of all ... see all copies from $3.50! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Life History of a Fossil: An Introduction to Taphonomy and Paleoecology more books like this by Pat Shipman Pat Shipman sets forth the taphonomic methods of analyzing how animal remains are acted upon and altered, both by biological and by geographic phenomena, in their passage from the biosphere of bones and carcass into the lithosphere of fossils. She explains the role of disease, predation, accidents, postmortem destruction, and transport in the life ... see all copies from $10.26!
12 view cover	The Human Skeleton more books like this by Pat Shipman, Alan Walker, David Bichell see all copies from $4.32! new only from $99.00!
13 view cover	The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Euga]ne DuBois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right more books like this by Pat Shipman Born eighteen months after the first Neanderthal skeleton was found and a year before Charles Darwin published "The Origin of Species," Eugene Dubois vowed to discover a powerful truth in Darwin's deceptively simple ideas. There is a link, he declared, a link as yet unknown, between apes and Man. It takes a brilliant writer to elucidate a ... see all copies from $3.81! new only from $3.81! \| SVS
14 view cover	The Stolen Woman: Florence Baker's Extraordinary Life from the Harem to the Heart of Africa more books like this by Pat Shipman The events of Florence Baker's life read like a novel. Born in the 1840s into an aristocratic family who was murdered in the Hungarian revolution, Florence fled to the Ottoman empire with her nurse. She was next heard of living in a harem, barely in her teens. In 1859 she was presented at auction, and it was in this most unlikely of settings that ... see all copies from $19.95! first editions
15 view cover	Femme Fatale: a Biography of Mata Hari: Love, Lies and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari by Pat Shipman Mata Hari was the prototype of the beautiful but unscrupulous female agent who uses sexual allure to gain access to secrets, if she was indeed a spy. In 1917, the notorious dancer Mata Hari was arrested, tried, and executed for espionage. It was charged at her trial that the dark-eyed siren was responsible for the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant ... see all copies from $35.82! new only from $35.82!
16	Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago by Anna Forbes see all copies from $22.07! new only from $22.07!
17 view cover	Man Who Found the Missing Link more books like this by Pat Shipman Through lively prose and numerous maps and photos, this accessible work traces the life of Eugene Dubois, a scientist whose seminal 1891 discovery of fossilized remains--Pithecanthropus erectus, more commonly known as Homo erectus--provides compelling evidence for Darwin's theory of natural selection. Part defense of scientific innovation, part ... see all copies from $16.76!
18	Mit Dem Herzen Einer Löwin by Pat; Frey Shipman, Ulrike see all copies from $31.08! new only from $31.08!

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