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1	Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari more books like this by Pat Shipman add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The wisdom of bones : in search of human origins more books like this by Alan Walker, Pat Shipman add to wishlist 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 $1.99! \| first editions
3	To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the Exploration of Central Africa more books like this by Pat Shipman add to wishlist The amazing life of Lady Florence Baker (c. 1845-1916), who made the journey from a Turkish harem to become the wife of an English aristocrat--with whom she made many subsequent journeys to places that included Africa and the Nile. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.03! \| first editions
4	The Neandertals: Changing the Image of Mankind more books like this by Erik Trinkaus, Pat Shipman add to wishlist In 1856 - just as Darwin was completing "Origin of Species" - the fossilized remains of a stocky, powerful human-like creature were discovered in a cave in the Neander Valley in Germany. Opinions about Neandertal Man have veered wildly ever since: he was not human at all, but closer to ape, he was human but not ancient; he was a cannibal, a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.54! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins more books like this by Alan Walker, Pat Shipman add to wishlist 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 $2.79! \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use and Abuse of Science more books like this by Pat Shipman add to wishlist 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? see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.96! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The man who found the missing link : the life and times of Eugene Dubois more books like this by Pat Shipman add to wishlist 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 $2.53! new only from $4.98! \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugine DuBois and His Lifelong Quest to Prove Darwin Right more books like this by Pat Shipman add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $10.55! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Ape in the Tree: An Intellectual and Natural History of "Proconsul" more books like this by Alan Walker, Pat Shipman add to wishlist 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. see all copies from $3.99! new only from $14.47! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
10	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 add to wishlist 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 $2.54! new only from $2.54!
11 view cover	Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight more books like this by Pat Shipman add to wishlist A few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's "The Origin of the Species", the scientific world was set aflutter by an amazing discovery: a fossil skeleton exquisitely preserved, even to the impressions of individual feathers on its wings, had been found in the Bavarian region of Germany. Researchers determined that the unique coupling of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	The Human Skeleton more books like this by Pat Shipman, Alan Walker, David Bichell add to wishlist see all copies from $9.31!
13 view cover	Femme Fatale: a Biography of Mata Hari: Love, Lies and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari by Pat Shipman add to wishlist 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 $2.53! new only from $11.99!
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 add to wishlist 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 $14.42! first editions
15 view cover	Life History of a Fossil: An Introduction to Taphonomy and Paleoecology more books like this by Pat Shipman add to wishlist 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 $24.50!
16 view cover	Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago by Anna Forbes add to wishlist [SINCE my narrative explains itself, I have little to say here beyond accounting for a certain resemblance in these pages to the latter part of the work issued by my husband last year. After I joined him, we shared for the most part the same experiences; but we looked upon them from an entirely different standpoint. Many of my own sex who might ... see all copies from $12.87! new only from $12.87!
17 view cover	The Man Who Found the Missing Link: the Extraordinary Life of Eugene Dubois: the Life and Times of Eugene Dubois by Pat Shipman add to wishlist Pat Shipman's latest book is a scientific biography, written like a novel. It tells the story of one of the greatest scientists at the turn of the century - a Dutchman called Eugene Dubois, now largely forgotten, but the man whose discovery of the 'missing link' altered our view of human origins. As a young man, he decided that the most important ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99!
18	Mit Dem Herzen Einer L? ? Win: Lady Florence Baker Und Ihre Suche Nach Den Quellen Des Nils by Wim Van Der Kallen add to wishlist see all copies from $50.96!
19 view cover	Man Who Found the Missing Link more books like this by Pat Shipman add to wishlist 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 $18.05!
20	Oakridge: A History - A Social History of Oakridge and Its Surrounding Hamlets of Far Oakridge, Waterlane, Bournes Green, Tunley and Daneway by Pat Carrick, Kay Rhodes, Juliet Shipman, Alison Miles (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $50.60! first editions

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