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Even if you missed the event you can still get the goods. We now offer signed books from past presenters.
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Our favorite books can now be your too.
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Mark your calendar! Find out what's in the future for The Bone Room Presents.
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Here is a list of presenters that we are either in the process of scheduling, or we have earmarked for the future.
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Recommended Reading...
The Bone Room Presents: A Reading List - Though unsigned, we feel these titles are still worthy of praise, and vital to any natural science lover's reading repertoire. Many of the authors are either previous presenters, scheduled for a future date at The Bone Room Presents, or are on our want list. Please peruse our suggestions and give these extraordinary books a chance to thrill you as they have us.
While these selections are unfortunately not available directly through The Bone Room,
the pictures are linked to Amazon where you can purchase them and read extended reviews.
We receive a 5% kickback on every book you purchase in this way. |
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The Human Bone Manual
Tim White & Pieter Folkens
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Building on the success of their previous book, White and Folkens' The Human Bone Manual is intended for use outside the laboratory and classroom, by professional forensic scientists, anthropologists and researchers. The compact volume includes all the key information needed for identification purposes, including hundreds of photographs designed to show a maximum amount of anatomical information. |
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Bones
By Steve Jenkins
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It's the definitive nonfiction title about human and animal bones, delivered with in-your-face accuracy and intrigue. In this visually driven volume, kids come face-to-face with some head-to-toe bony comparisons, many of them shown at actual size. |
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Animal Skulls: A Guide to North American Species
By Mark Elbroch
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This book describes in words and pictures the bones and regions of the skull important to identification, including illustrations of all the bones in the cranium, leading to a greater understanding of a creature’s place in the natural world. Life-size drawings and detailed measurements make this guide an invaluable reference for wildlife professionals, trackers, and animal-lovers alike. |
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The Human Skeleton
By Pat Shipman & Alan Walker
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This book covers bone biology, bone structure and function (particularly useful are the drawings of muscle attachments), and the interpretation of bones (age, sex, race, stature, trauma, disease, etc.). A very good book to gain understanding of why bones have the morphology they do. |
...On Parasites & MicroBes |
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What's Eating You?:
People & Parasites
By Eugene H. Kaplan
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Kaplan has spent his life traveling the globe exploring oceans and jungles, and incidentally acquiring parasites in his gut. Here, he leads readers on an unforgettable journey into the bizarre yet oddly beautiful world of parasites. In What's Eating You? Eugene Kaplan recounts the true and harrowing tales of his adventures with parasites, and in the process introduces readers to the intimately interwoven lives of host and parasite. |
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Parasite Rex
By Carl Zimmer
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For centuries, parasites have lived in nightmares, horror stories, and in the darkest shadows of science. Yet these creatures are among the world's most successful and sophisticated organisms. This thorough, gracefully written book brings parasites out into the open and uncovers what they can teach us about the most fundamental survival tactics in the universe. |
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March Of The Microbes:
Sighting The Unseen
By John L. Ingraham
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Though we might not be able to see microbes firsthand, the consequences of their activities are readily apparent to our unaided senses. March of the Microbes shows us how to examine, study, and appreciate microbes in the manner of a bird watcher, by making sightings of microbial activities and thereby identifying particular microbes as well as understanding what they do and how they do it. |
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Microcosm:
E. coli & the New Science of Life
By Carl Zimmer
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In this fascinating and utterly engaging book, Carl Zimmer traces E. coli's pivotal role in the history of biology, from the discovery of DNA to the latest advances in biotechnology. |
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Insectopedia
By Hugh Raffles
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For as long as humans have existed, insects have existed, too. Wherever we’ve traveled, they’ve traveled, too. Yet we hardly know them, not even the ones we’re closest to: those that eat our food, share our beds, and live in our homes. A stunningly original exploration of the ties that bind us to the beautiful, ancient, astoundingly accomplished, largely unknown, and unfathomably different species with whom we share the world. |
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Honeybee Democracy
By Thomas D. Seeley
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World-renowned animal behaviorist Thomas Seeley reveals that these incredible insects have much to teach us when it comes to collective wisdom and effective decision making. A remarkable and richly illustrated account of scientific discovery, Honeybee Democracy brings together, for the first time, decades of Seeley's pioneering research to tell the amazing story of house hunting and democratic debate among the honeybees. |
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An Inordinate Fondness for Beetles
By Art Evans
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An inordinate Fondness for Beetles is an authoritative reference in a breathtakingly beautiful volume, one that will leave every reader with a deeper understanding, appreciation, and -yes- fondness for these amazing creatures and their place in nature. |
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Field Guide to Beetles of California
By Art Evans
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This valuable field guide, identifies more than 500 of the state's more conspicuous and colorful species, with the majority presented in stunning color photographs. Written and designed for amateur naturalists, students, and field biologists, it is chock-full of what every beetle watcher wants to know. The informative, accessibly written species accounts include information on beetle identification, natural history, and distribution. |
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Harvestmen:
The Biology of Opiliones
By A Collection of Specialists
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By providing a broad taxonomic and ecological background for understanding this major arachnid group, this book will give field biologists worldwide the means to identify specimens and provide an invaluable reference for understanding harvestmen diversity and biology.
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The Quest For Life In Amber
By George O. Poinar
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The Poinars describe how their hobby-turned-obsession ultimately led to a breakthrough scientific finding: the discovery of preserved insect DNA in amber. |
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Bonobo Handshake: A Memoir of Love and Adventure in the Congo
By Vanessa Woods
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A fascinating memoir of hope and adventure, Bonobo Handshake traces Vanessa's self-discovery as she finds herself falling deeply in love with her husband, the apes, and her new surroundings while probing life's greatest question: What ultimately makes us human? |
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The Elephants Secret Sense:
The Hidden Life Of The Wild Herds Of Africa
By Caitlin O'Connell
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The Elephant’s Secret Sense is O’Connell’s account of her groundbreaking research into seismic listening and communication, chronicling the extraordinary social lives of elephants over the course of fourteen years in the Namibian wilderness. |
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Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature
By David Quammen
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In this updated version of curiosity leads him from New Mexico to Romania, from the Congo to the Amazon, asking questions about mosquitoes (what are their redeeming merits?), dinosaurs (how did they change the life of a dyslexic Vietnam vet?), and cloning (can it save endangered species?).
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Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
By William Stolzenburg
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Wildlife journalist William Stolzenburg follows in the wake of nature’s topmost carnivores and finds chaos in their absence. His startling tour through the bizarre, impoverished landscapes of pest and plague provides a world of reason to think again about meat-eating beasts so recently missing from the web of life. |
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Flattened Fauna
By Roger M. Knutson
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Are you among the millions of people whose only opportunity to observe wildlife comes after it has been run over and pressed into a patty by big rigs, then desiccated by the elements until even flies don’t recognize it? This is the field guide for you! FLATTENED FAUNA fills an important gap in our natural history knowledge and fosters a heightened respect for the ecology of the paved environment. |
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Mammals of California
By Hans Peeters
(Author & Illustrator)
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During the past two decades, the first edition of this popular guide introduced thousands to California's mammals by describing techniques for recognizing their presence, and when possible, methods for watching them in their natural habitats. Mammals of California is now completely revised and updated throughout, making it an ideal companion in the field or classroom. Features line drawings, range maps, & 18 illustrated color plates. |
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Raptors of California
by Hans Peeters
(Author & Illustrator)
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Featuring descriptions of every diurnal California raptor, 27species, this state-of-the-art, beautifully illustrated guide is the first to combine identification of these important birds with a comprehensive discussion of their natural history.
Raptors of California notes well-established field marks in addition to introducing several new pointers that help distinguish especially difficult species. |
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Field Guide to Owls of California and the West
By Hans Peeters
(Author & Illustrator)
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This accessible guide, full of intriguing anecdotes, covers all 19 species of owls occurring in North America with beautiful color plate illustrations for each species. More than an identification guide, Field Guide to Owls of California and the West describes the biology and behavior of owls to make finding and identifying them easier and watching them more enjoyable. |
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The Great Dinosaur Discoveries
By Darren Naish
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This elegantly illustrated volume is a journey through more than two centuries of remarkable discovery. As he describes these significant finds, Naish explains in clear, accessible language, how our ideas about dinosaur appearance, biology, and behavior have developed and changed over time, and what the state of knowledge is today.
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The Big Cats
& Their Fossil Relatives
By Mauricio Anton & Alan Turner
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Voted Best Book on Prehistoric Animals of 1997 by the readers of Prehistoric Times In this beautifully illustrated natural history that links extinct larger feline species with those still in existence, collaborators Alan Turner and Mauricio Antón weave together the evidence of modern feline behavior with that of the fossil record. |
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The Ape in the Tree:
An Intellectual & Natural History of Proconul
By Alan Walker
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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.
Proconsul is the best-known fossil ape in the world.
The history of ideas is set against the vivid adventures of Walker's fossil-hunting expeditions in remote regions of Africa. |
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The Man Who Found the
Missing Link: ...
By Pat Shipman
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Born at a turning point in the history of evolutionary science, 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. The Man Who Found the Missing Link is an irresistible tale of adventure, scientific daring, and a strange and enduring love--and it is true. |
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The Tangled Bank
By Carl Zimmer
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The Tangled Bank is the first textbook about evolution intended for the general reader. Zimmer, an award-winning science writer, takes readers on a fascinating journey into the latest discoveries about evolution. Richly illustrated with over 300 illustrations and photographs, The Tangled Bank is essential reading for anyone who wants understand the history of life on Earth. |
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Your Inner Fish:
A Journey Into the 3.5 Billion
Year History of the Human Body.
By Neil Shubin
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Neil Shubin, the paleontologist and professor of anatomy who co-discovered Tiktaalik, the “fish with hands,” tells the story of our bodies as you've never heard it before, and makes us look at ourselves and our world in an illuminating new light. This is science writing at its finest—enlightening, accessible and told with irresistible enthusiasm. |
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The Greatest Show On Earth:
The Evidence of Evolution
By Richard Dawkins
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Dawkins sifts through rich layers of scientific evidence to make the airtight case against teaching Intelligent Design as a "science" in schools. His un -jaded passion for the natural world turns what might have been a negative argument, exposing the absurdities of the creationist position, into a positive offering to the reader: nothing less than a master’s vision of life, in all its splendor. |
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Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be
By Daniel Loxton
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Evolution is the process that created the terrible teeth of Tyrannosaurus rex and the complex human brain, clever enough to understand the workings of nature. Young readers will learn how a British naturalist named Charles Darwin studied nature and developed his now-famous concepts of natural selection and survival of the fittest. And how modern-day science has added to our understanding of the theory of evolution. |
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Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight
By Pat Shipman
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This is a brilliant piece of scientific detective work, deftly exploring how the mysteries of flight developed up to the present day; the story unfolds through the braided tales of the evolutionary process and the scientists who have so painstakingly pieced it together. |
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Evolving Eden:
An Illustrated guide to the Evolution of the African Large Mammal Fauna
By Alan Turner & Mauricio Anton
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Linking the evidence of the past with that of the present, this exquisitely illustrated guide examines the evolution of the mammalian fauna of Africa within the context of dramatic changes over the course of more than 30 million years of primate presence. A fascinating read and a visual feast, Evolving Eden lays the foundation for a deeper appreciation of contemporary African wildlife. |
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Evidence of Evolution
By Mary Ellen Hannibal
Photography by Susan Middleton
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Evidence of Evolution uses exquisite images from the collections of the California Academy of Sciences in SF and accompanies them with a clear, accessible overview of key evolutionary concepts. |
...On Other Science Topics |
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The Immortal Life Of
Henrietta Lacks
By Rebecca Skloot
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, and she was a poor Southern farmer yet her cells—taken without her knowledge—became one of the most important tools in medicine. Rebecca Skloot brilliantly shows how the story of the Henrietta is inextricably connected to the dark history of experimentation on African Americans, the birth of bio-ethics, and the legal battles over whether we control the stuff we are made of. |
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Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code
By Matt Ridley
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In this fascinating biography of the scientific pioneer, Francis Crick, who uncovered the genetic code, Matt Ridley sheds a brilliant light on the man who forever changed our world and how we understand it. |
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Sand: The Never-Ending Story
By Michael Welland
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Sand, in fact, is all around us--it has made possible our computers, buildings and windows, toothpaste, cosmetics, and paper, and it has played dramatic roles in human history, commerce, and imagination. In this luminous, kinetic, revelatory account, we do indeed find the world in a grain of sand. |
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Oxygen: The Molecule That Made The World
By Nick Lane
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Drawing on this grand evolutionary canvas, Oxygen offers fresh perspectives on our own lives and deaths, explaining modern killer diseases, why we age, and what we can do about it. The result is a captivating vision of contemporary science and a humane synthesis of our place in nature. This remarkable book will redefine the way we think about the world. |
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BONK: The Curious Coupling of Science & Sex
By Mary Roach
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Though not as "dead on" (HAHA) a match to our store as her first book STIFF was, Bonk does not disappoint. It's all you've ever wanted to know about the science of sow insemination and some good tips on the finer points of research in the field of the female orgasm. It can only be described as "different" but hilarious and informative, just like its author Mary Roach herself. |
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