Pat Shipman
Pat Shipman is the author of seven previous books, including The Man Who Found the Missing Link and Taking Wing, which won the Phi Beta Kappa Prize for science and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award ... [... more]
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Pat Shipman
In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists on a dig in northern Kenya found something extraordinary: a nearly complete skeleton of Homo erectus, a creature that lived 1.5 million... click for more> ... [... more]
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Biography - Shipman, Pat (1949-): An article from: ...
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Femme Fatale: Love, Lies, and the Unknown Life of Mata Hari
In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than one year later she was tried and executed-charged with the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. The mistress of many senior Allied officers ... [... more]
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To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the ...
Prepare to embark upon a breathtaking adventure, brimming with hair-raising rescues, impossible quests, danger, discovery, catastrophe, mutiny, and uncompromising love -- all the more remarkable because every word is true. Acclaimed New York Times and ... [... more]
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The Man Who Found the Missing Link: Eugène Dubois and ...
Like many scientists of his generation, Eugene Dubois (1858-1940) was devoted to the ideas of Charles Darwin. He was also profoundly ambitious, seeking not only to establish incontrovertible proof of human evolution from some apelike ancestor--and thus ... [... more]
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Taking Wing: Archaeopteryx and the Evolution of Bird Flight
In 1861, just a few years after the publication of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, a scientist named Hermann von Meyer made an amazing discovery. Hidden in the Bavarian region of Germany was a fossil skeleton so exquisitely preserved that its ... [... more]
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The Evolution of Racism: Human Differences and the Use ...
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 ... [... more]
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Femme Fatale
In 1917, the notorious Oriental dancer Mata Hari was arrested on the charge of espionage; less than one year later she was tried and executed --charged with the deaths of at least 50,000 gallant French soldiers. The mistress of many senior Allied ... [... more]
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The Wisdom of the Bones: In Search of Human Origins
"Fascinating. . . . As engaging an explanation of how scientists study fossil bones as any I have ever read." --John R. Alden, Philadelphia Inquirer In 1984 a team of paleoanthropologists on a dig in northern Kenya found something extraordinary: ... [... more]
$15.00
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To the Heart of the Nile
In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Szasz stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker, a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer, was moved by ... [... more]
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To the Heart of the Nile: Lady Florence Baker and the ...
In 1859, at age fourteen, Florence Szász stood before a room full of men and waited to be auctioned to the highest bidder. But slavery and submission were not to be her destiny: Sam Baker, a wealthy English gentleman and eminent adventurer, was ... [... more]
$16.95
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