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  • Monarchs of the Sea

    The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods

    de Danna Staaf ...
    From the author of Nursery Earth, a "nimble, fast, surprising, smart, and weird in the very coolest sense of the word" (Sy Montgomery) exploration of the sometimes enormous, often bizarre creatures that ruled the seas long before the first dinosaurs—a Science Friday Book Club PickCephalopods, Earth's first truly substantial animals, are still among us: Their fascinating family tree features squid, ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Tentacle Mysteries

    Awesome Octopuses, Spectacular Squid, and the Scientists Who Dig Up Their Secrets

    de Danna Staaf ...
    "Bold, funny, surprising, and painstakingly accurate, Tentacle Mysteries has enough fab facts to occupy nine brains! Whether you're a child or an adult, an ardent ceph lover or merely cephalopod-curious, you will love this book!"—Sy Montgomery, author of Secrets of the OctopusPerfect for STEM bookshelves comes a fascinating celebration of cephalopods past, present, and future.Did you know that ... Leer más

    $15.89 USD

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  • Nursery Earth

    The Hidden World of Baby Animals and the Amazing Ingenuity of Life

    de Danna Staaf ...
    A first-of-its-kind pop-science journey into the hidden world of baby animalsEntire ecosystems rest on the shoulders (or tentacles, or jointed exoskeletons) of animal babies; it's time we paid them more attention. In Nursery Earth, researcher Danna Staaf invites readers to explore these tiny, secret lives, revealing some of nature's strangest and most ingenious workings. A salamander embryo ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Lady and the Octopus

    How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology

    de Danna Staaf ...
    Born in a small village in eighteenth-century France, Jeanne Villepreux wasn’t expected to transform marine science.Curious, creative, and clever, Jeanne ventured to Paris by foot as a teenager. After achieving acclaim as a seamstress, she met a wealthy merchant and traveled with him to Sicily, where they married. Rather than settling into a life of domesticity on this beautiful island, she set ... Leer más

    $8.69 USD

  • The Lives of Octopuses and Their Relatives

    A Natural History of Cephalopods

    de Danna Staaf ...
    Series series The Lives of the Natural World
    An engaging and beautifully illustrated introduction to some of the world’s most interesting and charismatic marine creaturesDive deep into the fascinating world of cephalopods—octopuses, squid, cuttlefish, and the mysterious nautilus—to discover the astonishing diversity of this unique group of intelligent invertebrates and their many roles in the marine ecosystem. Organized by marine habitat, ... Leer más

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  • Audiolibro

    Squid Empire

    The Rise and Fall of the Cephalopods

    de Danna Staaf ...
    Narrado por Emily Durante ...

    Completo

    7 hora 18 minutos

    Before there were mammals on land, there were dinosaurs. And before there were fish in the sea, there were cephalopods—the ancestors of modern squid and Earth's first truly substantial animals. Cephalopods became the first creatures to rise from the seafloor, essentially inventing the act of swimming. With dozens of tentacles and formidable shells, they presided over an undersea empire for ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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    Nursery Earth

    The Wondrous Lives of Baby Animals and the Extraordinary Ways They Shape Our World

    Narrado por Norma Butikofer ...

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    8 hora 30 minutos

    It’s time to pay attention to baby animals. From egg to tadpole, chick to fledgling, they offer scientists a window into questions of immense importance: how do genes influence health? Which environmental factors support – or obstruct – life? Entire ecosystems rest on the shoulders (or tentacles, or jointed exoskeletons) of animal babies. At any given moment, babies represent the majority of ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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    The Lady and the Octopus

    How Jeanne Villepreux-Power Invented Aquariums and Revolutionized Marine Biology

    de Danna Staaf ...
    Narrado por Suzie Althens ...

    Completo

    4 hora 32 minutos

    "Jeanne Villepreux-Power was never expected to be a scientist. Born in 1794 in a French village more than 100 miles from the ocean, she pursued an improbable path that brought her to the island of Sicily. There, she took up natural history and solved the two-thousand-year-old mystery of how the argonaut octopus gets its shell. In an era when most research focused on dead specimens, Jeanne was ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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    Journeys Through Our Bodies' Emissions, Excretions, and Disintegrations

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  • Sing Like Fish

    How Sound Rules Life Under Water

    A captivating exploration of how underwater animals tap into sound to survive, and a clarion call for humans to address the ways we invade these critical soundscapes—from an award-winning science writer“Sing Like Fish is that rare book that makes you see the world differently.”—Mark Kurlansky, New York Times bestselling author of Salt and CodLONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE ... Leer más

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  • Living on Earth

    Forests, Corals, Consciousness, and the Making of the World

    One of the Washington Post's 50 Best Nonfiction Books of 2024The bestselling author of Other Minds shows how we and our ancestors have reinvented our planet.If the history of the Earth were compressed down to a year, our species would arise in the last thirty minutes or so of the final hour. But life itself is not such a late arrival: It has existed on Earth for something like 3.7 billion years ... Leer más

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  • Birds, Sex and Beauty

    The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea

    de Matt Ridley ...
    "[An] intriguing philosophical journey into a critical issue within evolutionary theory that for too long has remained unresolved." —Wall Street JournalMatt Ridley is one of our finest science writers. This book is a treat for bird lovers and evolutionary biologists alike.” —Richard Dawkins, author of The Genetic Book of The Dead and The God DelusionThe New York Times bestselling ... ... Leer más

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