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NHBS Monthly Catalogue: October 2008PalaeontologyDINOSAURS A Concise Natural History David E Fastovsky and David B Weishampel From the authors of "The Evolution and Extinction of the Dinosaurs" comes a new textbook designed to excite undergraduates about science by using the ever-popular animals-the dinosaurs - to ...... 350 pp. hardcover | NYP 01/2009 | £70 | approx. $117/€89 softcover | NYP 01/2009 | £34.99 | approx. $59/€45 FOSSILS The Key to the Past Richard Fortey This is a clear and authoritative introduction to fossils, their study and their use in reconstructing the history of life on Earth. Paleontologist Richard Fortey explains in accessible language what ...... 288 pp, colour illus. hardcover | NYP 01/2009 | £24.99 | approx. $42/€32 FROM FOSSILS TO ASTROBIOLOGY Records of Life on Earth and the search for Extraterrestrial Biosignatures Edited by Joseph Seckbach and Maud Walsh "From Fossils to Astrobiology" reviews developments in paleontology and gebiology that relate to the rapidly-developing field of Astrobiology, the study of life in the Universe. Many traditional ...... Cellular Origin and Life in Extreme Habitats 12 548 pp. hardcover | 2008 | £158 | approx. $263/€200 MESOZOIC FISHES 4: HOMOLOGY AND PHYLOGENY Proceedings of the International Meeting Miraflores de la Sierra, 2005 Edited by Gloria Arratia, Hans-Peter Schultze and Mark VH Wilson The fourth Symposium on "Mesozoic Fishes - Systematics, Homology and Nomenclature" was held in Miraflores de la Sierra, Madrid, Spain from August 8 to 14, 2005. The results of that meeting, as ...... 502 pp, figs, tabs. hardcover | 2008 | £182 | approx. $303/€231 POLAR DINOSAURS Thomas Hewitt Rich Australian dinosaurs described and placed among the far better known species from the western world. ...... 48 pp, illustrations. softcover | 2007 | £8.99 | approx. $15/€12 SILURIAN FOSSILS OF THE PENTLAND HILLS, SCOTLAND Edited by ENK Clarkson, DAT Harper, CM Taylor and LI Anderson In the Pentland Hills, south-west of Edinburgh, diverse and abundant marine fossils of Silurian age are found. They are splendidly preserved as undistorted moulds, and occur in distinct ...... 220 pp. softcover | 2008 | £14.99 | approx. $25/€19 |
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