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Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
by Neil Shubin  
Powells.com Staff Pick Neil Shubin makes tracing our evolutionary origins positively fascinating. Through his work in expeditionary paleontology, Shubin explains the genetic correlations between humans and the animals that inhabited our planet billions of years ago. In a...
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Salt: A World History
by Mark Kurlansky
Powells.com Staff Pick I like salt. When I was younger and less self-conscious about eating a chip made from a potato paste, I used to lick each side of a Pringle until I found the saltier one, and put that side tongue-down so I could get the maximum salt intake. Salt is...
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
by Simon Winchester
Powells.com Staff Pick Krakatoa is the eloquent narrative of the cataclysmic destruction in 1883 of the volcanic island of the same name. Killing nearly 40,000 people (mostly from the resultant tsunamis), this violent eruption was "the most violent explosion ever...
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The Orphan Tsunami of 1700: Japanese Clues to a Parent Earthquake in North America
by Brian F. Atwater
Powells.com Staff Pick "[S]peaking as a data junkie, I think this is one of the coolest science books in a long time. Each page is packed with charts, diagrams, beautiful old maps, watercolors, translations, and photos. This is a wonderful interdisciplinary work, as it covers...
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
by Simon Winchester
Powells.com Staff Pick "If you liked Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman, or any of Winchester's other works, you'll like this one. He explains geological ideas well, and is well on his way to being the new ambassador of geology's influence on human history. He places...
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A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 (P.S.)
by Simon Winchester
Powells.com Staff Pick "If you liked Krakatoa, The Professor and the Madman, or any of Winchester's other works, you'll like this one. He explains geological ideas well, and is well on his way to being the new ambassador of geology's influence on human history. He places...
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Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's History
by Peter Ward
Powells.com Staff Pick "Written for a broad audience, Gorgon has more in common with John McPhee's geology books like Rising from the Plains than it does with scholarly bone catalogs. This is a book about people, frustration, curiosity, friendship, family, and change, all set...
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Coal : Human History (03 Edition)
by Barbara Freese
Powells.com Staff Pick Coal generates over half of the electricity we consume yet we know little about this charred material save a few mining songs and horror stories about canaries and black lungs. In this sumptuous book we follow the black rock through time and discover its...
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Earthquakes in Human History: The Far-Reaching Effects of Seismic Disruptions
by Jelle Zeili De Boer
Powells.com Staff Pick "Written in an easy, accessible style, Earthquakes in Human History is a pleasantly breezy read....Historians may quibble with the authors' seismic-centric view of sociopolitical history; but for a nonfiction book on history and seismic geology, there is...
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