Inyo County Free Library - New Acquisitions

These are books and media new to the library and cataloged by the Inyo County Free Library.

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Chased by sea monsters: prehistoric predators of the deep

By Marven, Nigel

Publishing Date: 2004, c2003

Classification: 500

Call Number: 560.457 MAR

This book describes prehistoric sea creatures from the Ordovician period, 450 million years ago, to the Pliocene period, four million years ago, reconstructed using computer graphics based on scientific evidence.

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The house of owls

By Angell, Tony

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: 500

Call Number: 598.97 ANG

For a quarter of a century, Tony Angell and his family shared the remarkable experience of closely observing pairs of western screech owls that occupied a nesting box outside the window of their forest home. The journals in which the author recorded his observations, and the captivating drawings he created, form the heart of this compelling book--a personal account of an artist-naturalist's life with owls. Angell's extensive illustrations show owls engaged in what owls do--hunting, courting, raising families, and exercising their inquisitive natures--and reveal his immeasurable respect for their secret lives and daunting challenges. Angell discusses the unique characteristics that distinguish owls from other bird species and provides a fascinating overview of the impact owls have had on human culture and thought. He also offers detailed scientific descriptions of the nineteen species of owls found in North America, as well as their close relatives elsewhere. Always emphasizing the interaction of humans and owls, the author affirms by his own example the power of these birds both to beguile and to inspire. --

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The American beaver: a classic of natural history and ecology

By Morgan, Lewis Henry

Publishing Date: 1986

Classification: 500

Call Number: 599.3232 MOR

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The strange case of the rickety Cossack: and other cautionary tales from human evolution

By Tattersall, Ian

Publishing Date: 2015

Classification: 500

Call Number: 599.938 TAT

"In his new book human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on his own career-- from young scientist in awe of his elders to crotchety elder statesman-- Tattersall offers an idiosyncratic look at the competitive world of paleoanthropology, beginning with Charles Darwin 150 years ago, and continuing through the Leakey dynasty in Africa, and concluding with the latest astonishing findings in the Caucasus. With tact and humor, Tattersall concludes that we are not the perfected products of natural processes, but instead the result of substantial doses of random happenstance"--

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