{"title":"Henry Gee","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"deep-time-book-henry-gee-9781857029871","title":"Deep Time","description":"For a long time, popular scientists have told us that by looking at a fossilised bone we could tell whether it belonged to our ancestors or not. This is not true.  In Deep Time, Henry Gee, introduces for the first time in the popular science market a new way of thinking that has revolutionised the way that scientists are approaching the past - Cladistics. Cladistics ignores story-telling and authority and proposes a method based on shared characteristics, rather than ancestry and descent. As a result of using this new method Henry Gee is able to show us the wealth of new ideas that is radically altering our notions of the past: Dinosaurs with feathers; why fish developed fingers; what it means to be human.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49515886149905,"sku":"GOR003327781","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49639762985233,"sku":"GOR001345297","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53503416893713,"sku":"GOR002896436","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1857029879.jpg?v=1750803564"},{"product_id":"very-short-history-of-life-on-earth-book-henry-gee-9781529060584","title":"A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth","description":"4.6 billion years of the story of life on Earth, in 12 chapters. Brief, brilliant and entirely gripping.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49516005916945,"sku":"GOR012579263","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49744281305361,"sku":"NGR9781529060584","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49849563873553,"sku":"GOR013106441","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50037653405969,"sku":"GOR012734010","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51818096296209,"sku":"GOR014410387","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52137967878417,"sku":"NLS9781529060584","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1529060583.jpg?v=1750761043"},{"product_id":"field-guide-to-dinosaurs-book-henry-gee-9781854108630","title":"A Field Guide to Dinosaurs","description":"This guide is a collaboration between a distinguished science writer and a leading illustrator who have combined their talents to present the most up-to-date information available in 2003 about the dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era in the format of a modern field guide. With this book to hand, no traveller in a tardis - or more likely an armchair - need worry about distinguishing between, say, a Tuojiansosaurus and a Carcharadontosaurus, for a quick flip to the relevant pages should quickly reveal their distinguishing features as well as conjectures about their range, feeding habits and lifestyles. The book starts with an introductory section which provides general background on the state of the planet in the age of the dinosaurs, between 225 and 70 million years ago, the position of the drifting continents, the climate and the contemporary flora and fauna. This section also tells the story of the growth of our knowledge about the dinosaurs and their world over the past century and a half and discusses the contribution that artists have made to bring these extraordinary creatures to life in our imaginations. The main part of the book, the \"Field Guide\", divides the species according to period (the Mesozoic era is divided into five ages, the Triassic, the Jurassic and the Early, Middle and Late Cretaceous) and the continents in which their fossilized remains have been found. More than 50 species are covered, from the giant predatory Tyrannosaurus to the flying Pterodactyl, and each is described and illustrated in colour in field-guide style, with sketches showing, for example, gait, eggs or immature specimens and a summary of the current state of knowledge about their habits and behaviour.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49518055325969,"sku":"GOR003682363","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50573991018769,"sku":"GOR001752396","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1854108638.jpg?v=1750963568"},{"product_id":"shaking-the-tree-book-henry-gee-9780226284972","title":"Shaking the Tree","description":"\"Nature\" has published news about the history of life ever since its first issue in 1869, in which T.H. Huxley (\"Darwin's bulldog\") wrote about Triassic dinosaurs. In recent years, the field has enjoyed a tremendous flowering due to new investigative techniques drawn from cladistics (a revolutionary method for charting evolutionary relationships) and molecular biology. \"Shaking the Tree\" brings together 19 review articles written for \"Nature\" over the past decade by many of the major figures in paleontology and evolution, from Stephen Jay Gould to Simon Conway Morris. Each article is brief, accessible and opinionated, providing \"shoot from the hip\" accounts of the latest news and debates. Topics covered include major extinction events, homeotic genes and body plans, the origin and evolution of the primates, and reconstructions of phylogenetic trees for a wide variety of groups. The editor, Henry Gee, gives new commentary and updated references. \"Shaking the Tree\" is a one-stop resource for engaging overviews of the latest research in the history of life on Earth.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49520004792593,"sku":"GOR003472587","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226284972.jpg?v=1750909072"},{"product_id":"fossils-book-henry-gee-9781860197819","title":"Fossils","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49526671999249,"sku":"GOR003944020","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50445020823825,"sku":"GOR004466026","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52397764444433,"sku":"GOR007618428","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1860197817.jpg?v=1751124342"},{"product_id":"accidental-species-book-henry-gee-9780226284880","title":"The Accidental Species","description":"Presents a robust and stark challenge to our tendency to see ourselves as the acme of creation. Human exceptionalism, this book argues, is an error that can infect scientific thought. It aims to overturn popular thinking on human evolution - the key is not what's missing, but how we're linked.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49547233165585,"sku":"CIN0226284883G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49599424954641,"sku":"GOR007840687","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49669223907601,"sku":"GOR007334956","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51137100677393,"sku":"CIN0226284883VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":51322355974417,"sku":"CIN0226284883A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51528026292497,"sku":"GOR011934710","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226284883.jpg?v=1750940751"},{"product_id":"science-of-middle-earth-book-henry-gee-9780285637238","title":"Science of Middle Earth","description":"Henry Gee ingeniously reveals how contemporary science can explain some of the wonders of Middle Earth, where Tolkien's marvellous fantasy creates a world with an insistent sense of reality. Gee delights in explaining such scientific conundrums as: How does Frodo's coat of mithril chain armour deflect deadly blows? How good are Legolas's eyes, he can count the Riders of Rohan at a distance of five leagues, and what does that tell us about the elves? How are the orcs reproduced? Just because 'Lord of the Rings' is the world's most popular fantasy does not prevent scientific explanations for its wonders.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49551305638161,"sku":"GOR003669853","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49636920656145,"sku":"GOR004517822","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0285637231.jpg?v=1751444483"},{"product_id":"jacob-s-ladder-book-henry-gee-9781841157344","title":"Jacob's Ladder","description":"In DEEP TIME Henry Gee told us why the chicken came before the egg. In his new book, JACOB'S LADDER, he tells us the comprehensive answer to the simple question: How did I get here?When the human genome was unveiled on 12 February 2001 headlines were filled with announcements that we had found the genes which cause schizophrenia, homosexuality and more. The assumption was that the genome offered a blueprint for what made human beings: the reality is far more complex and significant. The true importance of our discovery of the engine of life is that it offers us the possibility of altering our evolutionary destiny. Biology, once a passive science of observation, now possesses the tools to create form from the formless. For the first time we have the opportunity to shape life; like the angels on Jacob's Ladder, we are poised on the brink of godlike powers. But as Gee powerfully argues, we must exercise these powers with caution and learn from the mistakes of the past. He traces the entertaining history of man's search for what brings form from the formless, revealing the extraordinary thinkers and often bizarre experiments that led to this epochal moment: from Aristotle's musings and zany experiments with frogs and taffeta trousers which proved sperm fertilized eggs, through the insights of poet scientists such as Goethe, to Darwin and the eventual discovery of the genome. Not only does the genome show us how each individual is created, but it reveals the evolutionary history of all species, telling the story of mankind's survival against the odds. This provocative and accessible book investigates the latest and most radical discoveries about what makes us human. In so doing, it uncovers processes that have only recently been suspected, and never before understood.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49554198528273,"sku":"GOR001112411","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49649176969489,"sku":"GOR007844683","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52866339832081,"sku":"GOR004718251","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1841157341.jpg?v=1751438345"},{"product_id":"very-short-history-of-life-on-earth-book-henry-gee-9781529060560","title":"A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth","description":"'Exhilaratingly whizzes through billions of years . . . Gee is a marvellously engaging writer, juggling humour, precision, polemic and poetry to enrich his impossibly telescoped account . . . [making] clear sense out of very complex narratives' - The Times  'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changing canvas of life understandable and exciting. Who will enjoy reading this book? - Everybody!' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel  For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place – covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way of incessant volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state of chemical flux. And yet, despite facing literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter, life has been extinguished and picked itself up to evolve again. Life has learned and adapted and continued through the billions of years that followed. It has weathered fire and ice. Slimes begat sponges, who through billions of years of complex evolution and adaptation grew a backbone, braved the unknown of pitiless shores, and sought an existence beyond the sea.  From that first foray to the spread of early hominids who later became Homo sapiens, life has persisted, undaunted. A (Very) Short History of Life is an enlightening story of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today. It is our planet like you’ve never seen it before.  Life teems through Henry Gee’s lyrical prose – colossal supercontinents drift, collide, and coalesce, fashioning the face of the planet as we know it today. Creatures are engagingly personified, from ‘gregarious’ bacteria populating the seas to duelling dinosaurs in the Triassic period to magnificent mammals with the future in their (newly evolved) grasp. Those long extinct, almost alien early life forms are resurrected in evocative detail. Life’s evolutionary steps – from the development of a digestive system to the awe of creatures taking to the skies in flight – are conveyed with an alluring, up-close intimacy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49572842045713,"sku":"GOR011892665","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49739487052049,"sku":"NGR9781529060560","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50300872818961,"sku":"GOR012680922","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51381811577105,"sku":"GOR012002884","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1529060567.jpg?v=1751086727"},{"product_id":"deep-time-book-henry-gee-9781857029864","title":"Deep Time","description":"In ‘Deep Time’, Henry Gee, assistant editor of ‘Nature’, shows us that everything we think we know about evolution is wrong. He also reveals the scientific proof of what came first – the chicken or the egg. It was the egg.             For a long time, popular scientists have told us that by looking at a fossilised bone we can tell whether it belonged to our ancestors or not. This is not true.             In ‘Deep Time’, Henry Gee, introduces for the first time in the popular science market a new way of thinking that has revolutionised the way that scientists are approaching the past – cladistics. Cladistics ignores story-telling and authority and proposes a method based on shared characteristics, rather than ancestry and descent. As a result of using this new method Henry Gee is able to show us the wealth of new ideas that is radically altering our notions of the past: dinosaurs with feathers; why fish developed fingers; what it means to be human.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49577584492817,"sku":"GOR010753174","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49613774061841,"sku":"GOR001236389","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50447262777617,"sku":"CIN1857029860G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50475160240401,"sku":"CIN1857029860VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50520130191633,"sku":"GOR006022032","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1857029860.gif?v=1750803563"},{"product_id":"accidental-species-book-henry-gee-9780226271200","title":"The Accidental Species","description":"The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed in headlines as revealing the elusive transitional step, the moment when we stopped being \"animal\" and started being \"human.\" In The Accidental Species, Henry Gee, longtime paleontology editor at Nature, takes aim at this misleading notion, arguing that it reflects a profound misunderstanding of how evolution works and, when applied to the evolution of our own species, supports mistaken ideas about our own place in the universe. Touring the many features of human beings that have recurrently been used to distinguish us from the rest of the animal world, Gee shows that our evolutionary outcome is one possibility among many, one that owes more to chance than to an organized progression to supremacy. The Accidental Species combines Gee's firsthand experience on the editorial side of many incredible paleontological findings with healthy skepticism and humor to create a book that aims to overturn popular thinking on human evolution - the key is not what's missing, but how we're linked.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49591234232593,"sku":"GOR008039669","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49731330670865,"sku":"NGR9780226271200","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50345986687249,"sku":"CIN022627120XG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51564594757905,"sku":"CIN022627120XVG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/022627120X.jpg?v=1750812594"},{"product_id":"in-search-of-deep-time-book-henry-gee-9780801487132","title":"In Search of Deep Time","description":"Cladistics—the science of comparison—is transforming the way paleontologists view evolution. In Search of Deep Time strips away conventional assumptions about the evolution of life to reveal a world that may be far stranger and more humbling than had been previously imagined. The concept of deep time was first used by John McPhee to describe intervals of time incomprehensibly greater than our daily experience. Henry Gee explains the rise of cladistics as the best technique for making sense of the organic changes that unfold within deep time.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49603969155345,"sku":"GOR005609673","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50361498566929,"sku":"CIN0801487137A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50368518422801,"sku":"CIN0801487137G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51744226345233,"sku":"CIN0801487137VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0801487137.jpg?v=1761388289"},{"product_id":"very-short-history-of-life-on-earth-book-henry-gee-9781250876881","title":"A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Royal Society's Science Book of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"[A]n exuberant romp through evolution, like a modern-day Willy Wonka of genetic space. Gee's grand tour enthusiastically details the narrative underlying life's erratic and often whimsical exploration of biological form and function.\" --Adrian Woolfson,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the tradition of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eRichard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Simon Winchester--An entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place--in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to form membrane-bound bubbles that were mostly-faithful copies of their parents--a foamy lather of soap-bubble cells standing as tiny clenched fists, defiant against the lifeless world. Life on this planet has continued in much the same way for millennia, adapting to literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter and thriving, from these humblest beginnings to the thrilling and unlikely story of ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eA (Very) Short History of Life on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, Henry Gee zips through the last 4.6 billion years with infectious enthusiasm and intellectual rigor. Drawing on the very latest scientific understanding and writing in a clear, accessible style, he tells an enlightening tale of survival and persistence that illuminates the delicate balance within which life has always existed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49629839687953,"sku":"GOR013268817","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50031765750033,"sku":"CIN1250876885G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50379896979729,"sku":"CIN1250876885A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51022053146897,"sku":"NIN9781250876881","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":53397858091281,"sku":"CIN1250876885VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1250876885.jpg?v=1751303196"},{"product_id":"very-short-history-of-life-on-earth-book-henry-gee-9781529060577","title":"A (Very) Short History of Life On Earth","description":"‘A dazzling, beguiling story . . . told at an exhilarating pace’ Literary Review  'Henry Gee makes the kaleidoscopically changing canvas of life understandable and exciting. Who will enjoy reading this book? - Everybody!' Jared Diamond, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel  For billions of years, Earth was an inhospitably alien place – covered with churning seas, slowly crafting its landscape by way of incessant volcanic eruptions, the atmosphere in a constant state of chemical flux. And yet, despite facing literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter, life has been extinguished and picked itself up to evolve again. Life has learned and adapted and continued through the billions of years that followed. It has weathered fire and ice. Slimes begat sponges, who through billions of years of complex evolution and adaptation grew a backbone, braved the unknown of pitiless shores, and sought an existence beyond the sea.  From that first foray to the spread of early hominids who later became Homo sapiens, life has persisted, undaunted. A (Very) Short History of Life is an enlightening story of survival, of persistence, illuminating the delicate balance within which life has always existed, and continues to exist today. It is our planet like you’ve never seen it before.  Life teems through Henry Gee’s lyrical prose – colossal supercontinents drift, collide, and coalesce, fashioning the face of the planet as we know it today. Creatures are engagingly personified, from ‘gregarious’ bacteria populating the seas to duelling dinosaurs in the Triassic period to magnificent mammals with the future in their (newly evolved) grasp. Those long extinct, almost alien early life forms are resurrected in evocative detail. Life’s evolutionary steps – from the development of a digestive system to the awe of creatures taking to the skies in flight – are conveyed with an alluring, up-close intimacy.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49636939366673,"sku":"GOR013762249","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":49669308514577,"sku":"GOR012740508","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1529060575.jpg?v=1766487097"},{"product_id":"across-the-bridge-book-henry-gee-9780226403052","title":"Across the Bridge","description":"Our understanding of vertebrate origins and the backbone of human history evolves with each new fossil find and DNA map. Many species have now had their genomes sequenced, and molecular techniques allow genetic inspection of even nonmodel organisms. But as longtime Nature editor Henry Gee argues in Across the Bridge, despite these giant strides and our deepening understanding of how vertebrates fit into the tree of life, the morphological chasm between vertebrates and invertebrates remains vast and enigmatic. As Gee shows, even as scientific advances have falsified a variety of theories linking these groups, the extant relatives of vertebrates are too few for effective genetic analysis. Moreover, the more we learn about the species that do remain--from seasquirts to starfish--the clearer it becomes that they are too far evolved along their own courses to be of much use in reconstructing what the latest invertebrate ancestors of vertebrates looked like. Fossils present yet further problems of interpretation. Tracing both the fast-changing science that has helped illuminate the intricacies of vertebrate evolution as well as the limits of that science, Across the Bridge helps us to see how far the field has come in crossing the invertebrate-to-vertebrate divide--and how far we still have to go.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49729104740625,"sku":"NGR9780226403052","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/022640305X.jpg?v=1750940786"},{"product_id":"sigil-trilogy-book-henry-gee-9780615688916","title":"The Sigil Trilogy","description":"There are eight million stories in the naked city, says the narrator in Jules Dassin's 1948 noir classic \u003ci\u003eNaked City\u003c\/i\u003e. This sense of the bustling American metropolis as a vast reservoir of untapped stories has moved numerous photographers to surf the urban sprawl with an open-ended attention to chance encounters and unexpected visual serendipities. After watching the documentary film \u003ci\u003eA Fire in the East: A Portrait of Robert Frank\u003c\/i\u003e in the early 1990s, Los Angeles-based photographer Chrissy Piper wrote a fan letter to Frank, and traveled to New York to meet him. Frank's work and their eventual friendship inspired Piper to continue shooting on the street. The pictures gathered in this book were taken mostly on the streets of New York City, but also in other locales across America, during various road trips with friends.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":49938101338385,"sku":"CIN0615688918G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51004868034833,"sku":"NIN9780615688916","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0615688918.jpg?v=1751073854"},{"product_id":"very-short-history-of-life-on-earth-book-henry-gee-9781250276650","title":"A (Very) Short History of Life on Earth","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Royal Society's Science Book of the Year\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"[A]n exuberant romp through evolution, like a modern-day Willy Wonka of genetic space. Gee's grand tour enthusiastically details the narrative underlying life's erratic and often whimsical exploration of biological form and function.\" --Adrian Woolfson,\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the tradition of\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eRichard Dawkins, Bill Bryson, and Simon Winchester--An entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place--in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to form membrane-bound bubbles that were mostly-faithful copies of their parents--a foamy lather of soap-bubble cells standing as tiny clenched fists, defiant against the lifeless world. Life on this planet has continued in much the same way for millennia, adapting to literally every conceivable setback that living organisms could encounter and thriving, from these humblest beginnings to the thrilling and unlikely story of ourselves.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In \u003ci\u003eA (Very) Short History of Life on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, Henry Gee zips through the last 4.6 billion years with infectious enthusiasm and intellectual rigor. Drawing on the very latest scientific understanding and writing in a clear, accessible style, he tells an enlightening tale of survival and persistence that illuminates the delicate balance within which life has always existed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50063495954705,"sku":"CIN1250276659G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50789505925393,"sku":"GOR014073340","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51166443798801,"sku":"CIN1250276659VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51836391194897,"sku":"GOR013235460","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1250276659.jpg?v=1750754649"},{"product_id":"across-the-bridge-understanding-the-origin-of-the-vertebrates-rare-book-henry-gee-1678710169ada","title":"Across the Bridge – Understanding the Origin of the Vertebrates","description":"2018. No Edition Remarks. 312 pages. No dust jacket. Signed by the author. Black paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Signed by the author with dedication to title page. Bin","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ WELL_READ \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50075686830353,"sku":"1678710169ADA","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1678710169ADA_1.jpg?v=1722888077"},{"product_id":"documents-illustrative-of-english-church-history-rare-book-henry-gee-1711374783mep","title":"Documents Illustrative of English Church History","description":"1914. Reprinted. 670 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Rough-cut pages. Minor thumb marking, foxing and tanning to pages. More prominent to text block edges, pastedowns and free e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50090010345745,"sku":"1711374783MEP","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1711374783MEP_1.jpg?v=1722938884"},{"product_id":"science-of-middle-earth-book-henry-gee-9781593600235","title":"The Science of Middle-Earth","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50129996808465,"sku":"CIN1593600232VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50394418250001,"sku":"CIN1593600232G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1593600232.jpg?v=1750830421"},{"product_id":"field-guide-to-dinosaurs-book-henry-gee-9780764155116","title":"A Field Guide to Dinosaurs","description":"This beautifully produced and illustrated volume is the result of sophisticated scientific research. However, it has been written in clear laymen's language for nonscientists who have serious interest in paleontology. Author Henry Gee provides naturalists' notes on more than 50 different dinosaur species. His information is supplemented with dramatic, anatomically accurate full-color illustrations of each dinosaur. Material in this book is based on findings of dinosaur remains in North and South America, Africa, Asia, Europe, and Antarctica, and is divided according to time periods: Triassic, Jurassic, Early- and Mid-Cretaceous, and Late Cretaceous. At-a-glance icons convey key information about each animal, including size, taxonomy, geological period of origin, and geographical location of discovered bones. The book also presents general background information on the 180 million years of the dinosaur-dominated Mesozoic era, including details on Mesozoic plants and animals and the modern story of dinosaur discovery. More than 500 \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003evivid illustrations are all in full color.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50281249112337,"sku":"CIN0764155113VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50797607059729,"sku":"CIN0764155113G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51177741222161,"sku":"GOR004127847","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53251120824593,"sku":"GOR014830604","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0764155113.jpg?v=1750818232"},{"product_id":"futures-from-nature-book-henry-gee-9780765318053","title":"Futures from Nature","description":"Here are 100 very short stories on the subject of the future and what it might be like. The authors include scientists, journalists, and many of the most famous SF writers in the world. \"Futures from Nature\" includes everything from satires and vignettes to compressed stories and fictional book reviews, science articles, and journalism, each in eight hundred-word modules. All of the, 11 are entertaining and as a group they are a startling repository of ideas and attitudes about the future.Appearing in book form for the first time, these one hundred pieces were originally published between 1999 and 2006, in the great science journal, Nature, as one-page features. They proved very popular with the readers of the journal. This is a unique book, by scientists and writers, of interest to any reader who might like to speculate about the future.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ WELL_READ \/ SBYB","offer_id":50359862460689,"sku":"CIN0765318059A","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50365372367121,"sku":"CIN0765318059G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50976423280913,"sku":"CIN0765318059VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0765318059.jpg?v=1751010498"},{"product_id":"future-from-nature-book-henry-gee-9780765318060","title":"Future from Nature","description":"Are aliens really not interested in us at all? Is there a significant health benefit from drinking your own urine? Is loading your personality into a computer the best way to survive the death of the body? Is the death of the body really necessary? Here are a very large number of very small fictions on the subject of the future and what it might be like. The authors include scientists, journalists, and many of the most famous science fiction of the world.\"Future From Nature\" includes everything from satires and vignettes to compressed stories and fictional book reviews, science articles, and journalism, in eight-hundred-word modules. All of them are entertaining and as a group they are a startling repository of ideas and attitudes about the future. These pieces were originally published in the great science journal \"Nature\" between 1999 and 2006, as one-page features that proved very popular with readers. This is a unique book, of interest to any reader who might like to speculate about the future.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50359867801873,"sku":"CIN0765318067G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ LIKE_NEW \/ SBYB","offer_id":50359868948753,"sku":"CIN0765318067LN","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50939131429137,"sku":"GOR002820693","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0765318067.jpg?v=1751329193"},{"product_id":"jacob-s-ladder-book-henry-gee-9780393050837","title":"Jacob's Ladder","description":"Jacob's Ladder delivers a remarkably lucid explanation of what the sequencing of the human genome really tells us. Decoding the sequence, evolutionary biologist Henry Gee shows, is just the beginning: seeing the letters and words. The next frontier is in understanding snatches of conversation between genes—how they interact to direct the growth of an organism. Gee takes us into the heart of that conversation, illuminating how genes govern a single egg cell's miraculous transformation into a human being, and how they continue to direct that person's day-by-day development throughout a lifetime.    Gee tells the story of what we know about the genome today and what we are likely to discover tomorrow. As our knowledge advances, we will be able to direct with increasing authority the conversations between genes: not only performing medical interventions but also creating whole scripts directing birth, ancestry, and diversity in a brave new world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50537054241041,"sku":"GOR013988861","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51270102941969,"sku":"CIN0393050831VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51332588306705,"sku":"CIN0393050831G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51885585891601,"sku":"GOR011012786","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0393050831.jpg?v=1750942121"},{"product_id":"field-guide-to-dinosaurs-book-henry-gee-9780785829027","title":"A Field Guide to Dinosaurs","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50625595310353,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":50625596817681,"sku":"CIN0785829024VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0785829024.jpg?v=1751263758"},{"product_id":"rise-of-the-dragon-book-henry-gee-9780226284910","title":"Rise of the Dragon","description":"Over the past decade, fossil finds from China have stunned the world, grabbing headlines and changing perceptions with a wealth of new discoveries. Many of these finds were first announced to English speakers in the journal Nature.Rise of the Dragon gathers together sixteen of these original reports, some augmented with commentaries originally published in Nature's \"News and Views\" section.  Perhaps the best known of these new Chinese fossils are the famous feathered dinosaurs from Liaoning Province, which may help end one of the most intense debates in paleontology—whether birds evolved from dinosaurs. But other finds have been just as spectacular, such as the minutely preserved (to the cellular level) animal embryos of the 670 million-year-old Duoshantuo phosphorites, or the world's oldest known fish, from the Chengjiang formation in southwestern Yunnan Province.  Rise of the Dragon makes descriptions and detailed discussions of these important finds available in one convenient volume for paleontologists and serious fossil fans.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":50882436530449,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":50882436563217,"sku":"GOR006781831","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0226284913.jpg?v=1751436210"},{"product_id":"jacob-s-ladder-book-henry-gee-9780393347807","title":"Jacob's Ladder","description":"Jacob's Ladder delivers a remarkably lucid explanation of what the sequencing of the human genome really tells us. Decoding the sequence, evolutionary biologist Henry Gee shows, is just the beginning: seeing the letters and words. The next frontier is in understanding snatches of conversation between genes—how they interact to direct the growth of an organism. Gee takes us into the heart of that conversation, illuminating how genes govern a single egg cell's miraculous transformation into a human being, and how they continue to direct that person's day-by-day development throughout a lifetime.    Gee tells the story of what we know about the genome today and what we are likely to discover tomorrow. As our knowledge advances, we will be able to direct with increasing authority the conversations between genes: not only performing medical interventions but also creating whole scripts directing birth, ancestry, and diversity in a brave new world.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51002043302161,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51002046185745,"sku":"NIN9780393347807","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52121673433361,"sku":"NLS9780393347807","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/039334780X.jpg?v=1750975607"},{"product_id":"elizabethan-clergy-and-the-settlement-of-religion-1558-1564-book-henry-gee-9780548283691","title":"The Elizabethan Clergy and the Settlement of Religion 1558-1564","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51139436085521,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51139439624465,"sku":"NIN9780548283691","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0548283699.jpg?v=1750698870"},{"product_id":"scourge-of-stars-book-henry-gee-9780615696300","title":"Scourge of Stars","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51171090956561,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51171092627729,"sku":"NIN9780615696300","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0615696309.jpg?v=1751231116"},{"product_id":"rage-of-stars-book-henry-gee-9780615706368","title":"Rage of Stars","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51171093184785,"sku":"NIN9780615706368","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0615706363.jpg?v=1750944663"},{"product_id":"documents-illustrative-of-english-church-history-book-henry-gee-9780548237885","title":"Documents Illustrative Of English Church History","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51179555619089,"sku":"NIN9780548237885","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0548237883.jpg?v=1750976201"},{"product_id":"elizabethan-prayer-book-and-ornaments-with-an-appendix-of-documents-1902-book-henry-gee-9780548702031","title":"The Elizabethan Prayer-Book And Ornaments, With An Appendix Of Documents (1902)","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51183252832529,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51183256109329,"sku":"NIN9780548702031","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/0548702039.jpg?v=1750782944"},{"product_id":"decline-and-fall-of-the-human-empire-book-henry-gee-9781035030835","title":"The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire","description":"Nature editor and Science Book Prize winner Henry Gee explores the future of our species and our probable extinction, while suggesting how, through technological innovation, we might indefinitely postpone our fate.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51381443264785,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":51381443297553,"sku":"GOR014248441","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52055526998289,"sku":"GOR014474721","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":52111165489425,"sku":"NGR9781035030835","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52516581146897,"sku":"NLS9781035030835","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52679439253777,"sku":"GOR014578871","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1035030837.jpg?v=1751237665"},{"product_id":"by-the-sea-book-henry-gee-9781500247942","title":"By The Sea","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51384368595217,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51384369709329,"sku":"NIN9781500247942","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1500247944.jpg?v=1751117820"},{"product_id":"wonder-of-life-on-earth-book-henry-gee-9781035024247","title":"The Wonder of Life on Earth","description":"An astonishing, beautifully illustrated nonfiction book telling the story of 4.6 billion years of life on planet Earth, from the winner of the Royal Society Science Book Prize.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51598828699921,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51598828896529,"sku":"NGR9781035024247","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53069801193745,"sku":"NLS9781035024247","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ VERY_GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53240636375313,"sku":"GOR014824358","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53333262336273,"sku":"GOR014853244","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ LIKE_NEW \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53564640755985,"sku":"GOR014963172","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1035024241.jpg?v=1769507986"},{"product_id":"decline-and-fall-of-the-human-empire-book-henry-gee-9781250325587","title":"The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eA (Very) Short History of Life on Earth:\u003c\/i\u003e a history of humanity on the brink of decline.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eA Next Big Idea Club Must-Read Selection\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e We are living through a period that is unique in human history. For the first time in more than ten thousand years, the rate of human population growth is slowing down. In the middle of this century population growth will stop, and the number of people on Earth will start to decline - fast.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this provocative book, award-winning science writer Henry Gee offers a concise, brilliantly-told history of our species--and argues that we are on a rapid, one-way trip to extinction. \u003ci\u003eThe Decline and Fall of the Human Empire\u003c\/i\u003e narrates the dramatic rise of humanity. The human story is relatively brief--the oldest fossils of H. Sapiens date to approximately 300,000 years ago--yet the spread of our species has been unstoppable...until recently.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As Gee demonstrates, our environment is becoming inimical to human life in many locations; our core resources of water, arable land, and air are diminishing; and new diseases, simmering conflicts, and ambiguous technologies threaten our collective health. Can we still change our course? Or is our own extinction inevitable?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With assured narration, dramatic stories, and his signature sprightly humor, Henry Gee envisions new opportunities for the future of humanity--a future that will reward facing challenges with ingenuity, foresight, and cooperation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51607105339665,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ VERY_GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51607105732881,"sku":"CIN1250325587VG","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51663818490129,"sku":"NIN9781250325587","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ GOOD \/ SBYB","offer_id":51745677345041,"sku":"CIN1250325587G","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53450537730321,"sku":"NGR9781250325587","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1250325587.jpg?v=1751368927"},{"product_id":"documents-illustrative-of-english-church-history-book-henry-gee-9781432639099","title":"Documents Illustrative Of English Church History","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51669219672337,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51669219934481,"sku":"NIN9781432639099","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1432639099.jpg?v=1750987643"},{"product_id":"deep-time-book-henry-gee-9780007291540","title":"Deep Time","description":"In Deep Time, Henry Gee, assistant editor of Nature, shows us that everything we think we know about evolution is wrong.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52125721166097,"sku":"NLS9780007291540","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780007291540.jpg?v=1757467992"},{"product_id":"elizabethan-clergy-and-the-settlement-of-religion-1558-1564-book-henry-gee-9783337263751","title":"The Elizabethan clergy and the settlement of religion, 1558-1564","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52482914648337,"sku":"NLS9783337263751","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783337263751.jpg?v=1759853932"},{"product_id":"elizabethan-clergy-and-the-settlement-of-religion-book-henry-gee-9783337128647","title":"The Elizabethan Clergy and the Settlement of Religion","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52487795474705,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52487796261137,"sku":"NLS9783337128647","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783337128647.jpg?v=1759861602"},{"product_id":"elizabethan-clergy-and-the-settlement-of-religion-book-henry-gee-9783337718152","title":"The Elizabethan clergy and the settlement of religion,","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52533966635281,"sku":"NLS9783337718152","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783337718152.jpg?v=1760666893"},{"product_id":"elizabethan-clergy-book-henry-gee-9783348113847","title":"The Elizabethan Clergy","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52618601496849,"sku":"NLS9783348113847","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9783348113847.jpg?v=1761533584"},{"product_id":"siege-of-stars-book-henry-gee-9780615691619","title":"Siege Of Stars","description":"From Nature Editor Henry Gee comes a story of breathtaking scope and beloved characters. Spanning millions of years and the breadth of the universe, The Sigil Trilogy is an epic tale that explores the nature of humanity, belief, and love. The Universe is dying from within. No one knows how to save it, so the Elders give a young Drover a last ditch chance to stop the rot. If only she knew where to begin. Unaware of the threat to the universe, Ruxhana Fengen Kraa, Admiral of the 17th Rigel Fleet, is about to be cashiered for a stupendous tactical error. But Special Ops has an important and most bizarre job for him. Eons away in time, Jack Corstophine is an archaeologist on Earth with an intuition about the land that he can't put into words-until the beautiful and brilliant Jadis Markham comes into his life. Together, they discover that the landscape of Europe is far from natural. The Earth bears the scars of an ancient civilization that goes back millions of years - and has terrible implications for the future of mankind. The Sigil Trilogy traces the lives of compelling characters - people... entities... and... species... - through time and space. It's magnificent in background, beautifully written, and with the most memorable characters. The Sigil Trilogy is spellbinding, funny, thoughtful, and touching all at the same time. Complete with complex mysteries, massive battles, romance, hot aliens, steampunk cities, good scotch, armageddon, it's all here - you won't be able to put it down. Siege of Stars is the first volume of The Sigil Trilogy, Henry Gee's incredible opus. The second and third volumes, SCOURGE OF STARS and RAGE OF STARS, are completed and in production for release within weeks of SIEGE OF STARS. Praise for THE SIGIL TRILOGY: Great stuff. Touches of Douglas Adams, Barrington Bayley, David Britton and Steve Ayelet only emphasise the splendid originality of this book. Henry Gee is thoughtful, funny, original. And pretty thoroughly mind-expanding in the tradition of Wells, David Lindsay, Stapledon and Clarke. In fact everything you yearn to find in a very good contemporary SF novel. Really enjoyed it  -SFWA Grandmaster Michael Moorcock Siege is compelling, grandiose, and breathtaking in its spacetime and its characters are intriguing, personal, and complex....This book of Henry's is going to be high on the charts. -Greg Laden, scienceblogs.com One of the very best books I've ever read. -Critique.org Henry Gee serves up a tasty stew of sex, science and space opera. Or should that read romance, rationality and retro-SF? Either way, the book is great entertainment. -Vaughan Stanger, author of Alternate Apollos and The English Dead A great very-wide-screen story, with many interesting characters I cared about...the writing-and the palaeontology-are beautifully executed -Jack Cohen, author of Wheelers and Heaven Henry Gee paints a stunning, thriving universe in which readers will delight. -Shelly Li The Sigil Trilogy is magnificently panoramic in breadth - a quirky, erudite and often hilarious tale of adventure mingling epic science fiction, archaeology, palaeontology and romance. Vividly entertaining  -Cecilia Dart-Thornton, bestselling author of the Bitterbynde series I got so engrossed in it that I could not put it down. Siege of Stars is a very good Sci-Fi novel, in the tradition of Arthur C. Clarke and Ray Bradbury. It spans space and time on a grand scale, but at the same time delves into the questions of what it means to be human. I recommend this book. -Lee Gimenez, bestselling author of The Nanotech Murders Dr. Henry Gee is senior editor at the renowned science journal Nature and editor of the award-winning Nature Futures science fiction short story series. He has written over a dozen books, including The Science of Middle Earth and A Field Guide to Dinosaurs.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ GOOD \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":53132877201681,"sku":"GOR014763525","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53490064195857,"sku":"NIN9780615691619","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780615691619.jpg?v=1771329511"},{"product_id":"documents-illustrative-of-english-church-history-book-henry-gee-9781163539262","title":"Documents Illustrative Of English Church History","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53231422767377,"sku":"NIN9781163539262","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781163539262.jpg?v=1773100818"},{"product_id":"decline-and-fall-of-the-human-empire-book-henry-gee-9781250325600","title":"The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy the award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eA (Very) Short History of Life on Earth\u003c\/i\u003e: a history of humanity on the brink of decline.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e We are living through a period that is unique in human history. For the first time in more than ten thousand years, the rate of human population growth is slowing down. In the middle of this century population growth will stop, and the number of people on Earth will start to decline - fast.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e In this provocative book, award-winning science writer Henry Gee offers a concise, brilliantly-told history of our species--and argues that we are on a rapid, one-way trip to extinction. \u003ci\u003eThe Decline and Fall of the Human Empire\u003c\/i\u003e narrates the dramatic rise of humanity. The human story is relatively brief--the oldest fossils of H. Sapiens date to approximately 300,000 years ago--yet the spread of our species has been unstoppable...until recently.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e As Gee demonstrates, our environment is becoming inimical to human life in many locations; our core resources of water, arable land, and air are diminishing; and new diseases, simmering conflicts, and ambiguous technologies threaten our collective health. Can we still change our course? Or is our own extinction inevitable?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With assured narration, dramatic stories, and his signature sprightly humor, Henry Gee envisions new opportunities for the future of humanity--a future that will reward facing challenges with ingenuity, foresight, and cooperation.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":53450505093393,"sku":"NGR9781250325600","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781250325600.jpg?v=1776897046"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-au\/collections\/author-books-by-henry-gee.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}