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A stunning visual celebration of natural history offers a series of richly textured images, from snail tracks to Tyrannosaurus rex teeth, capturing more than one million years of history of life on Earth in a series of contiguous, full-color painted panels.
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9780226644790 | Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 2001, cover price $51.00 | About this edition: A stunning visual celebration of natural history offers a series of richly textured images, from snail tracks to Tyrannosaurus rex teeth, capturing more than one million years of history of life on Earth in a series of contiguous, full-color painted panels.
The collaborators of Finders, Keepers and Illuminations present photographed essays that consider such topics as the terrestrial names of oceanic creatures, the relativity of scale as seen with bird eggs, and humanity's genetic ape cousin. Original. 20,000 first printing.
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9780609805862 | 1 edition (Three Rivers Pr, November 1, 2000), cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Photographs and essays affirm the authors' theory that science and art complement each other, and dispute the popular opinion that the two subjects clash in opposition.
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9780966675047 | Nocturnum Pr, July 1, 1999, cover price $17.95
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9780395892282 | Mariner Books, June 1, 1999, cover price $20.00
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9780156002318 | Harvest Books, November 1, 1995, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Essays discuss the preservation of anatomical specimens, the dissection and study of corpses, human development, and the sanctity of life
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