Bill Schutt. Algonquin, $26.95 (352p) ISBN 978-1-61620-462-4
In this comprehensive account of a taboo practice, Schutt (Dark Banquet), professor of biology at LIU-Post, finds that cannibalism is more widespread than generally believed and proffers insight as to why different species resort to the practice of...
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Bill Schutt. Algonquin, $26.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-616-20893-6
“The history of cardiovascular medicine has no shortage of strange stories and bizarre treatments,” writes zoologist Schutt (Cannibalism) in this show-stopping exploration of cardiac biology. In three parts, Schutt muses on various aspects of the...
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Bill Schutt, read by Tom Perkins. HighBridge Audio, unabridged, 8 CDs, 9 hrs. $29.99 ISBN 978-1-6816-8196-2
Cannibalism is more widespread than generally believed, argues zoologist Schutt in this thorough and oddly enticing study of the different ways species eat their own. Common practices among tadpoles, chimpanzees, sand tiger sharks, polar bears, and...
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Bill Schutt and J.R. Finch. Morrow, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-241252-2
Vertebrate zoologist Schutt (Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures) makes his fiction debut with an exceptional crypto-zoological thriller, coauthored with the pseudonymous Finch, a painter and cave explorer. In 1944,...
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Bill Schutt and J.R. Finch. Morrow, $26.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-241255-3
Schutt and Finch provide a textbook example of how to make the fantastic easy to buy into with their superior second Crichton-esque thriller featuring field zoologist R.J. MacCready (after 2016’s Hell’s Gate). In 1946, Maj. Pat Hendry visits Mac at...
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Bill Schutt and J.R. Finch. Morrow, $26.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-06-283547-5
Set in 1948, Schutt and Finch’s excellent third cryptozoological thriller (after 2017’s The Himalayan Codex) takes American zoologist and operative R.J. MacCready to Greece to help his friend, real-life oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, who has an...
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Bill Schutt, Author, Patricia J. Wynne, Illustrator , illus. by Patricia Wynne. Harmony $24.95 (325p) ISBN 978-0-307-38112-5
In this salmagundi of abstruse science, informative history and engaging personal anecdotes, Schutt's fascination for “sanguivores” goes a long way toward disarming, while defining, our primal fear of creatures that feed on blood....
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Bill Schutt. Algonquin, $31 (320p) ISBN 978-1-64375-178-8
Teeth have played an underappreciated role in vertebrate evolution, argues zoologist Schutt (Cannibalism) in this animated study. Exploring the various forms and uses of animal teeth, he explains that narwhal tusks are actually “modified upper...
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