Pat Shipman, Author . Morrow $25.95 (428p) ISBN 978-0-06-050555-4
Shipman (The Man Who Found the Missing Link
, etc.) recounts the courageous, adventurous life of Lady Florence Baker (1845–1916). Born in Transylvania and orphaned after the Hungarian revolution in 1848–1849, "Barbara" was taken...
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Pat Shipman, Author . Morrow $25.95 (450p) ISBN 978-0-06-081728-2
E
xecuted as a German spy by the French in 1917, the notorious Mata Hari was born Margaretha Zelle in 1876, the spoiled daughter of a prosperous Dutch merchant who would later abandon her to the care of relatives after a humiliating bankruptcy and...
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Pat Shipman, Author Simon & Schuster $28 (528p) ISBN 978-0-684-85581-3
Dutch scientist Eug ne Dubois is not nearly as well known as his most important scientific contribution. Dubois's 1892 archeological expedition found the first fossil evidence of Pithecanthropus erectus (what we know today as Homo erectus) or Java...
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Pat Shipman, Author Simon & Schuster $22.5 (318p) ISBN 978-0-671-75460-0
Shipman, coauthor of The Neanderthals , has written an accessible history of the attempts of scientists, from the mid-19th century to the present, to grapple with issues of race. From Charles Darwin's wide-ranging explorations of evolution emerged...
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Pat Shipman, Author Simon & Schuster $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-684-81131-4
Archaeopteryx is every evolutionary biologist's dream come true--an extinct species midway between reptiles and birds. Since its discovery 130 years ago, a debate has raged about whether birds are the airborne descendants of dinosaurs. Although our...
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Pat Shipman. Harvard Univ./Belknap, $29.95 (278p) ISBN 978-0-674-73676-4
Why did Neanderthals go extinct while modern humans flourished? Was it the invasion of modern human populations or a changing climate that pushed Neanderthals into extinction? These are the main questions that Shipman (The Animal Connection)...
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