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The Secret History of Sharks: The Rise of the Ocean’s Most Fearsome Predators 467 pp., Ballantine, 2024 John Long Dr. John Long, an Au...

 Dr Space Junk vs The Universe: Archaeology and the Future Dr. Alice Gorman is one of the pioneers of space archaeology, a field even many s...

  Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age Eric Berger BenBella, 2024    In this second b...

The Bear Almanac : A Comprehensive Guide to the Bears of the World Gary Brown Lyons Press, 2024 reprint of 2009 text, 341pp. This just-r...

 Dake W. Greenwalt Remnants of Ancient Life: The New Science of Old Fossils Princeton, 2022. 278pp. Like DNA, this book folds a great deal o...

On the 18th, with my daughter Corey and her girlfriend Samantha as company and support staff, I visited the Orca exhibit currently showing a...

 I’ve always been fascinated by marine life, and we have so much still to learn about the ocean realm. National Geographic is presenting a n...

 We have no idea how many species of squid there are. The giant and colossal squids top 13 meters (allegedly a lot more - unproven, but fun ...

 It's Shark Week! Most of the stuff on TV this week isn't much more realistic than shark movies tend to be. Especially when you get ...

  A Hunt for Justice: The True Story of an Undercover Wildlife Agent Lucinda Delaney Schroeder Lyons Press, 2006, 270pp   A compelling...

Loren Grush The Six: The Untold Story of America’s First Women Astronauts Scribner, 2023, 422pp.   There’s a lot of history and intrigue...

Even by the standards of an Apollo kid, this was a memorable week.  We had two groundbreaking missions, the loss of an Apollo hero and an an...

Alpha Wave (The Sleepers War Book 1)  Blackstone Publishing; 2023. 764pp. Jonathan Maberry and the late Weston Ochse take the space war epic...