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Leading paleontologist Brusatte follows up the New York Timesbest-selling TheRise and Fall of the Dinosaurs withThe Rise and Fall of the Mammals , summing up a next act that includes humans, whose world dominance has caused an extinction event costing an estimated 80 percent of wild mammals in the last century alone (75,000-copy first printing). In A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman, Elkins-Tanton—principal investigator of NASA's $800 million Psyche mission—tells her story and that of the nearly all-metal protoplanet 16 Psyche, located in an asteroid belt 589 million kilometers from Earth and optimum not just for mining but more crucially for imparting the story of how planets like ours were formed (50,000-copy first printing). In What Your Food Ate, MacArthur-honored geologist Montgomery ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More