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.Berlitz Guide to Cruising and Cruise Ships (Berlitz Cruise Guides) (Berlitz Cruise Guides)

by: Douglas Ward

September 24, 2008

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.Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons

by: Dugald Steer, Helen Ward, Douglas Carrel

October 01, 2003
This is a brilliant book and it is a must read for many I am sure it is as phenominal as all the other books about dragonology and an important one for collectors.Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons
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.Berlitz Guide to Cruising (Berlitz Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships) (Berlitz Complete Guide to Cruising & Cruise Ships)

by: Douglas Ward

October 15, 2007
This is a brilliant book and it is a must read for many I am sure it is as phenominal as all the other books about dragonology and an important one for collectors.Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons
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.Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe

by: Peter Douglas Ward, Donald Brownlee

January 16, 2004
I don't think I can really add much to the excellent review given here by Stephen A. Haines. Despite the attacks on this book (see for example Life Everywhere: The Maverick Science of Astrobiology, written as a direct response), Ward and Brownlee's argument remains convincing.

When you've finished, follow on with the same authors' The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World.
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.Dragonology (Ologies)

by: Ernest Drake, Douglas Carrel, Dugald A. Steer

2003-11
This is a brilliant book and it is a must read for many I am sure it is as phenominal as all the other books about dragonology and an important one for collectors.Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons
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.Out of Thin Air: Dinosaurs, Birds, and Earth's Ancient Atmosphere

by: Peter Douglas Ward

September 26, 2006
This is a brilliant book and it is a must read for many I am sure it is as phenominal as all the other books about dragonology and an important one for collectors.Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons
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.Dragonologists Writing Kit: From the Desk of Dr Ernest Drake

by: Dugald Steer

November 01, 2006
This is a brilliant book and it is a must read for many I am sure it is as phenominal as all the other books about dragonology and an important one for collectors.Dragonology: The Complete Book of Dragons
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.Life as We Do Not Know it: The NASA Search for (and Synthesis Of) Alien Life

by: Peter Douglas Ward

April 05, 2007
Not long ago, Peter Ward, with co-author Donald Brownlee, scandalised the SciFi world. In "Rare Earth", they assessed the contingencies that would lead to complex and intelligent life and found all those ET types seriously wanting. Too many binocular, bipedal and articulate organisms for their liking. "Alien" life, however, is very likely to exist in Ward's analysis in this successor volume. Indeed, he stresses, it may be very close. Alien life using survival methods we have little or no knowledge of, may have emerged in parallel with ours. We need to accept that possibility and learn to search for and identify it.

Viruses, of course, are the prime candidates. Many biologists, however, reject the virus as part of life - they cannot reproduce without ... Read More:
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.The Life and Death of Planet Earth: How the New Science of Astrobiology Charts the Ultimate Fate of Our World

by: Peter Douglas Ward, Don Brownlee

May 22, 2003
"The disciples said to Jesus: Tell us how our end shall be. Jesus said: Have you then discovered the beginning, that you seek after the end? For where the beginning is, there shall the end be."
(The Gospel of Thomas, Logion 18)

After Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe, here comes another belter from Ward & Brownlee. The question of what has happened over the last 5 billion years of earth's history has of course been addressed in great detail by science. But what will happen over the next 5 billion?

In this masterly study, W & B contend that everything is going to go pretty much in reverse, a kind of film run backwards of the history of the planet - we may even already be past the turning point and it's downhill ... Read More:
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.On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions

by: Peter Douglas Ward

December 20, 1993
Peter Ward is one of the best writers in this genre - personally I rate him with Wilson, Dawkins and Gould - at least when it comes to the art of telling a good story, creating a good picture.

"On Methuselah's Trail" is one of the best books I have read about fossils and evolution. Not revolutionary, challenging or very complicated - just well written, charming, and - most important - it makes you want go right out in the bush to look for your own fossils!
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