The Well-Dressed Ape(1stEdition) A Natural History of Myself by HannahHolmes Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2009 by Random House Canada International Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-679-31495-0, ISBN: 0-679-31495-4
"Stiff meets Your Inner Fish in this surprising, humourous, and edifying look at our species as, essentially, animals.Combining personal stories, cutting-edge science, and a buoyant sense of humour, Hannah Holmes offers an intriguing and fresh way to understand our place in the world.Science journalist Hannah Holmes wryly examines the human animal, beginning with the animal she knows best: herself. What she finds is that, of course, we a ..."
Suburban Safari(1stEdition) A Year on the Lawn by HannahHolmes Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2005 by Bloomsbury Usa Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-1-58234-479-9, ISBN: 1-58234-479-5
"Who knew that an investigation into that patch of grass in our backyards could be so fruitful-and so funny?More than 550 square miles of new lawns unfold each year in the U.S. alone. Although new research shows that these lawns aren't nearly as "unnatural" as ecologists once thought, no one has offered an accessible exploration of this novel habitat. Until now...Equipped with a lawn chair and her infectious curiosity, science writer Han ..."
The Secret Life of Dust(1stEdition) From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things (Hardback Or Cased Book) by HannahHolmes Hardcover, 254 Pages, Published 2003 by Wiley ISBN-13: 978-1-63026-227-3, ISBN: 1-63026-227-7
"Hannah Holmes A mesmerizing expedition around our dusty worldSome see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the hands of author Hannah Holmes, it becomes a dazzling and mysterious force; Dust, we discover, built the planet we walk upon. And it tinkers with the weather and spices the air we breathe. Billions of tons of it rise annually into the air--the dust of deserts and forgotten kings mixing with volcanic ash, sea salt, leaf fragmen ..."
The Secret Life of Dust(1stEdition) From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things by HannahHolmes Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2001 by Wiley ISBN-13: 978-0-471-37743-6, ISBN: 0-471-37743-0
"Leave it to an accomplished science writer like Hannah Holmes to unearth so much about so little in The Secret Life of Dust. Zooming in on one of the great, often unnoticed constants of life on Earth--dust, in all its myriad forms--Holmes traverses biology, astronomy, climatology, pathology, and a host of other fields to dig up the serious dirt. Because while dust might be vital to life on our planet (and may, in fact, even be responsib ..."