GEL 230 - Prehistoric Life: Find eBooks

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The following are just a few of the Gale Ebook titles available:

• Geology
• The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
• Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: Evolution

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The following are just a few of the Ebook Central titles available:

• Frozen in Time: Prehistoric Life in Antarctica (2012)
• Life Through the Ages II: Twenty-First Century Visions of Prehistory (2020)
• Pterosaurs (2013)
• Prehistoric Life: Evolution and the Fossil Record (2010)

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The following are just a few of the OverDrive & Libby titles available:

• A Brief History of Earth: Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters
• Cowen's History of Life
• Deep Time: A Journey Through 4.5 Billion Years of Our Planet
• The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet

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