How the Earth Turned Green: A Brief 3.8-Billion-Year History of Plants, Paperback - Joseph E. Armstrong

On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient...

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A leading neuroscientist offers a history of the evolution of the brain from unicellular organisms to the complexity of animals and human beings to...

The Green Fuse is all about plants, but it is not your typical plant book. It is a tribute to plants, describing their powers, in particular descri...

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DescriptionBeyond the Tulips is a popular history, a journalistic tale of an extraordinary nation of people drawn from a personal perspective, foll...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elizabeth MannIllustrator: Alan Witschonke This is the story of a people's struggle for absolute security in a violent and ...

DescriptionThe Mother of All Jobs is about the battle to make modern working parenting actually work. If not for our own sanity, then perhaps for o...

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An exploration inside all kinds of plants and the structures which they use to feed, grow and reproduce. All the major biological processes are exp...

Reducere. In The Wildest Ride, Joe Menzer gives us a timely, comprehensive look at the dramatic, rollicking history of stock-car racing in America, exploring...

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4.6 billion years of the story of life on Earth, in 52, 000 words. Brief, brilliant and entirely gripping.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Henry ...

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Publisher: John Murray PressAuthor(s): Joseph JebelliPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 154 x 233 x 28Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera farmecul lect...

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Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the...

Blends evidence from the fossil record and data from biomolecular studies to tell the story of plant evolution from the earliest forms of life to t...

"I predict that Kasper and Feller will become a standard reference on holography for students and interested laymen." -- James A. Van Allen.For mos...

DescriptionEddie Tipton went to prison in 2017 for masterminding the biggest lottery fraud in U.S. history. In a twisting and bizarre tale, he some...

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Reducere. DescriptionWho was Vermont's first Ghostbuster? Was a full-blown exorcism performed at a local college? What mystery did a Vermont Doctor discover ...

A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern world China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economi...

DescriptionWith over 25 percent of its land set aside in national parks and other protected areas, Costa Rica is renowned worldwide as "the green r...

Reducere. New England is truly a Cabinet of Curiosities, and this indispensable guide directs you to its most bizarre, off the wall, and unsettling exhibits....

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Reducere. How many people can the Earth support? Tucker makes the case that the Earth's 'carrying capacity' is limited to 3 billion humans, and that humanity...

Reducere. How many people can the Earth support? Tucker makes the case that the Earth's 'carrying capacity' is limited to 3 billion humans, and that humanity...

Publisher: PicadorAuthor(s): Yang JishengTranslator: Guo JianNumber of pages: 768Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 137 x 209 x 36Cover type: Paperb...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Craig Lieberman3rd EDITIONGo behind the scenes of the production of "The Fast and The Furious" ad "2 Fast 2 Furious, " the ...

Reducere. This study provides the first comprehensive discussion of conservation in Nazi Germany. Looking at Germany in an international context, it analyses...

Reducere. Gardening is merely a hobby for most men-but for Jack Broccoli, it becomes a matter of life and death.Terrorists from a radical farming cult have b...

At heart his book is not a call for panic, but a demonstration that - even with the crisis so severe, and the political scope so limited - the acti...

Yang Jisheng's The World Turned Upside Down is the definitive history of the Cultural Revolution, in withering and heartbreaking detail.Publisher: ...

Reducere. Turning sixteen is an unforgettable milestone, and each of these four sisters has her own story to tell. Rose, the oldest, feels like she has the m...

Reducere. DescriptionJapan was a physical and psychological wasteland at the end of World War II. With over 3 million dead, 39 percent of city populations ho...

DescriptionJapan was a physical and psychological wasteland at the end of World War II. With over 3 million dead, 39 percent of city populations ho...

Reducere. Most violent jihadi movements in the twentieth century focused on removing corrupt, repressive secular regimes throughout the Muslim world. But fol...

Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing GroupAuthor(s): Henry GeeNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 136 x 188 x 28Cover type: Hardbac...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dan RyckertAfter experiencing his first panic attack on New Year's Day of 2003, Dan Ryckert began a 12-year process of lear...

Reducere. The First Book of Plants by Alice Dickinson is a wonderful science book that targets upper elementary/middle school readers. It is very thorough in...