Microcosmos: Four Billion Years of Microbial Evolution, Paperback - Lynn Margulis

BACK IN PRINT WITH A REVISED PREFACEMicrocosmos brings together the remarkable discoveries of microbiology of the past two decades and the pioneeri...

Nothing begins when you thought it did...Illustrations: 40 integrated greyscale images

Reducere. A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "Extraordinary. . . . Anyone with the slightest interest in biology should read this book."--The New Y...

Our true origins are not just human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and the current cross-poll...

The story of life's development on earth from the dinosaurs onwards, illustrated by Kate Greenaway medallist Grahame Baker-Smith.

Reducere. "A sublime chronicle of our planet. -Booklist, STARRED reviewA primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard's acclaimed geologistHow well do you kno...

Reducere. How do new species evolve? Although Darwin identified inherited variation as the creative force in evolution, he never formally speculated where it...

"A groundbreaking look at Gaia theory's intersections with neocybernetic systems theory"--Illustrations: 13 B-W Illustrations

Writing Gaia tells the story of the scientific collaboration between James Lovelock and Lynn Margulis through an annotated record of their four-dec...

The story of how scientists are using the modern techniques to draw information out of the oldest rocks on Earth. This title also reveals the human...

In this far-reaching anthology, David Ensminger delves underground to explore the oft overlooked community of badass women who shaped the punk scen...

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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 ...

Sydney Eastwood doesn't want to be an undercover contestant on reality dating show, A Bride for the Billionaire. She doesn't want to have to fit in...

Hailed by The New York Times for writing "with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along, " nationally bests...

Reducere. To understand continental drift and plate tectonics, the shifting and collisions that make and unmake continents, requires a long view. The Earth, ...

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

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Tracy E. PerkinsIllustration(s): 24 b-w photographs 1 map 1 tableNumber of pages: 302Publicatio...

Transcendental Medication considers why human brains evolved to have consciousness, yet we spend much of our time trying to reduce our awareness. I...

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Ever since Charles Darwin revealed his landmark ideas about evolution in 1859, new findings have confirmed, expanded, and refined his concepts. Now...

Reducere. How Football Became Football traces football's evolution from a version of rugby played before a handful of friends to a spectacle played in packed...

The story of the Fab Four as you've never seen it before, told using stunning infographics and data visualisations. From the band's first ever gig ...

DescriptionThe author of A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived investigates what it means to be human--and the ways we are (and aren't) unique...

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

Reducere. This lively and provocative book leaves no stone unturned and no taboo untouched as it pieces together evidence from highly controversial artifacts...

DescriptionOver 300 million years ago, an early land vertebrate developed an egg that contained the embryo in an amnion, allowing it to be deposite...

A small set of fossilized bones discovered almost thirty years ago led paleontologist Sankar Chatterjee on a lifelong quest to understand their pla...

Reducere. A pioneering proposal for a pluralistic extension of evolutionary theory, now updated to reflect the most recent research. This new edition of the ...

Reducere. Award-winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his staunchest supporters: Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and...

Four Years In the Rockies tells the story of Isaac P. Rose, who went from greenhorn to legendary trapper at the height of the fur-trade in the 1830...

A gripping memoir written by a 96-year-old Jewish Holocaust survivor about his escape from Nazi-occupied Poland in the 1930's and his adventures wi...

In order to present a portrait of Central Europe, Norman Davies and Roger Moorhouse have made a case study of one of its most colourful cities, the...

Reducere. This lively collection of 34 of the best history walks in North Carolina highlights the richness and diversity of the state's history, from the tim...

Contributor(s): Author: Annalisa BertaIllustrator: James L. SumichMarine mammals have long captured the attention of humans. Ancient peoples etched...

Reducere. The ``raging frenzy`` of the sex drive, to use Plato's phrase, has always defied control. However, that's not to say that the Sumerians, Victorians...

Thrillingly tells the story of an Eastern European Jew's flight from the Holocaust and the years he spent fighting in the French underground." --US...

Reducere. Jeff W Zimba brings the reader on a twenty-year journey through the testing and evaluation phase of America's longest serving battle rifle, now kno...

DescriptionTitan is a moon of Saturn, most recently explored by the Cassini/Huygens probes. Titan is of huge interest to scientists, as the conditi...

Reducere. DescriptionBehind the Scenes (1868) is both a slave narrative and a portrait of the First Family of America, especially of Mary Todd Lincoln, wife ...

Four Views on Creation, Evolution, and Intelligent Design presents the current ``state of the conversation`` about origins among evangelicals repre...

Reducere. DescriptionMeshach Browning spent decades as a professional hunter and trapper of bears, boars and deer in rural Maryland during the early 1800s - ...

A broad selection of more than 350 poems, blessings, prayers, poems, and dramatic readings that Pagans and Witches can incorporate into their spiri...

Reducere. Armenian Aram Haigaz was only 15 when he lost his father, brothers, many relatives and neighbors, all killed or dead of starvation when enemy soldi...

The book includes photographs of fossils from around the world as well as dramatic color illustrations depicting what those fishes may have actuall...