Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, Paperback

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

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

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Wael Hallaq treats the rise of Islamic law from 622 to 950 AD when the law and legal system reached maturity. This is the first book that offers su...

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...

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

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Jonathan (Balliol College, University of Oxford, Oxfordshire, UK) BardIllustration(s): 94 Line drawings, ...

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When gods walk the Earth Get to know the enigmatic Eternals - beginning with their introductory adventure by none other than Jack Kirby The King in...

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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 ...

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

In The Secret Life of Bones, Brian Switek frames the history of our species through the importance of bone from instruments and jewellery, to objec...

Reducere. This classic book on mystical experience was originally published in 1901. Bucke's personal experience with divine illumination led to his theory t...

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, ...

Reducere. Changes in climate and sea level are nothing new - over the last 700 million years, the Earth has been slowly but constantly changing from within. ...

DescriptionThis book presents a challenge to the discipline of international relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern ...

Reducere. The Book of the Cube has been called forth by death, rebirth and liberation from cosmic disorder. It is the seventh and final in the Cosmic History...

In almost every human society some people get more and others get less. Why is inequity the rule in human societies? Philosopher Cailin O'Connor re...

Publisher: Fourteen PublishingPublication date: 2021Dimensions: 131 x 197 x 7Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): Ben Townley-CanningRedescop...

Reducere. In Cosmic Consciousness, R. M. Bucke identifies and explores three forms, or degrees, of consciousness: * Simple consciousness, possessed by both a...

This book chronicles the Amsterdam's 17th-century Canal District District's origins and historical evolution over 400 years and debates its future ...

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

Analysing the work of Schutz, Gurwitsch, Merleau-Ponty and Bourdieu, this book considers the historical development of competing philosophies of so...

The quest to find a theory of quantum gravity that could potentially explain everything.

A private Foundation in cooperation with Herder & Herder Publishers is launching a landmark initiative for the development of a Christian cosmology...

Description*Includes pictures of important places and historic illustrations and art depicting Odin and other important Norse figures. *Explains th...

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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...

Mensuration and Proportion Signs represents the first attempt to see the origin of musical mensuration and proportion signs in the context of other...

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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...

Discover the mysteries of science with Future Geniuses Darwin the chicken feels like the smallest animal in the farm, but he wants to be big and st...

Reducere. A fascinating, accessible introduction to Islam from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot and host of the CNN s Believer FINALIST FOR...

Reducere. The Earth teems with life: in its oceans, forests, skies and cities. Yet there's a black hole at the heart of biology. We do not know why complex l...

A new theory about the origins of consciousness that finds learning to be the driving force in the evolutionary transition to basic consciousness.W...

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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...

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

Charles Darwin's theories, first published more than 150 years ago, still set the paradigm of how we understand the evolution of life--but scientif...

Eighth Sister No MorePublisher: Peter Lang Publishing IncAuthor(s): Paul P. MarthersNumber of pages: 268Collection: History of Schools and Schoolin...

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