The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet, Paperback - Robert M. Hazen

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

Publisher: Arcturus Publishing LtdAuthor(s): Anne RooneyIllustration(s): Hardback with jacketNumber of pages: 128Collection: The Story of Everythin...

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

Reducere. Knowledge of the basic ideas and principles of science is fundamental to cultural literacy. But most books on science are often too obscure or too ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert M. CitinoFor Frederick the Great, the prescription for warfare was simple: kurz und vives ("short and lively")--wars...

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

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert M. PooleCreated at the end of the Civil War, Arlington National Cemetery has become a part of the landscape as fixed...

Robert M. Edsel brings the story of his #1 New York Times bestseller for adults The Monuments Men to young readers for the first time in this dynam...

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

How old is the universe? How are humans related to a sponge? Where did most of the world's water come from? How much would a complete T Rex skeleto...

Reducere. Alaska pollock is everywhere. If you're eating fish but you don't know what kind it is, it's almost certainly pollock. Prized for its generic fish ...

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

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 ...

Reducere. DescriptionSince its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Po...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Opal Irene SevreyIllustrator: Mildred WaltripA republication of the 1958 book by Irene Sevrey with illustrations by Mildred...

Synopsis: The United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) entrusted author James Robinson with tracking down the place where the ...

A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.Publisher: HarperCollins Publisher...

'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES 'This book is a triumph' DAN SNOWPublisher: Harpe...

AwardsMidwest Book Award (MIPA)DescriptionBetween A.D. 700 and 1100 Native Americans built more effigy mounds in Wisconsin than anywhere else in No...

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

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...

The Sunday Times Bestseller A new, fully updated narrative edition of David Attenborough's seminal biography of our world, The Living Planet.Publis...

Reducere. The History of the 101st Airborne Division is the epic story of the Division from its activation in August 1942 through the completion of Operation...

Reducere. "This remarkable account of the 1961 race into space is a thrilling piece of storytelling. . . . It is high definition history: tight, thrilling an...

Reducere. DescriptionDid you know...The Chinese were the first civilization to introduce the concept of exams?The Indus Valley Civilization was perhaps the c...

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...

'Thrilling ... High-definition history: tight, thrilling and beautifully researched' SUNDAY TIMES 'This book is a triumph' DAN SNOW

Reducere. 1. You Only Live Once - 3: 09 2. Juicebox - 3: 14 3. Heart In A Cage - 3: 26 4. Razorblade - 3: 28 5. On The Other Side - 4: 36 6. Vision Of Divisi...

Publisher: Ronsdale PressNumber of pages: 434Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 228 x 153 x 25Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s): R BeaudoinR...

An enchanting biography of the most resonant - and most necessary - chemical element on Earth.

Reducere. A sometimes hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, and always entertaining joint memoir by Joseph Fink, cocreator of Welcome to Night Vale, and his...

Reducere. The History of the 101st Airborne Division is the epic story of the Division from its activation in August 1942 through the completion of Operation...

Reducere. This book looks back on forty years of writings from the Oakland-based Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First, on th...

If people were planets, we'd be a lot like Earth ...

DescriptionFrom our special place in the Orion Arm to the Milky Way's future collision with the Andromeda Galaxy, Milky Way Owners' Workshop Manual...

Star Dust Falling. The Story of the Plane That Vanished - Jay Rayner

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 ...

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...

Reducere. This is the story of the rise to national power of a desperately poor young man from the Texas Hill Country. The Path to Power reveals in extraordi...

DescriptionAn accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In...

Reducere. DescriptionUnlike previous works that focus on the relationships of the Chippewa with the colonial governments of France, Great Britain, and the Un...

Reducere. DescriptionRather than focusing on a single Choctaw group, this book offers for the first time a combined story of "the Choctaw" as the tribe compr...

Publisher: Hodder EducationAuthor(s): Emily HibbsNumber of pages: 56Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 171 x 243 x 8Cover type: Paperback / softback...

Publisher: Topix Media LabAuthor(s): Juliana SharafIllustration(s): 100 full color photosNumber of pages: 176Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 172 ...

Based on decades of research, and combining mesmerising, state-of-the-art satellite maps with enlightening and passionately argued analysis, Ian an...