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6) Valuing life
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c1991
Physical Desc
xvii, 284 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Arbordale Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Using a wide variety of stunning photographs, author Kevin Kurtz poses thought-provoking questions to help readers determine if things are living or nonliving. For example, if most (but not all) living things can move, can any nonliving things move? As part of the Compare and Contrast series, this is a unique look at determining whether something is living or nonliving."--
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
xiii, 548 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Today, a scientific explanation is not meant to ascribe agency to natural phenomena: we would not say a rock falls because it seeks the center of the earth. Even for living things, in the natural sciences and often in the social sciences, the same is true. A modern botanist would not say that plants pursue sunlight. This has not always been the case, nor, perhaps, was it inevitable. Since the seventeenth century, many thinkers have made agency, in...
11) Life
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.
Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book is a vision of biology set within the entire timescale of the universe. It is about the timing of life, from microsecond movements to evolutionary changes over millions of years. Human consciousness is riveted to seconds, but a split-second time delay in perception means that we are unaware of anything until it has already happened. We live in the very recent past. Over longer timescales, this book examines the lifespans of the oldest organisms,...
13) What's alive?
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
©1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"People and plants and animals are all alive, but is a doll alive? Or your tricycle? How can you tell?"--Cover.
14) Life
Author
Series
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
1994
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
64 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
LP
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
This Phenomenal Life tells the story of the wondrous ways that humans are always completely at one with our surrounding world. From the vast galaxies above to the miniature microbes within, humans are organically connected to the complex cycles and mysterious processes of our universe. Every single atom of our body is made of remnants of stars and massive explosions in the galaxies, and we share the same biochemical basis of life with all living beings...
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