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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492—from “a remarkably engaging writer” (The New York Times Book Review).
Contrary to what so many Americans learn in school, the pre-Columbian Indians were not sparsely settled in a pristine wilderness; rather, there were huge
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John Wiley & Sons
Pub. Date
c2003
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v, 232 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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English
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The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesis. This lively science history relates one of the great recent breakthroughs in planetary astronomy-a successful theory of the birth of the Moon. Science journalist Dana Mackenzie traces the evolution of this theory, one little known outside the scientific community: a Mars-sized object collided with Earth some four billion years ago, and the remains of this colossal explosion-the...
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"Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we've been and where we're going."--
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
©2013
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x, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
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English
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Shubin shows how the entirety of the universe's fourteen-billion-year history can be seen in our bodies as he moves from our very molecular composition (a result of stellar events at the origin of our solar system) through the workings of our eyes.
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Robert Langdon volume 5
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English
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Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
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Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (720 min.) : sound, color ; 43/4 in. + 1 guidebook (134 pages) 19 cm + 2 lecture transcripts (217 pages, 209 pages ; 21 cm).
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English
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This course explores the development of our knowledge of the solar system from the simple pondering of the motions in the sky to the latest discoveries of modern astrophysics.
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Princeton University Press
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English
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"Longlisted for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, PEN America" "One of Waterstones' Books of the Year 2020: Popular Science" "Longlisted for the AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books for Young Adults" Sean B. Carroll is an award-winning scientist, writer, educator, and film producer. He is Vice President for Science Education at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and the Balo-Simon Chair of Biology at the University...
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English
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"In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman-an entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place-in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
223 pages ; 22 cm
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English
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"A breakout bestseller in Italy, now available for American readers for the first time, Genesis: The Story of How Everything Began is a short, humanistic tour of the origins of the universe, earth, and life-drawing on the latest discoveries in physics to explain the seven most significant moments in the creation of the cosmos"--
15) The beginning
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Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st American ed.
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144 p. : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
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English
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Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
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xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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English
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"The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish now gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life, that enable us to further understand whether our presence on this planet is an accident or inevitable. The great transformations in the history of life brought about whole scale shifts in how animals live and how their bodies are organized: the evolution of fish to land-living creature, the origin of birds,...
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Custom House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
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xii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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An astonishing exploration of planet formation and the origins of life by one of the world's most innovative planetary geologists. In 1959, the Soviet probe Luna 3 took the first photos of the far side of the moon. Even in their poor resolution, the images stunned scientists: the far side is an enormous mountainous expanse, not the vast lava-plains seen from Earth. Subsequent missions have confirmed this in much greater detail. How could this be,...
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Teaching Co
Pub. Date
©2013
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8 videodiscs (approximately 1400 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm).
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English
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Examines Earth's origin from simple atoms that were created in the big bang, transformed into heavy elements in stellar explosions, then forged into a planet inside the nebula that gave birth to the solar system. Like many other planets, Earth went through phases of melting, volcanism, and bombardment by asteroids. But only on Earth did events lead to a flourishing biosphere--life. And once life was established, it drove the evolution of our planet...
20) The book of life
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English
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This book uses art and science to tell the story of life on earth. The text provides thorough understanding of the latest research and is accompanied by paintings prepared especially for this book. Never before has our planet's evolution been so clearly explained. History is marked by disaster. The book of life explains how mammals, having survived at least one of these disasters -- the impact of a massive comet -- luckily inherited the earth. Next...
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