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Author | : Sir David Attenborough |
Publisher | : Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages | : 235 |
Release | : 2020-10-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1538720000 |
*Goodreads Choice Award Winner for Best Science & Technology Book of the Year* In this scientifically informed account of the changes occurring in the world over the last century, award-winning broadcaster and natural historian shares a lifetime of wisdom and a hopeful vision for the future. See the world. Then make it better. I am 93. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary. As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day -- the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity. I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet is my witness statement, and my vision for the future. It is the story of how we came to make this, our greatest mistake -- and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right. We have one final chance to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited. All we need is the will to do so.
Author | : Nicole Panteleakos |
Publisher | : Yearling |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2020-05-05 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0525646604 |
"Tender and illuminating. A beautiful debut." --Rebecca Stead, Newbery Medal-winning author of When You Reach Me A heartrending and hopeful story about a nonverbal girl and her passion for space exploration, for fans of See You in the Cosmos, Mockingbird, and The Thing About Jellyfish. Twelve-year-old Nova is eagerly awaiting the launch of the space shuttle Challenger--it's the first time a teacher is going into space, and kids across America will watch the event on live TV in their classrooms. Nova and her big sister, Bridget, share a love of astronomy and the space program. They planned to watch the launch together. But Bridget has disappeared, and Nova is in a new foster home. While foster families and teachers dismiss Nova as severely autistic and nonverbal, Bridget understands how intelligent and special Nova is, and all that she can't express. As the liftoff draws closer, Nova's new foster family and teachers begin to see her potential, and for the first time, she is making friends without Bridget. But every day, she's counting down to the launch, and to the moment when she'll see Bridget again. Because as Bridget said, "No matter what, I'll be there. I promise."
Author | : Heather Alexander |
Publisher | : Wide Eyed Editions |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2019-08-06 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1786034573 |
Answer 100 questions about mountains, hurricanes, the water cycle and more in this book with 70 interactive lift-the-flaps to explore.
Author | : Cesare Emiliani |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 740 |
Release | : 1992-08-28 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780521409490 |
This book explains why we have such a vast array of environments across the cosmos and on our own planet, and also a stunning diversity of plant and animal life on earth.
Author | : Stacy McAnulty |
Publisher | : Henry Holt and Company (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2017-10-24 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1250197910 |
A lighthearted nonfiction picture book about the formation and history of the Earth--told from the perspective of the Earth itself! "Hi, I’m Earth! But you can call me Planet Awesome." Prepare to learn all about Earth from the point-of-view of Earth herself! In this funny yet informative book, filled to the brim with kid-friendly facts, readers will discover key moments in Earth’s life, from her childhood more than four billion years ago all the way up to present day. Beloved children's book author Stacy McAnulty helps Earth tell her story, and award-winning illustrator David Litchfield brings the words to life. The book includes back matter with even more interesting tidbits. This title has Common Core connections.
Author | : Alan Lightman |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2022-04-19 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0593081323 |
The acclaimed author of Einstein’s Dreams tackles "big questions like the origin of the universe and the nature of consciousness ... in an entertaining and easily digestible way” (Wall Street Journal) with a collection of meditative essays on the possibilities—and impossibilities—of nothingness and infinity, and how our place in the cosmos falls somewhere in between. Can space be divided into smaller and smaller units, ad infinitum? Does space extend to larger and larger regions, on and on to infinity? Is consciousness reducible to the material brain and its neurons? What was the origin of life, and can biologists create life from scratch in the lab? Physicist and novelist Alan Lightman, whom The Washington Post has called “the poet laureate of science writers,” explores these questions and more—from the anatomy of a smile to the capriciousness of memory to the specialness of life in the universe to what came before the Big Bang. Probable Impossibilities is a deeply engaged consideration of what we know of the universe, of life and the mind, and of things vastly larger and smaller than ourselves.
Author | : Andrew H. Knoll |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780691120294 |
Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, with the very latest discoveries in paleontology integrated with emerging insights from molecular biology and earth system science. 100 illustrations.
Author | : Nicola Davies |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 36 |
Release | : 2017-11-07 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0763694835 |
The more we study the world around us, the more living things we discover every day. The planet is full of millions of species of plants, birds, animals, and microbes, and every single one including us is part of a big, beautiful, complicated pattern. When humans interfere with parts of the pattern, by polluting the air and oceans, taking too much from the sea, and cutting down too many forests, animals and plants begin to disappear. What sort of world would it be if it went from having many types of living things to having just one?--
Author | : David Attenborough |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Evolution |
ISBN | : 9780002199414 |
Author | : Thérèse Encrenaz |
Publisher | : EDP Sciences |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2021-06-10 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 2759825701 |
The Earth is the only planet in the Solar System where liquid water is present on the surface, a condition that seems necessary for the development of life. Its sisters Venus and Mars are extremely different. Why did these three planets, born under fairly comparable conditions, evolve to the conditions we observe today? Understanding the physical or chemical factors that are at the origin of such divergent evolutions is a first step in an approach to the problem of the origin of life on Earth.