Author: Bill Mesler
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393248542
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 288
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The epic story of the scientists through the ages who have sought answers to life’s biggest mystery: How did it begin? In this essential and illuminating history of Western science, Bill Mesler and H. James Cleaves II seek to answer the most crucial question in science: How did life begin? They trace the trials and triumphs of the iconoclastic scientists who have sought to solve the mystery, from Darwin’s theory of evolution to Crick and Watson’s unveiling of DNA. This fascinating exploration not only examines the origin-of-life question, but also interrogates the very nature of scientific discovery and objectivity.
Author: Marc Zvi Brettler
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134649843
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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The Creation of History in Ancient Israel demonstrates how the historian can start to piece together the history of ancient Israel using the Hebrew Bible as a source.
Author: Ernst Haeckel
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Creation
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: John-Paul Stonard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408879662
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 775
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**SELECTED AS A BEST ART BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE SUNDAY TIMES** 'Stonard traverses the sweep of human history, moving between cultures and hemispheres ... His book consists of myriad flashes of brilliance and inventiveness' LITERARY REVIEW 'A worthy and richly illustrated successor to Ernst Gombrich's fabled The Story of Art' SUNDAY TIMES 'This bountifully illustrated book is a history of connections ... Lucid and thoughtful' COUNTRY LIFE _____________________________________ A fully illustrated, panoramic world history of art from ancient civilisation to the present day, exploring the remarkable endurance of humankind's creative impulse. Fifty thousand years ago on an island in Indonesia, an early human used red ochre pigment to capture the likeness of a pig on a limestone cave wall. Around the same time in Europe, another human retrieved a lump of charcoal from a fire and sketched four galloping horses. It was like a light turning on in the human mind. Our instinct to produce images in response to nature allowed the earliest Homo sapiens to understand the world around them, and to thrive. Now, art historian John-Paul Stonard has travelled across continents to take us on a panoramic journey through the history of art – from ancient Anatolian standing stones to a Qing Dynasty ink handscroll, from a drawing by a Kiowa artist on America's Great Plains to a post-independence Congolese painting and on to Rachel Whiteread's House. Brilliantly illustrated throughout, with a mixture of black and white and full colour images, Stonard's Creation is an ambitious, thrilling and landmark work that leads us from Benin to Belgium, China to Constantinople, Mexico to Mesopotamia. Journeying from pre-history to the present day, it explores the remarkable endurance of humankind's creative impulse, and asks how – and why – we create.
Author: Laura Welch
Publisher: New Leaf Publishing Group
ISBN: 1614582009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 23
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BIG BOOK OF HISTORY Learning Just Became BIG FUN! Families, schools, and churches can unfold 15 feet of the most interesting history of the world. This easy to follow, color-coded, multi-stream timeline teaches six thousand years of world history to children ages seven through thirteen. These exciting facts and so much more wait inside: who were the first emperors of China and Rome what discovery unlocked the secrets of a forgotten language how modern robotics had its roots in the tea dolls of Japan where Christians faced death for the entertainment of thousands why the languages of Greek and Hebrew were used to write the Bible and how the Age of Discovery meant wealth some, and the destruction of civilization for others. Understanding how the past has shaped our future will inspire young learners to make history for themselves!
Author: Ernst Haeckel
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042966706X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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Originally published in 1899, The History of Creation was the first book of its kind to apply a doctrine to the whole range of organic morphology and make use of the effect Darwin had on biological sciences during the 19th century. Haeckel looks at Darwin’s reform of Descent Theory and its establishment through the doctrine of selection. He introduces Descent Theory into the systematic classification of animals and plants and finds a "natural system" on the basis of genealogy - that is, to construct hypothetical pedigrees for the various species of organisms. The book will be of interest to those studying natural history and the origins of modern scientific thought, it will appeal to researchers both in the natural sciences and in history.
Author: Carylee Gressman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780977859702
Category : Bible stories
Languages : en
Pages : 63
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Now you can combine art, history, and cursive handwriting all in one! Draw and Write Through History is a great supplement to any history curriculum. Students draw different pictures related to the historical time period and then write about what they drew. It is Chronological, including Biblical history. It is student friendly. Each how-to drawing is broken down into steps, and each step is done is color. The first book in this series covers the time period from creation to Jonah (about 760 B.C.). This book is in full-color. All the illustrations are done in Prismacolor pencils.
Author: Piero Scaruffi
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781500262228
Category : Computers
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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This book is the first history of Silicon Valley from 1900 to the 2010s. It is a comprehensive study of the greatest creation of wealth in the history of the world, from the establishment of Stanford University to the age of social media. The underlying objective is to find the reason why it was Silicon Valley, and not some place on the East Coast or in Europe, that became the creative technological hub of the 21st century.Silicon Valley did not happen in a vacuum: the book also explores the surrounding social and cultural environment of the Bay Area.This "green" book follows the “red book” od 2012, which was the (sold out) first edition coauthored with Arun Rao, and the "blue book", which was Arun's proof-edited and expanded second edition of all chapters. The 600-page blue book is still available and contains both my old chapters and Arun's chapters. This 400-page green edition contains only my chapters (basically, the chronology) updated to 2014 and with many additions to early chapters and a new chapter on Asia.
Author: Andrew J. Brown
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004397531
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 373
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The Days of Creation examines the history of Christian interpretation of the seven-day framework of Genesis 1:1–2:3 in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament from the post-apostolic era to the debates surrounding Essays and Reviews (1860). Included in the survey are patristic, medieval, Renaissance/Reformation, eighteenth-century Enlightenment and finally early to mid-nineteenth-century interpretations of the days of creation. This study enables an insight into the mighty career of a biblical text of seminal importance, and fills a significant niche in reception-historical research.
Author: Linda Lacour Hobar
Publisher: Bright Ideas Press
ISBN: 9781892427045
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 486
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