Author: Danielle Clode
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521866200
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book follows the thread of individual natural history stories through the scientists of Museum Victoria.
Continent of Curiosities
Author: Danielle Clode
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521866200
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book follows the thread of individual natural history stories through the scientists of Museum Victoria.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521866200
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
This book follows the thread of individual natural history stories through the scientists of Museum Victoria.
Terra
Author: Michael Novacek
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466821604
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
A paleontologist awakens us to the "extinction event" that human activity is bringing about today The natural world as humans have always known it evolved close to 100 million years ago, with the appearance of flowering plants and pollinating insects during the age of the dinosaurs. Its tremendous history is now in danger of profound, catastrophic disruption. In Terra, a brilliant synthesis of evolutionary biology, paleontology, and modern environmental science, Michael Novacek shows how all three can help us understand and prevent what he (and others) call today's "mass extinction event." Humanity's use of land, our consumption, the pollution we create, and our contributions to global warming are causing this crisis. True, the fossil record of hundreds of millions of years reveals that wild and bounteous nature has always evolved not quietly but thunderously, as species arise, flourish, die off, and are replaced by new species. We learn from paleontology and archaeology that for 50,000 years, human hunting, mining, and agriculture have changed many localities, sometimes irrevocably. But today, Novacek insists, our behavior endangers the entire global ecosystem. And if we disregard—through ignorance, antipathy, or apathy—the theory of evolution that developed with our modern understanding of the Earth's past, we not only impede enlightenment but threaten any practical strategy for our own survival. The evolutionary future of the entire living planet depends on our understanding this.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN: 1466821604
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
A paleontologist awakens us to the "extinction event" that human activity is bringing about today The natural world as humans have always known it evolved close to 100 million years ago, with the appearance of flowering plants and pollinating insects during the age of the dinosaurs. Its tremendous history is now in danger of profound, catastrophic disruption. In Terra, a brilliant synthesis of evolutionary biology, paleontology, and modern environmental science, Michael Novacek shows how all three can help us understand and prevent what he (and others) call today's "mass extinction event." Humanity's use of land, our consumption, the pollution we create, and our contributions to global warming are causing this crisis. True, the fossil record of hundreds of millions of years reveals that wild and bounteous nature has always evolved not quietly but thunderously, as species arise, flourish, die off, and are replaced by new species. We learn from paleontology and archaeology that for 50,000 years, human hunting, mining, and agriculture have changed many localities, sometimes irrevocably. But today, Novacek insists, our behavior endangers the entire global ecosystem. And if we disregard—through ignorance, antipathy, or apathy—the theory of evolution that developed with our modern understanding of the Earth's past, we not only impede enlightenment but threaten any practical strategy for our own survival. The evolutionary future of the entire living planet depends on our understanding this.
The Works...
Author: Francis Bacon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Coldest Harbour in the Land
Author: Luca Codignola
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773505407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Simon Stock (born Thomas Doughty) was a missionary priest of the Discalced Carmelite order in England.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 9780773505407
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Simon Stock (born Thomas Doughty) was a missionary priest of the Discalced Carmelite order in England.
Speculum
Author: Edward Kennard Rand
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews".
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Civilization, Medieval
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews".
A Treatise on diseases of the anus, rectum, and pelvic colon
Author: James Percival Tuttle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
The Great Comet of 1680
Author: Howard Robinson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comets
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
A Treatise on Diseases of the Anus, Rectum and Pelvic Colon
Author: James Tuttle, A.M., M.D.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1614
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1614
Book Description
The Catholic University Bulletin
Author: Catholic University of America
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Animals and Maps
Author: Wilma George
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520330323
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520330323
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description