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  • Oxygen

    A Four Billion Year History

    par Donald E. Canfield ...
    Collections series Science Essentials
    The remarkable scientific story of how Earth became an oxygenated planetThe air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield—one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth history, and the early oceans—covers this ... En savoir plus

    $44.36 CAD

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  • Life's Engines

    How Microbes Made Earth Habitable

    par Paul G. Falkowski ...
    Collections Livre 24 - Science Essentials
    The marvelous microbes that made life on Earth possible and support our very existenceFor almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Life's Engines takes readers deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelous ... En savoir plus

    $17.09 CAD

  • Earth's Deep History

    How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters

    par Martin J. S. Rudwick ...
    "Tells the story . . . of how 'natural philosophers' developed the ideas of geology accepted today . . . Fascinating." — San Francisco Book ReviewEarth has been witness to dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for ... En savoir plus

    $23.75 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Planet of the Bugs

    Evolution and the Rise of Insects

    par Scott Richard Shaw ...
    This "excellent guide to the history of our planet" offers a bugs-eye view of evolution, biodiversity, and todays ecological crises ( The Guardian, UK).According to entomologist Scott Richard Shaw, dinosaurs never ruled the earth—and neither do humans. The true potentates of our planet are, and always have been, insects. Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient Earth and ending in the far reaches ... En savoir plus

    $15.83 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Collapse of Western Civilization

    A View from the Future

    par Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway ...
    The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from ... En savoir plus

    $8.90 CAD

  • The Sixth Extinction

    An Unnatural History

    par Elizabeth Kolbert ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTThe 10th-anniversary edition of the instant classic, The Sixth Extinction, now with a new epilogue. Kolbert blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Undeniable

    Evolution and the Science of Creation

    par Bill Nye ...
    The popular scientist explains the marvels and mysteries of evolution in this "fun to read and easy to absorb" New York Times bestseller ( The Washington Post).Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as ... En savoir plus

    $15.83 CAD

  • Alan Turing: The Enigma

    par Andrew Hodges ...
    A new edition to celebrate Alan Turing's centenary, includes a new foreword by the author and a preface by Douglas Hofstadter.Alan Turing was the extraordinary Cambridge mathematician who masterminded the cracking of the German Enigma ciphers and transformed the Second World War. But his vision went far beyond this crucial achievement. Before the war he had formulated the concept of the universal ... En savoir plus

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Story of Earth

    The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet

    par Robert M. Hazen ...
    Hailed by The New York Times for writing “with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,” nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet’s living and nonliving spheres.With an astrobiologist’s imagination, a historian’s perspective, and a naturalist’s eye, Hazen calls upon ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • How to Build a Habitable Planet

    The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind - Revised and Expanded Edition

    par Charles H. Langmuir, Wallace Broecker ...
    A classic introduction to the story of Earth's origin and evolution—revised and expanded for the twenty-first centurySince its first publication more than twenty-five years ago, How to Build a Habitable Planet has established a legendary reputation as an accessible yet scientifically impeccable introduction to the origin and evolution of Earth, from the Big Bang through the rise of human ... En savoir plus

    $57.23 CAD

  • The Emerald Planet

    How plants changed Earth's history

    par David Beerling ...
    Collections series Oxford Landmark Science
    Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world, shaping the environment throughout history as much as that environment has shaped them. In The Emerald Planet, David Beerling puts plants centre stage, revealing the crucial role they have played in driving ... En savoir plus

    $15.83 CAD

  • Precambrian Age

    par Giancarlo Varnier ...
    The Precambrian is the oldest era of Earth's history, and, of its origins (4 billion and 500 million years ago), the appearance of the first invertebrates with exoskeletons (542 million years ago). In this long period of time, the planet, newly formed, was affected by cosmic events and geological shocking that border on the limits of imagination. ... En savoir plus

    $4.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus