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Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
"The Big Bang is dead and astrophysicist Adam Frank explains how our experience of time will change as a result"--
"The Big Bang is dead! It is no longer the beginning of time. Allowing us a peek into the cutting edge of cosmology, astrophysicist Adam Frank explains how this change in our origins will affect every aspect of our lives"--
Author
Series
Robert Langdon volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
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...
Author
Series
Oxford very short introductions volume 193
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Author
Series
Great courses volume no. 3130
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
(THIS IS A SET. Book and DVDs must be checkout together)
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece. Atmospheric circulation patterns later on shaped the progression of global exploration, colonization, and trade. Even today,...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Series
Great courses volume no. 1515
Publisher
The Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
"[T]his series of 24 lectures provides an overview of the current understanding of life's origins and establishes a foundation for sharing in the many new discoveries that are sure to follow in the coming months and years." -- Guidebook, p.3. (THIS IS A SET. Book and DVDs must be checkout together)
Series
Publisher
Wonderscape Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In this new 2022 high-definition program, learn all about the latest dinosaur embryo discovery in China and how scientists now view birds as today's last living dinosaurs. What is the "hopeful monster" theory? Did all dinosaurs have feathers? Why are birds so small today if they descended from dinosaurs? Is there an evolutionary advantage to being small? How did the round, fleshy dinosaur snout become a bird beak? The answers to these questions and...
Author
Series
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Describes the ancient world and conditions in Arabia before the origin of Islam; recounts the early life of the Prophet Muhammad, the beginnings of the new faith, and his immediate successors; and describes life in early Islamic societies.
Author
Series
Publisher
Good Night Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Good Night Solar System explores the Milky Way Galaxy, the Sun, the Moon, all of the planets, including Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, too. Young readers will see our solar system and its many wonders like never before, all within the colorful pages of this enchanting board book. Children are introduced to each planet's surface and likeness and will begin to understand just how unique our planet and solar...
Author
Series
Great courses volume no. 1573
Publisher
Teaching Co
Pub. Date
2002
Language
English
Description
(THIS IS A SET. Book and DVDs must be checkout together)
16) Dawn of humanity
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil human ancestors. Deep in a South African cave, a special team of experts has brought to light an unprecedented wealth of fossils belonging to a crucial gap in the record of our origins that spans the transition between the ape-like australopithecines (such as the famous Lucy) and the earliest members of the human family.
17) Bible hunters
Publisher
Smithsonian Channel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Until the nineteenth century, most Bible-reading Christians believed the Old and New Testaments represented the Divine Word of God, presented in text without error. But when scholars began to question the authority and accuracy of the Holy Scripture, a group of intrepid explorers set out to discover the historical roots of the Bible. What they found would rock the foundations of Christianity.
18) Prometheus
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Explorers have discovered a clue that brings them to the origins of mankind on Earth. This leads them on a journey that takes them to the darkest corners of the universe.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Outlines a reassessment of human evolution that draws on recent fossil findings and challenges current theories to say that humans coexisted and competed across the African continent while exchanging genes, tools, and behaviors.
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