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Author | : Joseph E. Armstrong |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 578 |
Release | : 2014-10-02 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 022606980X |
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This “amazing and wonderful book” explores the evolutionary history of photosynthesis in a grand story of how the world became the verdant place we know (Choice). On this blue planet, long before dinosaurs reigned, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for coloring these organisms, has been in existence for some 85% of Earth’s long history—that is, for roughly 3.5 billion years. In How the Earth Turned Green, Joseph E. Armstrong traces the history of these verdant organisms, which many would call plants, from their ancient beginnings to the diversity of green life that inhabits the Earth today. Using an evolutionary framework, How the Earth Turned Green addresses questions such as: Should all green organisms be considered plants? Why do these organisms look the way they do? How are they related to one another and to other chlorophyll-free organisms? How do they reproduce? How have they changed and diversified over time? And how has the presence of green organisms changed the Earth’s ecosystems? With engaging prose and astonishing breadth, as well as informative diagrams and illustrations, How the Earth Turned Green demonstrates “how the Earth blossomed into such an incredible world that most of us simply take for granted” (San Francisco Book Review).
Author | : William Sutcliffe |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2021-07-08 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1526632845 |
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Shortlisted for the Laugh Out Loud Book Awards 2023! A fresh, funny, heartfelt look at this generation's must-win battle: one earth, one chance. It's the summer holidays, and thirteen-year-old Luke's life has been turned upside down. First his older sister Rose moved 'across the road', where a community of climate rebels is protesting the planned airport expansion. Then his dad followed her. Dad only went to get Rose back, but now he's out there building totem poles, wearing sandals and drinking mead (whatever that is) with the best of them... Can Luke save his family when all they want to do is save the planet? ________________________ 'Hilarious, acutely observed and deeply felt, Sutcliffe's new novel is part biting satire on nimbyism and adult complacency, part impassioned call: take action now, before it's too late.' GUARDIAN 'This is the perfect book to inspire action against the climate crisis and to lift your spirits.' SCOTSMAN 'A heartfelt, well-observed, gripping family drama, as well as a call to arms.' SUNDAY TIMES Children's Book of the Week
Author | : Lisa French |
Publisher | : ABDO Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 34 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1617856819 |
Download Who Turned Up the Heat?: Eco-Pig Explains Global Warming Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
E.P.'s super-sensitive snout has warned him that Earth's thermostat has gone haywire! He sets out to see how global warming is upsetting the balance in Earth's ecosystems. He sees that glaciers are melting and sea levels are rising. Some places are flooding while others are too dry. E.P. lets us know what we can do to live Green and fight this damage before our planet gets too hot. Looking Glass Library is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO Group. Grades P-4.
Author | : Kim Stanley Robinson |
Publisher | : Del Rey |
Total Pages | : 1090 |
Release | : 2015-11-03 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101964839 |
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The landmark trilogy of cutting-edge science, international politics, and the real-life ramifications of climate change—updated and abridged into a single novel More than a decade ago, bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson began a groundbreaking series of near-future eco-thrillers—Forty Signs of Rain, Fifty Degrees Below, and Sixty Days and Counting—that grew increasingly urgent and vital as global warming continued unchecked. Now, condensed into one volume and updated with the latest research, this sweeping trilogy gains new life as Green Earth, a chillingly realistic novel that plunges readers into great floods, a modern Ice Age, and the political fight for all our lives. The Arctic ice pack averaged thirty feet thick in midwinter when it was first measured in the 1950s. By the end of the century it was down to fifteen. One August the ice broke. The next year the breakup started in July. The third year it began in May. That was last year. It’s a muggy summer in Washington, D.C., as Senate environmental staffer Charlie Quibler and his scientist wife, Anna, work to call attention to the growing crisis of global warming. But as they fight to align the extraordinary march of modern technology with the awesome forces of nature, fate puts an unusual twist on their efforts—one that will pit science against politics in the heart of the coming storm. Praise for the Science in the Capital trilogy “Perhaps it’s no coincidence that one of our most visionary hard sci-fi writers is also a profoundly good nature writer—all the better to tell us what it is we have to lose.”—Los Angeles Times “An unforgettable demonstration of what can go wrong when an ecological balance is upset.”—The New York Times Book Review “Absorbing and convincing.”—Nature
Author | : Hal K. Wells |
Publisher | : eStar Books |
Total Pages | : 13 |
Release | : 2010-10-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1612100392 |
Download When the Moon Turned Green Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Outside his laboratory Bruce Dixon finds a world of living dead men-and above, in the sky, shines a weird green moon.
Author | : William Kotzwinkle |
Publisher | : New York, N.Y. : Berkley Books |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780425054536 |
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A boy discovers an extraterrestrial botanist in his mother's vegetable patch, and helps him return to his planet, 3 million light years away.
Author | : Meriol Trevor |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 293 |
Release | : 2012-01-05 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1681494329 |
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This is the story of a Protestant young woman and her journey to the Roman Catholic Church. The fascinating novel is set in nineteenth-century England-a time when Catholicism was regarded with suspicion and prejudice against Catholics was commonplace. Leaving her sheltered life in the countryside, young Clem becomes acquainted with the fascinating ideas and people of Oxford-including a brilliant young clergyman, John Henry Newman. But when her relationship to a Roman Catholic man with a colorful reputation leads to an Italian elopement that is more innocent than it appears, the scandal drives a wedge between Clem and the upright Anglican circle of friends and family she left behind. Woven into the story of Clem and Augustine, their courtship and marriage, and Clem's conversion, is the vital, influential, and holy Newman, as seen through the eyes of friends. Meriol Trevor's engaging plot charts the ongoing friendship between Newman and the couple as it spans many years during which pivotal historical influences, such as the Industrial Revolution and the Oxford Movement, are shaping Victorian England. Many important events, personages, and ideas in the life of Newman appear in the story-his reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic, his differences with Cardinal Manning, his work in the Birmingham Oratory, and his being made a cardinal by Pope Leo XIII. The author, a renowned biographer of Newman, used Newman's actual correspondence as the basis for his parts in the dialogue.
Author | : Greg Bear |
Publisher | : Orbit |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2016-12-20 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0316223964 |
Download Take Back the Sky Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The conclusion to an epic interstellar trilogy of war from master of science fiction, Greg Bear. Marooned beneath the icy, waxy crust of Saturn's moon, Titan, Skyrine Michael Venn and his comrades face double danger from Earth and from the Antagonists, both intent on wiping out their growing awareness of what the helpful alien Gurus are really doing in our solar system. Haunted by their dead and by the ancient archives of our Bug ancestors, the former combatants must now team up with their enemies, forget their indoctrination and their training, and journey far beyond Pluto to the fabled Planet X, the Antagonists' home world, a Sun-Planet in the comet-generating Kuiper belt. It's here that Master Sergeant Venn will finally understand his destiny and the destiny of every intelligent being in the solar system-including the enigmatic Gurus.
Author | : Mrs. Ruth Otis (Sawtell) Wallis |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1927 |
Genre | : Archaeology |
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Author | : William Sutcliffe |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2021-07-08 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 1526632853 |
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Tijdens de zomervakantie van Luke (13) strijken aan de overkant klimaatactivisten neer en sluiten zijn oudere zus en zijn vader zich bij hen aan waardoor het gezin verscheurt raakt.