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Death on Earth

Jules Howard
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Author : Jules Howard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-03-10
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781472915108

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There is nothing more life-affirming than understanding death in all its forms. Natural selection depends on death; little would evolve without it. Every animal on Earth is shaped by its presence and fashioned by its spectre. We are all survivors of starvation, drought, volcanic eruptions, meteorites, plagues, parasites, predators, freak weather events, tussles and scraps, and our bodies are shaped by these ancient events. Some animals live for just a few hours as adults, others prefer to kill themselves rather than live unnecessarily for longer than they are needed, and there are a number of animals that can live for centuries. There are parasites that drive their hosts to die awful deaths, and parasites that manipulate their hosts to live longer, healthier lives. There is death in life. Amongst all of this, there is us, the upright ape; perhaps the first animal in the history of the universe fully conscious that death really is going to happen to us all in the end. With a narrative featuring a fish with a fake eye, the oldest animal in the world, the immortal jellyfish and some of the world's top death-investigating biologists, Death on Earth explores the never-ending cycle of death and the impact death has on the living, and muses on how evolution and death affect us every single day. Why are we so weird about death? Where does this fear come from? Why are we so afraid of ageing? And how might knowledge of ageing in other animals help us live better lives, free of the diseases of old age?

The Life and Death of Planet Earth

Peter Douglas Ward,Donald Brownlee
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Author : Peter Douglas Ward,Donald Brownlee
Publisher : Piatkus Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2007-08-01
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : 0749950099

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"This is the first real biography of the Earth - not only a brilliant portrait of the emergence and evolution of life on this planet, but a vivid and frightening look at Earth's remote future. Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee combine storytelling power with extreme scientific care, and their narrative is as transfixing as any of H.G. Wells's fantasies, but more enthralling, for Ward and Brownlee have real power to prognosticate. This is a book that makes one shiver, but also inspires one to wonder how humanity (if we survive in the short term) will fare in the distant future." Oliver Sachs Peter Ward and Don Brownlee, a geologist and an astronomer respectively, are in the vanguard of the new field of astrobiology. Combining their knowledge of the evolution of life on our planet with their understanding of the life cycles of stars and solar systems, the authors tell the awe-inspiring story of the second half of Earth's life. The process of planetary evolution will essentially reverse itself; life as we know it will subside until only the simplest forms remain. The oceans will evaporate, and as the sun slowly expands, Earth itself will eventually meet a fiery end.

Sex on Earth

Jules Howard
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Author : Jules Howard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781408193426

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Sex on Earth by Jules Howard Pdf

A journey of discovery through the ins and outs of reproduction in the animal kingdom 'Written with Bill Bryson–like wit' Booklist 'A writer who blends professional expertise in zoology with charm, wit, and a cockeyed sense of humor. What better guide through nature's red-light district could one ask for?' Natural History Magazine 1,000 million years ago, a sexual revolution occurred on Earth. Sex happened for the first time; from this moment the world became ever more colourful and bizarre, ringing with elaborate songs and dances, epic battles, and rallying cries as the desires of males and females collided, generation after generation. All of your ancestors took part and succeeded – an unbroken chain of sex right back to the dawn of complex life on Earth. Well done you. Well done everything. The world in which we live rings, bleeds, and howls with sex. It's everywhere. Right now warring hordes are locking horns, preening feathers, rampaging lustfully across the savanna, questioning the fidelity of the ones they love. Birds are singing, flowers bloom. A million females choose; a billion penises ejaculate (or snap off); a trillion sperm battle, block and tackle. Written in a brilliantly engaging style by biologist Jules Howard, this fascinating and highly readable work covers the how and why of sex on Earth, in all its diversity. From sperm wars to cuckoldry, hermaphrodites and virgin births, spent males, racy harems, clitoral births, hips, breasts and birdsong, penis-percussion, and those riskiest and most elusive of all traits, monogamy and true love, all this and more is discussed in Sex on Earth, as Jules takes us on a voyage of discovery of the ins and outs of animal reproduction.

Scared to Death

Christopher Booker,Richard North
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Author : Christopher Booker,Richard North
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 513 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781472985224

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Newly revised and updated in the light of COVID-19 For most of the latter part of the last century, and the early part of this, Britain has been assailed by a succession of 'scares', from salmonella and eggs to BSE, from the Millennium Bug to bird flu, from DDT to passive smoking, from asbestos to global warming. These scares have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world, so much so that as we entered the third decade of the new century, our senses had become so blunted that we scarcely recognised the real thing for what it was, until it arrived – COVID-19, for which we were almost completely unprepared. The authors analyse the crucial roles of the different factions who perpetrated the scares: from the scientists who misread or manipulated the evidence to the media and lobbyists who eagerly promoted scares without regard to the consequences, and the politicians and officials who came up with absurdly disproportionate responses, leaving us to pay a colossal price. In this updated edition, Scared to Death not only presents a detailed account of the scares that have dominated our society for the past 50 years – through all of which the authors lived – but also examines the background to the COVID-19 pandemic, tracing our lack of preparedness to its roots and then assessing, by way of contrast, why this is the real thing, as opposed to the succession of scares that we have experienced.

What on Earth Do We Know about Heaven?

Randal Rauser
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Author : Randal Rauser
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441242709

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What on Earth Do We Know about Heaven? by Randal Rauser Pdf

There's been a curious upsurge in interest about the afterlife lately, but we're too often limited in our concept of heaven. The reality is we all do have questions about heaven: What does a resurrected person look like? What does a resurrected earth look like? Do we get our heart's desire in heaven? In What on Earth Do We Know about Heaven?, Randal Rauser considers twenty thought-provoking questions, each of which winds back to the core concept of heaven: what it is and what it isn't. Rauser uses Scripture to remind us that God's ultimate purpose is that the whole creation will be transformed and renewed, guiding readers through a vision of a glorious afterlife, consisting of a perfected earth, perfected bodies, perfected human culture, and perfected relationships.

In Heaven as It Is on Earth

Samuel Morris Brown
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Author : Samuel Morris Brown
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199793570

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Discusses the foundational beliefs of the Mormon Church by focusing on early Mormon conceptions of death.

Underworld Earth

Nicholas Gagnier
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Author : Nicholas Gagnier
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1708947450

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The year is 2018. Twenty-three years ago, a catastrophic abuse of power resulted in a space-time rift known as the Breach, suddenly and violently altering the course of modern human history. In Manhattan, the Twin Towers stand; a black man has never been President of the United States, and a deadly plague escapes the CDC on Mother's Day. It spreads quickly, leaving corpses in the street of every metropolitan area on Earth, pitting one ideology of survival against another within an unrecognizable version of America. As the battle between good and evil heats up among the living, one suicidal immortal finds herself conscripted to kill seven individuals, whose previous deaths were undone by the Breach, or risk its becoming permanent, and forever being left alone to wander the wasteland Earth has become.The second volume in THE BOOK OF DEATH series, UNDERWORLD EARTH is an adventure through a post-apocalyptic world; a Western fantasy for the modern age. Time travel has never been so merciless.

Pollution and the Death of Man

Francis A. Schaeffer,Udo W. Middelmann
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Author : Francis A. Schaeffer,Udo W. Middelmann
Publisher : Crossway
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781433519505

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Pollution and the Death of Man by Francis A. Schaeffer,Udo W. Middelmann Pdf

At the creation of the world, God gave mankind the responsibility to exercise dominion over the earth. Man was to use the earth and its abundance of resources to satisfy his physical needs, but he was also to care for the earth and its creatures as a wise and godly steward. Reading about endangered species or another oil spill will make it abundantly clear that the human race has failed miserably in its God-given mandate. How did we get to this point? Where should we go from here? This classic by Francis Schaeffer, now repackaged, looks at contemporary ecological crises through the lens of theology and Scripture. Renowned for his work in applied philosophy and theology, Schaeffer answers serious philosophical questions about creation and ecology. He concludes that we must return to a profoundly and radically biblical understanding of God’s relationship to the earth, and of our divine mandate to exercise godly dominion over it. Repackaged and republished, Pollution and the Death of Man carries an important and relevant message for our day. With concluding chapter by Udo Middelmann.

Death's End

Cixin Liu
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Author : Cixin Liu
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 794 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781784971625

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Read the award-winning, critically acclaimed, multi-million-copy-selling science-fiction phenomenon – soon to be a Netflix Original Series from the creators of Game of Thrones. Half a century after the Doomsday Battle, the uneasy balance of Dark Forest Deterrence keeps the Trisolaran invaders at bay. Earth enjoys unprecedented prosperity due to the infusion of Trisolaran knowledge and, with human science advancing and the Trisolarans adopting Earth culture, it seems that the two civilizations can co-exist peacefully as equals without the terrible threat of mutually assured annihilation. But peace has made humanity complacent. Cheng Xin, an aerospace engineer from the 21st century, awakens from hibernation in this new age. She brings knowledge of a long-forgotten program dating from the start of the Trisolar Crisis, and her presence may upset the delicate balance between two worlds. Will humanity reach for the stars or die in its cradle? Praise for The Three-Body Problem: 'Your next favourite sci-fi novel' Wired 'Immense' Barack Obama 'Unique' George R.R. Martin 'SF in the grand style' Guardian 'Mind-altering and immersive' Daily Mail Winner of the Hugo and Galaxy Awards for Best Novel

The Mystery of Death

Lester Sumrall
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Author : Lester Sumrall
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1995-09
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780892213009

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In The Mystery of Death, Lester Sumrall draws on 66 years of ministry experience in helping us sort out this transition of life. From the jungles of Africa to the modern hospitals of the United States, Dr. Sumrall has observed death--the pain, peace, resistance, and acceptance. His unique storytelling paints a picture of death that is not hopeless. Book jacket.

Futures of Life Death on Earth

Philippe Lynes
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Author : Philippe Lynes
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781786609960

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This book offers the first philosophical treatment of biocultural sustainability and eco-deconstruction, presenting the most developed treatment of the notions of survival and life death in Derrida to date.

The Mystery of Death

Lester Sumrall
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Author : Lester Sumrall
Publisher : New Leaf Publishing Group
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1995-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781614582366

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Death is both a collective and individual experience. All humans die, and yet the mystery lies in the solitary experience. It is a trip we all make alone. In The Mystery of Death, Lester Sumrall draws on 66 years of ministry experience in helping us sort out this transition of life. From the jungles of Africa to the modern hospitals of the United States, Dr. Sumrall has observed death - the pain, peace, resistance, and acceptance. His unique storytelling paints a picture of death that is not hopeless. Calling death "a monster," Dr. Sumrall explains in vivid detail its origins, and why he has come to a place where he has no dread of it. Dr. Sumrall also addresses these points: Life after Death Worshiping the Dead Searching for Immortality In Those Final Moments Death by Suicide Coping with Death and Grief

Death of All Life on Earth Ii

Don McComber
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Author : Don McComber
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781698701066

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Death of All Life on Earth Ii by Don McComber Pdf

This is the second book about the human caused apocalypse brought about by the destruction of carbon dioxide. The Period of Death was not over as the first book Death of All Life ended and this story began.

Greening Death

Suzanne Kelly
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Author : Suzanne Kelly
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-28
Category : Burial
ISBN : 0810895811

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Greening Death by Suzanne Kelly Pdf

Over the last fifteen years, people have been slowly waking up to the toxic and alienating practices that have come to make up the American Way of Death. Greening Death explores this awakening, arguing that beyond the greener and more cost-efficient practices of the Green Burial Movement lies an even greater promise--tying us back to the earth.

The Prophet

Kahlil Gibran
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Author : Kahlil Gibran
Publisher : Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2020-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789390287826

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The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran Pdf

A book of poetic essays written in English, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as ‘the Bard of Washington Street.’ Captivating and vivified with feeling, The Prophet has been translated into forty languages throughout the world, and is considered the most widely read book of the twentieth century. Its first edition of 1300 copies sold out within a month.