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How the Earth Turned Green

Author : Joseph E. Armstrong
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226069807

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How the Earth Turned Green by Joseph E. Armstrong Pdf

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).

The Summer We Turned Green

Author : William Sutcliffe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781526636713

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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?

When Santa Turned Green

Author : Victoria Perla
Publisher : Tommy Nelson
Page : 47 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-13
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781418578404

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When Santa Turned Green by Victoria Perla Pdf

A creative holiday story that introduces kids to environmental awareness with ways that they can make a big difference. It's November up in the North Pole. Everything's going along smoothly at Santa's workshop until he discovers a leak in his roof. Santa soon learns that this little leak is connected to a far bigger problem. The North Pole is melting because of something called global warming! Faced with the reality of what this could mean for Christmas, not to mention the planet and the future, Santa is determined to turn things around. To do so, he calls upon the people he knows better than any other-the children. Much to Santa's joy, they respond in a way that makes all the difference . . . in the world. "When Santa Turned Green helps even the youngest child grasp the importance of caring for our planet and solving the climate crisis." Former Vice President Al Gore

When the Moon Turned Green

Author : Hal K. Wells
Publisher : eStar Books
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781612100395

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When the Moon Turned Green by Hal K. Wells Pdf

Outside his laboratory Bruce Dixon finds a world of living dead men-and above, in the sky, shines a weird green moon.

Shadows and Images

Author : Meriol Trevor
Publisher : Ignatius Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781681494326

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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.

Take Back the Sky

Author : Greg Bear
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316223966

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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.

The Summer We Turned Green

Author : William Sutcliffe
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781526632852

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The Summer We Turned Green by William Sutcliffe Pdf

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.

The Long and the Short of It

Author : Jonathan Silvertown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226072104

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The Long and the Short of It by Jonathan Silvertown Pdf

Everything that lives will die. That’s the fundamental fact of life. But not everyone dies at the same age: people vary wildly in their patterns of aging and their life spans—and that variation is nothing compared to what’s found in other animal and plant species. A giant fungus found in Michigan has been alive since the Ice Age, while a dragonfly lives but four months, a mayfly half an hour. What accounts for these variations—and what can we learn from them that might help us understand, or better manage, our own aging? With The Long and the Short of It, biologist and writer Jonathan Silvertown offers readers a witty and fascinating tour through the scientific study of longevity and aging. Dividing his daunting subject by theme—death, life span, aging, heredity, evolution, and more—Silvertown draws on the latest scientific developments to paint a picture of what we know about how life span, senescence, and death vary within and across species. At every turn, he addresses fascinating questions that have far-reaching implications: What causes aging, and what determines the length of an individual life? What changes have caused the average human life span to increase so dramatically—fifteen minutes per hour—in the past two centuries? If evolution favors those who leave the most descendants, why haven’t we evolved to be immortal? The answers to these puzzles and more emerge from close examination of the whole natural history of life span and aging, from fruit flies, nematodes, redwoods, and much more. The Long and the Short of It pairs a perpetually fascinating topic with a wholly engaging writer, and the result is a supremely accessible book that will reward curious readers of all ages.

The Story of Earth

Author : Robert M. Hazen
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781101580684

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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 twenty-first-century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and enabled scientists to envision Earth’s many iterations in vivid detail—from the mile-high lava tides of its infancy to the early organisms responsible for more than two-thirds of the mineral varieties beneath our feet. Lucid, controversial, and on the cutting edge of its field, The Story of Earth is popular science of the highest order. "A sweeping rip-roaring yarn of immense scope, from the birth of the elements in the stars to meditations on the future habitability of our world." -Science "A fascinating story." -Bill McKibben

Green was the Earth on the Seventh Day

Author : Thor Heyerdahl
Publisher : Random House (NY)
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Environmental degradation
ISBN : UOM:39015037319509

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Green was the Earth on the Seventh Day by Thor Heyerdahl Pdf

"A very young Thor Heyerdahl sets out with his new wife for paradise - a natural and unspoiled world that they sought and, to a degree, found in the South Pacific. It was the first of many journeys that would lead to expeditions and explorations, to a vocation, to the testing of theories against the currents of oceans and history, to books that would include Kon-Tiki, Aku-Aku, and Easter Island, and would bring him worldwide fame and renown." "This warm, spirited, amusing memoir of Heyerdahl's youth is the key to his future life. We see the early emergence of certain of his basic ideas and beliefs: that ancient man, previously believed to he primitive and confined by the oceans, knew more and traveled farther than had been suspected; that the natural world was even then endangered and was well worth preserving; that individuals and peoples could live peacefully together, find common problems and uncommon joys." "This is a love story, an adventure story, a documentary based on journals the young Thor kept at the time, and a prophet's brief but unrestrained, unabashed sermon-polemic on why the seas, like the cities, should no longer be unthinkingly polluted in the pursuit of profits, and why the contempt for nature is as much a crime against the planet as a capital offense against humanity."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

DE TRIBUS PRINCIPIIS, oder Beschreibung der Drey Principien Göttliches Wesens

Author : Andrew Weeks,Leigh Penman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 875 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-25
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004395275

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DE TRIBUS PRINCIPIIS, oder Beschreibung der Drey Principien Göttliches Wesens by Andrew Weeks,Leigh Penman Pdf

The treatise of the great philosopher and mystic, Jacob Boehme’s Of the Three Principles of Divine Being, 1619, is a key to his complete work, its historical context, and its role in German intellectual history.

Genesis Revealed

Author : Peter Waller
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781627870665

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The lines have been drawn. On one side are young earth creationists, who assert that God created the universe in six days and—based on calculations derived from the Bible—that the earth is six thousand years old. On the other side are secular scientists, who claim the universe has existed for over thirteen billion years, the earth for 4.5 billion. Scientists claim that no miracles were necessary to form the universe, and that everything is explained by natural causes. However, young earth creationists point to verses at the beginning of the Bible and the beginning of the book of John that clearly claim that God created the universe. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Genesis 1:1–2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. John 1:1–3 But what if there is no contradiction between scientific data and the Bible? Arnold Guyot was a nineteenth-century geologist and geographer at Princeton University. In addition to his numerous scientific accomplishments, he developed the day-age interpretation of Genesis 1, in which the "days" of creation represent geologic ages. When we view the Bible through this lens, we find that modern science has not only failed to refute the miracles of Genesis, but has in fact provided abundant evidence for their veracity. Genesis Revealed: A Scientific Examination of the Creation Story takes readers down the twin paths of science and theology to show that they lead us to the same destination. Citing a multitude of discoveries in astronomy and geology, Dr. Peter Waller makes a compelling case for Guyot’s interpretation—and for the miracles described in Genesis 1:1–25.

The Cursed Lands (epic fantasy/sword and sorcery)

Author : Timothy L. Cerepaka
Publisher : Annulus Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Cursed Lands (epic fantasy/sword and sorcery) by Timothy L. Cerepaka Pdf

Long ago, the Dragon Gods founded the land of Yores. They drove out the monsters which lived within it and gave the land to their followers, who thanked the Dragon Gods and pledged to worship them for eternity. As time went on, however, the Yoresians grew proud and ceased worshipping the Dragon Gods, trusting instead in their magic. Thus, the Dragon Gods abandoned the Yoresians, which has turned out to be a mistake, for now the land of Yores is under attack from a powerful evil and the Yoresians cannot stand against it. Twin siblings Sarzen and Helnia, a warrior and a mage, set out to find the Dragon Gods, who they believe are their people's only hope of survival. But the quest ahead of them is fraught with dangers they can't even imagine, including a revelation about themselves that will shake their view of themselves and their leaders forever. KEYWORDS: epic fantasy adventure series, epic fantasy dragons, epic fantasy magic, epic fantasy sword and sorcery, sword and sorcery adult fantasy, sword and sorcery series, sword and sorcery series magic

Who Turned Up the Heat?: Eco-Pig Explains Global Warming

Author : Lisa French
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781602709188

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Who Turned Up the Heat?: Eco-Pig Explains Global Warming by Lisa French Pdf

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.

LEW WALLACE Premium Collection: Historical Novels, Poems & Plays (Illustrated)

Author : Lew Wallace
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 1982 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2023-12-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547768432

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LEW WALLACE Premium Collection: Historical Novels, Poems & Plays (Illustrated) by Lew Wallace Pdf

DigiCat presents to you this carefully created collection of Lew Wallace's renowned historical novels, poetry and plays. This ebook has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Content: "Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ" describes the adventures of Judah Ben-Hur, Jewish prince from Jerusalem who gets enslaved by the Romans. He is taken to Rome where he becomes a charioteer and a Christian. Running in parallel with Judah's narrative is the unfolding story of Jesus, who comes from the same region and is a similar age. "The Fair God: The Last of the 'Tzins" is a magnificent tale of the conflict between the Spanish Conquistadors and the Aztecs. The Cortez's conquest of Mexico is a central theme and the novel gives an account of the descent of the Aztec Empire. "The Prince of India: Why Constantinople Fell" is a tale of the Fall of Byzantine Empire, seen through the eyes of Indian Prince in service of the Turkish Sultan. "The Wooing of Malkatoon" is a narrative poem about young Othman who explores secrets of love and women. "Commodus" is a historical play about the Roman Emperor Commodus and Maternus, soldier of a daring boldness, who collected bands of robbers into a little army in order to murder Commodus and to ascend the vacant throne. Lew Wallace (1827-1905) was an American lawyer, Union general in the American Civil War, politician, diplomat and author, best known for his historical adventure story, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, a bestselling novel that has been called "the most influential Christian book of the nineteenth century." He wrote several historical novels and biographies of American generals.