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The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a biography of Earth, charting...
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Owlkids Books
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[2017]
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English
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"It has taken billions of years for Earth to become the planet it is today. When Planet Earth Was New looks back to the very beginning, using a poetic approach grounded in scientific fact to give an overview of how the planet has changed over time: from hot lava to the formation of oceans to the evolution of living things in water and on land. The book also includes the relatively recent evolution of humans - who are just a tiny speck in the sweep...
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Pegasus Books
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2017.
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English
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Everybody knows-- or thinks they know-- Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and the man who altered the way we view our place in the world. But what most people do not know is that Darwin was on board the HMS Beagle as a geologist's 2015; on a mission to examine the land, not flora and fauna. Retracing Darwin's footsteps in South America and beyond, geologist Rob Wesson treks across the Andes, cruises waters charted by the Beagle, hunts for fossils...
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Dinosaur explorers volume 3
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Papercutz
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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This time, the X-Venture Xplorers' are in the Permian - Carboniferous eras, around 350 million years back. Many creatures which are small today were very big back then- which presents a big problem when the X-Venture Xplorers come face to face with things like giant spiders! Even more big dangers from today's small creatures await the team as they quickly realize that it is a bad idea to be PLAYING IN THE PERMIAN! -- from Amazon.
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W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"One in a million doesn't even come close. Not when we're talking about the odds that you would happen to be alive today, on this particular planet, hurtling through space. Almost fourteen billion years of cosmic history, over four billion years of Earth history, a couple million years of human history, the rise and fall of nations, the unbroken string of generations necessary to lead to you--it's staggering to consider. Yet behind everything in our...
9) Walking the bones of Britain: a 3 billion year journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary
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Doubleday
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville, author of The January Man and Ships of Heaven, sets out to discover how the land beneath our feet shapes our past, our present and our future. Britain is blessed with a vast variety of landscapes -- from marshes to slate mountains, chalk downs to volcanic islands. How we live, work and eat has been moulded and shaped by wild, violent events that occurred thousands,...
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