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Chronicles the development and spread of the theory of evolution, from Darwin's "Origin of Species" to the Human Genome Project and beyond, and explains how the process works.

An explorer and environmentalist offers a natural history of the Earth as well as a biography of the human species.

Paintings enhance the text through a chronicle of our planet--its origin, its development, and its future.

Contains a collection of articles that discuss trends in the study of the planets, including information on their size, composition, and surface features.

Explores the question whether or not other planets in the galaxy are likely to be populated by intelligent beings.

With an extensive catalog at its heart, "Prehistoric Life" profiles hundreds of fascinating species in incredible detail; features breathtaking, state-of-the-art images; explores the concept of geological time; and explains the classification of species and how the evidence for their evolution is preserved and can be deciphered.

Thousands of years ago, the Earth was a battlefield. These were the wars that would shape man's destiny-terrible conflicts that began lifetimes earlier on another planet. Parting the mists of time and myth, the internationally renowned scholar Zecharia Sitchin takes us back in this volume to the violent beginnings of the human story, when gods-not men-ruled the Earth. In a spellbinding reconstruction of epic events preserved in legends and ancient...

"In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman-an entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place-in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in...

At the Earth's extremes, animals are adapting to keep pace with a planet that is changing at superspeed. In the wake of environmental changes that are pushing entire ecosystems to the edge of survival, this new five-part series showcases surprising stories of hope and resilience from around the world.

A long, long time ago, when the earth was extremely hot, a huge amount of vapor was released, creating clouds. As the clouds got bigger and heavier, it started to rain. Three of those raindrops were brothers who came down to cool the hot earth and traveled, as water does, to every corner of the earth, including apartment building pipes and muddy rivers. Written by a scientist, this is a great book for all curious children and budding young explorers....