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42) Life
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Four years in the making, and filmed over 3000 days across every continent and in every habitat, see 130 incredible stories from frontiers of the natural world. Discover the glorious variety of life on Earth and the spectacular and extraordinary tactics animals and plants have developed to stay alive. This is evolution in action: individual creatures under extreme pressure to overcome challenges from adversaries and their environment.
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"Biology is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. Several aspects of the standard picture of how life works-the idea of the genome as a blueprint, of genes as instructions for building an organism, of proteins as precisely tailored molecular machines, of cells as entities with fixed identities, and more-have been exposed as incomplete, misleading, or wrong. In How Life Works, Philip Ball explores the new biology, revealing life to be a far...
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"A vibrant depiction of the earliest days of our universe and life on earth before humans"--
With amazing facts and awe-inspiring illustrations, What the Dinosaurs Saw is a vibrant depiction of the earliest days of our universe and life on Earth. Our whole universe began as a tiny dot, filled with so much hot, dense energy that it burst. This event was the Big Bang, and from the remnants of that explosion, our whole universe was born. From those...
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The premise that alien life exists has had a grip on writers, artists, thinkers, and scientists since possibly the earliest days of civilization. This awesome text explores many of the critical parts of astrobiology from theories about exoplanets and the formation of solar systems to places like the Lowell Observatory and Roswell and people like H. G. Wells and Carl Sagan. Astrobiology, or the search for aliens, has never been so accessible as in...
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"A history of American ideas about life and death includes coverage of topics ranging from the 17th-century Englishman who investigated a belief about life starting with eggs and the heated debates over Darwin's evolutionary findings to the role of the Space Age in changing views on planetary life to the 1970s trends in cryogenics." --
"[...] Harvard scholar and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore has written a [...] history of American ideas about...
53) You are a star!
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When it's time to sleep, the night might seem scary. But if you take a journey out of this world, past the moon and through the universe, you'll discover millions of stars. Once bright fires in space, those stars grew so hot they exploded into tiny pieces that flew around and came to rest in the place where Earth began, where the animals, trees, and fruits would someday grow. All living things have a little bit of stardust inside them, and so do you!...
54) Origins of life
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A intensive lecture course exploring the origins of life.
56) What plants need
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"Living things, including plants need water, food and food to live and grow. Includes science and reading activities, a note to caregivers, and a word list"--
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"This book is designed as a simple reminder of the staggering ways we are always profoundly connected with the world and all of its creatures, human and non-human alike. It's a reminder that we are one human family sharing one common homeland, and that the Earth is the direct source of all of our material belongings: our clothes, our food, and our cars. Finally, it's a reminder that we are ourselves living embodiments of an infinitely great and mysterious...
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Host David Attenborough visits the great environmental regions of the planet to examine how plants and animals adapt to their surroundings and how otherwise unrelated organisms, molded by similar conditions, develop similar techniques for solving problems of survival.
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