A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love

A Devil's Chaplain: Reflections on Hope, Lies, Science, and Love
Richard Dawkins (Author)
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The first collection of essays from renowned scientist and best-selling author Richard Dawkins.

 

Richard Dawkins's essays are an enthusiastic testament to the power of rigorous, scientific examination, and they span many different corners of his personal and professional life. He revisits the meme, the unit of cultural information that he named and wrote about in his groundbreaking work The Selfish Gene. He makes moving tributes to friends and colleagues, including a eulogy for novelist Douglas Adams; he shares correspondence with the evolutionary biologist Stephen Jay Gould; and he visits with the famed paleoanthropologists Richard and Maeve Leakey at their African wildlife preserve. He concludes the essays with a vivid note to his ten-year-old daughter, reminding her to remain curious, to ask questions, and to live the examined life.

• Rank: #189363 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x 5.75" w x .68" l, .61 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You: A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World

Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You: A Lively Tour Through the Dark Side of the Natural World
Dan Riskin Ph.D. (Author)

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It may be a wonderful world, but as Dan Riskin (cohost of Discovery Canada’s Daily Planet) explains, it’s also a dangerous, disturbing, and disgusting one. At every turn, it seems, living things are trying to eat us, poison us, use our bodies as their homes, or have us spread their eggs. In Mother Nature Is Trying to Kill You, Riskin is our guide through the natural world at its most gloriously ruthless.

Using the seven deadly sins as a road map, Riskin offers dozens of jaw-dropping examples that illuminate how brutal nature can truly be. From slothful worms that hide in your body for up to thirty years to wrathful snails with poisonous harpoons that can kill you in less than five minutes to lustful ducks that have orgasms faster than you can blink, these fascinating accounts reveal the candid truth about “gentle” Mother Nature’s true colors.

Riskin’s passion for the strange and his enthusiastic expertise bring Earth’s most fascinating flora and fauna into vivid focus. Through his adventures— which include sliding on his back through a thick soup of bat guano just to get face-to-face with a vampire bat, befriending a parasitic maggot that has taken root on his head, and coming to grips with having offspring of his own—Riskin makes unexpected discoveries not just about the world all around us but also about the ways this brutal world has shaped us as humans and what our responsibilities are to this terrible, wonderful planet we call home.

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• Published on: 2014-03-04
• Released on: 2014-03-04
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

Precambrian Evolution of the North China Craton

Precambrian Evolution of the North China Craton
Guochun Zhao (Author)

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The North China Craton is one of the oldest cratonic blocks in the world, containing rocks as old as 3.85 billion years. Focusing on Neoarchean mantle plumes and Paleoproterozoic plate tectonics, this book combines the results from modern geological research to provide you with a detailed synthesis of the geology, structure, and evolution of the North China Craton. It will be of value to anyone interested in the evolution of cratonic blocks and Precambrian geology as well as geoscientists interested in applying tectonic models to other cratonic blocks globally. This work will also be of interest to geologists concerned with the problems of structure and evolution of the Precambrian continents and supercontinents.

• The first book to apply mantle plume and plate tectonics models to understanding the Neoarchean accretion and Paleoproterozoic amalgamation of a craton
• Features more than 75 geologic maps, illustrations, diagrams, and microphotographs depicting the progressive stages of the North China Craton's Precambrian evolution
• Authored by one of the world's foremost experts in cratonic evolution and mantle plume and plate tectonic modeling

• Rank: #871185 in Books
• Published on: 2013-12-06
• Original language: English
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• Binding: Paperback
• 150 pages

Evolutionary Ecology (6th Edition)

Evolutionary Ecology (6th Edition)
Eric R. Pianka (Author)
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This classic text presents a unique evolutionary approach to ecology. The entire text has been improved, updated, and extensively reorganized and a new chapter (16) has been added. The Sixth Edition reflects the extent to which humans now dominate ecosystems, with anthropogenic (human) effects interwoven into every chapter.

• Rank: #35979 in Books
• Published on: 1999-12-26
• Original language: English
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• Dimensions: 9.36" h x 6.42" w x 1.00" l, 1.69 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 512 pages