Born with a Bang, Book One

Born with a Bang, Book One

Author: Jennifer Morgan

Publisher: Dawn Publications (CA)

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781584691402

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Presents a history of the universe, from the Big Bang to the formation of Earth, in the form of a letter written by the thirteen-billion-year-old universe itself to an Earth child.


Ms. Adventure

Ms. Adventure

Author: Jess Phoenix

Publisher: Timber Press

Published: 2021-03-02

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1643260030

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"Jess Phoenix's work encompasses science and representation in such a delightful melding that it could only come from as spry and playful a soul as hers! Open this book and jump into the volcano!" —Patton Oswalt As a volcanologist, natural hazards expert, and founder of Blueprint Earth, Jess Phoenix has dedicated her life to scientific exploration. Her career path—hard earned in the male-dominated world of science—has led her into still-flowing Hawaiian lava fields, congressional races, glittering cocktail parties at Manhattan’s elite Explorers Club, and numerous pairs of Caterpillar work boots. It has also inspired her to devote her life to making science more inclusive and accessible. Ms. Adventure skillfully blends personal memoir, daring adventure, and scientific exploration, following Phoenix’s journey from reality television sites deep in Ecuadorian jungles to Andean glaciers, university classrooms to Death Valley in summer. She has even chased down members of a Mexican cartel to retrieve a stolen favorite rock hammer. Readers will delight in her unbelievable adventures, all embarked on for the love of science.


A Brief History of Life on Earth

A Brief History of Life on Earth

Author: Clémence Dupont

Publisher: Prestel

Published: 2018-11

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783791373737

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The story of life on earth unfolds in dramatic fashion in this amazing concertina picture book that takes readers from 4.6 billion years ago to the present day. Fully expanded to 8 meters (26 feet), this spectacular visual timeline is a very impressive panorama that reveals evolution in all its glory. Full color.


Story of Life

Story of Life

Author: Catherine Barr

Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books

Published: 2018-02

Total Pages: 40

ISBN-13: 9781786033420

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At first, nothing lived on Earth. It was a noisy, hot, scary place. Choking gas exploded from volcanoes and oceans of lava bubbled around the globe... Then in the deep, dark ocean, something amazing happened. This is an exciting and dramatic story about how life began and developed on Planet Earth, written especially for younger children. The authors explain how the first living cell was created, and how the cells multiply and create jellyfish and worms, and then fish with bendy necks, which drag themselves out of the water into swampy forests. They tell the story of the biggest creatures that have ever walked on land - the dinosaurs. Long after that, hairy creatures who have babies, not eggs, take over, stand on two legs and spread around the world, some of them living through cataclysmic events such as ice ages and volcanic eruptions. Everyone living today is related to these survivors. With delightful illustrations including lots of detail and humour, all carefully researched and checked, this book shows the development of life on Earth in a truly accessible and simple way. CLICK HERE to download Teachers' Notes specially written by the authors, Catherine Barr and Steve Williams, to assist teachers and librarians in the promotion and teaching of The Story of Lifein schools and to help foster a love of good books, literature and reading in children.


From Lava to Life

From Lava to Life

Author: Jennifer Morgan

Publisher: From Lava to Life

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781584690429

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A history of the Earth, from its formation through the appearance of mammals and the extinction of dinosaurs, in the form of a story told by the Universe itself to an Earthling.


The Lava in My Bones

The Lava in My Bones

Author: Barry Webster

Publisher: arsenal pulp press

Published: 2012-09-11

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 1551524791

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A frustrated geologist studying global warming becomes obsessed with eating rocks after embarking on his first same-sex relationship in Europe. Back home, his young sister is a high-school girl who suddenly starts to ooze honey through her pores, an affliction that attracts hordes of bees as well as her male classmates but ultimately turns her into a social pariah. Meanwhile, their obsessive Pentecostal mother repeatedly calls on the Holy Spirit to rid her family of demons. The siblings are reunited on a ship bound for Europe where they hope to start a new life, but are unaware that their disguised mother is also on board and plotting to win back their souls, with the help of the Virgin Mary. Told in a lush baroque prose, this intense, extravagant magic-realist novel combines elements of fairy tales, horror movies, and romances to create a comic, hallucinatory celebration of excess and sensuality. Barry Webster's first book, The Sound of All Flesh, won the ReLit Award for story collections.


A New History of Life

A New History of Life

Author: Peter Ward

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-04-07

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1608199088

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The history of life on Earth is, in some form or another, known to us all--or so we think. A New History of Life offers a provocative new account, based on the latest scientific research, of how life on our planet evolved--the first major new synthesis for general readers in two decades. Charles Darwin's theories, first published more than 150 years ago, form the backbone of how we understand the history of the Earth. In reality, the currently accepted history of life on Earth is so flawed, so out of date, that it's past time we need a 'New History of Life.' In their latest book, Joe Kirschvink and Peter Ward will show that many of our most cherished beliefs about the evolution of life are wrong. Gathering and analyzing years of discoveries and research not yet widely known to the public, A New History of Life proposes a different origin of species than the one Darwin proposed, one which includes eight-foot-long centipedes, a frozen “snowball Earth”, and the seeds for life originating on Mars. Drawing on their years of experience in paleontology, biology, chemistry, and astrobiology, experts Ward and Kirschvink paint a picture of the origins life on Earth that are at once too fabulous to imagine and too familiar to dismiss--and looking forward, A New History of Life brilliantly assembles insights from some of the latest scientific research to understand how life on Earth can and might evolve far into the future.


Mammals Who Morph

Mammals Who Morph

Author: Jennifer Morgan

Publisher: Sharing Nature with Children B

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781584690856

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This remarkable evolution series, narrated by the Universe itself, concludes with Book 3, the amazing story of mammals. It picks up with the extinction of dinosaurs, and tells how tiny mammals survived and morphed into lots of new Earthlings . . . horses, whales and a kind of mammal with a powerful imagination-you. It's a story of chaos, creativity and heroes-the greatest adventure on Earth! And it's a personal story . . . about our bodies, our minds, our spirits. It's our story.


Chasing Lava

Chasing Lava

Author: Wendell A. Duffield

Publisher: Mountain Press Publishing

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 9780878424627

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Volcanologists and general readers alike will enjoy author Wendell Duffield's report from Kilauea---home of Pele, the goddess of fire and volcanoes. Duffield's narrative encompasses everthing from the scientific (his discovery that the movements of cooled


From Lava to Life

From Lava to Life

Author: Jennifer Morgan

Publisher: Dawn Publications (CA)

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9781584692973

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A history of the Earth, from its formation through the appearance of mammals and the extinction of dinosaurs, in the form of a story told by the Universe itself to an Earthling.