wyszukanych pozycji: 11
Why Genes Are Not Selfish and People Are Nice: A Challenge to the Dangerous Ideas that Dominate our Lives
ISBN: 9780863159633 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) The modern world is dominated by ideas that are threatening to kill us: that life is one long battle from conception to grave; that all creatures, including human beings, are driven by their selfish DNA; that the universe is just stuff, for us to use at will.
These ideas are seen as emerging from science and hard-nosed philosophy, and become self-fulfilling. They have led us to create a world in perpetual strife, that is unjust and in many ways precarious. This remarkable book by an experienced author and thinker argues there's another way of looking at the world that... The modern world is dominated by ideas that are threatening to kill us: that life is one long battle from conception to grave; that all creatures, inc...
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87,52 zł |
The Link
ISBN: 9780316070096 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications. Now, with an astonishing new discovery, everything we thought we knew about primate origins could change. Lying inside a high-security vault, deep within the heart of one of the world's leading natural history museums, is the scientific find of a lifetime - a perfectly fossilized early primate, older than the previously most famous primate fossil, Lucy, by forty-four million years.
For more than a century, scientists have raced to unravel the human family tree and have grappled with its complications. Now, with an astonishing new...
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95,59 zł |
The Great Re-Think: A 21st Century Renaissance
ISBN: 9788895604343 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) All too plausibly, it seems, popes and scientists are warning us of impending collapse-yet humanity and our fellow creatures could still be looking forward to a long and glorious future: at least a million years of peace and personal fulfilment, with abundant and diverse wildlife.
All too plausibly, it seems, popes and scientists are warning us of impending collapse-yet humanity and our fellow creatures could still be looking fo...
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77,26 zł |
The Secret Life of Trees: How They Live and Why They Matter
ISBN: 9780141012933 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) What is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. This title explores the hidden role of trees in our everyday lives - and how our future survival depends on them.
What is a tree? As this celebration of the trees shows, they are our countryside; our ancestors descended from them; they gave us air to breathe. This...
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66,92 zł |
The Variety of Life: A Survey and a Celebration of all the Creatures that Have Ever Lived
ISBN: 9780198604266 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This text can be read at many levels. Not least it is an extraordinary inventory - an illustrated summary of all the Earthly creatures that have ever lived. Whatever living thing you come across, from E-coli to an oak tree or an elephant, this book will show you what kind of creature it is, and how it relates to all others. Yet there are far too many creatures to present merely as a catalogue. The list of species already described is vast enough - nearly two million - but there could in reality be as many as 30 million different animals, plants, fungi and protists - and perhaps another 400...
This text can be read at many levels. Not least it is an extraordinary inventory - an illustrated summary of all the Earthly creatures that have ever ...
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206,80 zł |
Engineer In The Garden
ISBN: 9780712661683 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This study details the various results that can be achieved from tampering with genetic material from ensuring the birth of a male rather than a female child, creating a cow with a vast milk yield, or creating mice that are programmed to die of cancer. The author indicates that already farmers release genetically re-shaped plants into the fields to produce nicer-looking apples, and that whole species of animals can be saved from extinction by genetic techniques. However, the book questions whether the geneticists actually know what they are doing, or are they just following their noses, as...
This study details the various results that can be achieved from tampering with genetic material from ensuring the birth of a male rather than a femal...
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87,98 zł |
The Day Before Yesterday : Five Million Years of Human History
ISBN: 9780712661737 / Miękka / 1996 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. |
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The Bird: A Natural History of Who Birds Are, Where They Came From, and How They Live
ISBN: 9780307342058 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) How are birds so good at flying and navigating?
Why are birds so like mammals and yet so very different? Did birds descend from dinosaurs, and if so, does that mean birds are dinosaurs? How do they court each other and fend off rivals? What' s being communicated in birdsong? Can we ever know how birds think? In this fascinating exploration of the avian class, Colin Tudge considers the creatures of the air. From their evolutionary roots to their flying, feeding, fighting, mating, nesting, and communicating, Tudge provocatively ponders what birds actually do as well as... How are birds so good at flying and navigating?
Why are birds so like mammals and yet so very different? Did birds descend from dinosaurs, an... |
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99,98 zł |
Six Steps Back to the Land: Why we need small mixed farms and millions more farmers
ISBN: 9781399420914 / Miękka / 2024 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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121,72 zł |
The Secret Life of Birds: Who they are and what they do
ISBN: 9780141034768 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Colin Tudge explores the life of birds, all around the globe. From the secrets of migration to their complicated family lives, their differing habitats and survival techniques to the secrets of flight, this is an account of how birds live, why they matter, and whether they really are dinosaurs.
Colin Tudge explores the life of birds, all around the globe. From the secrets of migration to their complicated family lives, their differing habitat...
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77,22 zł |
The Tree: A Natural History of What Trees Are, How They Live, and Why They Matter
ISBN: 9780307395399 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) A blend of history, science, philosophy, and environmentalism, The Tree is an engaging and elegant look at the life of the tree and what modern research tells us about their future. There are redwoods in California that were ancient by the time Columbus first landed, and pines still alive that germinated around the time humans invented writing. There are Douglas firs as tall as skyscrapers, and a banyan tree in Calcutta as big as a football field. From the tallest to the smallest, trees inspire wonder in all of us, and in The Tree, Colin Tudge travels around the...
A blend of history, science, philosophy, and environmentalism, The Tree is an engaging and elegant look at the life of the tree and what mod...
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95,63 zł |