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  • Ebb and Flow

    Tides and Life on Our Once and Future Planet

    par Tom Koppel ...
    Ebb and Flow was named one of 2007’s "best science books" by Peter Calamai, science editor of the Toronto Star [Dec. 30, 2007]. He calls it a "wonderful resource book. Tom Koppel seems to have visited or read about every place with unusual tides and water currents, yet he wears this scholarship lightly."Tides have shaped our world. They have carved out shorelines, transformed early life on Earth, ... En savoir plus

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  • Lost World

    Rewriting Prehistory---How New Science Is Tracing

    par Tom Koppel ...
    For decades the issue seemed moot. The first settlers, we were told, were big-game hunters who arrived from Asia at the end of the Ice Age some 12,000 years ago, crossing a land bridge at the Bering Strait and migrating south through an ice-free passage between two great glaciers blanketing the continent. But after years of sifting through data from diverse and surprising sources, the maverick ... En savoir plus

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  • Prehistory

    The Making of the Human Mind

    par Colin Renfrew ...
    Collections Livre 30 - Modern Library Chronicles
    In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records–which is to say, the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth. But Renfrew also opens up to discussion, and even debate, the term “prehistory” itself, giving an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the past, and how scholars and scientists labor to ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

  • Vikings in America

    par Graeme Davis ...
    Discover the evidence that Vikings walked on American soil—centuries before Columbus.When Columbus claimed to have discovered America in 1492 and the Borgia pope declared it a New World for Catholic Spain, the Vatican started a five-hundred-year conspiracy to conceal the true story of Viking America.In this groundbreaking new work by the author of The Early English Settlement of Orkney and ... En savoir plus

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  • Masters of the Planet

    The Search for Our Human Origins

    par Ian Tattersall ...
    Collections series MacSci
    50,000 years ago – merely a blip in evolutionary time – our Homo sapiens ancestors were competing for existence with several other human species, just as their own precursors had been doing for millions of years. Yet something about our species separated it from the pack, and led to its survival while the rest became extinct. So just what was it that allowed Homo sapiens to become Masters of the ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Them and Us: How Neanderthal predation created modern humans

    Put aside everything you thought you knew about Neanderthals. Evolutionary detective Danny Vendramini's meticulous research shows they were not docile omnivores, but savage, cannibalistic carnivores: the 'apex predators' of the stone age. And everything else—including humans—was their prey.Vendramini's Neanderthal predation theory argues that the evolution of modern humans—including our unique ... En savoir plus

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  • Lone Survivors

    How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth

    par Chris Stringer ...
    A top researcher proposes a controversial new theory of human evolution in a book "combining the thrill of a novel with a remarkable depth of perspective" ( Nature).In this groundbreaking and engaging work of science, world-renowned paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer sets out a new theory of humanity's origin, challenging both the multiregionalists (who hold that modern humans developed from ... En savoir plus

    $19.19 CAD

  • Hair of the Dog to Paint the Town Red

    The Curious Origins of Everyday Sayings and Fun Phrases

    par Andrew Thompson ...
    Discover hundreds of intriguing, entertaining & often hilarious origins to the English language's most curious phrases in this trivia book from a bestselling author.English is filled with interesting phrases. This book reveals the surprising, captivating and even hilarious origins behind 400 of them, including:• Read between the Lines• Cat Got Your Tongue?• Put a Sock in It• Close, but No Cigar• ... En savoir plus

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  • Gravity's Angels

    Short stories from the Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author. "One of the best science fiction collections I've ever read." — The Magazine of Fantasy and Science FictionThough written in the last decades of the twentieth-century, these tales are timeless and prophetic visions created by Michael Swanwick's wide-ranging imagination. Through stories of talking alien beasts, eco-fiction ... En savoir plus

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  • Pandora's Seed

    The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization

    par Spencer Wells ...
    Ten thousand years ago, our species made a radical shift in its way of life: We became farmers rather than hunter-gatherers. Although this decision propelled us into the modern world, renowned geneticist and anthropologist Spencer Wells demonstrates that such a dramatic change in lifestyle had a downside that we’re only now beginning to recognize. Growing grain crops ultimately made humans more ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $13.99 CAD Maintenant $9.99 CAD

  • The First Americans

    In Pursuit of Archaeology's Greatest Mystery

    J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there?At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited. As he writes, “The work of lifetimes has ... En savoir plus

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Big Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy

    Sixteen Great Works of Speculative Fiction

    Modifié par Ellen Datlow ...
    "Ellen Datlow is the queen of anthology editors in America."—Peter StraubFrom multi-award–winning anthologist Ellen Datlow, The Big Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy features groundbreaking works from some of the most distinctive voices in speculative fiction.Set in far futures, the near past, or alternate realities; infused with elements of horror, mystery, and mysticism; and featuring aliens, ... En savoir plus

    $15.19 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus