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  • What is Death?

    A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of Life

    by Tyler Volk ...
    what is death?A Scientist Looks at the Cycle of LifeAnswering the question "What is death?" by focusing on the individual is blinkered. It restricts attention to a narrow zone around the individual body of a creature. Instead, how expansive is the answer we receive when we look at the context of death within the biosphere. Death now is tied to all of life, via the atmosphere and ocean. Death ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Metapatterns

    Across Space, Time, and Mind

    by Tyler Volk ...

    $28.99 USD

  • Gaia’s Body

    Toward a Physiology of Earth

    by Tyler Volk ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Is Earth alive? Put more rigorously, is the biosphere a self- sustaining meta-organism? This is the essence of Gaia theory: if the biosphere really is a single coherent system, then it must have something like a physiology. It must have systems and processes that perform living functions. OK, then, what systems, what processes, what functions? Gaia's Body is Tyler Volk's answer to this question. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Metapatterns

    Across Space, Time, and Mind

    by Tyler Volk ...

    $35.99 USD

  • Quarks to Culture

    How We Came to Be

    by Tyler Volk ...
    Our world is nested, both physically and socially, and at each level we find innovations that are necessary for the next. Consider: atoms combine to form molecules, molecules combine to form single-celled organisms; when people come together, they build societies. Physics has gone far in mapping the basic mechanics of the simplest things and the dynamics of the overall nesting, as have biology and ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • CO2 Rising

    The World's Greatest Environmental Challenge

    by Tyler Volk ...
    An introduction to the global carbon cycle and the human-caused disturbances to it that are at the heart of global warming and climate change.The most colossal environmental disturbance in human history is under way. Ever-rising levels of the potent greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) are altering the cycles of matter and life and interfering with the Earth's natural cooling process. Melting ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • Origins

    Cosmos, Earth, and Mankind

    by Yves Coppens, Hubert Reeves, Dominique Simonnet, Joel de Rosney ...
    In this potent book, three eminent scientists—an astrophysicist, an organic chemist, and an anthropologist—ponder and discuss some of the basic questions that have obsessed humankind through the ages, and offer thoughtful, enlightening answers in terms the layperson can easily understand. Until now, most of these questions were addressed by religion and philosophy. But science has reached a point ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Journey of the Universe

    by Brian Thomas Swimme, Mary Evelyn Tucker ...
    The basis for the Emmy-winning film. "A wonderful, highly readable account of the history of the universe from the Big Bang through the present moment."—Thomas Lovejoy, University Professor in Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason UniversityThrough the astonishing combined achievements of natural scientists worldwide, we now have a detailed account of how galaxies and stars, planets and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Design in Nature

    How the Constructal Law Governs Evolution in Biology, Physics, Technology, and Social Organization

    by Adrian Bejan, J. Peder Zane ...
    In this groundbreaking book, Adrian Bejan takes the recurring patterns in nature—trees, tributaries, air passages, neural networks, and lightning bolts—and reveals how a single principle of physics, the Constructal Law, accounts for the evolution of these and all other designs in our world.Everything—from biological life to inanimate systems—generates shape and structure and evolves in a sequence ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • How It Ends

    From You to the Universe

    by Chris Impey ...
    “Remarkably upbeat, and imbued with wit, wisdom and a palpable sense of awe over our universe.”—Tucson WeeklyMost of us are aware of our own mortality, but few among us know what science, with insights yielded from groundbreaking new research, has to say about endings on a larger scale. Enter astronomer Chris Impey, who chronicles the death of the whole shebang: individual, species, bio- sphere, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Science of Self

    Man, God, and the Mathematical Language of Nature

    by Supreme Understanding, C'BS Alife Allah ...
    The Science of Self is a dynamic tour of reality, covering the formation of our universe, the development of life, and the laws that govern these processes and personify themselves as Man. This book introduces readers to hundreds of scientific fields, peering into what quantum mechanics, genetics, mathematics, anthropology, and archaeology have to say about the past, present, and future of Black ... Read more

    $9.95 USD

  • Is Biocentrism Dead? Understanding the Universe and Nature

    by Raj Bogle ...
    "Is Biocentrism Dead?" It is a topic that many find a bit off putting but it is a question that many persons are starting to pose as they become wiser to certain things. The book explains what biocentrism is and how the tenets that surround this concept came into being.This is a book that the inquiring mind will appreciate thus it is ideal for the individuals who want to learn more about ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus