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  • Why Ecosystems Matter

    Preserving the Key to Our Survival

    de Christopher Wills ...
    How our growing knowledge of the evolution of complex ecosystems, using the latest genetic tools, can help us heal them - and survive This is not another Chicken Little book about the environment. Every reader already knows how overpopulation, ignorance and tribalism are contributing to environmental destruction and breakdowns in public health. We are all aware of the grim possibility that during ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Darwinian Tourist

    Viewing the world through evolutionary eyes

    de Christopher Wills ...
    In this magnificently illustrated book, Christopher Wills takes us on a series of adventures. From the underwater life of Indonesia's Lambeh Strait to a little valley in northern Israel, to an earthquake in the coral reef off the island of Yap and the dry valleys of western Mongolia, Wills demonstrates how ecology and evolution have interacted to yield the world we live in. Each chapter features a ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Green Equilibrium

    The vital balance of humans and nature

    de Christopher Wills ...
    In Green Equilibrium, Christopher Wills explains the rules by which ecosystems maintain a diversity of interdependent species, in particular the balance of predators and prey. Wills is both an eminent academic and a hugely experienced field-biologist. In presenting the concept of 'green equilibrium', he draws on a fascinating range of examples, including coral reefs off the densely populated ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Kiss Me, Judas

    de Will Christopher Baer ...
    Have you ever loved someone whos mortally wounded you? Phineas Poe, disgraced cop and morphine addict, has just been released from a psych ward when he meets a beautiful woman named Jude in a hotel bar. Red dress, black hair, body like a knife. He takes her back to his room and wakes up the next morning in a bathtub full of blood and ice, missing a kidney. Falling for her is the start of a twisted ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Penny Dreadful

    de Will Christopher Baer ...
    To play the 'Game of Tongues', you must first understand the caste system. Phineas Poe, antihero of 'Kiss Me, Judas', returns to Denver to find reality rewritten and the laws of reason fractured. When Poe is enlisted by his old ally, Detective Moon, to find a missing cop named Jimmy Sky, he is drawn into the 'Game of Tongues', a violent fantasy game played out by disaffected college drones, hacker ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD

  • Hells Half Acre

    de Will Christopher Baer ...
    Kidnapping, snuff films, amputee geeks, and a requiem for lost love... Cast adrift after the blood symphony of Penny Dreadful, Phineas Poe is looking for answers in the form of a woman. He tracks Jude to San Francisco, where he finds her involved with John Ransom Miller, a wealthy sociopath with a mysterious hold over her. Jude is nursing her own revenge fantasy, but she needs Millers help, and in ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Why Ecosystems Matter

    Preserving the Key to Our Survival

    de Christopher Wills ...
    Narrado por Chris Sorensen ...

    Completo

    8 hora 51 minutos

    Every one of Earth's teeming ecosystems is an evolutionary cauldronChristopher Wills's claim has its roots in an insight from Charles Darwin: the interactions between species in an ecosystem are a powerful driver of evolution. In this book Wills describes how, by using the latest genetic techniques, we are probing ecosystems and discovering that even the most apparently barren of them are rich in ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Audiolibro

    Children of Prometheus

    The Accelerating Pace of Human Evolution

    de Christopher Wills ...
    Narrado por Richard M. Davidson ...

    Completo

    11 hora 40 minutos

    Are we still evolving?Scientists have grappled with this question since the time of Darwin. Now, in this provocative book, biologist Christopher Wills argues that we are not only continuing to evolve but that our pace of change is accelerating. He examines the rapid, short-term evolutionary change taking place in people living at the earth's extremes (even as babies, Tibetans can draw in more ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

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    Yellow Fever Black Goddess

    The Coevolution of People and Plagues

    de Christopher Wills ...
    Narrado por Richard M. Davidson ...

    Completo

    12 hora 24 minutos

    In this remarkable account, evolutionary biologist Christopher Wills takes us on a voyage of discovery through the exotic pasts of the viruses and bacteria that periodically emerge with such disastrous results for our species. It is our knowledge of their secret lives, the eons spent quietly passing in and out of myriad other life forms, mutating and coadapting, that gives us hope of taming them. ... Leer más

    $24.99 USD

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  • The Contortionists Handbook

    de Craig Clevenger ...
    John Vincent Dolan is a talented young forger with a proclivity for mathematics and drug addiction. In the face of his impending institutionalization, he continually reinvents himself to escape the legal and mental health authorities and to save himself from a life of incarceration. But running turns out to be costly. Vincents clients in the L.A. underworld lose patience, the hospital evaluator ... Leer más

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  • Perv

    A Love Story

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