663円 Il est de plus en plus évident que le réchauffement de la petite planète bleue, notre seule et unique demeure, est un phénomène anthropique qui préoccupe l'ensemble de l'humanité, tant il constitue autant une menace qu'une opportunité. la lecture de cet ouvrage permet d'en saisir la quintessence....

1,122円 Discover one of the foundational scientific works resulting from Charles Darwin's world-altering journey aboard H.M.S. Beagle. This is Part I: Fossil Mammalia, which details the extraordinary fossil discoveries Darwin made, primarily in South America between 1832 and 1836. These specimens, collec...

451円 Looking at nature close up is amazing! It opens up whole new vistas, and you see things you have never seen before. Ordinary objects become extraordinary! After purchasing a microscope to view stamps and coins on my computer I thought I'd have a look at a leaf. Wow! I was amazed at all of the bea...

2,388円 The Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site situated in the heart of the Magaliesberg Biosphere Reserve is the jewel in South Africa’s evolutionary crown: an area ‘of outstanding universal value’, it has attracted world-wide interest and furnished key evidence about where, when and how we came to...

1,657円 Gualicho takes a bite out of the ornithopod’s back as it runs away from her, causing it to stumble and fall. She jumps on top of the body and rips open its neck with her teeth. The ornithopod becomes still and limp. Satisfied, Gualicho begins to feast. But, after only two bites, she senses someth...

1,957円 A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossilsーindustrial, chemical, geologicalーthat humans are leaving behind A Times Book of the Year • A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year What will the world look like ten thousand or ten million years from no...

28,182円 This volume, Nanomaterials-Based Composites for Energy Applications: Emerging Technology and Trends, covers the importance of nanomaterials-based composites for renewable and alternative energy applications. Taking a multidisciplinary approach, it looks at using composites without losing the extr...

2,849円 Humans are the only mammals to walk on two, rather than four, legs. From an evolutionary perspective, this is an illogical development, as it slows us down. But here we are, suggesting there must have been something tremendous to gain from bipedalism. First Steps takes our ordinary, everyday walk...

1,050円 The Road of Winds is a non-fiction book by Ivan Efremov about his three years' travel in Mongolia (1946–1949) when he was the head of the Joint Soviet-Mongolian Paleontology Expedition. During the expedition, Ivan Efremov conceived a book. In the "The Road of Winds" published in the mid 1950s, he...

3,979円 Nothing fills us with a sense of wonder like fossils. What looks at first like a simple rock is in fact a clue that reveals the staggering diversity of ancient environments, the winding pathways of evolution, and the majesty of a vanished earth. But as much as one might daydream of digging a hole...

662円 Regardless of how the Earth changes, there will always be some records of the past left. These records are not always written in books. Most of the time, they will be in the nature all around you. Ice cores, tree rings and fossils record events of Earth’s history, including plate movements, volca...

2,849円 'Truth and courage are what memoirs need and this one has them both in spades … The unforgotten boy: that is what makes this a book a revelation' ADAM NICOLSON ‘Wonderful, absolutely beguiling … I learnt a lot and really loved it’ RICHARD HOLMES ‘Gloriously evocative’ DAILY MAIL What makes a scie...