What on Earth Happened?

Author: Christopher Lloyd
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781408834831
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
In What on Earth Happened?, Christopher Lloyd tells our story from the very beginning of time to the present day, taking giant narrative leaps across millennia and continents. Along the way, he explains exactly how Muslim conquest gave Spain its paella, how the Earth's collision with another young planet created the moon, how dragonflies the size of seagulls emerged out of the prehistoric waters, and how the Big Bang can be detected in your television. Accessible and endlessly entertaining, this massive book draws on disciplines as wide-ranging as astrophysics and anthropology and will appeal to experts, amateur enthusiasts and the simply curious alike. Completed by 250 colourful photographs, maps, historic paintings, engravings and specially commissioned illustrations, What on Earth Happened? takes an entertaining and informed sideways look at the last 13.7 billion years in the life of our universe.

What on Earth Happened?

Author: Christopher Lloyd
Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
ISBN: 9781408802168
Category : Civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
How Old Is The Universe? When Did Life On Earth Begin? What Happened To The Dinosaurs? How Was The Moon Created? How Did Ancient Chinese Science Shape The Modern World? How Did Islam Trigger Globalization? Are Humans Really Superior To Other Living Things? And How Can You Fit The Complete History Of The Planet Into One Pocket-Sized Book? These Are Just Some Of The Questions Answered In Christopher Lloyd'S Acclaimed 13.7 Billion Year History - Now In Brief. In This Thrill-Ride Across Millennia And Continents, The Complete History Of The Planet Comes To Life: From The Earth'S Fiery Birth To Its Near-Obliteration In The Triassic Period, And From The First Signs Of Human Life To The Tentative Future Of A World With A Burgeoning Population And A Global Warming Crisis. Covering A Wide Range Of Topics Including Astrophysics, Zoology, And Sociology, And Complete With Maps And Illustrations, What On Earth Happened? In Brief Is The Endlessly Entertaining Story Of The Planet, Life, And People.

The World Without Us

Author: Alan Weisman
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312427900
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 436

Book Description
A penetrating take on how our planet would respond without the relentless pressure of the human presence

What on Earth Is about to Happen... for Heaven's Sake?

Author: Kent Hovind
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781944010003
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
2 Peter 3 in the Bible tells us that the scoffers in the last days would be "willingly ignorant" of: 1. The Creation, 2. The Flood and 3. The coming judgment. This book gives a brief overview of the evidence supporting the biblical view of the creation and the flood and gives an easy to understand explanation of what the Bible teaches about the coming tribulation time, the rapture of the believers, the time of God's wrath, the battle of Armageddon and end of the world. In addition there is a long section on "What should we do?" in light of what is coming. This information may be vital to keep many from "falling away" as predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:1-3.

Run Me to Earth

Author: Paul Yoon
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1501154044
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
From award-winning author Paul Yoon comes a beautiful, aching novel about three kids orphaned in 1960s Laos—and how their destinies are entwined across decades, anointed by Hernan Diaz as “one of those rare novels that stays with us to become a standard with which we measure other books.” Alisak, Prany, and Noi—three orphans united by devastating loss—must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across the fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky. In a world where the landscape and the roads have turned into an ocean of bombs, we follow their grueling days of rescuing civilians and searching for medical supplies, until Vang secures their evacuation on the last helicopters leaving the country. It’s a move with irrevocable consequences—and sets them on disparate and treacherous paths across the world. Spanning decades and magically weaving together storylines laced with beauty and cruelty, Paul Yoon crafts a gorgeous story that is a breathtaking historical feat and a fierce study of the powers of hope, perseverance, and grace.

What on Earth Evolved?

Author: Christopher Lloyd
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 424

Book Description
From the author of What on Earth Happened? A radical new look at the story of life on Earth. Which living things have had the greatest impacts on the planet, other life and people?

Every Day on Earth

Author: Steve Murrie
Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
ISBN: 0545297060
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
A whole day is plenty of time to finish your homework or go to the park, but did you ever imagine that in a single day you take around 8,000 steps; 100,000 of your taste buds are replaced; a bat eats up to 1,000 insects; 27,000 trees are cut down just to make toilet paper in the United States; and a mayfly lives its entire life? Here are presented almost 200 incredible facts like these.

The Story of Earth

Author: Robert M. Hazen
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143123645
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Hailed by The New York Times for writing “with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,” nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet’s living and nonliving spheres. With an astrobiologist’s imagination, a historian’s perspective, and a naturalist’s eye, Hazen calls upon twenty-first-century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and enabled scientists to envision Earth’s many iterations in vivid detail—from the mile-high lava tides of its infancy to the early organisms responsible for more than two-thirds of the mineral varieties beneath our feet. Lucid, controversial, and on the cutting edge of its field, The Story of Earth is popular science of the highest order. "A sweeping rip-roaring yarn of immense scope, from the birth of the elements in the stars to meditations on the future habitability of our world." -Science "A fascinating story." -Bill McKibben

Every Minute on Earth

Author: Steve Murrie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781741691382
Category : Curiosities and wonders
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Every minute on Earth: 10 000 pieces of skin will be lost from your body, 21 000 pizzas will be baked, 954 camera phones will be sold worldwide, the International Space Station will travel 465 kilometres in its orbit around the Earth, there will be 6000 lightning strikes, and 1000 kilograms of popcorn will be eaten. The content for EVERY MINUTE ON EARTH is organised into eight chapters: Earth, Space, The Human Body, Technology, Animals, Food, Sports, and Pop Culture. Each page contains an illustrated fact.

Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years

Author: Stacy McAnulty
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 1250197910
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
A lighthearted nonfiction picture book about the formation and history of the Earth--told from the perspective of the Earth itself! "Hi, I’m Earth! But you can call me Planet Awesome." Prepare to learn all about Earth from the point-of-view of Earth herself! In this funny yet informative book, filled to the brim with kid-friendly facts, readers will discover key moments in Earth’s life, from her childhood more than four billion years ago all the way up to present day. Beloved children's book author Stacy McAnulty helps Earth tell her story, and award-winning illustrator David Litchfield brings the words to life. The book includes back matter with even more interesting tidbits. This title has Common Core connections.