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Examines the intersection of life, death, and the American legal system, exploring how the legal system in many cases decides who lives or dies. More broadly, the author employs moral, philosophical, cultural, and religious lenses to show how the government plays a role in who is killed and who lives in wars, executions, deadly force authorization, legalizing or making abortion illegal, and allowing or denying asylum for refugees. Notes the difference between a legal "right" versus a human interest, and argues that laws that decide whether someone lives or dies should honor the irreversibility of death.

Learn about various organisms and their effect on the world around us.

Was life triggered by some event, like lightning hitting a pond full of amino acids? Earth was teeming with life billions of years before the dinosaurs existed. Single-celled organisms inundated the oceans, and the soil swarmed with living creatures. Where did it all come from and how did it go from a single-celled organism to a trillion-celled organism like Man? Cutting-edge science is testing out answers about life's origins and how life can be created on new worlds, even this one.

Follows a group of young men as they travel the world to explore what it means to be a human being by visiting the homeless on the streets of New York City, the orphans and disabled children of Peru, and the abandoned lepers in the forests of Ghana, Africa.

A picture book celebrating both the highs and lows that everyone experiences in the course of a life.

"When a lively village is beset by a mysterious fog, the town turns dull and silent, until one day a boy's simple melody strikes a chord, reminding everyone of what matters most, even in the darkest of times"--Provided by publisher.

A picture book celebrating both the highs and lows that everyone experiences in the course of a life.

"The notion of a living world is one of humanity's oldest beliefs. Though scorned by scientists in the sixties and seventies, the facts supporting this concept have now become tenets of modern Earth system science, a relatively young field that studies the living and nonliving components of the planet as an integrated whole. Life did not evolve passively in response to its environment, as scientists have long assumed. Instead, it evolved with Earth, shaping its climate and terrain at every scale, one part in a great orchestra, in which non-living elements-the air, rocks, and water-are the instruments that life, in its multitudes, has emerged to play"--Provided by publisher.

An exploration of self-love, meditation, meaning, loss, and romance, LVOE. is a look forward, a look backward, but most importantly a look inward to the often confusing yet hopeful human experience.

A Harvard geologist presents a narrative chronicle of the Earth's 4.6-billion-year evolution that places the environmental crises of today's world in a context that explains the planet's fragile capacity to support life.