"A history of American ideas about life and death includes coverage of topics ranging from the 17th-century Englishman who investigated a belief about life starting with eggs and the heated debates over Darwin's evolutionary findings to the role of the Space Age in changing views on planetary life to the 1970s trends in cryogenics." --Publishers description.
Presents a list of 738 irritations, injustices, and petty annoyances, and includes additional lists of five things that especially irritate people in various professions, including school nurses, female bartenders, and copy editors.
Presents an overview of astrobiology--the study of life in the universe, looking at the work scientists in a variety of specialized fields are doing in an attempt to discover whether there is life on other planets.
Color cartoon illustrations and text describe the development of life forms in Earth's oceans and on land from one thousand million years ago to 245 million years ago.
simple conversations to restore hope to the future
Wheatley, Margaret J
2009
Explores the power of conversation to bring people together and create positive change in the world, identifies several conditions that promote good conversation, features a selection of quotes and images for reflection, and includes ten short conversation starters.
Translates an edited version of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius's ponderings on power, human nature, and mortality, among other philosophical concerns; includes a chronology, a genealogical table, and extensive notes.
