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Renowned biologist and current professor of Science at the University of Oxford Richard Dawkins presents an abridged version of Charles Darwin's controversial yet revolutionary work. Darwin's theory of evolution remains as controversial and influential today as when it was first published in 1859. Based on collected evidence and observations during a voyage around the world, Darwin's document revealed natural selection to the world, forever changing...
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Thinker's library volume no. 7
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Distributed in the USA by National Book Network
Pub. Date
2003
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English
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Sigma Force novels volume 3
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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In this electrifying thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins, Sigma Force races to crack ultimate mystery of the origin of life—a quest that will save mankind . . . or destroy it
In Copenhagen, a suspicious bookstore fire propels Commander Gray Pierce on a relentless hunt across four continents – and into a terrifying mystery surrounding horrific experiments once performed in a now-abandoned
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Evolution was not discovered single-handedly, Rebecca Stott argues, contrary to what has become standard lore, but is an idea that emerged over many centuries, advanced by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature's extraordinary ways, and who had the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.
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Scribe
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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Darwin never stopped thinking about the garden at his childhood home, The Mount, in Shrewsbury, Shropshire. It was here, under the tutelage of his green-fingered mother and sisters, that he first examined the reproductive life of flowers, collected birds eggs, and began the experiments that would lead to his theory of evolution. A century and a half later, with one small child in tow and another on the way, Jude Piesse finds herself living next door...
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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"James T. Costa takes readers on a journey from Darwin's childhood through his voyage on the HMS Beagle where his ideas on evolution began. We then follow Darwin to Down House, his bustling home of forty years, where he kept porcupine quills at his desk to dissect barnacles, maintained a flock of sixteen pigeon breeds in the dovecote, and cultivated climbing plants in the study, and to Bournemouth, where on one memorable family vacation he fed carnivorous...
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Charlie Thorne volume 2
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"Charlie Thorne must search for Charles Darwin's hidden treasure in South America--with plenty of enemies hot on her trail"--
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