Challenging a purely mechanistic view of human existence, Edward O. Wilson examines what makes human beings supremely different from all other species.

4.6 billion years of the story of life on Earth, in 52,000 words. Brief, brilliant and entirely gripping.

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Plastics worden wel eens dé uitvinding van het industriële tijdperk genoemd. Tot 1856 worden alle materialen gemaakt door de natuur op een of andere manier te bewerken. De naar de VS uitgeweken Gentenaar Leo Baekeland neemt in 1907 het patent voor zijn uitvinding van de eerste synthetische kunststof: bakeliet. De isolerende, hitte- en vochtbestendige eigenschappen worden al snel gewaardeerd in de industrie. Maar ook in huishoudelijke context: stopcontacten, stofzuigers, scheerapparaten, str...

'To read Being Ecological is to be caught up in a brilliant display of intellectual pyrotechnics' P.D.Smith, GuardianWhy is everything we think we know about ecology wrong?Is there really any difference between 'humans' and 'nature'?Does this mean we even have a future?Don't care about ecology? This book is for you. Timothy Morton, who has been called 'Our most popular guide to the new epoch' (Guardian), sets out to show us that whether we know it or not, we already have the capacity and the ...

The FACTS Visually Explained. Includes over 70 complex concepts explained with bright graphics and diagrams - science made simple.

The human impact on Earth's climate is often treated as a hundred-year issue lasting as far into the future as 2100, the year in which most climate projections cease. In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world's leading climatologists, reveals the hard truth that these changes in climate will be "locked in," essentially forever. If you think