Download or read book The Evolution of Life written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Book of Life written by Stephen Jay Gould and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Book of Life builds a bridge of knowledge, bringing the frontiers of science and what we know of life's history to all of us who wish to come closer to our beginnings and know more of who we are."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book The Origin and Early Evolution of Life written by Tom Fenchel and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Origin and Early Evolution of Life draws on evidence from molecular genetics, the structure and function of extant organisms, and geology. It covers the period from about 4 billion years ago, when life is thought to have originated, to about 600 million years ago when multicellular organisms first arose. There are significant gaps in our understanding of the earliest evolution of life forms, but an insight into the topic leads to a more profound understanding of life itself. Particular emphasis is placed on the fact that although life arose very soon after the origin of the Earth, it was represented only by simple microbial life forms for approximately 85% of this time. Increase in complexity beyond the microbial level took place only very late in the history of life.

Download or read book The Evolution of Life written by Awramik and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 2013-09-18 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Overview "The Evolution of Life" will be an introductory textbook that presents the processes and events that have shaped life through its remarkable journey for over 3.5 billion years. The fossil record left behind by life while on this journey provides a rich source of evidence for evolution and shows how life interacted with chemical, physical, and other factors that have, still do, and will continue to shape life. The book''s primary aims are (1) to tell the remarkable story of the history of life, (2) to provide the reader with a broad yet detailed knowledge of how evolution works, (3) to explain the interactions and interrelatedness of the biosphere, atmosphere, hydrosphere, and lithosphere over geological time, (4) to place Earth and its biosphere in their cosmological context; as the search for life elsewhere in the Universe intensifies, understanding Earth''s biosphere becomes more important, (5) to be an information resource for students and non-students to consult when looking for information and answers on the history of life and evolution, and (6) to help the student understand how science, in particular natural science, operates so that they will be a more informed citizen in the world that they will inherit. Life exists in balance with a dynamic Earth, but its evolution has also been affected by external factors, notably the Sun and other astronomical phenomena. The book presents a chronicle of life''s history within an Earth system science framework. The workings, interactions, and evolution of the biosphere over time with the lithosphere, atmosphere, and hydrosphere are critical to understanding how life has evolved on this evolving planet. The book looks at the evolution of life over the immensity of geological time. While this is the stamping ground of the paleontologist, deep time is a concept that is often difficult for the lay reader to appreciate. The themes of time, evolution, and the unfolding of life underpin this book. The concept of evolution is one of humankind''s greatest intellectual achievements. In today''s complex, information-rich society there is often a retreat to superficiality and "sound bits" rather than thoroughness when dealing directly with complex issues and phenomena in science. This has harmed the image of evolution. In turn, this has led to a misunderstanding of evolution and consequently a mistrust of science as a whole by a section of society. This book presents fundamental factors and keys to understanding how evolution has operated since the origin of life, to shape and produce the rich and varied biosphere that we occupy today. Science has its achievements. Readership The book is primarily aimed at the introductory undergraduate university student. In the US market it would be used in general education and distribution courses, and there and in the non-US markets in the English-speaking world would also be a basic text in geology, biology and environmental science courses. The book would also be useful as a resource for upper High School educators in geology, biology and environmental science courses. We also believe that it would appeal to the interested lay person, particularly for people who are interested in obtaining rational background for reasoned debate on the important role of evolution in the history of life for the last 3.5 billion years. Competing Titles There are no comparable books on the market that present the evolution of life in terms of co-evolution with a dynamic planet, and which also present a broad overview of the processes and mechanisms of evolution and which are aimed at an undergraduate market. The closest is Richard''s Cowen''s book The History of Life, now in its 4th edition, which is published by Blackwells, but it doesn''t have the broad coverage of evolution that would feature in our book, nor does it particularly focus on the evolution of life in terms of Earth system science. Steve Gould''s edited The Book of Life (Norton, 2001, 2nd ed., 256pp) is aimed at high school level and is a multiauthoured volume. It is now very out-of-date, having been first published in 1993

Download or read book Biodiversity written by N. Biedinger and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biodiversity, sometimes simply understood as "diversity of species", is a specific quality of life on our planet, the dimensions and importance of which have just lately been fully realized. Today we know that "biological diversity is a global asset of incalculable value to present and future generations" (Kofi Annan). Biodiversity is spread unequally over the world: in fact, the main share of biological resources worldwide is harboured predominantly by the so-called developing countries in the tropics and sub tropics. Therefore, Biodiversity - A Challenge for Development Research and Policy was chosen as the title for an international conference which was held in Bonn in 1997 as one of the first major events organized by the then newly established North-South Centre for Development Research (ZEF) at Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn (Germany). Since the ZEF, founded by the Senate of the University of Bonn in 1995, has played a central role in turning Bonn into a centre for international cooperation and North-South dialogue. The Centre is a product of the Bonn Berlin agreement of July 1994 which was adopted to offset the effects caused by the Parliament and much of the Government moving to Berlin. It fits in well with the double strategy to strengthen Bonn's position as an interna tional science arena and as an eminent place for development policy and the national and supranational agencies dealing with this issue.

Download or read book The Evolution of Life written by Henry Charlton Bastian and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2012-08 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Download or read book The Evolution of Life written by Sol Tax and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Origins of Life written by John Maynard Smith and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To create this landmark work--a brilliant, state-of-the-art account of how life evolved on Earth--Smith and Szathmary have completely rewritten their "Major Transitions in Evolution" to bring their ideas to a wider audience of general readers. 42 illustrations.

Download or read book Women Culture and Politics in Latin America written by Emilie L. Bergmann and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This collection, because of its exceptional theoretical coherence and sophistication, is qualitatively superior to the most frequently consulted anthologies on Latin American women’s history and literature . . . [and] represents a new, more theoretically rigorous stage in the feminist debate on Latin American women.”—Elizabeth Garrels, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Download or read book The Evolution of Life written by Henry Charlton Bastian and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Origins and Evolution of Life written by Purificacion Lopez-Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Dictator s Seduction written by Lauren H. Derby and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-17 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The Dictator’s Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, Lauren Derby describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a “vernacular politics” based on popular idioms of masculinity and fantasies of race and class mobility. Derby argues that the most pernicious aspect of the dictatorship was how it appropriated quotidian practices such as gossip and gift exchange, leaving almost no place for Dominicans to hide or resist. Drawing on previously untapped documents in the Trujillo National Archives and interviews with Dominicans who recall life under the dictator, Derby emphasizes the role that public ritual played in Trujillo’s exercise of power. His regime included the people in affairs of state on a massive scale as never before. Derby pays particular attention to how events and projects were received by the public as she analyzes parades and rallies, the rebuilding of Santo Domingo following a major hurricane, and the staging of a year-long celebration marking the twenty-fifth year of Trujillo’s regime. She looks at representations of Trujillo, exploring how claims that he embodied the popular barrio antihero the tíguere (tiger) stoked a fantasy of upward mobility and how a rumor that he had a personal guardian angel suggested he was uniquely protected from his enemies. The Dictator’s Seduction sheds new light on the cultural contrivances of autocratic power.

Download or read book Cosmos Latinos written by Andrea L. Bell and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-31 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first-ever collection of Latin American science fiction in English.

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Download or read book Crossfire written by Roberta Johnson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The marriage of philosophy and fiction in the first third of Spain's twentieth century was a fertile one. It produced some truly notable offspring—novels that cross genre boundaries to find innovative forms, and treatises that fuse literature and philosophy in new ways. In her illuminating interdisciplinary study of Spanish fiction of the "Silver Age," Roberta Johnson places this important body of Spanish literature in context through a synthesis of social, literary, and philosophical history. Her examination of the work of Miguel de Unamuno, Pio Baroja, Azorin, Ramon Perez de Ayala, Juan Ramon Jimenez, Gabriel Miro, Pedro Salinas, Rosa Chacel, and Benjamin Jarnes brings to light philosophical frictions and debates and opens new interpersonal and intertextual perspectives on many of the period's most canonical novels. Johnson reformulates the traditional discussion of generations and "isms" by viewing the period as an intergenerational complex in which writers with similar philosophical and personal interests constituted dynamic groupings that interacted and constantly defined and redefined one another. Current narratological theories, including those of Todorov, Genette, Bakhtin, and Martinez Bonati, assist in teasing out the intertextual maneuvers and philosophical conflicts embedded in the novels of the period, while the sociological and biographical material bridges the philosophical and literary analyses. The result, solidly grounded in original archival research, is a convincingly complete picture of Spain's intellectual world in the first thirty years of this century. Crossfire should revolutionize thinking about the Generation of '98 and the Generation of '14 by identifying the heterogeneous philosophical sources of each and the writers' reactions to them in fiction.

Download or read book Empires Nations and Natives written by Benoît de L'Estoile and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-09-22 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empires, Nations, and Natives is a groundbreaking comparative analysis of the interplay between the practice of anthropology and the politics of empires and nation-states in the colonial and postcolonial worlds. It brings together essays that demonstrate how the production of social-science knowledge about the “other” has been inextricably linked to the crafting of government policies. Subverting established boundaries between national and imperial anthropologies, the contributors explore the role of anthropology in the shifting categorizations of race in southern Africa, the identification of Indians in Brazil, the implementation of development plans in Africa and Latin America, the construction of Mexican and Portuguese nationalism, the genesis of “national character” studies in the United States during World War II, the modernizing efforts of the French colonial administration in Africa, and postcolonial architecture. The contributors—social and cultural anthropologists from the Americas and Europe—report on both historical and contemporary processes. Moving beyond controversies that cast the relationship between scholarship and politics in binary terms of complicity or autonomy, they bring into focus a dynamic process in which states, anthropological knowledge, and population groups themselves are mutually constructed. Such a reflexive endeavor is an essential contribution to a critical anthropological understanding of a changing world. Contributors: Alban Bensa, Marcio Goldman, Adam Kuper, Benoît de L’Estoile, Claudio Lomnitz, David Mills, Federico Neiburg, João Pacheco de Oliveira, Jorge Pantaleón, Omar Ribeiro Thomaz, Lygia Sigaud, Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima, Florence Weber

Download or read book Spanish Poetry of the Twentieth Century written by Andrew Debicki and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twentieth-century Spanish poetry has received comparatively little attention from critics writing in English. Andrew Debicki now presents the first English-language history published in the United States to examine the sweep of modern Spanish verse. More important, he is the first to situate Spanish poetry in the context of European modernity, to trace its trajectory from the symbolists to the postmodernists. Avoiding the rigid generational schemes and catalogs of names found in traditional Hispanic literary histories, Debicki offers detailed discussions of salient books and texts to construct an original and compelling view of his subject. He demonstrates that contemporary Spanish verse is rooted in the modem tradition and poetics that see the text as a unique embodiment of complex experiences. He then traces the evolution of that tradition in the early decades of the century and its gradual disintegration from the 1950s to the present as Spanish poetry came to reflect features of the postmodern, especially the poetics of text as process rather than as product. By centering his study on major periods and examining within each the work of poets of different ages, Debicki develops novel perspectives. The late 1960s and early 1970s, for example, were not merely the setting for a new aestheticist generation but an era of exceptional creativity in which both established and new writers engendered a profound, intertextual, and often self-referential lyricism. This book will be essential reading for specialists in modern Spanish letters, for advanced students, and for readers inter-ested in comparative literature.