How The Earth Turned Green

How the Earth Turned Green

• Author : Joseph E. Armstrong
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 7,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2015-07-08
• Genre: Science
• Pages : 0
• ISBN 10 : 022606977X

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On this blue planet, long before pterodactyls took to the skies and tyrannosaurs prowled the continents, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for coloring these organisms, has been in existence for some 85% of Earth’s long history—that is, for roughly 3.5 billion years. In How the Earth Turned Green, Joseph E. Armstrong traces the history of these verdant organisms, which many would call plants, from their ancient beginnings to the diversity of green life that inhabits the Earth today. Using an evolutionary framework, How the Earth Turned Green addresses questions such as: Should all green organisms be considered plants? Why do these organisms look the way they do? How are they related to one another and to other chlorophyll-free organisms? How do they reproduce? How have they changed and diversified over time? And how has the presence of green organisms changed the Earth’s ecosystems? More engaging than a traditional textbook and displaying an astonishing breadth, How the Earth Turned Green will both delight and enlighten embryonic botanists and any student interested in the evolutionary history of plants.

How the Earth Turned Green

• Author : Joseph E. Armstrong
• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
• File Size : 11,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2014-10-02
• Genre: Science
• Pages : 580
• ISBN 10 : 9780226069807

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This “amazing and wonderful book” explores the evolutionary history of photosynthesis in a grand story of how the world became the verdant place we know (Choice). On this blue planet, long before dinosaurs reigned, tiny green organisms populated the ancient oceans. Fossil and phylogenetic evidence suggests that chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for coloring these organisms, has been in existence for some 85% of Earth’s long history—that is, for roughly 3.5 billion years. In How the Earth Turned Green, Joseph E. Armstrong traces the history of these verdant organisms, which many would call plants, from their ancient beginnings to the diversity of green life that inhabits the Earth today. Using an evolutionary framework, How the Earth Turned Green addresses questions such as: Should all green organisms be considered plants? Why do these organisms look the way they do? How are they related to one another and to other chlorophyll-free organisms? How do they reproduce? How have they changed and diversified over time? And how has the presence of green organisms changed the Earth’s ecosystems? With engaging prose and astonishing breadth, as well as informative diagrams and illustrations, How the Earth Turned Green demonstrates “how the Earth blossomed into such an incredible world that most of us simply take for granted” (San Francisco Book Review).

The Summer We Turned Green

• Author : William Sutcliffe
• Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
• File Size : 9,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2021-07-08
• Genre: Young Adult Fiction
• Pages : 352
• ISBN 10 : 9781526632845

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A fresh, funny, heartfelt look at this generation's must-win battle: one earth, one chance. It's the summer holidays, and thirteen-year-old Luke's life has been turned upside down. First his older sister Rose moved 'across the road', where a community of climate rebels is protesting the planned airport expansion. Then his dad followed her. Dad only went to get Rose back, but now he's out there building totem poles, wearing sandals and drinking mead (whatever that is) with the best of them... Can Luke save his family when all they want to do is save the planet?

When the Moon Turned Green

• Author : Hal K. Wells
• Publisher : eStar Books
• File Size : 12,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2010-10-01
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : null
• ISBN 10 : 9781612100395

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Outside his laboratory Bruce Dixon finds a world of living dead men-and above, in the sky, shines a weird green moon.

The Life of Plants

• Author : Emanuele Coccia
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• File Size : 12,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2019-01-16
• Genre: Philosophy
• Pages : 176
• ISBN 10 : 9781509531547

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We barely talk about them and seldom know their names. Philosophy has always overlooked them; even biology considers them as mere decoration on the tree of life. And yet plants give life to the Earth: they produce the atmosphere that surrounds us, they are the origin of the oxygen that animates us. Plants embody the most direct, elementary connection that life can establish with the world. In this highly original book, Emanuele Coccia argues that, as the very creator of atmosphere, plants occupy the fundamental position from which we should analyze all elements of life. From this standpoint, we can no longer perceive the world as a simple collection of objects or as a universal space containing all things, but as the site of a veritable metaphysical mixture. Since our atmosphere is rendered possible through plants alone, life only perpetuates itself through the very circle of consumption undertaken by plants. In other words, life exists only insofar as it consumes other life, removing any moral or ethical considerations from the equation. In contrast to trends of thought that discuss nature and the cosmos in general terms, Coccia’s account brings the infinitely small together with the infinitely big, offering a radical redefinition of the place of humanity within the realm of life.

Shadows and Images

• Author : Meriol Trevor
• Publisher : Ignatius Press
• File Size : 12,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2012-01-01
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 275
• ISBN 10 : 9781681494326

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One of the major characters in this novel of a Protestant young woman, and the Roman Catholic she marries, is the inspiring figure of Blessed John Cardinal Newman. In the story of Clem and Augustine, their courtship and marriage, and Clem's conversion to her husband's faith, the reader sees the vital, influential, and holy Cardinal through the eyes of friends. Like Newman, the fictional character Clem was born in the Protestant faith, and their acquaintance begins before he or she becomes a Roman Catholic. The novel charts their ongoing friendship as it spans many years during which pivotal historical influences, such as the Industrial Revolution and the Oxford Movement, are shaping Victorian England. Many important events, personages, and ideas in the life of Newman appear in the story--his reasons for becoming a Roman Catholic, his differences with Cardinal Manning, his work in the Birmingham Oratory, and his being made a cardinal by Pope Leo XIII. The author, a renowned biographer of Newman, used Newman's actual correspondence as the basis for his parts in the dialogue.

When Santa Turned Green

• Author : Victoria Perla
• Publisher : Thomas Nelson
• File Size : 12,7 Mb
• Release Date : 2008-10-13
• Genre: Juvenile Fiction
• Pages : 47
• ISBN 10 : 9781418578404

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A creative holiday story that introduces kids to environmental awareness with ways that they can make a big difference. It's November up in the North Pole. Everything's going along smoothly at Santa's workshop until he discovers a leak in his roof. Santa soon learns that this little leak is connected to a far bigger problem. The North Pole is melting because of something called global warming! Faced with the reality of what this could mean for Christmas, not to mention the planet and the future, Santa is determined to turn things around. To do so, he calls upon the people he knows better than any other-the children. Much to Santa's joy, they respond in a way that makes all the difference . . . in the world. "When Santa Turned Green helps even the youngest child grasp the importance of caring for our planet and solving the climate crisis." Former Vice President Al Gore

Take Back the Sky

• Author : Greg Bear
• Publisher : Orbit
• File Size : 6,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2016-12-20
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 304
• ISBN 10 : 9780316223966

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The conclusion to an epic interstellar trilogy of war from master of science fiction, Greg Bear. Marooned beneath the icy, waxy crust of Saturn's moon, Titan, Skyrine Michael Venn and his comrades face double danger from Earth and from the Antagonists, both intent on wiping out their growing awareness of what the helpful alien Gurus are really doing in our solar system. Haunted by their dead and by the ancient archives of our Bug ancestors, the former combatants must now team up with their enemies, forget their indoctrination and their training, and journey far beyond Pluto to the fabled Planet X, the Antagonists' home world, a Sun-Planet in the comet-generating Kuiper belt. It's here that Master Sergeant Venn will finally understand his destiny and the destiny of every intelligent being in the solar system-including the enigmatic Gurus.

Researches on the Past and Present History of the Earth s Atmosphere

• Author : Thomas Lamb Phipson
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 13,8 Mb
• Release Date : 1901
• Genre: Atmosphere
• Pages : 248
• ISBN 10 : UOM:39015030984937

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Genesis Revealed

• Author : Peter Waller
• Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
• File Size : 18,8 Mb
• Release Date : 2014-04-25
• Genre: Religion
• Pages : 215
• ISBN 10 : 9781627870665

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The lines have been drawn. On one side are young earth creationists, who assert that God created the universe in six days and—based on calculations derived from the Bible—that the earth is six thousand years old. On the other side are secular scientists, who claim the universe has existed for over thirteen billion years, the earth for 4.5 billion. Scientists claim that no miracles were necessary to form the universe, and that everything is explained by natural causes. However, young earth creationists point to verses at the beginning of the Bible and the beginning of the book of John that clearly claim that God created the universe. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Genesis 1:1–2 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not anything made that was made. John 1:1–3 But what if there is no contradiction between scientific data and the Bible? Arnold Guyot was a nineteenth-century geologist and geographer at Princeton University. In addition to his numerous scientific accomplishments, he developed the day-age interpretation of Genesis 1, in which the "days" of creation represent geologic ages. When we view the Bible through this lens, we find that modern science has not only failed to refute the miracles of Genesis, but has in fact provided abundant evidence for their veracity. Genesis Revealed: A Scientific Examination of the Creation Story takes readers down the twin paths of science and theology to show that they lead us to the same destination. Citing a multitude of discoveries in astronomy and geology, Dr. Peter Waller makes a compelling case for Guyot’s interpretation—and for the miracles described in Genesis 1:1–25.

DE TRIBUS PRINCIPIIS oder Beschreibung der Drey Principien G ttliches Wesens

• Author : Andrew Weeks
• Publisher : BRILL
• File Size : 6,5 Mb
• Release Date : 2019-03-25
• Genre: Philosophy
• Pages : 875
• ISBN 10 : 9789004395275

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The treatise of the great philosopher and mystic, Jacob Boehme’s Of the Three Principles of Divine Being, 1619, is a key to his complete work, its historical context, and its role in German intellectual history.

The Hidden Spirituality of Men

• Author : Matthew Fox
• Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
• File Size : 5,9 Mb
• Release Date : 2009-10
• Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
• Pages : 654
• ISBN 10 : 9781458727428

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IT IS NO SECRET that men are in trouble today. From war to ecological collapse, most of the world's critical problems stem from a distorted masculinity out of control. Yet our culture rewards the very dysfunctions responsible for those problems. To Matthew Fox, our crucial task is to open our minds to a deeper understanding of the healthy masculine than we receive from our media, culture, and religions. To awaken what Fox calls ''the sacred masculine,'' he unearths ten metaphors, or archetypes, to inspire men to pursue their higher calling to reinvent the world.

Mine Mia Nature Flies

• Author : Augusto
• Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
• File Size : 5,6 Mb
• Release Date : 2013-07-26
• Genre: Fiction
• Pages : 52
• ISBN 10 : 9781483670706

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In a time of Aether and Elements, a child of earth and a child of air find themselves willing to risk everything to be together. As the fight the darkness that threatens their love, they find unlikely ally in the world around them. The only question is, will it be enough?

Second Reader

• Author : Maud Summers
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 15,9 Mb
• Release Date : 1909
• Genre: Readers
• Pages : 200
• ISBN 10 : HARVARD:32044097071930

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Selected Poems

• Author : Juan Ramón Jiménez
• Publisher : Unknown
• File Size : 5,7 Mb
• Release Date : 1973
• Genre: English poetry
• Pages : 156
• ISBN 10 : UCAL:B3598544

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