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Robert Langdon novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
Author
Series
Robert Langdon volume 5
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Español
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Robert Langdon, profesor de simbología e iconografía religiosa de Harvard, llega al ultramoderno Museo Guggenheim Bilbao para presenciar un importante anuncio --la revelación de un descubrimiento que "cambiará la historia de la ciencia para siempre". El anfitrión del evento esa noche es Edmond Kirsch, un billonario y futurista de cuarenta años cuyos deslumbrantes inventos tecnológicos y audaces predicciones lo han convertido en una figura de...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A Dartmouth anthropologist whose team discovered two ancient human species explores how our evolution toward bipedalism rendered us dominant, innovative, more compassionate, and more susceptible to health problems.
Author
Publisher
12-Story Library
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Discusses the origin of human beings, describing the discovery of the first human fossils in Africa, the influence of climate change on evolution, and the appearance of homo sapiens in the timeline.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes in climate that forced the transition from nomadism to farming. Mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece. Atmospheric circulation patterns later on shaped the progression of global exploration, colonization, and trade. Even today,...
9) Origins
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Describes the search for the earliest human ancestors, from ancient apes to the australopiths"--Provided by publisher.
10) First humans
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Describes the search for early branches of the human family tree, including the first true humans, members of the genus Homo"--Provided by publisher.
11) Your Inner Fish
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Your Inner Fish reveals a startling truth: Hidden within the human body is a story of life on Earth. This scientific adventure story takes viewers from Ethiopia to the Arctic Circle on a hunt for the many ways that our animal ancestors shaped our anatomical destiny. Come face-to-face with your "inner fish" in this completely new take on the human body: You'll never look at yourself in quite the same way again!
12) Prometheus
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Explorers have discovered a clue that brings them to the origins of mankind on Earth. This leads them on a journey that takes them to the darkest corners of the universe.
13) Modern humans
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Benchmark
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
"Describes the rise of modern humans, Homo sapiens, including the theories about our origins and how we spread throughout the world, with information based on the latest fossil and DNA studies"--Provided by publisher.
14) The skull in the rock: how a scientist, a boy, and Google Earth opened a new window on human origins
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the story behind one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of all time, explaining its significance for understanding human evolution and how it is shaping the thinking of the scientific community.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wondered why the human body looks the way it does? Why we walk on two legs instead of four? Why we can see in color but have a lousy sense of smell? Your Inner Fish delves deep into the past to answer questions like these. The three-part series reveals a startling truth: Hidden within the human body is a story of life on Earth. Based on a best-selling book by evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin, this scientific adventure story takes viewers...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wondered why the human body looks the way it does? Why we walk on two legs instead of four? Why we can see in color but have a lousy sense of smell? Your Inner Fish delves deep into the past to answer questions like these. The three-part series reveals a startling truth: Hidden within the human body is a story of life on Earth. Based on a best-selling book by evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin, this scientific adventure story takes viewers...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Have you ever wondered why the human body looks the way it does? Why we walk on two legs instead of four? Why we can see in color but have a lousy sense of smell? Your Inner Fish delves deep into the past to answer questions like these. The three-part series reveals a startling truth: Hidden within the human body is a story of life on Earth. Based on a best-selling book by evolutionary biologist Neil Shubin, this scientific adventure story takes viewers...
Author
Publisher
Editorial Sirio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
Humano por diseño es un viaje más allá de la teoría de Darwin, desafiando cualquier teoría evolucionista. En este libro, Gregg Braden, una vez más, traspasa las fronteras entre la espiritualidad y la ciencia para responder a la eterna pregunta que se encuentra en el núcleo de nuestra existencia: ¿Quiénes somos? En esta obra, Braden también explica las técnicas que despiertan nuestras extraordinarias habilidades humanas de intuición profunda,...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
An investigation of the Pleistocene's dual character, as a geologic time, and as a cultural idea. The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own, a time of ice ages, global migrations, and mass extinctions--of woolly rhinos, mammoths, giant ground sloths, and not least, early species of Homo. It's the world that created ours. But outside that environmental story there exists a parallel narrative that describes how our ideas about...
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