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A Brief History of Earth - Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters [Large Print] (Paperback, Large type / large print edition):... A Brief History of Earth - Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters [Large Print] (Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
Andrew H. Knoll
R690 R606 Discovery Miles 6 060 Save R84 (12%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Acclaimed Harvard geologist Andrew Knoll delivers a sweeping and definitive new narrative history of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion year history and placing our current environmental crisis in deep context. The story of our planetary home and the organisms spread across its surface is far grander and more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. More than four billion years ago, a small planet accreted out of rocky debris circling a modest young star. In its early years, Earth lived on the edge of cataclysm, frequently bombarded with comets and meteors, while roiling magma oceans covered the surface and toxic gases choked the atmosphere. With time, however, continents formed, only to be ripped apart and later collide, throwing up spectacular mountain ranges, most of which have been lost to time. Volcanoes a million times larger than anything ever witnessed by humans. Cycles of global glaciation. Dramatic change and violent extremes. Countless lost worlds we are only beginning to piece together. Somehow on this dynamic stage, life established a foothold and eventually transformed our planet's surface, paving the way for trilobites, dinosaurs, and a species that can speak, reflect, fashion tools and, in the end, change the world again. Earth's story helps us to understand how the mountains, oceans, trees, and animals around us came to be, as well as gold, diamonds, coal, oil, and the very air we breathe. And in so doing, it provides the context needed to understand how human activities are transforming the world in the twenty-first century. For most of its history, our home was inhospitable to humans, and indeed, among the enduring lessons of Andrew Knoll's essential and timely book, is a recognition of how fleeting and fragile our present moment is. Placing twenty first-century climate change in the context of the vast history of our home, A Brief History of Earth is a gripping and essential look at where we've been and where we're going.

A Brief History of Earth - Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters (Paperback): Andrew H. Knoll A Brief History of Earth - Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters (Paperback)
Andrew H. Knoll
R284 Discovery Miles 2 840 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Harvard’s acclaimed geologist “charts Earth’s history in accessible styleâ€Â (AP) “A sublime chronicle of our planet." –Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet?  Odds are, where you’re standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably most or even all of the above.  The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we’ve been and where we’re going. Features original illustrations depicting Earth history and nearly 50 figures (maps, tables, photographs, graphs).

Life on a Young Planet - The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition (Paperback, Revised edition):... Life on a Young Planet - The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition (Paperback, Revised edition)
Andrew H. Knoll; Preface by Andrew H. Knoll 1
R510 R431 Discovery Miles 4 310 Save R79 (15%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, presenting a compelling new explanation for the emergence of biological novelty. The very latest discoveries in paleontology--many of them made by the author and his students--are integrated with emerging insights from molecular biology and earth system science to forge a broad understanding of how the biological diversity that surrounds us came to be. Moving from Siberia to Namibia to the Bahamas, Knoll shows how life and environment have evolved together through Earth's history. Innovations in biology have helped shape our air and oceans, and, just as surely, environmental change has influenced the course of evolution, repeatedly closing off opportunities for some species while opening avenues for others. Readers go into the field to confront fossils, enter the lab to discern the inner workings of cells, and alight on Mars to ask how our terrestrial experience can guide exploration for life beyond our planet. Along the way, Knoll brings us up-to-date on some of science's hottest questions, from the oldest fossils and claims of life beyond the Earth to the hypothesis of global glaciation and Knoll's own unifying concept of "permissive ecology." In laying bare Earth's deepest biological roots, Life on a Young Planet helps us understand our own place in the universe--and our responsibility as stewards of a world four billion years in the making. In a new preface, Knoll describes how the field has broadened and deepened in the decade since the book's original publication.

Einfuhrung in die Erwachsenenbildung (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2019 ed.): Joachim H. Knoll Einfuhrung in die Erwachsenenbildung (German, Hardcover, Reprint 2019 ed.)
Joachim H. Knoll
R3,383 Discovery Miles 33 830 Ships in 12 - 17 working days
Evolution of Primary Producers in the Sea (Hardcover): Paul Falkowski, Andrew H. Knoll Evolution of Primary Producers in the Sea (Hardcover)
Paul Falkowski, Andrew H. Knoll
R1,981 Discovery Miles 19 810 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

This text reference examines how photosynthesis evolved on Earth and how phytoplankton evolved through time - ultimately to permit the evolution of complex life, including human beings. The first of its kind, this book provides thorough coverage of key topics, with contributions by leading experts in biophysics, evolutionary biology, micropaleontology, marine ecology, and biogeochemistry.
This exciting new book is of interest not only to students and researchers in marine science, but also to evolutionary biologists and ecologists interested in understanding the origins and diversification of life. Primary Producers of the Sea offers these students and researchers an understanding of the molecular evolution, phylogeny, fossil record, and environmental processes that collectively permits us to comprehend the rise of phytoplankton and their impact on Earth's ecology and biogeochemistry. It is certain to become the first and best word on this exhilarating topic.
* Discusses the evolution of phytoplankton in the world's oceans as the first living organisms and the first and basic producers in the earths food chain
* Includes the latest developments in the evolution and ecology of marine phytoplankton specifically with additional information on marine ecosystems and biogeochemical cycles
* The only book to consider of the evolution of phytoplankton and its role in molecular evolution, biogeochemistry, paleontology, and oceanographic aspects
* Written at a level suitable for related reading use in courses on the Evolution of the Biosphere, Ecological and Biological oceanography and marine biology, and Biodiversity

Typisch Deutsch: Die Jugendbewegung - Beitrage Zu Einer Phanomengeschichte (German, Paperback, Softcover Reprint of the... Typisch Deutsch: Die Jugendbewegung - Beitrage Zu Einer Phanomengeschichte (German, Paperback, Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1987 ed.)
Joachim H. Knoll
R1,545 Discovery Miles 15 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

In seinem autobiographischen AufriB "Die letzten 30 Jahre" hat Hans-Joachim Schoeps die Jugendbewegung als seine lebensbe stimmende Erfahrung definiert und geschrieben: "Die Teilhabe an der Jugendbewegung hat die Menschen, die von ihr ergriffen wur den, die auf Fahrten und an Lagerfeuem das Erlebnis des Bundes verspiirten, zumeist fur ihr ganzes Leben gepragt. Dies ist auch bei mir der Fall gewesen . . . " Auf der 29. Jahrestagung der "Gesellschaft fur Geistesge schichte," die sich im Herbst 1986 in der Evangelischen Akademie Miihlheim/Ruhr mit dem Thema "Logos und Eros. Zur Phanomen geschichte der Jugendbewegung" befaBte, wurde gefragt, was ei gentlich dieses von Schoeps beschriebene "Erlebnis" ausgemacht hat. Es wurde sehr bald deutlich, dan sich manch vemebelndes Ge dankengut, manch undeutliche Spiritualitiit, manch jungenhafte Unausgegorenheit urn das Phanomen Jugendbewegung gerankt hat. Die Teilnehmer waren sich dariiber einig, daB die vielfach von Ju gendbewegten vertretene Ansicht, man konne nur iiber die Jugend bewegung schreiben, wenn man dabei gewesen sei und die erlebnis stiftende Kraft erfahren habe, zwar durchaus verstiindlich, aber nicht zu akzeptieren ist. "Es ware," wurde zu Recht eingewandt, "eine merkwiirdige Historiographie, die ihre Kompetenz nur aus der Zeitgenossenschaft ableiten wollte." 1m Jahr 1988 werden alte und junge Jugendbewegte an die MeiBner-Formel zuriickdenken, die 1913 auf dem Hohen MeiBner ."

Jugendbewegung - Phanomene, Eindrucke, Pragungen Ein Essay (German, Paperback, 1988 ed.): Joachim H. Knoll Jugendbewegung - Phanomene, Eindrucke, Pragungen Ein Essay (German, Paperback, 1988 ed.)
Joachim H. Knoll
R1,548 Discovery Miles 15 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Eine Geschichte der Jugendbewegung, wollte sie alle Fa cetten, auch individuelle Betroffenheiten, Erfahrungen und Pragungen zu vermitteln suchen, ist heute gewiss nicht mehr zu schreiben. Dies Faktum ist indes kein Hinderungs grund, sich der Geschichte der Jugendbewegung nicht mehr anzunehmen, sie gleichsam wegen der Fulle ihrer pu blizistischen Belege zu meiden. Wie sie in sich selbst eine publizistische "Kultur" entfaltet hat, so hat sie nachfol gend geschichtliche Analysen ebenfalls in einem Mass ange regt, durch die sich eigentlich weniger Uberschaubarkeit und eher Verbergung eingestellt hat. "Jugendbewegung" - auch in ihrer, klassischen' Gestalt - scheint zu einem beherrschenden Thema unserer Tage geworden zu sein. Begreift man Jugend und deren Kultur als die Vorwegnahme von Zukunftigkeit, so muss in einer Gesellschaft relativer Perspektivlosigkeit die Frage nach Jugend und ihrer Befindlichkeit, nach ihren Zukunftser wartungen und Lebensentwurfen gewiss ein vorrangiges In teresse reklamieren. Ohne dass wir hier eine Analyse vor wegnehmen wollen, konnen wir denn doch sagen, dass Ju gendkunde in padagogischer, sozial wissenschaftlicher oder sonstiger Absicht immens zugenommen hat und dass es For schungsertrage gibt, an denen Wissenschaft heute nicht mehr vorbeisehen kann. Die SHELL-Studie Jugend '85 uber das Gegenwartsprofil der gegenwartigen Jugendgene ration hat gewiss angeregt, auch irritiert, "Jugend" in neuen Kontexten zu bedenken, und diese Uberprufung auch auf dem Hintergrund vorzunehmen, den bisherige Ju gendforschung vorgestellt hat."

Blutkonservierung Und Transfusion Von Konserviertem Blut (German, Paperback, 1942 ed.): O. Schurch, H Willenegger, H. Knoll Blutkonservierung Und Transfusion Von Konserviertem Blut (German, Paperback, 1942 ed.)
O. Schurch, H Willenegger, H. Knoll
R1,618 Discovery Miles 16 180 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Vor einigen Jahren haben wir uns mit der Verwendung von Heparin als ge I'innungshemmendem Mittel bei der Bluttransfusion besehiiJtigt. Damit kamen wir zwangslaufig zu del' Frage del' Blutkonservierung. Experimentelle Arbeiten, Mitarbeit am Ausbau des Bluttransfusionsdienstes der sehweizerisehen Armee, Blutkonservierung fiir unseren klinisehen Bedaff, haben uns vermehrt Einsieht in die Fragen der Blutkonservierung und del' Bluttransfusion gegeben. Diese ] rfahrungen haben uns aber aueh gezeigt, wie viele experimcntelle lind klinisehe ]i'ragen, die Bluttransfusion betreffend, noeh zu ]osen sind. Wenn man abel' besonders an der ]i'rage del' Blutkonservierung mitarbeiten will, sto13t man imlller wieder auf die Sehwierigkeit, das vorhandenc Sehrifttum aueh nul' cinigerlllallen zu iiberblieken. Wahrend iiber Bluttransfusion allgemein zahl reiehe groBe Salllmelarbeiten bestehen, haben wir groBe Miihe, die sehr ver teilten Arbeiten iiber Blutkonservierung zu finden. Es hat dies 2 Hauptgriillde: Die Blutkonservierung ist bis jetzt besonders im alllerikanisehen, russisehen und franzosisehen Sehrifttum bearbeitet worden, oft in schwer zugiinglichelJ Zeitsehriften. DeI' Hauptgrund del' Uniibersiehtlichkeit ist aber wohl del', daB die Blutkonservierung ein "Grenzgebiet" del' Medizill ist. Physiologen, Phal'ma kologen, Serologell, Internisten, Chirurgen und Militiil'arzt.e haben sieh aw.; gam'. versehiedenen Griinden und von versehiedellell Gesiehtspunkten am; mit del' Frage der Blutkonservierung besehaftigt. Experimente und Betraehtungen iiber Blutkonsel'vierung muB man also in den versehiedensten ]i'aehgebieten suehen."

A Brief History of Earth - Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters (Hardcover): Andrew H. Knoll A Brief History of Earth - Four Billion Years in Eight Chapters (Hardcover)
Andrew H. Knoll
R419 Discovery Miles 4 190 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Harvard's acclaimed geologist "charts Earth's history in accessible style" (AP) "A sublime chronicle of our planet." -Booklist, STARRED review How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? Odds are, where you're standing was once cooking under a roiling sea of lava, crushed by a towering sheet of ice, rocked by a nearby meteor strike, or perhaps choked by poison gases, drowned beneath ocean, perched atop a mountain range, or roamed by fearsome monsters. Probably most or even all of the above. The story of our home planet and the organisms spread across its surface is far more spectacular than any Hollywood blockbuster, filled with enough plot twists to rival a bestselling thriller. But only recently have we begun to piece together the whole mystery into a coherent narrative. Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we've been and where we're going. Features original illustrations depicting Earth history and nearly 50 figures (maps, tables, photographs, graphs).

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