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Time Machines - Scientific Explorations in Deep Time (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998): Peter D. Ward Time Machines - Scientific Explorations in Deep Time (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998)
Peter D. Ward
R983 R792 Discovery Miles 7 920 Save R191 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

What is the past? It is a time as well as a place. Acclaimed author Peter D. Ward describes the tools that contemporary scientists use to uncover facts about the past - terrain, climate, and the life forms that once inhabited this planet. Time Machines presents fascinating profiles of the deep past and the scientists who are making it come alive.
..".for the general reader, Time Machines may be the most interesting book yet by the University of Washington prof..." -SEATTLE WEEKLY
"For anyone interested in how and why as well as the what of paleontology, Time Machines is a must read."-AMERICAN SCIENTIST

Time Machines - Scientific Explorations in Deep Time (Hardcover, 1998 ed.): Peter D. Ward Time Machines - Scientific Explorations in Deep Time (Hardcover, 1998 ed.)
Peter D. Ward
R1,153 R962 Discovery Miles 9 620 Save R191 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

The time machine is one of the classic devices of science fiction, a source of endless wonder and inventiveness. In a book that transfers that sense of wonder and inventiveness to the realm of nonfiction, Peter Ward shows that paleontologists do indeed use time machines to probe the deep geological past, and that both the machines and the people using them come in a fantastic variety of types. Sometimes the time machine is as simple as a rock hammer or as humble as a magnifying glass; other times it is an esoteric piece of equipment such as a mass spectrometer. Always, the most important element is the imagination of the scientists willing to take the scientific and creative risks of plumbing the distant past of our planet and its great bestiary. In 10 separate essays united by this common theme, Time Machines prowls the world of steamy Mesozoic days and fetid Paleozoic nights to rediscover the grace and beauty of Earth's faraway past.

Rare Earth - Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe (Paperback, 2000): Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee Rare Earth - Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe (Paperback, 2000)
Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee 1
R763 Discovery Miles 7 630 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The sweeping diversity of complex life on Earth, Ward and Brownlee argue, evolved out of an extraordinary set of physical conditions and chance events that would be extremely hard to duplicatea "a "though not impossible. Many planets throughout the vastness of the Universe may be teeming with microbial life, but advancement beyond this stage is very rare. Everyone with an interest in the possible extent of life in the Universe and the nature of life's evolution on our own planet will be fascinated by Rare Earth. .,."likely to cause a revolution in thinking..." The New York Times .,."[the book] has hit the world of astrobiologists like a killer asteroid..." Newsday (New York) .,."a sobering and valuable perspective..." Science .,."a startling new hypothesis..." Library Journal .,."Peter Ward and Donald Brownlee offer a powerful argument..." The Economist .,."provocative, significant, and sweeping..." Northwest Science & Technology .,."a stellar example of clear writing..." American Scientist

Ausgerottet Oder Ausgestorben? - Warum Die Mammuts Die Eiszeit Nicht UEberleben Konnten (German, Paperback, Softcover Reprint... Ausgerottet Oder Ausgestorben? - Warum Die Mammuts Die Eiszeit Nicht UEberleben Konnten (German, Paperback, Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1998 ed.)
Peter D. Ward
R903 R732 Discovery Miles 7 320 Save R171 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Unsere Einsame Erde (German, Paperback, 2001 ed.): Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee Unsere Einsame Erde (German, Paperback, 2001 ed.)
Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee; Translated by E Helmers
R1,960 Discovery Miles 19 600 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sind wir vielleicht allein im Universum? Die Antworten uberraschen und fuhren den Leser auf eine faszinierende Reise von den vulkanischen Quellen des Ozeanbodens bis zum Jupiter-Mond.
..".ein stellares Beispiel praziser Ausdruckskraft." (American Scientist)"

The 59-Second Employee - How to Stay One Second Ahead of Your One-Minute Manager (Paperback): Rae Andre, Peter D. Ward The 59-Second Employee - How to Stay One Second Ahead of Your One-Minute Manager (Paperback)
Rae Andre, Peter D. Ward
R270 R224 Discovery Miles 2 240 Save R46 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Call of Distant Mammoths - Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared (Hardcover, 1997 ed.): Peter D. Ward The Call of Distant Mammoths - Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared (Hardcover, 1997 ed.)
Peter D. Ward
R1,017 R826 Discovery Miles 8 260 Save R191 (19%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Peter Ward, a distinguished paleontologist and author of five trade books, recreated, in dramatic and colorful language, the global environment of the end of the last great Ice Age. The last of the great woolly mammoths existed on Wrangel Island thousands of years after their extinction elsewhere on earth. Ward examines competing theories about the courses of the great extinction and considers in detail the role of human settlements on these events.

The Call of Distant Mammoths - Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997):... The Call of Distant Mammoths - Why the Ice Age Mammals Disappeared (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997)
Peter D. Ward
R1,026 R822 Discovery Miles 8 220 Save R204 (20%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Just 12,000 years ago - at the height of the last Ice Age - saber-toothed tigers, giant ground sloths, camels, hippos and the great herds of proboscideans: giant mastodons and mammoths, extinct relatives of the elephant, roamed the land where skyscrapers now stand. Why are these splendid creatures no longer with us? This compelling book explores the reasons for these extinctions and provides a tour of mass extinctions throughout earth's history, including the great comet crash that killed off the dinosaurs. Brilliantly written, The Call of Distant Mammoths is an engaging exploration of the history of life and the importance of humanity as an evolutionary force.

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