The Systems View of Life: A Unifying Vision
Over the past thirty years, a new systemic conception of life has emerged at the forefront of...
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Teaching Big History
Big History is a new field on a grand scale: it tells the story of the universe over time through a diverse range of disciplines that spans cosmology, physics, chemistry, astronomy, geology, evolutionary biology, anthropology, and archaeology, thereby reconciling traditional human history with environmental geography and natural history. Weaving the myriad threads of evidence-based human […]
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Cosmic Conversations: Dialogues on the Nature of the Universe and the Search for Reality
Have you ever looked up at the night sky and wondered, “What is the universe?” In this...
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Kingdoms of Life Connected: A Teacher’s Guide to the Tree of Life
THIS EDITION IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. PLEASE SEE THE SECOND EDITION. This book helps teachers move...
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Evolving Animals: The Story of Our Kingdom
This exploration of evolution is written for the adult general reader, and the author is a...
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The Horse and the Iron Ball: A Journey through Time, Space, and Technology
A creative and engaging paring of art and science, this book tells an inspiring story of stellar nucleosynthesis, the origin of the horse and all life. It takes readers back the Big Bang, when the Universe contained only two elements, hydrogen and helium (It ignores tracing of lithium, but that’s OK), and it asks “What […]
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The human in the Universe
Abstract – The human in the Universe In this book, the age-old existential human questions such as ‘what is love, what is suffering, what does it mean to be alive’, are addressed anew, but this time from the larger context of the Universe story as articulated through contemporary science. The Universe story is the story […]
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Your Atomic Self: The Invisible Elements That Connect You to Everything Else in the Universe
Self described as an atomic field guide to yourself, this book describes the flow of atoms through...
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The Turtle and the Universe
This little book, in its own words, is about asking big questions like “How did we get here?” and “Where are we going?” Those questions are addressed through the life of a sea turtle. The book explores the origin of the atoms that make up the turtle, the origins of the Moon, which guides her […]
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The Sacred Depths of Nature
For many of us, the great scientific discoveries of the modern age–the Big Bang, evolution,...
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