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Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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Description
"What defines who we are? For decades, the biological answer has been our genes. In The Master Builder, leading biologist Alfonso Martinez Arias breaks with decades of scientific and popular tradition to make a bold argument: what defines us is our cells.Drawing on new research from his lab and others, Martinez Arias reveals that we are composed of a thrillingly complex, constantly rearranging symphony of cells that know how to count, feel, and ultimately...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The renowned Nobel Prize-winning scientist's elegant and concise explanation of the fundamental ideas in biology and their uses today. Hailed by Philip Pullman as "a great communicator" who is also "as distinguished a scientist as there could be," Paul Nurse writes with delight at life's richness and a sense of the urgent role of biology in our time. With What Is Life? he delivers a brief but powerful work of popular science in the vein of Carlo...
8) Life
Author
Publisher
Dorling Kindersley
Pub. Date
[1994-]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Crabtree Publishing Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"What exactly is a living thing? What is it made of? Your Guide to Life on Earth starts with the very basics of life and provides bite-sized chunks of information to explain in an easy-to-understand way the science behind the mystery of life on Earth. Fantastic illustrations highlight the amazing facts of life as we know it, from bacteria to blue whales, from slime molds to sequoias, and everything in between."--
10) You are a star!
Author
Publisher
Walker
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
A young girl takes a trip from her bedroom into the sky, past the moon, and through the universe, learning that she is made of stars.
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reveals the mysteries and richness of the unseen seas, from silent, dark depths to the tumultuous, forbidding coasts. This portrait of Earth reveals the splendors of the ocean, its fundamental role in the cycle of life, and also the dangers that threaten it, as well as profiling the people fighting to save it. Discover fresh water in all its amazing forms, including glaciers, waterfalls, deltas and rivers.
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Take an awe-inspiring journey to discover some of the Earth's most precious living treasures. From the smallest living beings to the magnificent giants of the animals world, life is ever-present in all its rollicking and diverse forms. Yet the dangers posed by human development and encroachment on animals' natural habitats loom ever present, and Life examines the forces in conflict that threaten the natural world.
14) When you breathe
Author
Publisher
Cameron Kids
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"A poetic and visually breathtaking look at what happens inside your body when you breathe. What happens when you breathe? In this beautiful book, breath the very air, stardust, the grand molecules of the universe blossoms in the upside-down tree in your rising chest, animating and enlivening you. And when you breathe out, you send your song out into the world."--www.bookdepository.com.
Publisher
Questar
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Earth hides extraordinary secrets in every forest and desert. Starting high above the vast wilderness of Yellowstone, explore ancient geysers revealing brilliant colors and intriguing clues to our past. Then travel to the Amazon rainforest and see how remarkable species have made astonishing adaptations just to survive. Visit the Everglades, the incredible ecological treasure in Florida, and also see the immense Chinese desert, the wild forests...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The more we study the world around us, the more living things we discover every day. The planet is full of millions of species of plants, birds, animals, and microbes, and every single one including us is part of a big, beautiful, complicated pattern. When humans interfere with parts of the pattern, by polluting the air and oceans, taking too much from the sea, and cutting down too many forests, animals and plants begin to disappear. What sort of...
Author
Publisher
Current
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Shows how unprecedented advances in our understanding of life have equipped us with the ability to create entirely new life-forms like goats that produce spider silk in their milk, bacteria that excrete diesel and genetic codes that identify and destroy cancer cells. This new synthetic biology is poised to offer radical new solutions to the crises of food shortage, pandemic disease and climate change.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
What is life? For generations, scientists have struggled to make sense of this fundamental question, for life really does look like magic: even a humble bacterium accomplishes things so dazzling that no human engineer can match it. Huge advances in molecular biology over the past few decades have served only to deepen the mystery.In this penetrating and wide-ranging book, world-renowned physicist and science communicator Paul Davies searches for answers...
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