"Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanged by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms--what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about...

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"In the vein of acclaimed popular-science bestsellers such as Atlas Obscura, Astrophysics for Young People in a Hurry, The Way Things Work, What If?, and Undeniable, the co-founders of the global science organization Nerd Nite bring readers a collection of wacky, yet fascinating STEM topics. For 20 years, Nerd Nite has delivered to live audiences around the world, the most interesting, fun, and informative presentations about science, history, the...

"Grieving her best friend's recent death, neuroscientist Mariana Pineda's ready to give up everything to start anew. Even her career--after one last week consulting at a top secret particle accelerator. Except the strangest thing happens: a man stops her...and claims they've met before. Carter Cho knows who she is, why she's mourning, why she's there. And he needs Mariana to remember everything he's saying. But just as they figure out this new life,...

"Shares modern biological studies offering evidence that our solar system neighbors profoundly affect and shape life on our planet. Explores the early practice of astrometeorology, revealing the links between the solar system, weather, and climate over large spans of time. Looks at the history, philosophy, and methodologies of astrology, as well as its potential future applications in medicine and the social sciences"--

Maria Mitchell's curiosity about the night sky led her to spend hours studying the stars. She discovered a comet as a young woman, winning an award from the King of Denmark for being the first person to discover a new comet using a telescope. Now famous as "the lady astronomer," Maria went on to become a professional astronomer, an unheard of achievement for a woman in the 19th century. She was the first woman to get any kind of government job when...

"Five-year-old Milad Salama is excited for the school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem. On the way, his bus collides with a semitrailer in a horrific accident. His father, Abed, gets word of the crash and rushes to the site. The scene is chaos-the children have been taken to different hospitals in Jerusalem and the West Bank; some are missing, others cannot be identified. Abed sets off on an odyssey to learn Milad's fate. It is every...

Earth is under threat. Today, our planet faces huge challenges as a result of human actions. The time has come to replace those negative actions with positive ones-it's time to take eco action! Readers will discover how environmental action is protecting our natural world and how organizations everywhere are taking action to help protect our planet. Readers will also learn how they too can take eco action and help save planet Earth. This call-to-action...

Grèves à répétition dans les transports publics, arrêts de travail récurrents dans divers secteurs stratégiques, piquets de grève dans la grande distribution, destructions de bien privés, séquestrations de cadres ou d'employeurs... Les syndicats belges sont aujourd'hui la cible de nombreuses critiques et suscitent des controverses passionnées. Pour les uns, ils représentent un contre-pouvoir plus que jamais nécessaire. Pour les autres,...

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