New York University professor, Lawrence Schiffman, discusses the Dead Sea Scrolls, the most important collection of Jewish texts from the centuries before the rise of Christianity. Only through efforts to understand what the scrolls can...
Origin
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Auteur:Schiffman, Lawrence H.Sommaire: - Auteur:Shubin, NeilSommaire:
The author of the best-selling Your Inner Fish, now gives us a lively and accessible account of the great transformations in the history of life, that enable us to further understand whether our presence on this planet is an accident or...
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Auteur:Tyson, Neil deGrasse, Goldsmith, DonaldSommaire:Our true origins are not just human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on scientific breakthroughs and the current cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins explains the soul-stirring...
- Auteur:Kelly, Spencer D.Sommaire:
What is our species' greatest invention? Medicine, computers, space travel? Not even close. The innovation that underlies each of our past achievements and those we still aspire to is language. Language is the ultimate invention of...
- Auteur:Knoll, Andrew H.Sommaire:
How well do you know the ground beneath your feet? A primer for every Earth resident, by Harvard's acclaimed geologist."A sublime chronicle of our planet." -Booklist, STARRED reviewOdds are, where you're standing was...
- Auteur:Gee, HenrySommaire:
In the tradition of E.H. Gombrich, Stephen Hawking, and Alan Weisman--An entertaining and uniquely informed narration of Life's life story. In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place--in constant chemical flux, covered...
- Auteur:Mann, Charles C.Sommaire:
A groundbreaking study that radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of the Europeans in 1492. Traditionally, Americans learned in school that the ancestors of the people who inhabited the Western Hemisphere...
