Daniel Levitt
Author
Language
English
Description
"All matter--everything around us and within us--has an ultimate birthday: the day the universe was born. This informative, eye-opening, and eminently readable book is the story of our atoms' long strange journey from the Big Bang to the creation of stars, through the assembly of Planet Earth, and the formation of life as we know it. It's also the story of the scientists who made groundbreaking discoveries and unearthed extraordinary insights into...
Author
Language
English
Description
From the moment of its inception, the quintessentially American sport of baseball has included cheating. Sometimes that rule-skirting is embraced as ingenious hijinks; other times, reviled as an unforgivable trespass. But what exactly is the difference? Why is skipping bases less egregious than signing underage players? Is sign-stealing evidence of ingenuity, or does it fundamentally change the nature of the game?
In Intentional Balk, nationally...
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Paleontologist Jack Horner and colleagues are challenging the long held belief that young dinosaurs looked like miniature versions of their parents. The transformations from childhood to adulthood may have been so dramatic that up to a third of all dinosaur species may vanish, leaving in their place a developing understanding of the complexity of dinosaur lives and the possible purpose behind features like horns lumps, bumps, and dome-heads.
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Travel back to prehistoic times to get to know the fascinating creatures, the dinosaurs. From groundbreaking discoveries involving the T. rex to the intriguing possibility of dinosaurs returning to life. Follow the excavation and research of a new species of Therizinosaur, the most primitive member of a bizarre group of feathered dinosaurs. Using state-of-the-art computer animation, live-action backgrounds and the latest scientific finds.