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  • Lamarck's Revenge

    How Epigenetics Is Revolutionizing Our Understanding of Evolution's Past and Present

    by Peter Ward ...
    A riveting explanation of epigenetics, offering startling insights into our inheritable traits.In the 1700s, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck first described epigenetics to explain the inheritance of acquired characteristics; however, his theory was supplanted in the 1800s by Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection through heritable genetic mutations. But natural selection could not adequately ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Under a Green Sky

    Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future

    by Peter D. Ward ...
    By looking backward at the course of great extinctions, a paleontologist sees what the future holds.More than 200 million years ago, a cataclysmic event known as the Permian extinction destroyed more than 90 percent of all species and nearly 97 percent of all living things. Its origins have long been a puzzle for paleontologists. During the 1990s and the early part of this century, a great battle ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Medea Hypothesis

    Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?

    by Peter Ward ...
    Series series Science Essentials
    In The Medea Hypothesis, renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life's relationship with the Earth's biosphere--one that has frightening implications for our future, yet also offers hope. Using the latest discoveries from the geological record, he argues that life might be its own worst enemy. This stands in stark contrast to James Lovelock's Gaia ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • The Clean Body

    A Modern History

    by Peter Ward ...
    How often did our ancestors bathe? How often did they wash their clothes and change them? What did they understand cleanliness to be? Why have our hygienic habits changed so dramatically over time? In short, how have we come to be so clean?The Clean Body explores one of the most fundamental and pervasive cultural changes in Western history since the seventeenth century: the personal hygiene ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Theology without Borders

    Essays in Honor of Peter C. Phan

    by Thomas Banchoff, Jonathan Tan, John O'Malley, Alan Mitchell, Dale T. Irvin, William P. Loewe, Chester Gillis, Brian Flanagan, Brian M. Doyle0, Charles E. Curran1, Gemma Tulud Cruz2, John Borelli3, Peter C. Phan4, Keith Ward5, Cristina Lledo Gomez6, Debora Tonelli7, Stephanie Wong8 ...
    A comprehensive series of essays exploring Peter C. Phan’s groundbreaking work to widen Christian theology beyond the Western worldPeter C. Phan’s wide-ranging contributions to theology and his pioneering work on religious pluralism, migration, and Christian identity have made a global impact on the field.The essays in Theology without Borders offer a variety of perspectives across Phan’s ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A New History of Life

    The Radical New Discoveries about the Origins and Evolution of Life on Earth

    by Peter Ward, Joe Kirschvink ...
    "An exciting and comprehensive read, enthralling to science nerds and lay readers who are curious about the rich natural history of planet Earth." — Nature World NewsThe history of life on Earth is, in some form or another, known to us all—or so we think. A New History of Life offers a provocative new account, based on the latest scientific research, of how life on our planet evolved—the first ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Flooded Earth

    Our Future In a World Without Ice Caps

    by Peter D Ward ...
    Sea level rise will happen no matter what we do. Even if we stopped all carbon dioxide emissions today, the seas would rise one meter by 2050 and three meters by 2100. This -- not drought, species extinction, or excessive heat waves -- will be the most catastrophic effect of global warming. And it won't simply redraw our coastlines -- agriculture, electrical and fiber optic systems, and shipping ... Read more

    Was $13.99 CAD Now $2.99 CAD

  • The Consequential Frontier

    Challenging the Privatization of Space

    by Peter Ward ...
    "A lucid, bright and essential work of reporting, analysis and genuine care. Peter Ward has given us a new way to think about private endeavors in space. Superb."⁠—Rivka Galchen, author of Little LaborsThis in-depth work of reportage dares to ask what’s at stake in privatizing outer spaceEarth is in trouble—so dramatically that we’re now scrambling to explore space for valuable resources and a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Price of Immortality

    by Peter Ward ...
    In the tradition of Jon Ronson and Tim Wu, an absorbing and revelatory journey into the American Way of Defying Death . . .As longevity medicine revolutionizes the lives of many older people, the quest to take the next step—to live as long as we choose—has spurred a scientific arms race in search of the elixir of life, funded by Big Tech and Silicon Valley.Once the stuff of Mesopotamian mythology ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Life as We Do Not Know It

    The NASA Search for (and Synthesis of) Alien Life

    by Peter Ward ...
    An engrossing and revelatory first look at the search for alien life-on Earth and beyondFor the past twenty years, Peter Ward has been at the forefront of popular science writing, with books such as the influential and controversial Rare Earth. In Life as We Do Not Know It, Ward, with his signature blend of eloquence, humor, and learned insight, vividly details the latest scientific findings, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • Netter's Integrated Musculoskeletal System

    Clinical Anatomy Explained!

    by Peter J. Ward ...
    Series series Netter Basic Science
    Netter's Integrated Musculoskeletal System is an innovative new text that brings together basic science material from several domains, providing a solid foundation prior to delving into topics of increasing complexity and clinical importance —all highlighted by superb Netter illustrations throughout. Initial chapters give a general overview of the human body, while the remaining chapters examine ... Read more

    $63.99 CAD

  • Rare Earth

    Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe

    by Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    In November 12, 2002, Dr. John Chambers of the NASA Ames Research Center gave a seminar to the Astrobiology Group at the University of Washington. The audience of about 100 listened with rapt attention as Chambers described results from a computer study of how planetary systems form. The goal of his research was to answer a deceptively simple question: How often would newly forming planetary ... Read more

    $47.39 CAD