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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “philippe bertrand”
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  • Earth, Our Living Planet

    The Earth System and its Co-evolution With Organisms

    by Philippe Bertrand, Louis Legendre ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Earth is, to our knowledge, the only life-bearing body in the Solar System. This extraordinary characteristic dates back almost 4 billion years. How to explain that Earth is teeming with organisms and that this has lasted for so long? What makes Earth different from its sister planets Mars and Venus?The habitability of a planet is its capacity to allow the emergence of organisms. What astronomical ... Read more

    $47.39 CAD

  • Prokaryotes and Evolution

    Edited by Jean-Claude Bertrand, Philippe Normand, Bernard Ollivier, Télesphore Sime-Ngando ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    The purpose of this book is to show the essential and indispensable role of prokaryotes in the evolution of aliving world. The evolutionary success of prokaryotes is explained together with their role in the evolution of the geosphere, the biosphere and its functioning, as well as their ability to colonize all biotopes, including the most extreme ones. We consider that all past and present living ... Read more

    $128.09 CAD

  • EuroKarst 2016, Neuchâtel

    Advances in the Hydrogeology of Karst and Carbonate Reservoirs

    Edited by Philippe Renard, Catherine Bertrand ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book presents the latest advances in the field of karst hydrogeology and carbonate reservoirs. These include, but are not limited to: geomorphology of karst, flow and solute transport in karst; innovative metrology; modelling; speleogenesis and geology of carbonate reservoirs; deep reservoir exploration and production; water management and protection in karst environments; contaminant ... Read more

    $256.19 CAD

  • Environmental Microbiology: Fundamentals and Applications

    Microbial Ecology

    Edited by Jean-Claude Bertrand, Pierre Caumette, Philippe Lebaron, Robert Matheron, Philippe Normand, Télesphore Sime-Ngando ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book is a treatise on microbial ecology that covers traditional and cutting-edge issues in the ecology of microbes in the biosphere. It emphasizes on study tools, microbial taxonomy and the fundamentals of microbial activities and interactions within their communities and environment as well as on the related food web dynamics and biogeochemical cycling. The work exceeds the traditional ... Read more

    $166.49 CAD

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    The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet

    by Robert M. Hazen ...
    Hailed by The New York Times for writing “with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,” nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet’s living and nonliving spheres.With an astrobiologist’s imagination, a historian’s perspective, and a naturalist’s eye, Hazen calls upon ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Science Matters (New Edition, Expanded and Updated)

    Achieving Scientific Literacy

    by Robert M. Hazen, James Trefil ...
    A science book for the general reader that is informative enough to be a popular textbook and yet well-written enough to appeal to general readers. “Hazen and Trefil [are] unpretentious—good, down-to-earth, we-can-explain-anything science teachers, the kind you wish you had but never did.”—The New York Times Book ReviewKnowledge of the basic ideas and principles of science is fundamental to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • How to Build a Habitable Planet

    The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind - Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Charles H. Langmuir, Wallace Broecker ...
    A classic introduction to the story of Earth's origin and evolution—revised and expanded for the twenty-first centurySince its first publication more than twenty-five years ago, How to Build a Habitable Planet has established a legendary reputation as an accessible yet scientifically impeccable introduction to the origin and evolution of Earth, from the Big Bang through the rise of human ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD

  • Oxygen

    A Four Billion Year History

    by Donald E. Canfield ...
    Series series Science Essentials
    The remarkable scientific story of how Earth became an oxygenated planetThe air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield—one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth history, and the early oceans—covers this ... Read more

    $49.49 CAD

  • Improbable Planet

    How Earth Became Humanity's Home

    by Hugh Ross ...
    The Latest Scientific Discoveries Point to an Intentional CreatorMost of us remember the basics from science classes about how Earth came to be the only known planet that sustains complex life. But what most people don't know is that the more thoroughly researchers investigate the history of our planet, the more astonishing the story of our existence becomes. The number and complexity of the ... Read more

    $13.59 CAD

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  • 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

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  • Precambrian Age

    by Giancarlo Varnier ...
    The Precambrian is the oldest era of Earth's history, and, of its origins (4 billion and 500 million years ago), the appearance of the first invertebrates with exoskeletons (542 million years ago). In this long period of time, the planet, newly formed, was affected by cosmic events and geological shocking that border on the limits of imagination. ... Read more

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  • The Global Carbon Cycle

    by David Archer ...
    Series series Princeton Primers in Climate
    A must-have introduction to this fundamental driver of the climate systemThe Global Carbon Cycle is a short introduction to this essential geochemical driver of the Earth's climate system, written by one of the world's leading climate-science experts. In this one-of-a-kind primer, David Archer engages readers in clear and simple terms about the many ways the global carbon cycle is woven into our ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD