Richard Dawkins begins The Greatest Show on Earth with a short history of his writing career. He explains that all of his previous books have naively assumed the fact of evolution, which meant that he never got around to laying out the evidence that it [evolution] is true. This shouldn't be too surprising: science is an edifice of tested assumptions, and just as physicists must assume the truth of gravity before moving on to quantum mechanics, so do biologists depend on the reality of evolution.
Jerry Ahern - Earth Fire The Russians, consolidating their brutal hold on America after the bloody horror of World War III, are planning an act so vicious that mankind, itself, may never recover from the blow. John Thomas Rourke, the ex-CIA Covert Operations Officer, weapons expert, and survival authority is the only one with a prayer of stopping them. But the Reds aren't afraid of Rourke.
A solitary mountain rises from the searing, toxic blackness of the planet. The organ banks are the centre of this world. To them the subservient colonists contribute living limbs, and from them the overlords obtain the vital parts that keep them alive.
Eyewitness Space Exploration is a spectacular and informative guide to the mysteries beyond Earth and its atmosphere, and offers a unique view of the history of space exploration and the daily life of astronauts.
From how satellites in space help us to forecast the weather to how an astronaut's body is affected upon re-entering Earth's atmosphere - let your child discover all about the mysteries beyond Earth.
