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  • A New History of Life

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

    by Peter Ward, Joe Kirschvink ...
    The 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 major new synthesis for general readers in two decades.Charles Darwin's theories, first published more than 150 years ago, form the backbone of how we understand the ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • 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

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $31.99 USD

  • 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

    $17.29 USD

  • 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 USD

  • 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

    $11.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Freedom of the Waves

    by Peter L Ward ...
    Are you ready to go on a real adventure? For the first time, Peter Wards Viking journey has been condensed into a single, omnibus volume, Freedom of the Waves. In book one, Vimp the Vikings Epic Voyage, fear is not an option as the children escape their violent Viking roots and cross the sea. Not only do they escape the bloody heritage of their people, but they save Freyas slave, Emma, who was ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Trouble with Toads

    by Peter L. Ward ...
    Bigotry, selfishness, and lust for position and power thrive in a sleepy twenty-first-century rural English village. The quietude of the surrounding rolling hills and woodlands is not all it seems. Self-appointed busybodies from the upper ranks of the community take it upon themselves to direct the lives of others. But they are amateurs at the game. At the same time, foreign investors move in to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Eric and the Mystical Bear

    by Peter L Ward ...
    Eighth-Century Adventure for Twenty-First Century Children In this exciting conclusion to Peter Ward’s epic Viking Trilogy, Eric Bignose, bravest of the young Viking rebels, embarks on a dangerous journey. Together with Beowulf, his rescued mystical bear cub, Eric confronts the legendary demon dog, Black Shuck. But in so doing, he brings a curse upon his adopted Saxon village, and the villagers ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Vimp the Viking's Epic Voyage

    by Peter L Ward ...
    Can Vimp and Freya and friends rescue a Saxon slave girl from sacrifice? Seizing a longboat they set out on a hazardous voyage, dicing with death. Upsetting Aegir the Sea God, defying pirates and escaping the deadly venom of the Serpent of the World, the young Vikings are guided through fog by friendly dolphins.They land on the Saxon shore but what sort of welcome can they expect? Will hidden ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 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

    Was $7.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • 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 ...

    $13.49 USD