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How did the world as we know it—from the soil beneath our feet to the air we breathe and the life that surrounds us—come to be? Geologists have proposed one set of answers while biologists have proposed another. Earth and Life is the first book to reveal why we need to listen to both voices—the physical and the biological—to understand how we and our planet became possible.

‘Combines the natural history of programmes such as David Attenborough’s Planet Earth with the planetary focus of Brian Cox’s Universe’ Guardian A beautiful, full colour book to accompany the 5 part BBC TV series telling the most important story of all, the deep history of our own planet...

In Four Lost Cities, acclaimed science journalist Annalee Newitz takes listeners on an entertaining and mind-bending adventure into the deep history of urban life. Investigating across the centuries and around the world, Newitz explores the rise and fall of four ancient cities, each the center of a sophisticated civilization: the Neolithic site of Çatalhöyük in Central Turkey, the Roman vacation town of Pompeii in Italy, the medieval megacity of Angkor in Cambodia, and the indigenous metropolis Cahokia, which stood beside the Mississippi River where East St. Louis is today.

IN ONDA DAL 21.12.2023 "Pensi che ti scriva quanto è stato benevolo con noi l'inverno, così mite e breve? Quanto sia maligna la primavera, quanto fuori stagione il freddo e altre sciocchezze tipiche di chi non ha argomenti?  Ti scriverò invece, qualcosa che possa essere utile a entrambi. E che altro… se non esortarti alla saggezza? Chiedi quale ne sia il fondamento? Non compiacersi delle vanità. " - SENECA (23° lettera) ______  “4 Stagioni: il Clima” È un podcast di Universal Geographic. Ideato, per conoscere le dinamiche climatiche del nostro Pianeta Terra, attraverso ...