The classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world. Few other books have created such a lasting storm of controversy as The Origin of Species. Darwin's theory that species derive from other species by a gradual evolutionary process and that the average level of each species is heightened by the "survival …
Negeri ini menyimpan banyak pelajaran dari kisah-kisah perjuangan masa lalu para tokohnya. Tentang prinsip hidup, semangat dalam berjuang, dan kesederhanaan mereka. Semuanya menjadi factor penguat bagi lahirnya sebuah negeri yang sekarang bernama Negara Kesatuan Indonesia. Kisah-kisah menarik nan penuh keteladanan dari para tokoh umat yang juga para Founding Fathers (pendiri bangsa) terekam…
Volume 3 in this three-volume set covers the final days of General Soeharto's New Order regime, the 1997-1998 monetary crisis and the May 1998 nationwide riots that forced his resignation in disgrace. Packed with first-hand accounts and original source material, this book details the continuing turmoil under President's B.J. Habibie, Abdurrahman Wahid and Megawati Sukarnoputri – the violent s…
'The Big Book of Knowledge' is just the right tool to fulfill your quest for learning. The vast amount of information within these pages covers all topics - History, Geography, Nature, Animals, Human Body, Science and Technology, and a lot more. It is comprehensive and informative. This wonderfully well produced tome is visually appealing with innumerable high quality photographs and illustrati…
The eagerly awaited new book from the Emmy-winning, Oscar-hosting, Daily Show-anchoring Jon Stewart--the man behind the megaseller America (The Book). Where do we come from? Who created us? Why are we here? These questions have puzzled us since the dawn of time, but when it became apparent to Jon Stewart and the writers of The Daily Show that the world was about to end, they embarked on a mas…
The classic that exploded into public controversy, revolutionized the course of science, and continues to transform our views of the world in a new millenium.
High in the Canadian Rockies is a small limestone quarry formed 530 million years ago called the Burgess Shale. It hold the remains of an ancient sea where dozens of strange creatures lived -- a forgotten corner of evolution preserved in awesome detail. In this book Stephen Jay Gould explores what the Burgess Shale tells us about evolution and the nature of history.
From the author of The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins' The Blind Watchmaker has been acclaimed as the most influential work on evolution in the last hundred years. In 1802 the Rev. William Paley's argued in Natural Theology that just as finding a watch would lead you to conclude that a watchmaker must exist, the complexity of living organisms proves that a Creator exists. Not so, says Richard Da…