Fossil (DK Eyewitness)

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Aimed at young children Curious about Fossils provides a great introduction to fossils including information about their Victorian discovery and doesn’t just cover fossils being dinosaurs so looks at plant fossils, sea creatures and even common fossils like sharks teeth. Book 2 has some intrigue and sub-plots that Book 1 only hints at. If that had been in book 1, it could have been a lot better. At least there would have been something except a complete setup and choppity chop deus ex ending. I wanted to finish it, so I did, but it was forced. None of that magic where you can't wait to read more after putting it down for work/sleep/life. Instead of the usual small fossils that the coastline is famous for, they make a very special friend in Phyllis, a prehistoric creature that's mysteriously returned to life. Fossil Capital is a theoretical masterpiece and a political-economic-ecological manifesto. It looks unblinkingly at the catastrophe that could await human society if we fail to act on the words System Change or Climate Change. It is a book that I will return to again and again—and take notes. John Bellamy Foster, University of Oregon, author of Marx’s Ecology

When Jacob and his three best friends head down to the beach on the Jurassic Coast one day, they make a surprising discovery! Read a chapter of the fossils story at the end of the day, as part of an English topic on story writing or as a guided reading text. His thorough account of the switch to steam shows quite convincingly that coal did not make Britain great for everyone, and the transition was rooted not in technological superiority or environmental scarcity but in good old fashioned class conflict. Dayton Martindale, In These TimesThe fiction part of the series The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth is perfect to read aloud from preschool level and introduces what happens underneath the soil as the school bus and children jounery through the layers of the earth. Okay... wow... I don’t want to go into it too much because I feel like I will be giving too much away. Im having so many emotions right now. It was very complex at first but then intriguing, then suddenly I’m captivated. On one hand I feel like this story took way too long to get to the point but on the other hand, I feel like there was no other way it could have been written. Then it started to come together and I had a clear understanding of what was unfolding. For the rest of the story, I had a sense of wrongness, impending fear, and knew the inevitable was near: death...then it just ended. At that point I realized there had to be more. This is the first in a Trilogy!! And the 2nd book is expected to be published May 2021. I need it now! I need to know what happened!!

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Fossil Capital presents, with impressive detail and theoretical clarity, how the fossil fuel economy has come into being. Malm does not reiterate commonplaces about climate change, but looks closely at its origins. This extremely well-written book is radical without being dogmatic. Malm does not take his audience for granted at any point; there are no short cuts. Marx and Philosophy Review of Books If we are to rescue ourselves from the looming catastrophe that is climate change, one of our tasks must be to understand how we became enmeshed in an economy powered by fossil fuels. It would be hard to find a more illuminating book for this purpose than Fossil Capital , a history of the rise of coal-fired steam power in Britain. In the tradition of historians such as Robert Brenner and Ellen Meiksins Wood, Andreas Malm gives central importance to the capitalist social relations in which steam power is deployed as a form of power over people, challenging technological determinist accounts of the rise of the fossil economy (that steam power was inherently more efficient), as well as the “ Anthropocene narrative” that sees the fossil economy as the inevitable outcome of human use of fire, and the Ricardian-Malthusian narrative that coal power was adopted because it was more abundant and cheaper than water. Michael W. Howard, Socialism and Democracy Learn about planet Earth from Earth herself in this picture book ideal for younger readers (beginning school age) in Earth My First 4.54 Billion Years. Covering the formation of the planet, movement of the continents and more this is filled with images and has extra snippets of information about the earth.