San Antonio College Library

Disc 1: Tour the surface of Earth's life-giving star. Mars may be the future of humanity - uses data collected from probes and robotic rovers. Scars on the planet's surface and in its fossil record illustrate the threat posed by meteorites, comets, and asteroids that routinely collide with Earth. Two and a half times the size of all the other planets in the solar system combined, and half a billion miles from Earth, Jupiter is a colossal riddle. Disc...

"Dr. Martin Beech's main research interests during the past decade have focused on the smaller objects within the Solar System (comets, asteroids, and meteoroids), but concomitant to this he has continued to perform research related to the structure and evolution of stars (the area of his doctoral studies). The material in this book was partly based on a series of research papers Dr. Beech has had published in scientific journals, and the topic was...

"By using principles from a variety of scientific disciplines, Yale Professor Samuel Wilkinson provides a framework for human evolution that reveals an overarching purpose to our existence. Generations have been taught that evolution implies there is no overarching purpose to our existence, that life has no fundamental meaning. We are merely the accumulation of tens of thousands of intricate molecular accidents. Some scientists take this logic one...

"The Modern Library of the world's best books." Presents Darwins's theories of evolution and natural selection.

Papers presented at the University of Chicago Darwin centennial celebration in November 1959. Vol. 3 includes index for the set and a record of the celebration.

"Evolutionary biologist Scott Solomon draws on the explosion of discoveries in recent years to examine the future evolution of our species. Combining knowledge of our past with current trends, Solomon offers convincing evidence that evolutionary forces still affect us today. But how will modernization--including longer lifespans, changing diets, global travel, and widespread use of medicine and contraceptives--affect our evolutionary future?" --publisher...

Darwin's theory of evolution is accepted by most educated Americans as fact, This easy acceptance, however, hides the many ways in which evolution--as an idea--shapes our thinking about a great many things. But what if this idea is wrong? What if it turned out that the evidence for Darwin's theory is in tatters and science is hanging on to it only because no other theory is in prospect? Berkeley law professor Phillip Johnson looks at the evidence...