Why Fish Don't Exist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Fish Don't Exist write by Lulu Miller. This book was released on 2021-04-06. Why Fish Don't Exist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Nineteenth-century scientist David Starr Jordan built one of the most important fish specimen collections ever seen, until the 1906 San Francisco earthquake shattered his life's work.
Why Fish Don't Exist
Why Fish Don't Exist - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Fish Don't Exist write by Lulu Miller. This book was released on 2020-04-14. Why Fish Don't Exist available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Best Book of 2020: The Washington Post * NPR * Chicago Tribune * Smithsonian A “remarkable” (Los Angeles Times), “seductive” (The Wall Street Journal) debut from the new cohost of Radiolab, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a dark and astonishing tale of love, chaos, scientific obsession, and—possibly—even murder. “At one point, Miller dives into the ocean into a school of fish…comes up for air, and realizes she’s in love. That’s how I felt: Her book took me to strange depths I never imagined, and I was smitten.” —The New York Times Book Review David Starr Jordan was a taxonomist, a man possessed with bringing order to the natural world. In time, he would be credited with discovering nearly a fifth of the fish known to humans in his day. But the more of the hidden blueprint of life he uncovered, the harder the universe seemed to try to thwart him. His specimen collections were demolished by lightning, by fire, and eventually by the 1906 San Francisco earthquake—which sent more than a thousand discoveries, housed in fragile glass jars, plummeting to the floor. In an instant, his life’s work was shattered. Many might have given up, given in to despair. But Jordan? He surveyed the wreckage at his feet, found the first fish that he recognized, and confidently began to rebuild his collection. And this time, he introduced one clever innovation that he believed would at last protect his work against the chaos of the world. When NPR reporter Lulu Miller first heard this anecdote in passing, she took Jordan for a fool—a cautionary tale in hubris, or denial. But as her own life slowly unraveled, she began to wonder about him. Perhaps instead he was a model for how to go on when all seemed lost. What she would unearth about his life would transform her understanding of history, morality, and the world beneath her feet. Part biography, part memoir, part scientific adventure, Why Fish Don’t Exist is a wondrous fable about how to persevere in a world where chaos will always prevail.
The Story of More
The Story of More - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of More write by Hope Jahren. This book was released on 2020-03-03. The Story of More available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The essential pocket primer on climate change that will leave an indelible impact on everyone who reads it. “Hope Jahren asks the central question of our time: how can we learn to live on a finite planet?" (Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction). “Hope Jahren is the voice that science has been waiting for.” —Nature Hope Jahren is an award-winning scientist, a brilliant writer, a passionate teacher, and one of the seven billion people with whom we share this earth. In The Story of More, she illuminates the link between human habits and our imperiled planet. In concise, highly readable chapters, she takes us through the science behind the key inventions—from electric power to large-scale farming to automobiles—that, even as they help us, release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere like never before. She explains the current and projected consequences of global warming—from superstorms to rising sea levels—and the actions that we all can take to fight back. At once an explainer on the mechanisms of global change and a lively, personal narrative given to us in Jahren’s inimitable voice, The Story of More is “a superb account of the deadly struggle between humanity and what may prove the only life-bearing planet within ten light years" (E. O. Wilson).
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science
Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science write by Carol Kaesuk Yoon. This book was released on 2010-08-02. Naming Nature: The Clash Between Instinct and Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Examines the history of taxonomy, describing the quest of scientists to name and classify living things from Carl Linnaeus to early twenty-first-century scientists who rely more on microscopic evidence than their senses, which has encouraged an indifference to nature that is responsible for the extinction of many species.
The Human Harvest
The Human Harvest - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Human Harvest write by David Starr Jordan. This book was released on 1907. The Human Harvest available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
