Provides an overview of the processes and causes that drive natural selection and the principles that explain how it operates, using numerous diverse organisms as examples.

"All art should become science and all science art; poetry and philosophy should be made one." Friedrich Schlegel's words perfectly capture the project of the German Romantics, who believed that the aesthetic approaches of art and literature could reveal patterns and meaning in nature that couldn't be uncovered through rationalistic philosophy and science alone. In this wide-ranging work, Robert J. Richards shows how the Romantic conception of the...

Explains how scientists believe the universe was created and how the universe grows and changes.

Explains the theory of evolution and its implications.

Surveys the six basic types of organisms that share this world and explores the differences and similarities of these life forms, and the strategies that organisms use to eat, reproduce, and survive.

Provides a brief history of physics and closely examines Einstein's theory of relativity, focusing on its basic premises and its effects on modern scientific thought.

"This volume examines how the water cycle works, and how it impacts life on Earth." --