Fossil (DK Eyewitness)

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So now to the important bit. Who is this novel for? Well, if you enjoy a tense story with strong characterization and a tantalising mystery, The Fossil is very much for you. It's the sort of book that stays with you after you finished it; the sort of book you discuss over coffee and recommend two others. Will climate change make us evaluate differently the achievements of George Stevenson and James Watt, Industrial Age pioneers? For it was in Britain, which accounted for 80 per cent of fossil fuel combustion in 1825, that “the fossil economy” began. Malm’s history is expansive and detailed, and often quite terrifying in its analysis. Essential reading. Herald ScotlandAimed 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. The 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. Beautiful illustrations throughout the story bring the events to life, and the writing is wonderfully crafted to capture the imagination. So, what's the plot? Well, in a nutshell, the story is set in the recent future, and two agents have been sent to look for an archaeologist who disappeared many years ago in Antarctica. At the same time, an astronaut is the only survivor of a mission to Mars; a mission where a very strange object was discovered. What follows is a fast-paced, highly addictive thriller involving a powerful corporation (The Human Foundation) and enough twists and turns to keep a reader hooked - and possibly slightly dizzy.

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 The gripping plot and exciting subject matter will make children want to keep on reading, and can inspire children's curiosity so they want to find out more about prehistory. That's what defines Calvert's approach to method writing: pushing himself beyond his own limits, to experience first-hand what his characters experience, to make your immersion in his stories as deep as it can be. A discussion of California fossils—notably those of sabre-toothed tigers and the Smilodon—in the University of California Museum of Paleontology's collection on the Berkeley campus. (more) See all videos for this article

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Imagine going to a restaurant, starving, but instead of a meal, you're served really small appetizers. And not tasty at that. 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. A major and important revision of Marxist theory … a singularly important work, pointing the way for future work in economics, politics, theories of time, space and energy. Radical Philosophy I enjoyed the story, character development, and dialogue. There were plenty of plot twists that I didn’t see coming and that added to the book’s mystique. When I stopped reading to work, I found myself wondering what happened in the book, and replaying parts of the story in my head to see if I could figure more out. It has been a while since I enjoyed a book this much. It’s a first-class sci-fi thriller with perfect pacing. Malm forcefully unmasks the assumption that economic growth has inevitably brought us to the brink of a hothouse Earth. Rather, as he shows in a subtle and surprising reinterpretation of the Industrial Revolution, it has been the logic of capital (especially the need to valorize immense sunk investments in fossil fuels), not technology or even industrialism per se, that has driven global warming. Mike Davis, author of Planet of Slums and Ecology of Fear

A human fossil on Mars. An astronaut who lost her memory and a powerful organization that keeps a secret in Antarctica—one that will change the world forever. 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 Anyone with an interest in ecology, and anyone opposed to capitalism, must read Malm’s crucial contribution to understand how and why capitalism makes war on planet Earth. Bill Crane, International Socialist ReviewThe Fossil unfurls in small acts, at first feeling slight to touch, then building in emotional substance. Into the spaces between the words, the author breathes a pulsating intensity that rolls like a motion picture camera. With an abundance of imagery in the writing style, it makes you feel like you are right there in the story, and that’s something I look for in a good book.