![]() ![]() Otherlands is a staggering imaginative feat: an emotional narrative that underscores the tenacity of life - yet also the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, including our own. We visit the birthplace of humanity we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known and we watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal dawns. Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours.Īward-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today. This is the past as we've never seen it before. A book of almost unimaginable riches' Sunday Times 'The best book on the history of life on Earth I have ever read' Tom Holland WATERSTONES NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE MONTH LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONĪ BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, TELEGRAPH, PROSPECT, THE NEW YORKER AND BBC HISTORY THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING - HIGHLY COMMENDED ![]()
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It’s the summer before he starts high school, and Moose is going to play a lot of baseball and win a spot on the high school team. ![]() Moose Flanagan lives on a famous island in California: Alcatraz, home to some of the most dangerous prisoners in the United States in the 1930s. Return to Al Capone’s Alcatraz with Newbery Honor-winning author Gennifer Choldenko in this charming addition to the beloved series about the son of a prison guard. Al Capone Throws Me a Curve by Gennifer Choldenko. ![]() ![]() Winner of the Gold Medallion Book Award and twice nominated for the Christian Book of the Year Award, The Case for Christ has been adapted into a major motion picture and has now sold over 5 million copies worldwide. What does all of the evidence point to-and what does it mean today?.Is there any reason to believe the resurrection was an actual event?.Does evidence for Jesus exist outside the Bible?.In his comprehensive investigation, Strobel doesn't shy away from challenging questions, including: In this revised and updated edition of The Case for Christ, Strobel cross-examines a dozen experts with doctorates from schools such as Cambridge, Princeton, and Brandeis, asking hard-hitting questions-and taking a deeper look at the evidence from the fields of science, philosophy, and history. ![]() ![]() ![]() Is there credible proof that Jesus of Nazareth really is the Son of God? 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Drawing from her own experience reporting on the politics and culture of her hometown, as well as interviews with musicians, protesters, and writers who have watched their home transform, Karen Cheung gives us a rare insider’s view of this remarkable city at a pivotal moment-for Hong Kong and, ultimately, for herself.īorn just before the handover to China in 1997, Cheung grew up questioning what version of Hong Kong she belonged to. But it is also misunderstood, and often romanticized. Hong Kong is known as a place of extremes: a former colony of the United Kingdom that now exists at the margins of an ascendant China a city rocked by mass protests, where residents rally-often in vain-against threats to their fundamental freedoms. 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