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Com uma narrativa ilustrada magnífica, o astrofísico mais célebre do mundo, Neil deGrasse Tyson, se junta a Lindsey Nyx Walker em Ao infinito e além para explicar o universo inteiro, do sistema solar aos confins do espaço, com autoridade e humor. Neste livro cativante, o renomado astrofisico e autor best-seller Neil deGrasse Tyson se une a produtora senior do StarTalk, Lindsey Nyx Walker, para conduzir os leitores em uma odisseia interestelar, combinando ciencia, humor e algumas cutucadas sutis em Hollywood pela forma como o espaço sideral e retratado nos filmes.A viagem começa nos arredores da Terra e avança ate exoplanetas, nebulosas e galaxias. Quanto mais longe nos aventuramos, mais instigantes as perguntas se tornam, pois e quando a teoria desafia o senso comum: Qual e a forma do universo? O que acontece quando dois buracos negros se fundem? Nasceram outros mundos a partir do Big Bang e podemos visita-los?Ao longo do livro, a ciencia abraça a cultura pop a medida que Tyson e Walker vibram com os genios dos efeitos especiais quando eles acertam e no hesitam em apontar as imprecises quando erram. Da franja de Sandra Bullock em Gravidade ao Gargantua de Interestelar, eles navegam por filmes de sucesso, separando a "ciencia" da "ficço".Para os apaixonados por ciencia e para os curiosos que se encantam com os enigmas que desafiam os astrofisicos, este livro esclarecedor e uma divertida aventura rumo aos recantos mais remotos do cosmos.

Zetetic Astronomy: Earth Not a Globe! assembles experiments, anecdotes, and vignettes to argue that Earths surface is planar, circled by an Antarctic ice barrier, and roofed by a nearby, circling sun and moon. Written in forthright Victorian prose, the treatise privileges everyday sight over mathematical abstraction, invoking canals, horizons, and perspective to counter Newtonian cosmology. Interleaving diagrams with courtroom-like cross-examinations of navigators and astronomers, it positions its zetetic method - inquiry before hypothesis - within the bustling culture of nineteenth-century popular science and public lecturing. Parallax was the pen name of Samuel Birley Rowbotham, an itinerant English lecturer and autodidact whose observations along the Bedford Level fens convinced him that orthodox astronomy misstated observable reality. Moving among working-class debating societies and dissenting circles, he cultivated suspicion of elite expertise and a zeal for repeatable demonstrations, which shaped both his teaching and this defiantly empirical book. Recommended to readers of the history and sociology of science, this volume is a primary source in the rhetoric of counter-science. Read it alongside contemporary astronomical manuals: its provocations illuminate how authority, evidence, and spectacle intertwined in the Victorian marketplace of ideas, and still animate public reasoning today.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Submerged Forests distills coastal observation into a rigorous synthesis, tracing drowned tree stumps and peat beds that fringe Britains shores. From case studies of rooted stumps in situ within peat and estuarine silts, Reid reconstructs post-glacial shoreline migration and sea-level change, using stratigraphic sections, plant macrofossils, and occasional artefacts to date phases from late Pleistocene to early Holocene. Written in measured, lucid field prose, it situates coastal peats within debates on eustasy, isostasy, and marine erosion. Clement Reid, geologist and palaeobotanist with the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom, brought a rare synthesis of botanical acuity and coastal mapping to the subject. Collaboration with Eleanor Mary Reid on fossil seeds honed his capacity to read peat deposits as time-series. Years on the Cromer Forest-bed and receding shores supplied the empirical foundation, and his interest in Britains former land connections framed the books broader inferences. This classic rewards geologists, archaeologists, and environmental historians seeking a clear, data-rich account of Holocene shoreline change. It remains an exemplary model of how to build large narratives from humble evidence. Read it for its method: a concise, lucid lesson in making landscapes speak across deep time.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

First published in 1876, this two-volume treatise codifies the worlds fauna into six zoogeographic realms: Palearctic, Nearctic, Neotropical, Ethiopian, Oriental, and Australasian, and explains their boundaries through geology, climate, and barriers to dispersal. Wallace integrates exhaustive catalogues with interpretive chapters, using maps, synoptic tables, and bathymetric clues such as shallow seas to infer past connections. Extending P. L. Sclaters avian scheme to vertebrates, his methodical prose offers a Darwinian, historical account that makes biogeography a synthetic science. Wallaces argument grows from lived experience. Years in the Amazon and the Malay Archipelago, where he traced the Wallace Line between Bali and Lombok, gave him intimate knowledge of island faunas, endemism, and migration barriers. As co-formulator of natural selection and an indefatigable collector for museums, he turned field notes, specimen lists, and correspondence with Darwin, Huxley, and Sclater into a principled framework for why species occur where they do. Scholars of evolution, macroecology, and the history of science will find this foundational synthesis indispensable; conservationists and systematists will value its durable logic and global scope. Read it for empirical rigor and conceptual clarity: a master class in converting natural history into theory, and in learning to read the map of life.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

In Pursuit of Spring (1913) follows Edward Thomass bicycle ride from London to the Quantock Hills of Somerset as winter loosens. In lucid, finely cadenced prose, he records lanes, hedgerows, inns, birdsong, weather, and place-names, blending topographical exactitude with lyrical restraint. Set within the English peripatetic tradition of Cobbett, Borrow, and Jefferies, the book also registers the modernroads, telegraph wires, the bicycle itselfwith poised ambivalence, reading the countryside as both archive and living present. Thomas (18781917), a London-born critic of Welsh parentage, had long written about the countryside while burdened by hackwork. Walking and cycling were his release; soon after this journey, friendship with Robert Frost would usher his turn to poetry. His love of maps and place-names, and his minute knowledge of birds and rural labor, shape the books inquiry into language, memory, and belonging. For readers of nature writing, travel literature, and the environmental humanities, this is a quietly bracing companion: attentive, unsentimental, and restorative. Whether cyclist, walker, or armchair traveler, you will find a luminous meditation on how to see a landscape in time, and why such seeing matters.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Electricity and Magnetism, a volume in Elisha Grays Natures Miracles series, offers a lucid, apparatus-centered tour of charge, current, induction, and magnetic action. Interweaving historical vignettesVolta, Faradays lines of force, Maxwells field picturewith plainspoken demonstrations and crisp woodcuts, Gray moves from benchtop effects to power stations. Eschewing heavy mathematics, he shows how dynamos, transformers, telegraph circuits, and early telephones enact the same field laws, exemplifying late nineteenthcentury popular science at its best: empirical, practical, and democratically didactic. An accomplished electrical engineer and prolific inventor, Gray co-founded the firm that became Western Electric, created the harmonic telegraph and telautograph, and famously contested priority in the invention of the telephone. Trained at Oberlin and seasoned in shop and laboratory, he writes with a practitioners economy and a teachers patience, translating workshop intuitions into household-scale experiments. The books emphasis on applications and on FaradayMaxwell concepts betrays a life spent bridging patent office, factory floor, and lecture hall, and a desire to make the new electric age intelligible to non-specialists. Recommended to general readers, educators, and historians seeking a clear, context-rich primer that complements mathematical treatises and captures electrification at the moment it entered everyday life.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Micrographia (1665) opens a vast new world by recording, in crystalline prose and sumptuous copperplates, the textures and structures of minute bodiesflea and louse, bee-sting and feather, mold, needle point, and the honeycombed cork in which Hooke first named the cells. Organized as a sequence of observations with reflective Inquiries, the book marries measurement with speculation, and sets the Baconian ideal of experiment within the visual rhetoric of the Scientific Revolution. Its dramatic fold-out plates and patient, calibrated descriptions forged a language and iconography for early microscopy. Robert Hooke, polymath Curator of Experiments to the nascent Royal Society and longtime collaborator of Robert Boyle, brought to this work a craftsmans intimacy with instruments and a philosophers appetite for causes. His refinements in lenses and illumination, his habit of daily experiments, and his duty to stage public demonstrations all fed the project; so too did his draughtsmans hand, which translated observation into authoritative image and argument. Readers of science, art, and intellectual history will find Micrographia indispensable: a foundational statement of modern empiricism and a gallery of the unseen. Approach it to witness method at work, to savor disciplined wonder, and to grasp how tools and images re-make knowledge.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

In Beaver World is Enos A. Millss intimate natural history of Castor canadensis, distilled from years of patient vigils beside mountain streams. Chapter by chapter he unfolds the beavers life cycle, social organization, and architectural craftdams, lodges, canalslinking each to seasonal rhythms and risk. His prose couples anecdote with measurement and plain exposition, situating the beaver as a keystone engineer whose hydrologic works expand wetlands and diversify habitat. The result is a narrative that anticipates ecosystem ecology while remaining rooted in vivid field scenes and the cadence of early twentiethcentury American nature writing. Mills, a Colorado naturalist, guide, and key advocate of Rocky Mountain National Park, wrote from a life embedded in the high country. Managing a lodge and leading expeditions, he kept notebooks on nearby colonies through droughts and wintersexperience that grounds his plea to recognize beavers as conservators of water and soil. Scholars of environmental history, field naturalists, and readers curious about nonhuman engineers will find the book instructive and restorative. It is recommended for those engaged in watershed restoration, rewilding, or climate adaptation, and for general readers seeking lucid, humane science writing with enduring practical relevance.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Natural History of Selborne (1789) assembles Gilbert Whites decades of field notes into an epistolary chronicle addressed to fellow naturalists Thomas Pennant and Daines Barrington. Through lucid, quietly lyrical prose, White records the seasonal pulse of a single English parishits birds, insects, plants, soils, and weathermarrying patient empiricism with pastoral attentiveness. His long-term observations on swallow migration, the habits of earthworms, and the harvest mouse exemplify a proto-ecological method grounded in place. Situated within Enlightenment natural history, the book helped pivot the discipline toward attentive, longitudinal, local study. A country clergyman educated at Oxford, White spent most of his life in Selborne, Hampshire, ministering to his parish while tending gardens and keeping meticulous journals. His correspondence with leading savants, daily walks and weather logs, and deep familiarity with the Hanger and Common fostered a modest, exact observer whose theology of creation harmonized with Enlightenment curiosity. Readers of natural history, Romantic literature, and environmental studies will find this classic both foundational and unexpectedly contemporary: a masterclass in noticing. For anyone seeking rigorous, humane observation and the pleasures of place-based inquiry, Selborne remains an indispensable companion in an age of ecological uncertainty.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Science and the Modern World refashions Whiteheads 1925 Lowell Lectures into a synoptic history and critique of modern science from the medieval synthesis through Galileo and Newton to Einstein. Against reductive materialism, it exposes the fallacy of misplaced concreteness and advances a philosophy of organism in which nature is a nexus of events and values. Historical narrative and speculative argument interweave, seeking categories that make sense of physics, biology, aesthetics, and religion. Composed amid relativity and early quantum theory, its poised prose widens sciences cultural horizon. A mathematician turned philosopher, Whitehead coauthored Principia Mathematica with Bertrand Russell and taught applied mathematics in London before joining Harvard. Intimate with dynamics and gravitational theory, and chastened by postwar disillusion with nineteenth-century mechanism, he sought concepts adequate to process, novelty, and value. The American pragmatist milieu and the public stage of the Lowell Lectures spurred his attempt to reconcile scientific practice with a non-reductive cosmology. This classic rewards scientists attuned to conceptual foundations, philosophers and historians of science, and humanists probing modernity. Read it for a rigorous, humane vision that restores depth to inquiry without sacrificing empirical exactitude.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

THE LAST OF THE PLAINSMEN recounts Zane Greys expedition with the game warden "Buffalo" Jones across the ArizonaUtah plateau, from the Kaibab forests to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon. A hybrid of travelogue, natural history, and adventure reportage, it tracks cougar hunts, rare bison, desert storms, and settlements at the edge of empire. Greys vivid, sometimes purple prose is balanced by field observation, placing the book at the hinge between dimenovel romance, documentary realism, and ProgressiveEra conservation. Grey, an Ohioborn dentist turned novelist and ardent outdoorsman, pursued authenticity through direct experience. Traveling with C. J. "Buffalo" Jones gave him access to techniques of roping predators alive and to Rooseveltera ideas about preservation. The journey furnished notebooks and scenes later refined in Riders of the Purple Sage. Readers of Western history, environmental studies, and narrative nonfiction will find this an invaluable, if morally conflicted, document. Approach its portrayals of wildlife and Indigenous peoples critically, yet savor its canyon vistas and kinetic chases. As frontier elegy and genre seedbed, THE LAST OF THE PLAINSMEN remains bracing and essential.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

In The Mountains of California, John Muir fuses lyrical reverie with scrupulous natural history to chart the Sierra Nevadas glaciers, forests, cascades, and high meadows. In late nineteenthcentury American nature writings Emersonian current, he advances a glacial account of Yosemite while recording flora, fauna, weather, and rock with exacting taxonomy. The original illustrations extend his itineraries and anchor the books vivid, field-born essays. MuirScottish-born immigrant, itinerant inventor, and later Sierra Club cofounderdrew these chapters from seasons of herding, botanizing, and snow-camping in the high country between 1869 and the early 1870s; the book appeared in 1894. An eye injury, a thousand-mile walk, and settlement in California refined his vocation for attentive wandering. Journals, lectures, and geological debate converge here, shaping a conservation ethic grounded in minute empirical seeing. This edition rewards readers of environmental history, geology, and American letters as well as hikers seeking a field companion. It offers a lucid synthesis of science and rapture, and, with its period plates, a portal into the formative imagination behind Americas national parks.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

A Shepherds Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs is Hudsons deeply textured portrait of a shepherding community centered on the figure of Caleb Bawcombe, rendered through episodic scenes of work, festivity, and hardship across the seasons. Combining oral biography with natural history, Hudsons prose is limpid yet exact, attentive to chalkland light, birdsong, and the craft of dogs and men. Set on the Salisbury Plain at the edge of Edwardian change, the book extends the English pastoral from Jefferies and Hardy into an ethnography of a vanishing economy. Born on the Argentine pampas, Hudson brought to England a lifelong habit of watchful wandering and an outsiders sympathy for open country. A self-taught ornithologist and celebrated nature writer, he tramped the Wiltshire downs gathering life histories from shepherds, sedimenting memory with field observation. Alarmed by enclosure, militarization, and mechanization, he shaped these interviews into a conserving art, preserving dialect, custom, and ecological knowledge before modernization effaced them. This book rewards readers of nature writing, social historians, and ecocritical scholars alike. Read it for its patient craft and humane intelligence: a luminous record of pre-mechanized husbandry and a masterclass in listening to place as carefully as to people.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Drawn from Muirs 1869 Sierra Nevada journal, My First Summer in the Sierra recounts a season of shepherding transformed into field science. In compressed daily entries, lyrical yet exact, he maps meadows, sequoias, granite domes, and the glacial architecture of Yosemite and the high country. Emersonian cadences meet taxonomic precision, placing the book within latenineteenthcentury American nature writing and early ecological thought. Original drawings and period photographs intensify the immediacy, echoing the textures the prose anatomizes. Scottish-born in 1838 and raised on a Wisconsin farm, Muir trained as an inventor until a blinding 1867 injury redirected him to long foot travels and natural study. Self-taught yet rigorous, he advanced Sierra glacial theory, co-founded the Sierra Club in 1892, and shaped park policy. A Calvinist upbringing gives the journal a sacramental register that fuses observation with praise. Readers of Thoreau and environmental history alike will find here both a primer in mountain ecology and a landmark of American prose. For hikers, teachers, and conservationists, the text and images model attentive seeing and the roots of preservationist ethics. Read slowly; let Muir instruct your gaze.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

On the Origin of Species is one of the most influential scientific books ever written. In this groundbreaking work, Charles Darwin presents the theory of evolution by natural selection, reshaping biology and humanitys understanding of life on Earth. The 6th edition reflects Darwins refined arguments and responses to critics. Clear, methodical, and revolutionary, this book remains essential reading for students of science, philosophy, and intellectual history.

🐾💔 La pérdida de una mascota suele venir acompañada de un sentimiento silencioso y persistente: la culpa. Pensamientos como "podría haber hecho más", "si hubiera actuado antes" o "fallé como cuidad

🐾💖 Despedirse de una mascota querida es un acto profundamente emocional, lleno de amor, recuerdos y gratitud. Cuando llega el momento de decir adiós, muchas personas sienten la necesidad de honrar

🐾💔 Tomar la decisión de decir adiós a una mascota amada es uno de los momentos más dolorosos que puede vivir una persona. Entre la culpa, el miedo y el amor profundo, surgen preguntas que nadie nos

Cuando alguien pierde a una mascota, no solo pierde a un animal, sino a un compañero fiel, una fuente de amor incondicional y una parte importante de su vida cotidiana. Para amigos y familiares, saber como acompañar ese dolor puede resultar confuso: ¿que decir?, ¿que evitar?, ¿como ayudar sin minimizar el sufrimiento? Esta obra ofrece una guia clara, humana y empatica para apoyar a quienes atraviesan el duelo por la perdida de una mascota. Con un enfoque respetuoso, enseña a comprender la profundidad de ese vinculo y a reconocer que este tipo de perdida merece el mismo cuidado emocional que cualquier otro duelo significativo. A traves de orientaciones practicas y reflexiones sensibles, el lector aprende a brindar apoyo real: escuchar sin juzgar, validar emociones, ofrecer presencia sincera y evitar frases que, aunque bien intencionadas, pueden aumentar el dolor. El contenido ayuda a transformar la incomodidad en comprension y la distancia en cercania emocional. El libro tambien aborda como acompañar en silencio, respetar el tiempo del duelo y estar disponible sin imponer soluciones. Pequeños gestos, palabras adecuadas y una actitud consciente pueden marcar una gran diferencia en el proceso de sanacion de quien sufre. Una lectura esencial para quienes desean cuidar, apoyar y estar verdaderamente presentes en uno de los momentos mas vulnerables de la vida de alguien, ofreciendo consuelo, respeto y humanidad cuando mas se necesita.

🐾💔 La última imagen de tu mascota puede quedar grabada en la memoria con una intensidad abrumadora, mezclando amor, tristeza y culpa. Ese recuerdo, muchas veces doloroso, no tiene por qué convertir