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Beyond has the exhilaration of a fine thriller but it is vividly embedded in the historic tensions of the Cold War and peopled by men and women brought sympathetically and sometimes tragically to lifeColin Thubron author of Shadow of the Silk Road0907 am April 12 1961 A top secret rocket site in the USSR A young Russian sits inside a tiny capsule on top of the Soviet Unions most powerful intercontinental ballistic missileoriginally designed to carry a nuclear warheadand blasts into the skies His name is Yuri Gagarin And he is about to make history Travelling at almost 18000 miles per hourten times faster than a rifle bulletGagarin circles the globe in just 106 minutes From his windows he sees the earth as nobody has before crossing a sunset and a sunrise crossing oceans and continents witnessing its beauty and its fragility While his launch begins in total secrecy within hours of his landing he has become a world celebrity the first human to leave the planet Beyond tells the thrilling story behind that epic flight on its 60th anniversary It happened at the height of the Cold War as the US and USSR confronted each other across an Iron Curtain Both superpowers took enormous risks to get a man into space first the Americans in the full glare of the media the Soviets under deep cover Both trained their teams of astronauts to the edges of the endurable In the end the race between them would come down to the wireDrawing on extensive original research and the vivid testimony of eyewitnesses many of whom have never spoken before Stephen Walker unpacks secrets that were hidden for decades and takes the reader into the drama of one of humanitys greatest adventures to the scientists engineers and political leaders on both sides and above all to the American astronauts and their Soviet rivals battling for supremacy in the heavens . 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A story of defiance and determination by a controversial scientist, this is Lee Berger\'s own take on finding Homo naledi, an all-new species on the human family tree and one of the greatest discoveries of the 21st century.In 2013, Berger, a National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, caught wind of a cache of bones in a hard-to-reach underground cave in South Africa. He put out a call around the world for petite collaborators--men and women small and adventurous enough to be able to squeeze through 8-inch tunnels to reach a sunless cave 40 feet underground. With this team of underground astronauts, Berger made the discovery of a lifetime: hundreds of prehistoric bones, including entire skeletons of at least 15 individuals, all perhaps two million years old. Their features combined those of known prehominids like Lucy, the famous Australopithecus, with those more human than anything ever before seen in prehistoric remains. Berger\'s team had discovered an all new species, and they called it Homo naledi.The cave quickly proved to be the richest primitive hominid site ever discovered, full of implications that shake the very foundation of how we define what makes us human. Did this species come before, during, or after the emergence of Homo sapiens on our evolutionary tree? How did the cave come to contain nothing but the remains of these individuals? Did they bury their dead? If so, they must have had a level of self-knowledge, including an awareness of death. And yet those are the very characteristics used to define what makes us human. Did an equally advanced species inhabit Earth with us, or before us? Berger does not hesitate to address all these questions.Berger is a charming and controversial figure, and some colleagues question his interpretation of this and other finds. But in these pages, this charismatic and visionary paleontologist counters their arguments and tells his personal story: a rich and readable narrative about science, exploration, and what it means to be human. A thrilling new account of human origins, as told by the paleontologist who led the most groundbreaking dig in recent history.Somewhere west of Munich, Madelaine Böhme and her colleagues dig for clues to the origins of humankind. What they discover is beyond anything they imagined: the fossilized bones of Danuvius guggenmosi ignite a global media frenzy. This ancient ancestor defies our knowledge of human history—his nearly twelve-million-year-old bones were not located in Africa—the so-called birthplace of humanity—but in Europe, and his features suggest we evolved much differently than scientists once believed.In prose that reads like a gripping detective novel, Ancient Bones interweaves the story of the dig that changed everything with the fascinating answer to a previously undecided and now pressing question: How, exactly, did we become human? Placing Böhme’s discovery alongside former theories of human evolution, the authors show how this remarkable find (and others in Eurasia) are forcing us to rethink the story we’ve been told about how we came to be, a story that has been our guiding narrative—until now. A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John GreenThe Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Halley\'s Comet to Penguins of Madagascar - on a five-star scale.Complex and rich with detail, the Anthropocene\'s reviews have been praised as \'observations that double as exercises in memoiristic empathy\', with over 10 million lifetime downloads. John Green\'s gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection about the shared human experience it includes beloved essays along with six all-new pieces exclusive to the book. The authors trace the formation and breakup of the planets, asteroids, and comets where meteorites originated, their long journey through space, their fall to Earth, their recovery, and what scientists are learning from them. The book contains a great deal of material about the “84001 Martian meteorite,” which has raised provocative new questions about life on the red planet. Looking forward, the authors chart the exciting new era of planetary, asteroidal, and cometary exploration planned for this century. Before, you learned. • The motions of planets and other nearby objects are visible from Earth . • Light and other forms of radiation carry information about the universe. Now, you will learn. • How astronauts explore space near Earth .