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230 pp.
| Simon/Aladdin/Beyond Words
| September, 2015
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TradeISBN 978-1-58270-525-5$15.99
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EbookISBN 978-1-4814-2918-4
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4-6
Illustrated by
Floor Rieder.
In lively, colloquial, and even humorous prose, Schutten ambitiously and accessibly explains evolution, from matters as small as the slipper animalcule (a.k.a. Paramecium) to the Big Bang theory, showing relevance to the reader wherever appropriate. Sections are headed by questions, and hand-drawn illustrations in a limited palette nicely illustrate main points. Schutten references his material with particular care (extensive notes appended) and sensitively addresses evolution/creationism issues. Ind.
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4-6
Schutten imagines what the houses, foods, fuels, and people of the near future could optimally look like--thanks to anticipated advances in computer, medical, and robotics technologies--while emphasizing renewable resources (with some attention to challenges we'll face if we don't address global warming and economic inequities). Photographs of today's technologies and renderings of a bright future break up the at-times dense text. Ind.