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Author
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on his decades of field research and up-to-the-minute understanding of the latest science, renowned geologist Andrew H. Knoll delivers a rigorous yet accessible biography of Earth, charting our home planet's epic 4.6 billion-year story. Placing twenty first-century climate change in deep context, A Brief History of Earth is an indispensable look at where we've been and where we're going."--
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
512 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 31 cm
Language
English
Description
With an extensive catalog at its heart, "Prehistoric Life" profiles hundreds of fascinating species in incredible detail; features breathtaking, state-of-the-art images; explores the concept of geological time; and explains the classification of species and how the evidence for their evolution is preserved and can be deciphered.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[1996]
Physical Desc
31 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
The history of a pebble is followed from its time in a volcano to the primordial forests; from there it is stepped on by dinosaurs, dragged by glaciers and picked up by cavepeople.
Author
Publisher
Owlkids Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 23 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"It has taken billions of years for Earth to become the planet it is today. When Planet Earth Was New looks back to the very beginning, using a poetic approach grounded in scientific fact to give an overview of how the planet has changed over time: from hot lava to the formation of oceans to the evolution of living things in water and on land. The book also includes the relatively recent evolution of humans - who are just a tiny speck in the sweep...
Author
Publisher
Wiley
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
xv, 219 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The acclaimed author of In Search of Schrödinger's Cat searches for life on other planetsAre we alone in the universe? Surely amidst the immensity of the cosmos there must be other intelligent life out there. Don't be so sure, says John Gribbin, one of today's best popular science writers. In this fascinating and intriguing new book, Gribbin argues that the very existence of intelligent life anywhere in the cosmos is, from an astrophysicist's point...
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