The Story Of Earth The First 4.5 Billion Years From Stardust To Living Planet

Description: Hailed by The New York Times for writing with wonderful clarity about science that effortlessly teaches as it zips along nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet's living and nonliving spheres. With an astrobiologist's imagination a historian's perspective and a naturalist's eye Hazen calls upon twenty - first - century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and enabled scientists to envision Earth's many iterations in vivid detail from the mile - high lava tides of its infancy to the early organisms responsible for more than two - thirds of the mineral varieties beneath our feet. Lucid controversial and on the cutting edge of its field The Story of Earth is popular science of the highest order." A sweeping rip - roaring yarn of immense scope from the birth of the elements in the stars to meditations on the future habitability of our world." - Science" A fascinating story." - Bill Mc Kibben
Title: The Story Of Earth The First 4.5 Billion Years From Stardust To Living Planet
Barcode: 9780143123644
Publication Date: 7/30/2013