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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 planets living and nonliving spheres. With an astrobiologists imagination, a historians perspective, and a naturalists eye, Hazen calls upon twenty-first-century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and enabled scientists to envision Earths 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 McKibben
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Vânzător: Elefant.ro
Brand: Penguin Books
