Name: The Story of Earth: The First 4. 5 Billion Years, From Stardust to Living Planet
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Author: Robert M. Hazen
ISBN: 9780143123644

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The Story of Earth: The First 4. 5 Billion Years, From Stardust to Living Planet

Type

Physical Book

Author

Robert M. Hazen

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

320

Format

Paperback

ISBN

0143123645

ISBN13

9780143123644

Synopsis "The Story of Earth: The First 4. 5 Billion Years, From Stardust to Living Planet "

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 McKibben

Robert M. Hazen

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Autor de más de 350 artículos y 20 libros sobre ciencias de la tierra, ciencia de los materiales, orígenes de la vida, historia y música. Miembro de la Asociación Americana para el Avance de la Ciencia, recibió el Premio de la Sociedad Mineralógica de América, el Premio Ipatief, el Premio Deems Taylor de la ASCAP y otros galardones por su investigación y escritura. Hazen es investigador en la Institución Carnegie para la Ciencia y profesor Robinson de Ciencias de la Tierra en la Universidad George Mason. Entre sus libros más recientes se incluyen Génesis: La Búsqueda Científica de los Orígenes de la Vida y Las Ciencias: Un Enfoque Integrado (con James Trefil).

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