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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 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 theelements in the stars to meditations on the future habitability of our world. -Science

A fascinating story. -Bill McKibben

The Story of Earth

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      Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc
      Published 30 July 2013
      ISBN-13 9780143123644
      978-0143123644
      ISBN-10 0143123645
      Also in:
      Natural History The Earth: natural history: general interest Science & Nature Cosmology and the universe

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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 theelements in the stars to meditations on the future habitability of our world. -Science

      A fascinating story. -Bill McKibben

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