Écrit en 1955, cet essai raconte les grands bouleversements géologiques dont notre Terre fut le théâtre au cours des temps préhistoriques et même historiques. L'auteur déduit et explique ces cataclysmes à l'aide des signes laissés dans les roches et les vestiges de civilisations…
A monumental and beautiful guide to Earth's wildlife and natural history - its rocks, minerals, animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms - this landmark of reference publishing has been extended and updated. In the 11 years since the book was released, thousands of new species…
DK's biggest natural history book is given a fresh update. The only book to offer a complete visual survey of all Earth's kingdoms of life, plus rocks and minerals, it remains the benchmark of illustrated natural history reference. A monumental and beautiful guide to Earth's wil…
We have 118 known chemical elements as our palette in our context of sustaining our world. Our context is considered in terms of the four spheres of the ancient world: Earth, Air, Fire and Water. This book shows how chemical principles can be used to understand the pressures on …
"Timely and much-needed theory of humanity's relation to the planet"--
Introduction: What Planet Are You On? -- Earth at the Threshold -- Who Speaks through the Earth? -- Planetary Social Life in the Making -- What is Planetary Social Thought? -- Inhuman Modernity, Earthly Violence -- Terra mobilis -- Grounding Colonialism, Decolonizing the Earth -…
"Timely and much-needed theory of humanity's relation to the planet"--
"The Anthropocene has emerged as perhaps the scientific concept of the new millennium. Going further than earlier conceptions of the human–environment relationship, Anthropocene science proposes that human activity is tipping the whole Earth system into a new state, with unpredi…
Earth's Magnetosphere: Formed by the Low Latitude Boundary Layer, Second Edition, provides a fully updated overview of both historical and current data related to the magnetosphere and how it is formed. With a focus on experimental data and space missions, the book goes in depth…
While European restaurants race to footnote menus, reassuring concerned gourmands that no genetically modified ingredients were used in the preparation of their food, starving populations around the world eagerly await the next harvest of scientifically improved crops. Mendel in…
