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Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The award-winning cartoonist offers “a witty history of the planet” for young readers—covering everything from the Big Bang to climate change (Publishers Weekly).
Almost 14.5 billion years ago, it all started with a Big Bang. What began as a cloud of gas, dust, and rock eventually took shape and bloomed into a molten sphere. Battered by asteroid collisions, ice ages, and shifting tectonic plates, our fledgling...
Almost 14.5 billion years ago, it all started with a Big Bang. What began as a cloud of gas, dust, and rock eventually took shape and bloomed into a molten sphere. Battered by asteroid collisions, ice ages, and shifting tectonic plates, our fledgling...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Language
English
Description
This exhilarating survey of the four and half billion years of Earth's history charts both the geological and biological history of the planet. It moves from the origin of the earth's iron core to the formation of today's seven continents, and from the primordial building blocks of life to the evolution of the human form.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"Volcanic dust, climate change, tsunamis, earthquakes--geoscience explores phenomena that profoundly affect our lives. But more than that, as Doug Macdougall makes clear, the science also provides important clues to the future of the planet. In an entertaining and accessibly written narrative, Macdougall gives an overview of Earth's astonishing history based on information extracted from rocks, ice cores, and other natural archives. He explores such...
10) Life story
Author
Language
English
Description
Examines and explains how life on Earth came to be and how the Earth and life on it developed and evolved throughout time, told through a play with five acts and a prologue.
15) Earth time
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Description
Explores the history of time as it relates to the evolution of the Earth, from its origins as a lifeless rock, through the development of simple organisms, more complex animals, and, eventually, humans.
Author
Pub. Date
1998.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
Presents a geological, biological, and social history of the earth by focussing on the same four locales--New York, southwestern France, the Nile Valley, and northern China--through thirteen time periods covering more then 550 million years.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Mighty, elemental forces, fiery eruptions, titanic floods, the grinding of great ice sheets, and massive impacts from space molded North America. This spectacular road trip through our nation's tumultuous past sets out to answer three fundamental questions: How was the continent built? How did life evolve here? And how has its spectacular landscape shaped human lives and destinies?
18) Walking the bones of Britain: a 3 billion year journey from the Outer Hebrides to the Thames Estuary
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Travelling a thousand miles and across three billion years, Christopher Somerville, author of The January Man and Ships of Heaven, sets out to discover how the land beneath our feet shapes our past, our present and our future. Britain is blessed with a vast variety of landscapes -- from marshes to slate mountains, chalk downs to volcanic islands. How we live, work and eat has been moulded and shaped by wild, violent events that occurred thousands,...
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