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5 produkter
Mountains of Saint Francis
Discovering the Geologic Events That Shaped Our Earth
Inbunden, 2008
476 kr
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Modern geologists, Walter Alvarez among them, showed in the last decades of the twentieth century that the history of our planet has witnessed events profoundly more dramatic than even the most spectacular chapters in human history. More violent than wars, more life altering than …
Most Improbable Journey
A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
Inbunden, 2016
260 kr
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Big History, the field that studies the entire known past of our universe to give context to human existence, has so far been the domain of historians. In A Most Improbable Journey, Walter Alvarez—best known for his “Impact Theory” explaining dinosaur extinction—makes a compelling case for a new, …
Most Improbable Journey
A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves
Häftad, 2017
222 kr
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Big History, the field that integrates traditional historical scholarship with scientific insights to study the full sweep of our universe, has so far been the domain of historians. Famed geologist Walter Alvarez—best known for the “Impact Theory” explaining dinosaur extinction—has instead …
T. rex and the Crater of Doom
Häftad, 2015
185 kr
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Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact, falling back to Earth around the globe. …
T. rex and the Crater of Doom
E-bok, 2013
251 kr
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Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact, falling back to Earth around the globe. …
