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Turning to Stone - Marcia Bjornerud

Turning to Stone

Buch | Softcover
320 Seiten
2024
Wildfire (Verlag)
978-1-4722-9846-1 (ISBN)
CHF 29,65 inkl. MwSt
A remarkable study of rocks, the stories they can tell us and the various ways they continue to shape and influence our lives, from the author of Timefulness.
'Vast and arresting' SPECTATOR
'A remarkably human take on the geological world' NEW STATESMAN

Rocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever lost, just transformed.

Marcia Bjornerud's life as a geologist has coincided with an extraordinary period of discovery. From an insular girlhood in rural Wisconsin, she found her way to an unlikely career studying mountains in remote parts of the world. As one of few women in her field, she witnessed the shift in our understanding of the Earth, from solid object to an entity in a constant state of transformation. In the most tumultuous times of her own life, a deep understanding of our rocky planet imbued her life with meaning.

The lives of rocks are long and complex, spanning billions of years and yet shaping our own human lives in powerful, invisible ways. Sandstone that filters out pathogens creating underground oases in aquifers of clean water. Ecologite is "the chosen rock" whose formation keeps the planet running. Earth is not just a passive backdrop, or a source of resources to be mined, extracted, and carved out. Rocks are full of wisdom, but somewhere along the way many of us have forgotten how to hear it.

When we are uncertain about where to find truth, a geocentric worldview reminds us that we are Earthlings, part of a planetary community where we can find wisdom in the most unlikely places.

More praise for TURNING TO STONE:
'Marcia Bjornerud writes evocatively' COUNTRY LIFE
'A nuanced celebration of the language of stone' DAVID GEORGE HASKELL
'A unique and timeless book' ROBERT HALZEN

MARCIA BJORNERUD is Professor of Geology at Lawrence University. She researches the physics of earthquakes and mountain building. She is a two-time Fulbright Senior Scholar as well as a Fellow of the Geological Society of America and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Bjornerud is a contributing writer to The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and The Los Angeles Times, and the author of READING THE ROCKS, TIMEFULNESS, and GEOPEDIA (forthcoming, 2022). TIMEFULNESS was longlisted for the 2019 PEN/E. O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing, and was a finalist for the LA TIMES Book Prize in Science and Technology and the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 232 mm
Gewicht 380 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Literatur Essays / Feuilleton
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Naturwissenschaften Geowissenschaften Geologie
ISBN-10 1-4722-9846-2 / 1472298462
ISBN-13 978-1-4722-9846-1 / 9781472298461
Zustand Neuware
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