A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves (eBook)

Walter Alvarez (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
256 Seiten
W. W. Norton & Company (Verlag)
978-0-393-29270-1 (ISBN)

Infos

"e;A thrilling synthesis from a brilliant scientist who discovered one of the most important chapters in our history."e; Sean B. CarrollBig 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 Alvarezbest known for the Impact Theory explaining dinosaur extinctionhas instead championed a science-first approach to Big History. Here he wields his unique expertise to give us a new appreciation for the incredible occurrencesfrom the Big Bang to the formation of supercontinents, the dawn of the Bronze Age, and beyondthat have led to our improbable place in the universe.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2016
• Zusatzinfo: 35 illustrations
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
• Schlagworte: Alfred Wegener • Big Bang • Continental Drift • Cosmos • DNA • earth • extinction • Geology • Humanity • Life • Natural History • Silicon • Solar System • Tectonics
• ISBN-10: 0-393-29270-3 / 0393292703
• ISBN-13: 978-0-393-29270-1 / 9780393292701