David Beerling

Broschiertes Buch

The Emerald Planet

How plants changed Earth's history

Beschreibung

The Emerald Planet'is the tale of our world's past - and future - as revealed by plants. Over the immensity of geological time, plants have been powerful agents of change, shaping the climate, the planet, and affecting the evolutionary path of all life. Here, David Beerling tells how.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 354g
• ISBN-13: 9780199548149
• ISBN-10: 0199548145
• Artikelnr.: 23603650

Rezensionen

Review from previous edition My favorite nonfiction book this year. A minutely-argued but highly readable history of the last half-billion years on earth. The story Beerling tells could not have been put together even ten years ago, for it depends upon the latest insights from palaeontology, climate science, genetics, molecular biology, and chemistry, all brilliantly and beautifully integrated together. I got a special deep, quiet pleasure from reading The Emerald Planet -the sort of pleasure one gets from reading Darwin. Oliver Sacks, Book of the Year, Observer