Marcia Bjornerud

Broschiertes Buch

Turning to Stone

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

MARCIA BJORNERUD is Professor of Geosciences at LawrenceUniversity, researching the physics of earthquakes and mountainbuilding. She is a two-time Fulbright Senior Scholar as well as aFellow of the Geological Society of America and the WisconsinAcademy of Sciences, Arts & Letters. Bjornerud is a contributing writer to the New Yorker, Wall StreetJournal, Wired and Los Angeles Times, and the author of Readingthe Rocks, Timefulness and Geopedia. Timefulness was longlisted forthe 2019 PEN/E. O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science Writing,and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize forScience & Technology and the Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science.Turning to Stone was awarded the 2025 John Burroughs Medal fordistinguished natural history writing.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Headline Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 194mm x 129mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 228g
• ISBN-13: 9781472298492
• ISBN-10: 1472298497
• Artikelnr.: 74434778