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  • Origin 2.0 Revised Edition

    From the Big Bang to the Future of Humanity

    de William M Postlewaite ...
    Origin 2.0 is a sweeping, vivid, and accessible journey through the entire history of the universe, an exploration of how everything we know came to be, from the first burst of energy to the rise of human consciousness. Blending clear scientific explanation with narrative energy, W. Marc Postlewaite guides readers through 14 billion years of natural history, revealing how the cosmos, Earth, life, ... Leer más

    $6.99 USD

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  • Timefulness

    How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

    de Marcia Bjornerud ...
    Why an awareness of Earth’s temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survivalFew of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet’s long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of nine days, which is how long a drop of water typically stays in Earth’s atmosphere, is something we can easily ... Leer más

    $33.89 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Earth in Human Hands

    Shaping Our Planet's Future

    de David Grinspoon ...
    NASA Astrobiologist and renowned scientist Dr. David Grinspoon brings readers an optimistic message about humanity's future in the face of climate change.For the first time in Earth's history, our planet is experiencing a confluence of rapidly accelerating changes prompted by one species: humans. Climate change is only the most visible of the modifications we've made--up until this point, ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The End of the Long Summer

    Why We Must Remake Our Civilization to Survive on a Volatile Earth

    de Dianne Dumanoski ...
    For the past twelve thousand years, Earth’s stable climate has allowed human civilization to flourish. But this long benign summer is an anomaly in the Earth’s history and one that is rapidly coming to a close. The radical experiment of our modern industrial civilization is now disrupting our planet’s very metabolism; our future hinges in large part on how Earth responds. Climate change is already ... Leer más

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  • Earth System Science

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Tim Lenton ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    When humanity first glimpsed planet Earth from space, the unity of the system that supports humankind entered the popular consciousness. The concept of the Earth's atmosphere, biosphere, oceans, soil, and rocks operating as a closely interacting system has rapidly gained ground in science. This new field, involving geographers, geologists, biologists, oceanographers, and atmospheric physicists, is ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • A Rough Ride to the Future

    de James Lovelock ...
    The great scientific visionary of our age presents a radical vision of humanity's future as the thinking brain of our Earth-system.A Rough Ride to the Future introduces two new Lovelockian ideas. The first is that three hundred years ago, when Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine, he was unknowingly beginning what James Lovelock calls "accelerated evolution." That is a process that is ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Breaking Boundaries

    de Johan Rockstrom, Owen Gaffney ...
    On the brink of a critical moment in human history, this book presents a vision of "planetary stewardship" - a rethinking of our relationship with our planet - and plots a new course for our future.The authors reveal the full scale of the planetary emergency we face - but also how we can stabilize Earth's life-support system. The necessary change is within our power, if we act now. In 2009, ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • Now or Never

    Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future

    de Tim Flannery ...
    A forceful call to climate change action and a pragmatic roadmap toward sustainability from the internationally acclaimed author of The Weather Makers .Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available, Tim Flannery offers a guided tour of the environmental challenges we face and their potential solutions in both the big picture and in specific detail. He explores everything from techniques for ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Revenge of Gaia

    Earth's Climate Crisis & The Fate of Humanity

    de James Lovelock ...
    In The Revenge of Gaia , bestselling author James Lovelock- father of climate studies and originator of the influential Gaia theory which views the entire earth as a living meta-organism-provides a definitive look at our imminent global crisis. In this disturbing new book, Lovelock guides us toward a hard reality: soon, we may not be able to alter the oncoming climate crisis. Lovelock's ... Leer más

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  • The Science Files

    Questions and Answers from A – Z

    de Richard Zurawski ...
    Conventional wisdom has it that science is boring. “The Science Files,” an hourly radio call-in talk show about science, is anything but boring, and certainly none of the listeners, emailers or tweeters who participate in the call-in radio talk show think science is boring either. Richard Zurawski has been hosting “The Science Files” for eight years and has fielded literally thousands of questions ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

  • The Story of Gaia

    The Big Breath and the Evolutionary Journey of Our Conscious Planet

    de Jude Currivan, Ph.D. ...
    Explores how the Universe, our planet, ourselves, and everything in existence has inherent meaning and evolutionary purpose• 2023 Nautilus Gold Award• Examines our emergence as self-aware members of a Universe that is itself a unified and innately sentient entity that exists TO evolve• Shares leading-edge scientific breakthroughs and shows how they support traditional visions of Earth as a living ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • The Medea Hypothesis

    Is Life on Earth Ultimately Self-Destructive?

    de Peter Ward ...
    Series series Science Essentials
    In The Medea Hypothesis, renowned paleontologist Peter Ward proposes a revolutionary and provocative vision of life's relationship with the Earth's biosphere--one that has frightening implications for our future, yet also offers hope. Using the latest discoveries from the geological record, he argues that life might be its own worst enemy. This stands in stark contrast to James Lovelock's Gaia ... Leer más

    $17.29 USD