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Earth Book: From the Beginning to the End of Our Planet 250 Milestones in the History of Earth Science

Bell Jim

ISBN: HB: 9781454929109, GMC Group, Sterling, November 2020
528 pp., 21.4x18.6 cm, illus.

Spanning Earth's entire history, from its birth 4.6 billion years ago to its inevitable destruction billions of years into the future, this stunning volume chronicles the life of our home planet in 250 well-chosen milestones. Jim Bell leads us on a t...

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Political Science

Elements of Power Gadgets, Guns, and the Struggle for a Sustainable Future in the Rare Metal Age

Abraham David S.

ISBN: PB: 9780300226904, Yale University Press, August 2017
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 3 black&white illus.

Our future hinges on a set of elements that few of us have even heard of. In this surprising and revealing book, David S. Abraham unveils what rare metals are and why our electronic gadgets, the most powerful armies, and indeed the fate of our planet...

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Earth's Deep History How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters

Rudwick Martin J. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226421971, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 halftones, 5 line drawings

Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, comets and asteroids crashing catastrophically to the surface, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it all. But how wa...

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History

Earthquake Observers Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter

Coen Deborah R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226212050, ISBN: HB: 9780226111810, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones, 1 line illus.

Earthquakes have taught us much about our planet's hidden structure and the forces that have shaped it. This knowledge rests not only on the recordings of seismographs, but also on the observations of eyewitnesses to destruction. During the nineteent...

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Earth Sciences

Earth on Show Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856

O'Connor Ralph

ISBN: PB: 9780226103204, ISBN: HB: 9780226616681, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
542 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 colour plates, 89 halftones, 2 tables

At the turn of the nineteenth century, geology – and its claims that the earth had a long and colorful prehuman history – was widely dismissed as dangerous nonsense. But just fifty years later, it was the most celebrated of Victorian sciences. Ralph...

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Business & Economics

Economic and Societal Impacts of Tornadoes

Simmons Kevin M., Sutter Daniel

ISBN: PB: 9781878220998, University of Chicago Press, American Meteorological Society, March 2011
282 pp., 22.6x15.5 cm, 28 tables, 30 halftones

For almost a decade, economists Kevin M. Simmons and Daniel Sutter have been studying the economic impacts and social consequences of the approximately 1,200 tornadoes that touch down across the United States annually. During this time, Simmons and S...

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