wyszukanych pozycji: 6
A Short History of Planet Earth: Mountains, Mammals, Fire, and Ice
ISBN: 9781620457108 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 274 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. ""A splendid introduction to geology and paleontology for the lay reader. To compress Earth's history into a single, lucidly written volume is a major achievement."" --Publishers Weekly, starred review""Few people have both the knowledge and the writing ability to capture such a long and varied history in a compelling manner. In A Short History of Planet Earth, J.D. Macdougal demonstrates that he is one of the few."" --EarthThis exhilarating survey of the four and half billion years of Earth's history charts both the geological and biological history of the planet....
""A splendid introduction to geology and paleontology for the lay reader. To compress Earth's history into a single, lucidly written volume is a major...
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Why Geology Matters: Decoding the Past, Anticipating the Future
ISBN: 9780520272712 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Volcanic dust, climate change, tsunamis, earthquakesgeoscience explores phenomena that profoundly affect our lives. But more than that, as Doug Macdougall makes clear, the science also provides important clues to the future of the planet. In an entertaining and accessibly written narrative, Macdougall gives an overview of Earth s astonishing history based on information extracted from rocks, ice cores, and other natural archives. He explores such questions as: What is the risk of an asteroid striking Earth? Why does the temperature of the ocean millions of years ago matter today? How are...
Volcanic dust, climate change, tsunamis, earthquakesgeoscience explores phenomena that profoundly affect our lives. But more than that, as Doug Macdou...
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Endless Novelties of Extraordinary Interest: The Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger and the Birth of Modern Oceanography
ISBN: 9780300232059 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. |
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122,85 zł |
Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
ISBN: 9780520249752 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to determine the age of objects and organisms. By examining radiocarbon (C-14) datingthe best known of these methodsand several other techniques that geologists use to decode the distant past, Macdougall unwraps the last century's advances, explaining how they reveal the age of our fossil ancestors such as...
"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nat...
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394,34 zł |
Nature's Clocks: How Scientists Measure the Age of Almost Everything
ISBN: 9780520261617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. "Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nature's Clocks, Macdougall tells how scientists who were seeking to understand the past arrived at the ingenious techniques they now use to determine the age of objects and organisms. By examining radiocarbon (C-14) datingthe best known of these methodsand several other techniques that geologists use to decode the distant past, Macdougall unwraps the last century's advances, explaining how they reveal the age of our fossil ancestors such as...
"Radioactivity is like a clock that never needs adjusting," writes Doug Macdougall. "It would be hard to design a more reliable timekeeper." In Nat...
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221,57 zł |
Frozen Earth: The Once and Future Story of Ice Ages
ISBN: 9780520275928 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its history, from the earliest known glaciation--nearly three billion years ago--to the present. Following the development of scientific ideas about these dramatic events, Macdougall traces the lives of many of the brilliant and intriguing characters who have contributed to the evolving understanding of how ice ages come about. As it explains how the great Pleistocene Ice Age has shaped the earth's landscape and influenced the course of human evolution,...
In this engrossing and accessible book, Doug Macdougall explores the causes and effects of ice ages that have gripped our planet throughout its histor...
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136,50 zł |