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04828pam a2200325a 44500 |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780670023554 |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
550 "RO |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
"Robert M Hazen (George Mason University, Virginia George Mason Univ. George Mason University)" |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
"The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet" |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
"Hazen, Robert M (George Mason University, Virginia George Mason Univ. George Mason University)" |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
United States |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
Penguin Putnam Inc |
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| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
306 pp |
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Hardback |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
18.95 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Earth sciences |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
"<p>Earth evolves. From first atom to molecule, mineral to magma, granite crust to single cell to verdant living landscape, ours is a planet constantly in flux. In this radical new approach to Earth's biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national bestselling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere--of rocks and living matter--has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind in the Solar System, if not the entire cosmos.<br><p>With an astrobiologist's imagination, a historian's perspective, and a naturalist's passion for the ground beneath our feet, Hazen explains how changes on an atomic level translate into dramatic shifts in Earth's makeup over its 4.567 billion year existence. He calls upon a flurry of recent discoveries to portray our planet's many iterations in vivid detail--from its fast-rotating infancy when the Sun rose every five hours and the Moon filled 250 times more sky than it does now, to its sea-bathed youth before the first continents arose; from the Great Oxidation Event that turned the land red, to the globe-altering volcanism that may have been the true killer of the dinosaurs. Through Hazen's theory of ""co-evolution,"" we learn how reactions between organic molecules and rock crystals may have generated Earth's first organisms, which in turn are responsible for more than two-thirds of the mineral varieties on the planet--thousands of different kinds of crystals that could not exist in a nonliving world.<br><p>""The Story of Earth"" is also the story of the pioneering men and women behind the sciences. Readers will meet black-market meteorite hawkers of the Sahara Desert, the gun-toting Feds who guarded the Apollo missions' lunar dust, and the World War II Navy officer whose super-pressurized ""bomb""--recycled from military hardware--first simulated the molten rock of Earth's mantle. As a mentor to a new generation of scientists, Hazen introduces the intrepid young explorers whose dispatches from Earth's harshest landscapes will revolutionize geology.<br><p>Celebrated by the New York Times for writing ""with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,"" Hazen proves a brilliant and entertaining guide on this grand tour of our planet inside and out. Lucid, controversial, and intellectually bracing, ""The Story of Earth"" is popular science of the highest order.<p>" |
| 521 ## - TARGET AUDIENCE NOTE |
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General (US: Trade) |
| 586 ## - AWARDS NOTE |
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| Awards note |
Longlisted for Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2013. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Earth sciences |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element |
Earth |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href=""Robert M. Hazen is the Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University and a Senior Scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory. The author of numerous books--including the bestselling ""Science Matters""--Hazen lives with his wife in Glen Echo, Maryland."">"Robert M. Hazen is the Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at George Mason University and a Senior Scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory. The author of numerous books--including the bestselling ""Science Matters""--Hazen lives with his wife in Glen Echo, Maryland."</a> |
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229 |
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152 |