The Story of Earth by Robert M Hazen

The Story of Earth by Robert M Hazen

Hailed by The New York Times for writing "with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along," nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet's living and nonliving spheres.

With an astrobiologist's imagination, a historian's perspective, and a naturalist's eye, Hazen calls upon twenty-first-century discoveries that have revolutionized geology and enabled scientists to envision Earth's many iterations in vivid detail--from the mile-high lava tides of its infancy to the early organisms responsible for more than two-thirds of the mineral varieties beneath our feet. Lucid, controversial, and on the cutting edge of its field, The Story of Earth is popular science of the highest order.

"A sweeping rip-roaring yarn of immense scope, from the birth of the elements in the stars to meditations on the future habitability of our world." --Science

Robert M. Hazen is a senior scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Geophysical Laboratory and the Clarence Robinson professor of earth science at George Mason University. He lives in Glen Echo, Maryland, and is the author of various books, including the bestselling Science Matters.

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ISBN 13	9780143123644
ISBN 10	0143123645
Title	The Story of Earth
Author	Robert M Hazen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2013-07-30
Number of pages	320
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