Planet earth / Jonathan Weiner.

By:

Weiner, Jonathan

Material type: Text

0553050966

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

QE31. W456 1986

Contents:

Contents: The living machine -- The blue planet -- The climate puzzle -- Tales from other worlds -- The solar sea -- Gifts from the Earth -- Fate of the Earth.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Monograph	Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University	QE31.W456 1986 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Donated by Daood Moosa.		3ACKU000533058

Total holds: 0

Abstract: "This book is a guide to our lving, changing planet. We journey to the rim of a great meteor crater ... we travel back in time to 1930, in the icy heart of Greenland ... We journey to the outer reaches of our solar system, dive to a rock erupt from the heart of the earth to form new undersea mountains and a new ocean floor. Ulimately we will come to see this planet not as a hunk of stone in space but more like a living organism -- with its own internal dynamics, exchanging gases, healing itself, increasingly dependent on a new host creature -- man-- to shape its future."--Fly leaf.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-363) and index.

Contents: The living machine -- The blue planet -- The climate puzzle -- Tales from other worlds -- The solar sea -- Gifts from the Earth -- Fate of the Earth.

English

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