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RECORD NUMBER: 146 OF 314| Main Title | Here on earth : a natural history of the planet / | ||||||||||||||||
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| Author | Flannery, Tim F. | ||||||||||||||||
| Publisher | Atlantic Monthly Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, | ||||||||||||||||
| Year Published | 2010 | ||||||||||||||||
| OCLC Number | 669750173 | ||||||||||||||||
| ISBN | 080211976X (hc); 9780802119766 (hc) | ||||||||||||||||
| Subjects | Historical geology ; Life--Origin ; Evolution (Biology) ; Biosphere ; Earth--History ; Earth--Origin ; Earth--History ; Earth sciences--History ; Evolution--History | ||||||||||||||||
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| Collation | xviii, 316 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 24 cm. | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes | "First published in 2010 in Australia by the Text Publishing Company, Melbourne"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-298) and index. |
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| Contents Notes | pt. 1. Mother Nature or monster earth? -- Evolution's motive force -- Of genes, mnemes and destruction -- Evolution's legacy -- A fresh look at earth -- The commonwealth of virtue -- pt. 2. A turbulent youth -- Man the disrupter -- New worlds -- Biophilia -- pt. 3. Ever since agriculture -- Superorganisms -- Superorganismic glue -- Ascent of the ultimate superorganism -- pt. 4. Toxic climax? -- War against nature -- Gaia-killers -- The eleventh hour? -- Undoing the work of ages -- pt. 5. Our present state -- The stars of heaven -- Discounting the future -- Greed and the market -- Of war and inequality -- A new tool kit -- Governance -- Restoring the life-force -- pt. 6. An intelligent earth? -- What lies on the other side? An explorer and environmentalist offers a natural history of the Earth as well as a biography of the human species. |