Charles H. Langmuir, Wallace Broecker

How to Build a Habitable Planet

The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind - Revised and Expanded Edition

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Interweaving physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology, and biology, this book tells Earth's complete story, from the synthesis of chemical elements in stars, to the formation of the Solar System, to the evolution of a habitable climate on Earth, to the origin of life and humankind.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Rev. and exp. ed.
• Seitenzahl: 736
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 167mm x 58mm
• Gewicht: 1374g
• ISBN-13: 9780691140063
• ISBN-10: 0691140065
• Artikelnr.: 34744436

Autorenporträt

Charles H. Langmuir is the Higgins Professor of Geochemistry at Harvard University. Wally Broecker is the Newberry Professor of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and the author of Fixing Climate and The Great Ocean Conveyor (Princeton), among other books. Both are members of the National Academy of Sciences.