Timefulness : How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World /
Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
[2018]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: The allure of timelessness
- A call for timefulness
- An atlas of time
- The pace of the earth
- Changes in the air
- Great accelerations
- Timefulness, utopian and scientific
- Epilogue
- Appendixes. 1. Simplified geologic timescale ; 2. Durations and rates of earth phenomena ; 3. Environmental crises in earth's history : causes and consequences.