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Tree Story : The History of the World Written in Rings /
Most people know that to figure out how old a tree is, you count its rings. Few people, however, realize that the study of tree rings has made amazing contributions to our understanding of Earth's climate and its influences on the last 2,000 years of human history. In her captivating new book,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2020.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Trees in the Desert
- I Count the Rings Down in Africa
- Adonis, Methusaleh, and Prometheus
- And the Tree Was Happy
- The Stone Age, the Plague, and Shipwrecks under the City
- The Hockey Stick Poster Child
- Wind of Change
- Winter Is Coming
- Three Tree-Ring Scientists Walk into a Bar
- Ghosts, Orphans, and Extraterrestrials
- Disintegration, or The Fall of Rome
- It's the End of the World as We Know It
- Once upon a Time in the West
- Will the Wind Ever Remember?
- After the Gold Rush
- The Forest for the Trees
- Playlist
- List of Tree Species.