
Planet Earth
A Beginner's Guide
John R. Gribbin(Author)
Oneworld Publications (Publisher)
Published on 19. January 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
208 pages
978-1-85168-828-9 (ISBN)
Description
The result, Planet Earth: A Beginner's Guide, is an expedition into the origins, evolution, and workings of our home planet in which John Gribbin does what he does best: takes 4.5 billion years of geological history and digs out the essential bits, from the physics of Newton and the geology of Wegener to the environmentalism of Lovelock. Along the journey, he uses stories from history and more current events to bring the science to a human level. Gribbin's introductory guidebook - very much a first step into geology and geography for the uninitiated - is filled with his lively voice and unique view, as he takes on the subject of the Earth from an astronomer's perspective.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
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Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 128 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
189 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-85168-828-9 (9781851688289)
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John Gribbin is the bestselling author of In Search of Schroedinger's Cat, The Scientists, Deep Simplicity, and In Search of the Multiverse. He trained as an astrophysicist at the University of Cambridge and is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the University of Sussex, England.