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How to Build a Habitable Planet - The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind - Revised and Expanded Edition (Hardcover, Revised edition)
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How to Build a Habitable Planet - The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind - Revised and Expanded Edition (Hardcover, Revised edition)
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Since its first publication more than twenty-five years ago, How to
Build a Habitable Planet has established a legendary reputation as
an accessible yet scientifically impeccable introduction to the
origin and evolution of Earth, from the Big Bang through the rise
of human civilization. This classic account of how our habitable
planet was assembled from the stuff of stars introduced readers to
planetary, Earth, and climate science by way of a fascinating
narrative. Now this great book has been made even better. Harvard
geochemist Charles Langmuir has worked closely with the original
author, Wally Broecker, one of the world's leading Earth
scientists, to revise and expand the book for a new generation of
readers for whom active planetary stewardship is becoming
imperative. Interweaving physics, astronomy, chemistry, geology,
and biology, this sweeping account 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. The book also addresses
the search for other habitable worlds in the Milky Way and
contemplates whether Earth will remain habitable as our influence
on global climate grows. It concludes by considering the ways in
which humankind can sustain Earth's habitability and perhaps even
participate in further planetary evolution. Like no other book, How
to Build a Habitable Planet provides an understanding of Earth in
its broadest context, as well as a greater appreciation of its
possibly rare ability to sustain life over geologic time. Leading
schools that have ordered, recommended for reading, or adopted this
book for course use: * Arizona State University * Brooklyn College
CUNY * Columbia University * Cornell University * ETH Zurich *
Georgia Institute of Technology * Harvard University * Johns
Hopkins University * Luther College * Northwestern University *
Ohio State University * Oxford Brookes University * Pan American
University * Rutgers University * State University of New York at
Binghamton * Texas A&M University * Trinity College Dublin *
University of Bristol * University of California-Los Angeles *
University of Cambridge * University Of Chicago * University of
Colorado at Boulder * University of Glasgow * University of
Leicester * University of Maine, Farmington * University of
Michigan * University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill * University
of North Georgia * University of Nottingham * University of Oregon
* University of Oxford * University of Portsmouth * University of
Southampton * University of Ulster * University of Victoria *
University of Wyoming * Western Kentucky University * Yale
University
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