| Description |
xviii, 409 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [378]-385) and index. |
| Contents |
Energy balance sheets -- Circulation systems -- The essence of life -- Cosmic setting: dancing to ancient tunes -- Managing time -- Continents adrift -- The surface of events -- Life, rock and air -- Alchemy in stars -- Graveyard for comets -- Landscape for life -- What life is all about -- Genesis and the Deuteronomists -- Life's tender years -- Fumes from the engine room -- Continents shape climate -- Icehouse and greenhouse worlds -- Life becomes complicated -- |
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Armageddon revisited -- Reaching for new horizons -- The ages of ice -- The human record -- All the world's a commodity. |
| Subject |
Life -- Origin.
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Earth (Planet) -- Origin.
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| ISBN |
0198502710 hardback |
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