| Description |
ix, 360 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-337) and index. |
| Contents |
Making history a science -- Nature's own antiquities -- Sketching big pictures -- Expanding time and history -- Bursting the limits of time -- Worlds before Adam -- Disturbing a consensus -- Human history in nature's history -- Eventful deep history -- Global histories of the earth -- One planet among many -- Conclusion. |
| Summary |
Rudwick tells the gripping story of the gradual realization that the Earth's history has not only been unimaginably long but also astonishingly eventful in utterly unexpected ways. |
| Subject |
Earth sciences -- History.
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Earth sciences. |
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History. |
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Natural history -- History.
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Natural history. |
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Religion and science.
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Religion and science. |
| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Other Form: |
ebook version 9780226204093 |
| ISBN |
9780226203935 (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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022620393X (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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9780226204093 (e-book) |
| Standard No. |
40024173224 |
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