Walter Alvarez

A Most Improbable Journey: A Big History of Our Planet and Ourselves (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"A thrilling synthesis from a brilliant scientist who discovered one of the most important chapters in our history." Sean B. Carroll

Big History, the field that integrates traditional historical scholarship with scientific insights to study the full sweep of our universe, has so far been the domain of historians. Famed geologist Walter Alvarezbest known for the Impact Theory explaining dinosaur extinctionhas instead championed a science-first approach to Big History. Here he wields his unique expertise to give us a new appreciation for the incredible occurrencesfrom the Big Bang to the formation of supercontinents, the dawn of the Bronze Age, and beyondthat have led to our improbable place in the universe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: W. W. Norton & Company
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780393292701
• Artikelnr.: 59590297

Autorenporträt

Walter Alvarez, professor of geology at the University of California, Berkeley, received the Penrose Medal, the top honor in geology, and is the best-selling author of T. Rex and the Crater of Doom. He lives in Berkeley, California.