Eating the Sun: How Plants Power the Planet
Autor Oliver Mortonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 noi 2009
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780007163656
ISBN-10: 0007163657
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
ISBN-10: 0007163657
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
Textul de pe ultima copertă
Wherever there is greenery, photosynthesis is working to make oxygen, release energy, and create living matter from the raw material of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide. Without photosynthesis, there would be an empty world, an empty sky, and a sun that does nothing more than warm the rocks and reflect off the sea.
Eating the Sun is the story of a world in crisis; an appreciation of the importance of plants; a history of the earth and the feuds and fantasies of warring scientists; a celebration of how the smallest things, enzymes and pigments, influence the largest things, the oceans, the rainforests, and the fossil fuel economy. Oliver Morton offers a fascinating, lively, profound look at nature's greatest miracle and sounds a much-needed call to arms—illuminating a potential crisis of climatic chaos and explaining how we can change our situation, for better or for worse.
Eating the Sun is the story of a world in crisis; an appreciation of the importance of plants; a history of the earth and the feuds and fantasies of warring scientists; a celebration of how the smallest things, enzymes and pigments, influence the largest things, the oceans, the rainforests, and the fossil fuel economy. Oliver Morton offers a fascinating, lively, profound look at nature's greatest miracle and sounds a much-needed call to arms—illuminating a potential crisis of climatic chaos and explaining how we can change our situation, for better or for worse.
Recenzii
“A rare delight....Oliver Morton writes so engagingly that [Eating the Sun] reads as a well-crafted biography of the earth on behalf of the plant kingdom.” — Prospect Magazine
“I enjoyed this book as much for the crazed asides as for the upsetting insights.” — Sunday Times (London)
“A fascinating and important book” — Ian McEwan, author of Atonement, Saturday, and On Chesil Beach
“I enjoyed this book as much for the crazed asides as for the upsetting insights.” — Sunday Times (London)
“A fascinating and important book” — Ian McEwan, author of Atonement, Saturday, and On Chesil Beach
Notă biografică
Award-winning science journalist Oliver Morton is the author of Mapping Mars, a contributing editor at Wired, and a contributor for The New Yorker, Science, and The American Scholar. He lives with his wife in Greenwich, England.