Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History
Autor Allan Mazuren Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 feb 2022
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781316519400
ISBN-10: 1316519406
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 161 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1316519406
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 161 x 235 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Ediția:Nouă
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Cuprins
1. In the Beginning; 2. 'Bursting the Limits of Time'; 3. Darwin's Revolution; 4. Discovering an Age of Ice; 5. Why Does Climate Change? Orbits; 6. Dating Ice Age Climates; 7. Why Does Climate Change? Carbon Dioxide; 8. Why Does Climate Change? Continental Drift and Ocean Currents; 9. Ecce Homo; 10. How Did Extinct Hominins Behave?; 11. Life in the Paleolithic; 12. Extinction of Ice Age Mammals in Near Time; 13. The Agrarian Transformation; 14. Rise of Civilizations; References; Index.
Recenzii
'Allan Mazur takes us on a fascinating journey through two million years of Earth history and human history, linking the two through a lucid description of the great Ice Age fluctuations in climate. This is a book for all readers interested in our shared human career, and in how the dynamic surface of the Earth has influenced that career through the ages.' Peter Bellwood, Australian National University
'Allan Mazur gives us a masterful exemplar of the history of science. He shows specialists from several disciplines and nonspecialists with just a modicum of science how diverse paths of inquiry over recent human history have revealed the details of prehistory going far back into geological time. He shows us how more detail is known than might have been imagined when the scientific work began in the 18th century. Not since Simon Winchester's Krakatoa has the science of geology been so absorbing! More importantly, Mazur shows both how ice ages – large and small, long and short – and their endings have changed human history, and how our short-sightedness about their causes and effects is going to change future human history, for the worse … unless the right people learn the lessons of this book.' Alex Rosenberg, Duke University
'Living on a warming planet, we struggle to imagine that it was periodically covered by vast sheets of ice. Allan Mazur, a master of calm, companionable, and often humorous prose, guides us through the various efforts humans - plucky survivors of the Pleistocene - have made to understand the Earth as well as their transformative and, it now turns out, damaging presence on it. An impressive synthetic effort, blending science and cultural history, Mazur's excellent Ice Ages gives us the tools necessary to participate knowledgeably in debates about climate disruption.' Christoph Irmscher, Indiana University; author of Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science
'This absolutely fascinating book weaves together the complicated strands of human endeavor that led to the great scientific discovery of ice ages on Earth. It should be read by everyone interested in the current pressing problem of global climate change, both natural and human induced.' George Denton, University of Maine
'Allan Mazur gives us a masterful exemplar of the history of science. He shows specialists from several disciplines and nonspecialists with just a modicum of science how diverse paths of inquiry over recent human history have revealed the details of prehistory going far back into geological time. He shows us how more detail is known than might have been imagined when the scientific work began in the 18th century. Not since Simon Winchester's Krakatoa has the science of geology been so absorbing! More importantly, Mazur shows both how ice ages – large and small, long and short – and their endings have changed human history, and how our short-sightedness about their causes and effects is going to change future human history, for the worse … unless the right people learn the lessons of this book.' Alex Rosenberg, Duke University
'Living on a warming planet, we struggle to imagine that it was periodically covered by vast sheets of ice. Allan Mazur, a master of calm, companionable, and often humorous prose, guides us through the various efforts humans - plucky survivors of the Pleistocene - have made to understand the Earth as well as their transformative and, it now turns out, damaging presence on it. An impressive synthetic effort, blending science and cultural history, Mazur's excellent Ice Ages gives us the tools necessary to participate knowledgeably in debates about climate disruption.' Christoph Irmscher, Indiana University; author of Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science
'This absolutely fascinating book weaves together the complicated strands of human endeavor that led to the great scientific discovery of ice ages on Earth. It should be read by everyone interested in the current pressing problem of global climate change, both natural and human induced.' George Denton, University of Maine
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Descriere
Fascinating history of scientific 'discovery' of Ice Ages, and implications for current social issues: glaciology and sociology writ large.