OK, so I admit I didn't check on the authors' scholarly credentials before picking this up -- if I had, I might not have been so disappointed to find that this is not, after all (not even in part) a book dealing with the way in which skeletons help the creatures populating today's world live their l...
TITLE: Skeletons: The Frame of Life AUTHORS: Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams DATE PUBLISHED: 2018 FORMAT: Hardcover ISBN-13: 9780198802105 __________________________ DESCRIPTION: "Over half a billion years ago life on earth took an incredible step in evolution, when animals learned t...
TITLE: The Planet in a Pebble AUTHOR: Jan Zalasiewicz DATE PUBLISHED: 2012 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 9780199645695 __________________________________________________________________ “Take a pebble. A slate pebble, say, from a beach in Wales. Look at its rich grey, cut by veins o...
TITLE: The Goldilocks Planet: The Four Billion Year Story of Earth's Climate AUTHOR: Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams DATE PUBLISHED: 2013 FORMAT: Paperback ISBN-13: 978-0-19-968350-5 The Goldilocks Planet: The Four Billion Year Story of Earth's Climate takes a look at the Earth'...
This book reinforced two ideas that I should have accepted by now: I know more than the average bear about geology,and books should never, never be written entirely in a sans-serif font.I've been working with earth scientists for ten years, so it would make sense that I know something about the top...
Was really looking forward to this, but the title and description are pretty misleading. It's really just a lecture on how geology works, and why so few things get preserved as fossils. It's not until Chapter 8 (out of 10!) that he finally gets into "OK, so what will humans have left behind in 10,00...
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