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: Ocean Worlds: The Story of Seas on Earth and Other Planets AUTHOR: Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams DATE PUBLISHED: 2014 FORMAT: Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0-19-967288-2 _____________________________________________ From the blurb: "Water, water everywhere? So it would seem, and ...
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 is going to be full of ranty rage. I was looking forward to this book for so, so long - and it sucked so, so much. Hate. HAAAATE! The writing itself was decent, but the continuity was awful, as was the way that the authors misunderstood the characters so much. I think any author...
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