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Here on earth : a natural history of the planet / Tim Flannery.
- Title
- Here on earth : a natural history of the planet / Tim Flannery.
- Author
- Flannery, Tim F. (Tim Fridtjof), 1956-
- Publication
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press : Distributed by Publishers Group West, c2010.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | QE501 .F53 2010b | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xviii, 316 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- An explorer and environmentalist offers a natural history of the Earth as well as a biography of the human species.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Note
- "First published in 2010 in Australia by the Text Publishing Company, Melbourne"--T.p. verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-298) and index.
- Contents
- section 1: Mother Nature or monster earth? Evolution's motive force ; Of genes, mnemes and destruction ; Evolution's legacy ; A fresh look at earth ; The commonwealth of virtue -- section 2: A turbulent youth. Man the disrupter ; New worlds ; Biophilia -- section 3: Ever since agriculture. Superorganisms ; Superorganismic glue ; Ascent of the ultimate superorganism -- section 4: Toxic climax? War against nature ; Gaia-killers ; The eleventh hour? ; Undoing the work of ages -- section 5: Our present state. The stars of heaven ; Discounting the future ; Greed and the market ; Of war and inequality ; A new tool kit ; Governance ; Restoring the life-force -- section 6: An intelligent earth? What lies on the other side?
- ISBN
- 080211976X (hc)
- 9780802119766 (hc)
- LCCN
- ^^2011284319
- OCLC
- 669750173
- SCSB-12253226
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library