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Explorers of Deep Time

Author : Roy Plotnick
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231551312
Total Pages : 483 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Explorers of Deep Time written by Roy Plotnick and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paleontology is one of the most visible yet most misunderstood fields of science. Children dream of becoming paleontologists when they grow up. Museum visitors flock to exhibits on dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals. The media reports on fossil discoveries and new clues to mass extinctions. Nonetheless, misconceptions abound: paleontologists are assumed only to be interested in dinosaurs, and they are all too often imagined as bearded white men in battered cowboy hats. Roy Plotnick provides a behind-the-scenes look at paleontology as it exists today in all its complexity. He explores the field’s aims, methods, and possibilities, with an emphasis on the compelling personal stories of the scientists who have made it a career. Paleontologists study the entire history of life on Earth; they do not only use hammers and chisels to unearth fossils but are just as likely to work with cutting-edge computing technology. Plotnick presents the big questions about life’s history that drive paleontological research and shows why knowledge of Earth’s past is essential to understanding present-day environmental crises. He introduces readers to the diverse group of people of all genders, races, and international backgrounds who make up the twenty-first-century paleontology community, foregrounding their perspectives and firsthand narratives. He also frankly discusses the many challenges that face the profession, with key takeaways for aspiring scientists. Candid and comprehensive, Explorers of Deep Time is essential reading for anyone curious about the everyday work of real-life paleontologists.

Deep Time

Author : Noah Heringman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691235791
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Deep Time written by Noah Heringman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-01-03 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Deep Time: A Literary History challenges the exclusive association between deep time and the modern science of geology by focusing on late Enlightenment writings that used narrative form to integrate new empirical data and methods with Western and non-Western traditions of chronology, earth history, and human origins. Choosing the mid-eighteenth century as a starting point, Heringman aims to demonstrate how deep time became associated with Earth history in the first place, expanding its conceptual domain to include colonial natural history, oral tradition, and scientific romance-all frontiers of the expanded time horizons associated with modernity. It considers the conceptual opening of a modern geological timescale in literary, scientific, and travel writing in the late-Enlightenment/Romantic period, with chapters on the explorer-naturalist team of John Reinhold and George Forster, who sailed with Captain Cook (1772-1775); Buffon's protogeochronological Epochs of Nature (1778); Herder, Blake, and prehistory through oral tradition; and Charles Darwin's dialogue with anthropology and archaeology, especially in The Descent of Man (1871). When eighteenth- and nineteenth-century explorers, naturalists, poets, and philosophers wrote about the "abyss of time," they referred to a large and diverse set of new ideas that unsettled the established time scale: ideas about cultural evolution inspired by Pacific peoples recently encountered by James Cook and other voyagers; a new sense of the depth and diversity of the Earth's strata, produced by increased attention to their structure and deposition; the study of oral traditions by poets and scholars associated with the ballad revival; and the study of non-Western scriptures such as the Mahabharata, which calculated time on an entirely different scale. The latter two pursuits dovetailed with the investigations of voyagers from Johann Reinhold Forster to Charles Darwin, who sought to measure the age of non-European civilizations by way of the geological age of their environments. Ultimately, Heringman argues that the concept of deep time, now associated primarily with modern geology, "was a composite of human and natural history to begin with.""--

Deep Time

Author : Rob Sangster
Publisher : Bell Bridge Books
ISBN 13 : 1611946506
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (119 download)

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Download or read book Deep Time written by Rob Sangster and published by Bell Bridge Books. This book was released on 2015-06-21 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EPIC Award Winner "Wild ride, in-depth characters, compelling plot, cutting-edge issues." Marq de Villiers, prize winning author, Order of Canada award. "Masterful, high-stakes suspense thriller." Lisa Turner, best selling mystery writer, Edgar Award nominee. A disaster lurks beneath the ocean floor. A riveting Jack Strider suspense Deep in the Earth's crust beneath the Pacific Ocean lies an ancient site likely to be the birthplace of life on our planet . . . And a portal into unimaginable forces and incredible wealth . . A place where large ships mysteriously disappear, including the vessel carrying Jack Strider's goddaughter, Katie . . . A greedy energy baron risks everything to pursue vast supplies of power trapped deep in the Pacific Ocean sea bed off the Oregon coast. But the man's psychopathic scheme is about to launch a terrifying tsunami that will destroy the entire west coast of the United States. Strider's beautiful, brilliant partner in law and love joins the fight, and Jack leads a desperate attack on the largest offshore platform ever built. Jack Strider may be the only man who can stop the disaster that is already underway . . . or maybe no one can. Rob Sangster's first Jack Strider novel, GROUND TRUTH, was #1 on Amazon Kindle. His second, DEEP TIME, won the 2017 EPIC Award for best suspense/thriller of the year. A Stanford lawyer with experience in finance, politics, and public service, he's an avid sailor who has travelled to more than 100 countries. Rob and his mystery writer wife divide their time between their homes in Tennessee and on the wild coast of Nova Scotia.

Time Machines

Author : Peter D. Ward
Publisher : Copernicus
ISBN 13 : 9781461272397
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (723 download)

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Download or read book Time Machines written by Peter D. Ward and published by Copernicus. This book was released on 2012-09-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the past? It is a time as well as a place. Acclaimed author Peter D. Ward describes the tools that contemporary scientists use to uncover facts about the past - terrain, climate, and the life forms that once inhabited this planet. Time Machines presents fascinating profiles of the deep past and the scientists who are making it come alive. "...for the general reader, Time Machines may be the most interesting book yet by the University of Washington prof..." -SEATTLE WEEKLY "For anyone interested in how and why as well as the what of paleontology, Time Machines is a must read."-AMERICAN SCIENTIST

Rebels, Scholars, Explorers

Author : Annalisa Berta
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421439719
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Rebels, Scholars, Explorers written by Annalisa Berta and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unearthing the amazing hidden stories of women who changed paleontology forever. For centuries, women have played key roles in defining and developing the field of vertebrate paleontology. Yet very little is known about these important paleontologists, and the true impacts of their contributions have remained obscure. In Rebels, Scholars, Explorers, Annalisa Berta and Susan Turner celebrate the history of women "bone hunters," delving into their fascinating lives and work. At the same time, they explore how the discipline has shaped our understanding of the history of life on Earth. Berta and Turner begin by presenting readers with a review of the emergence of vertebrate paleontology as a science, emphasizing the contributions of women to research topics and employment. This is followed by brief biographical sketches and explanations of early discoveries by women around the world over the past 200 years, including those who who held roles as researchers, educators, curators, artists, and preparators. Forging new territory, Berta and Turner highlight the barriers and challenges faced by women paleontologists, describing how some managed to overcome those obstacles in order to build careers in the field. Finally, drawing on interviews with a diverse group of contemporary paleontologists, who share their experiences and offer recommendations to aspiring fossil hunters, they provide perspectives on what work still needs to be done in order to ensure that women's contributions to the field are encouraged and celebrated. Uncovering and relating lost stories about the pivotal contributions of women in vertebrate paleontology doesn't just make for enthralling storytelling, but also helps ensure a richer and more diverse future for this vibrant field. Illuminating the discoveries, collections, and studies of fossil vertebrates conducted by women in vertebrate paleontology, Rebels, Scholars, Explorers will be on every paleontologist's most-wanted list and should find a broader audience in the burgeoning sector of readers from all backgrounds eager to learn about women in the sciences.

Explorers

Author : Gardner Dozois
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0312271506
Total Pages : 824 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Explorers written by Gardner Dozois and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2000-04-08 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distant planets, galaxies, alien races--the universe is vast and filled with an almost unimaginable range of possibilities. But imagine it we can. Here are more than twenty stories from the most inventive writers in the field, including: Poul Anderson * Stephen Baxter * Greg Bear * Gregory Benford * Arthur C. Clarke * Hal Clement * Greg Egan * H. B. Fyfe * R. A. Lafferty * Geoffrey A. Landis * Ursula K. Le Guin * Jack McDevitt * Larry Niven * G. David Nordley * Edgar Pangborn * Kim Stanley Robinson * James H. Schmitz * Cordwainer Smith * Michael Swanwick * James Tiptree, Jr. * John Varley * Vernor Vinge These are the stories of discovering those possibilities-the stories of the explorers and pioneers who push the envelope further out--exciting tales of alien landscapes and adventures on far distant shores that are the heart and soul of science fiction.

Earth Time

Author : Douglas Palmer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470022337
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Earth Time written by Douglas Palmer and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic history of planet Earth and the rocky road to understanding the past A probing account of the history of the earth and an introduction to the many eccentric characters that have attempted to understand its origins. Full of fascinating anecdotes about 19th century explorers and natural philosophers who first carved up Earth's history just as others were carving up the globe. Unravels the fascinating history of rock strata and the implications they have had on accepted theories on the Earth's life. Considers the future of the earth, and what a repeat of some of the catastrophic events of the earth's past, such as major earthquakes and asteroid collisions, could mean for life today.

Nineteenth-Century Explorers

Author : Britannica Educational Publishing
Publisher : Britanncia Educational Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1622750314
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Explorers written by Britannica Educational Publishing and published by Britanncia Educational Publishing. This book was released on 2013-06-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the once-fuzzy outlines of the global map had largely been defined by the 19th century, much had yet to be learned. As some explorers continued to search either for resources or for unknown regions, others increasingly embraced a new kind of discoverythat of scientific knowledge. Readers will journey alongside a host of notable explorers, accompanying Lewis and Clark on their famous expeditionduring which they both charted much of the United States and identified 178 new plantsand marvelling at Charles Darwins revolutionary findings in the Galapagos Islands. Their explorations and many others are chronicled within these pages.

A Social History of Knowledge II

Author : Peter Burke
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 0745650430
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book A Social History of Knowledge II written by Peter Burke and published by Polity. This book was released on 2012-01-17 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text argues that activities which appear to be timeless are in fact time-bound and take different forms in different periods and places. The book also tries to counter the tendency to write a triumphalist history of the 'growth' of knowledge by discussing losses of knowledge and the price of specialization.

Deep Time

Author : Riley Black
Publisher : Welbeck Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781787397439
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Deep Time written by Riley Black and published by Welbeck Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carving a timeline through the aeons of evolution that have taken place before our time on Earth, Deep Time explores the evidence that exists beneath our feet, in our museums, in the skies and surrounding us every day, which can help us to make sense of the great age of our world.

Deep Time

Author : Henry Gee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Deep Time written by Henry Gee and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Deep Time, Henry Gee, assistant editor of Nature, shows us that everything we think we know about evolution is wrong. He also reveals the scientific proof of what came first - the chicken or the egg. It was the egg. For a long time, popular scientists have told us that by looking at a fossilized bone we could tell whether it belonged to our ancestors or not. This is not true.

Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic

Author : Leena Cho
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003828787
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic written by Leena Cho and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic is a concise introductory guide to the design and planning of the built environments in the Arctic region. As the global forces of change are becoming more pronounced in the Arctic, the future trajectories for living environments, city-making processes, and their adaptive capacities need to be addressed directly. This book presents 11 new and original contributions from both leading and emerging scholars and practitioners, positioning the Arctic as a dynamic, diverse, and lived place at the nexus of unprecedented socioenvironmental transformations. The volume offers key concepts for understanding and spatializing Arctic cities and landscapes; similarities and differences in the development of design and planning approaches responsive to specific climatic and cultural conditions; and historical and geographic case studies that provide unique perspectives for the management of the built environment, from the scales of a building and infrastructure to cities and territories. Altogether, the contributions expand regional Arctic design scholarship to understand how the variability of the Arctic context influences the designed urban, architecture, and landscape systems, and offer numerous lessons for design and other forms of spatial practice both within and beyond the Arctic. This is a unique resource for researchers, creative practitioners, policymakers, and community decision-makers, as well as for advanced undergraduate and graduate students.

Times of History, Times of Nature

Author : Anders Ekström
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800733232
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Times of History, Times of Nature written by Anders Ekström and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2022-02-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As climate change becomes an increasingly important part of public discourse, the relationship between time in nature and history is changing. Nature can no longer be considered a slow and immobile background to human history, and the future can no longer be viewed as open and detached from the past. Times of History, Times of Nature engages with this historical shift in temporal sensibilities through a combination of detailed case studies and synthesizing efforts. Focusing on the history of knowledge, media theory, and environmental humanities, this volume explores the rich and nuanced notions of time and temporality that have emerged in response to climate change.

Inscriptions of Nature

Author : Pratik Chakrabarti
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN 13 : 1421438747
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Inscriptions of Nature written by Pratik Chakrabarti and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by the geological imagination of India as well as its landscape, people, past, and destiny, Inscriptions of Nature reveals how human evolution, myths, aboriginality, and colonial state formation fundamentally defined Indian antiquity.

Past Aways #4

Author :
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Past Aways #4 written by and published by Dark Horse Comics (Single Issues). This book was released on 2015-03-25 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The team battles a bizarre creature through a tear in space-time, but the mind behind the monster holds a secret that could change the PastAways' future! As they face a new kind of time paradox, the crew are also forced to contend with an internal plot against one of their own! * The next opus from **Matt Kindt** (_MIND MGMT_)! * The new arc kicks off with a bang! * Every issue contains bonus 2015 travelogues!

The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space

Author : Robert T. Tally Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317596935
Total Pages : 810 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space written by Robert T. Tally Jr. and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-01-06 with total page 810 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "spatial turn" in literary studies is transforming the way we think of the field. The Routledge Handbook of Literature and Space maps the key areas of spatiality within literary studies, offering a comprehensive overview but also pointing towards new and exciting directions of study. The interdisciplinary and global approach provides a thorough introduction and includes thirty-two essays on topics such as: Spatial theory and practice Critical methodologies Work sites Cities and the geography of urban experience Maps, territories, readings. The contributors to this volume demonstrate how a variety of romantic, realist, modernist, and postmodernist narratives represent the changing social spaces of their world, and of our own world system today.

Underland

Author : Robert Macfarlane
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 : 9780241143803
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Underland written by Robert Macfarlane and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 2019-05-02 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly anticipated new book from the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways 'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday Times 'Underland is a magnificent feat of writing, travelling and thinking that feels genuinely frontier pushing, unsettling and exploratory' Evening Standard 'Marvellous... Neverending curiosity, generosity of spirit, erudition, bravery and clarity... This is a book well worth reading' The Times 'Extraordinary... at once learned and readable, thrilling and beautifully written' Observer 'Attentive, thoughtful, finely honed... I turned the last page with the unusual conviction of having been in the company of a fine writer who is - who must surely be - a good man' Telegraph 'Poetry, science, a healthy sense of the uncanny and a touch of the shamanic are the hallmarks of his writing... This is a journey that tells the story not just of nature but of human nature. And there is noone I would more gladly follow on it' i 'Startling and memorable, charting invisible and vanishing worlds. Macfarlane has made himself Orpheus, the poet who ventures down to the darkest depths and returns - frighteningly alone-to sing of what he has seen' New Statesman Discover the hidden worlds beneath our feet... In Underland, Robert Macfarlane takes us on a journey into the worlds beneath our feet. From the ice-blue depths of Greenland's glaciers, to the underground networks by which trees communicate, from Bronze Age burial chambers to the rock art of remote Arctic sea-caves, this is a deep-time voyage into the planet's past and future. Global in its geography, gripping in its voice and haunting in its implications, Underland is a work of huge range and power, and a remarkable new chapter in Macfarlane's long-term exploration of landscape and the human heart. 'Macfarlane has invented a new kind of book, really a new genre entirely' The Irish Times 'He is the great nature writer, and nature poet, of this generation' Wall Street Journal 'Macfarlane has shown how utterly beautiful a brilliantly written travel book can still be' Observer onThe Old Ways 'Irradiated by a profound sense of wonder... Few books give such a sense of enchantment; it is a book to give to many, and to return to repeatedly' Independent on Landmarks 'It sets the imagination tingling...like reading a prose Odyssey sprinkled with imagist poems' The Sunday Times onThe Old Ways