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Cover: 9780198734840 | Burning Planet | The Story of Fire Through Time | Andrew C Scott
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Burning Planet
The Story of Fire Through Time
Buch von Andrew C Scott
Sprache: Englisch

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Andrew Scott, who played a key role in identifying fossilized charcoal, describes the profound impact of fire through Earth history, from its role in mass extinctions and the spread of flowering plants, to early hominid use of fire, and the role of wildfires on landscapes today.
Andrew Scott, who played a key role in identifying fossilized charcoal, describes the profound impact of fire through Earth history, from its role in mass extinctions and the spread of flowering plants, to early hominid use of fire, and the role of wildfires on landscapes today.
Über den Autor
Andrew Scott is Emeritus Professor of Geology and a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has co-authored and edited several academic books on fire, most recently Fire on Earth: An Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), with David M. J. S. Bowman, William J. Bond, Stephen J. Pyne, and Martin E. Alexander. He appears regularly on radio and television science programmes.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • 1: Introducing fire - the shaper of Earth and life

  • 2: Getting dirty - charcoal and what it can tell us

  • 3: Kindling

  • 4: The rise, fall and rise of fire

  • 5: Fire, flowers and dinosaurs

  • 6: Fire and the coming of the modern world

  • 7: Prometheus

  • 8: The future of fire

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: Vor- & Frühgeschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780198734840
ISBN-10: 0198734840
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Scott, Andrew C
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 244 x 164 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Andrew C Scott
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2018
Gewicht: 0,521 kg
Artikel-ID: 110203960
Über den Autor
Andrew Scott is Emeritus Professor of Geology and a Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has co-authored and edited several academic books on fire, most recently Fire on Earth: An Introduction (Wiley-Blackwell, 2014), with David M. J. S. Bowman, William J. Bond, Stephen J. Pyne, and Martin E. Alexander. He appears regularly on radio and television science programmes.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Preface

  • 1: Introducing fire - the shaper of Earth and life

  • 2: Getting dirty - charcoal and what it can tell us

  • 3: Kindling

  • 4: The rise, fall and rise of fire

  • 5: Fire, flowers and dinosaurs

  • 6: Fire and the coming of the modern world

  • 7: Prometheus

  • 8: The future of fire

  • Notes

  • Bibliography

  • Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Jahrhundert: Vor- & Frühgeschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9780198734840
ISBN-10: 0198734840
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Scott, Andrew C
Hersteller: Oxford University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 244 x 164 x 27 mm
Von/Mit: Andrew C Scott
Erscheinungsdatum: 01.06.2018
Gewicht: 0,521 kg
Artikel-ID: 110203960
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