Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth’s Past and Will Shape Our Future
Language: English
Published by Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2023
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Hardcover in dust jacket. An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all share. "It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reveals how microbes, plants, and people used the fundamental building blocks of life to alter the climate, and with it, the trajectory of life on Earth in the past, present, and future. Taking readers from the deep geologic past to our current era of human dominance, Stephen Porder focuses on five of life's essential elements--hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. He describes how single-celled cyanobacteria and plants harnessed them to wildly proliferate across the oceans and the land, only to eventually precipitate environmental catastrophes. He then brings us to the present, and shows how these elements underpin the success of human civilization, and how their mismanagement threatens similarly catastrophic unintended consequences. But, Porder argues, if we can learn from our world-changing predecessors, we can construct a more sustainable future. Blending conversational storytelling with the latest science, Porder takes us deep into the Amazon, across fresh lava flows in Hawaii, and to the cornfields of the American Midwest to illuminate a potential path to sustainability, informed by the constraints imposed by life's essential elements and the four-billion-year history of life on Earth." - From the publisher.…
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- Title
- Elemental: How Five Elements Changed Earth’s Past and Will Shape Our Future
- Author
- Porder, Stephen
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press, Princeton
- Publication year
- 2023
- Condition
- Fine
- Dust jacket
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0691177295
- ISBN 13
- 9780691177298
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 454 grams
- Dimensions
- 2.54 centimeters width by 14.61 centimeters height by 21.59 centimeters depth
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- Ecology
An ecologist explores how life itself shapes Earth using the elemental constituents we all share
It is rare for life to change Earth, yet three organisms have profoundly transformed our planet over the long course of its history. Elemental reveals how microbes, plants, and people used the fundamental building blocks of life to alter the climate, and with it, the trajectory of life on Earth in the past, present, and future.
Taking readers from the deep geologic past to our current era of human dominance, Stephen Porder focuses on five of life’s essential elements—hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, and phosphorus. He describes how single-celled cyanobacteria and plants harnessed them to wildly proliferate across the oceans and the land, only to eventually precipitate environmental catastrophes. He then brings us to the present, and shows how these elements underpin the success of human civilization, and how their mismanagement threatens similarly catastrophic unintended consequences. But, Porder argues, if we can learn from our world-changing predecessors, we can construct a more sustainable future.
Blending conversational storytelling with the latest science, Porder takes us deep into the Amazon, across fresh lava flows in Hawaii, and to the cornfields of the American Midwest to illuminate a potential path to sustainability, informed by the constraints imposed by life’s essential elements and the four-billion-year history of life on Earth.
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Book & Tackle located in downtown Port Orford, is the westernmost bookshop in the lower 48. We specialize in rare and unusual books and ephemera in all field, with a special focus on natural history, ecology, art, poetry, fishing, food & drink, foraging, rural arts, folk arts, the occult, anthropology, local histories, economics, gambling, & cryptography, as well as fly tying materials and tackle. We maintain a warehouse in neighboring Langlois, Oregon. Most of our inventory is not online, but we welcome your inquiries. Member ABAA / ILAB. B&T is a family owned and operated by Adam & Kate Davis, with their sons, Augie and Jack. Visitors to the shop may also run into Adam's parents, Stan and Debbie Davis. Stan Davis and the Davis boys also tie all the flies offered for sale in the shop. Adam & Kate have over 30 years experience in the rare book trade, and previously operated the bookshop and small press Division Leap.…
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