Marcia Bjornerud
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Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society.
"Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival: Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales in our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating for ourselves. The passage of...
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"Geopedia is a brief compendium of geological facts and lore, by the award-winning author of Timefulness"--
"A garden of geologic delights for all EarthlingsGeopedia is a trove of geologic wonders and the evocative terms that humans have devised to describe them. Featuring dozens of entries-from Acasta gneiss to Zircon-this illustrated compendium is brimming with lapidary and lexical insights that will delight rockhounds and word lovers alike.Geoscientists...
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El tiempo es uno para los seres humanos y otro radicalmente distinto para el planeta en que vivimos. Agobiados por el fugaz presente, por la inmediatez de nuestros problemas y anhelos, solemos perder de vista el pausado ritmo que ha dado forma a este esferoide que gira en torno al Sol. Las transformaciones de la Tierra no sólo son apasionantes-tanto como los esfuerzos científicos por desentrañarlas observando la corteza terrestre, extrayendo registros...
