Robert M. Hazen
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
306 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
In this radical new approach to Earth's biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and national bestselling author Robert M. Hazen reveals how the co-evolution of the geosphere and biosphere--of rocks and living matter--has shaped our planet into the only one of its kind in the Solar System, if not the entire cosmos.
Publisher
Teaching Company
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
10 DVDs (1800 min.) : sd. col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 331 p. ; 19 cm.).
Description
English novelist and scientist C. P. Snow classed certain scientific ideas with the works of Shakespeare as things every educated person should know. The lectures in this series explore the fundamental discoveries and principles of the physical and biological sciences--physics, genetics, biology, astronomy, chemistry, meteorology, thermodynamics, and more--providing a comprehensive and integrated introduction to all of science. The Joy of Science,...