Marcia Bjornerud is professor of geology and environmental studies at Lawrence University. She is the author of
Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth and a contributing writer for
Elements, the
New Yorker’s science and technology blog. She lives in Appleton, Wisconsin.
9 Ebooks por Marcia Bjornerud
Marcia Bjornerud: Timefulness
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 u …
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Marcia Bjornerud: Conciencia del tiempo
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 …
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Erv Schroeder: The Memory of Stone
This intimate portrait of the Colorado Plateau celebrates the landscape in photographs and writing. Erv Schroeder’s photographs bear witness to the primordial forces of the earth—the raw power that m …
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Marcia Bjornerud: Zeitbewusstheit
Den Zeitraum von neun Tagen, den ein Tropfen Wasser durchschnittlich in der Atmosphäre verbleibt, können wir leicht nachvollziehen. Aber die Hunderte von Jahren, die sich ein Molekül Kohlendioxid, da …
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Alemão
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Marcia Bjornerud: Geopedia
A garden of geologic delights for all Earthlings Geopedia is a trove of geologic wonders and the evocative terms that humans have devised to describe them. Featuring dozens of entries—from Acasta gne …
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Vincent Ialenti: Deep Time Reckoning
A guide to long-term thinking: how to envision the far future of Earth.We live on a planet careening toward environmental collapse that will be largely brought about by our own actions. And yet we st …
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Marcia Bjornerud & Steven H. Emerman: Liberation Science: Putting Science to Work for Social and Environmental Justice
Liberation Science is the practice of using the knowledge and methods of science to solve the social and environmental problems faced by the poor. Liberation Science can address these problems becaus …
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Marcia Bjornerud: Turning to Stone
‘Vast and arresting’ SPECTATOR’A remarkably human take on the geological world’ NEW STATESMANRocks are the record of our creative planet reinventing itself for four billion years. Nothing is ever los …
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