Name: Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist can Help Save the World
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Author: Marcia Bjornerud
ISBN: 9780691202631

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Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist can Help Save the World

Type

Physical Book

Author

Marcia Bjornerud

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Year

2020

Language

English

Pages

224

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3 x 13.7 x 2.0 cm

Weight

0.20 kg.

ISBN13

9780691202631

Synopsis "Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist can Help Save the World "

Why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to our planetary survival Few of us have any conception of the enormous timescales of our planet's long history, and this narrow perspective underlies many of the environmental problems we are creating. The lifespan of Earth can seem unfathomable compared to the brevity of human existence, but this view of time denies our deep roots in Earth's history--and the magnitude of our effects on the planet. Timefulness reveals how knowing the rhythms of Earth's deep past and conceiving of time as a geologist does can give us the perspective we need for a more sustainable future. Featuring illustrations by Haley Hagerman, this compelling book offers a new way of thinking about our place in time, showing how our everyday lives are shaped by processes that vastly predate us, and how our actions today will in turn have consequences that will outlast us by generations. This edition includes discussion questions for reading groups.

Marcia Bjornerud

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Marcia Bjornerud es geóloga estructural y su investigación se centra en la física de los terremotos y la formación de montañas. Combina estudios de campo sobre la geología del lecho rocoso con modelos cuantitativos de mecánica de rocas. Ha realizado investigaciones en el Alto Ártico noruego (Svalbard) y Canadá (isla de Ellesmere), así como en Noruega continental, Italia, Nueva Zelanda y la región del Lago Superior.

Bjornerud es miembro de la Sociedad Geológica de América y ha sido becaria Fulbright Senior en la Universidad de Oslo, Noruega, y la Universidad de Otago, Nueva Zelanda. Colabora con The New Yorker , Wired, The Wall Street Journal y Los Angeles Times , y es autora de varios libros para público general: Reading the Rocks: The Autobiography of the Earth ; Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World y Geopedia: A Brief Compendium of Geologic Curiosities. Timefulness fue preseleccionado para el Premio PEN/EOWilson de Escritura Científica Literaria de 2019 y fue finalista del Premio del Libro de Ciencia y Tecnología del LA Times .

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