Ebook: Planet eartha beginner's guide

Cover; A Beginner's Guide; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Foreword; 1 A brief history of terrestrial time; 2 Our place in space; 3 Drifting continents and spreading seas; 4 What goes up must come down; 5 Inside and outside the Earth; 6 The changing Earth; 7 Fire on Earth; 8 Our changing planet; 9 Our changing climate; 10 Life and Earth; Appendix 1: The Earth in numbers; Appendix 2: The timescales of planet Earth; Further reading; Acknowledgements; Index.;In this incredible expedition into the origins, workings, and evolution of our home planet, John Gribbin, bestselling author of In Search of Schrödinger''s Cat, The Scientists, and In Search of the Multiverse, does what he does best: taking four and a half billion years of mind-boggling science and digging out the best bits. From the physics of Newton and the geology of Wegener, to the environmentalism of Lovelock, this is a must read for Earth's scientists and residents alike. Trained as an astrophysicist at Cambridge University, John Gribbin is currently Visiting Fellow in Astronomy at the.