|                           Apocalyptic Planet                               |
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 |                  Field Guide to the Everending Earth                       |
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 | DATE: 2013-05-06  SIZE: 1,92MB   DISKS: 01_______4,77MB      PAGES:        |
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 | PUBLISHER: Pantheon                          GENRE: Non-Fiction            |
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 | AUTHOR: Craig Childs                                                       |
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 | FORMAT: EPUB   PROTECTION: DRM     EDITION:                                |
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 | URL: http://www.booksamillion.com/p/Apocalyptic-Planet/Childs-Craig/Q371327770
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 | LANGUAGE: English   ISBN: 9780307907813                                    |
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 : The earth has died many times, and it always comes back looking different. :
 : In an exhilarating, surprising exploration of our planet, Craig Childs     :
 : takes readers on a firsthand journey through apocalypse, touching the truth:
 : behind the speculation. Apocalyptic Planet is a combination of science and :
 : adventure that reveals the ways in which our world is constantly moving    :
 : toward its end and how we can change our place within the cycles and       :
 : episodes that rule it.                                                     :
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 : In this riveting narrative, Childs makes clear that ours is not a stable   :
 : planet, that it is prone to sudden, violent natural disasters and extremes :
 : of climate. Alternate futures, many not so pretty, are constantly waiting  :
 : in the wings. Childs refutes the idea of an apocalyptic end to the earth   :
 : and finds clues to its more inevitable end in some of the most physically  :
 : challenging places on the globe. He travels from the deserts of Chile, the :
 : driest in the world, to the genetic wasteland of central Iowa to the site  :
 : of the drowned land bridge of the Bering Sea, uncovering the               :
 : micro-cataclysms that predict the macro: forthcoming ice ages,             :
 : super-volcanoes, and the conclusion of planetary life cycles. Childs       :
 : delivers a sensual feast in his descriptions of the natural world and a    :
 : bounty of unequivocal science that provides us with an unprecedented       :
 : understanding of our future.                                               :