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Earth Time: Exploring the Deep Past from Victorian England to the Grand Canyon
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| Added by: jaybeere | Karma: 320.01 | Non-Fiction » Science literature | 15 August 2007 |
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Earth Time
Exploring the Deep Past from Victorian England to the Grand Canyon
by Douglas Palmer
The dramatic history of planet Earth and the rocky road to understanding the past
* A probing account of the history of the earth and an introduction to the many eccentric
characters that have attempted to understand its origins.
* Full of fascinating anecdotes about 19th century explorers and natural philosophers who first
carved up Earth's history just as others were carving up the globe.
* Unravels the fascinating history of rock strata and the implications they have had on accepted
theories on the Earth's life.
* Considers the future of the earth, and what a repeat of some of the catastrophic events of the
earth's past, such as major earthquakes and asteroid collisions, could mean for life today. |
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| Tags: history, Earth, fascinating, Exploring, Earths |
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The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life (book)
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| Added by: cumartesileri | Karma: 111.83 | Fiction literature | 22 June 2007 |
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The Body Electric: Electromagnetism and the Foundation of Life
By Robert Becker, Gary Selden
The Body Electric tells the fascinating story of our bioelectric selves. Robert O. Becker, a pioneer in the filed of regeneration and its relationship to electrical currents in living things, challenges the established mechanistic understanding of the body. He found clues to the healing process in the long-discarded theory that electricity is vital to life. But as exciting as Becker's discoveries are, pointing to the day when human limbs, spinal cords, and organs may be regenerated after they have been damaged, equally fascinating is the story of Becker's struggle to do such original work. The Body Electric explores new pathways in our understanding of evolution, acupuncture, psychic phenomena, and healing.
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