Allan Mazur: Ice Ages | Buch

Cover: 9781316519400 | Ice Ages | Allan Mazur | Buch | Gebunden | Englisch | 2022

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Beschreibung

Fascinating history of scientific 'discovery' of Ice Ages, and implications for current social issues: glaciology and sociology writ large.

Über den Autor

Allan Mazur is a professor in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He has also worked in the aerospace industry. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is interested in biosociology and conflicts over science, technology, and the environment. He is author or co-author of over 200 academic publications and ten books, including Biosociology of Dominance and Deference (2005), Global Social Problems (2007), and True Warnings and False Alarms: Evaluating Fears about the Health Risks of Technology, 1948-1971 (2010).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. In the Beginning; 2. 'Bursting the Limits of Time'; 3. Darwin's Revolution; 4. Discovering an Age of Ice; 5. Why Does Climate Change? Orbits; 6. Dating Ice Age Climates; 7. Why Does Climate Change? Carbon Dioxide; 8. Why Does Climate Change? Continental Drift and Ocean Currents; 9. Ecce Homo; 10. How Did Extinct Hominins Behave?; 11. Life in the Paleolithic; 12. Extinction of Ice Age Mammals in Near Time; 13. The Agrarian Transformation; 14. Rise of Civilizations; References; Index.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2022
Fachbereich:	Geografie
Genre:	Geowissenschaften , Importe
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Inhalt:	Gebunden
ISBN-13:	9781316519400
ISBN-10:	1316519406
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Mazur, Allan
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	235 x 157 x 19 mm
Von/Mit:	Allan Mazur
Erscheinungsdatum:	10.02.2022
Gewicht:	0,554 kg