The Story of Earth, (Paperback)

from unclebob53703

Boy you sure can tell he's a geologist--land plants and animals don't appear until the second to last chapter, and even then he's talking about rocks! The science in here is well explained, if simplified, and he does a good job of making everything that happened before life appeared seem dynamic ...

from AnnieMod

The history of the world started a long time before humans were even around; actually it started long before the planet was even here. This is the story that Hazen decides to tell in this book - and in his book, the human society is just the end of the journey for now (although he has a lot to sa...

from Devil_llama

This book traces the evolution of earth from the beginning to the present; in fact, it goes back before the beginning of the earth to discuss the big bang. It gets off to a rather shaky start, with two or three assurances to readers that if they want to believe in God, this is a good place to sta...

from GlennBell

This is an excellent book written by an expert in the topic. I am impressed by the breadth and depth of knowledge of the author. He covers all of history and then comments on the likely future. I would really like to learn from this guy. One suggestion would have been to include some graphical in...

from Niecierpek

It's a fantastic treatise that argues that minerals and rocks are an intimate part of evolution. Evolution is a fundamental process of the universe, not just in living organisms, but everywhere, at every level. We don't perceive rocks in our notion of evolution but they, just like elements evolvi...