Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World
Marcia Bjornerud
#3489 of 3,809 books · #518 in Science & Technology
Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and Technology (2018).
Explains why an awareness of Earth's temporal rhythms is critical to planetary survival and offers suggestions for how to create a more time-literate society.
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- ISBN-13
- 9780691202631
- Genre
- Topics
Awards
- Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Science and TechnologyShortlisted(2018)
Other awarded books from Marcia Bjornerud
Marcia Bjornerud has no other awarded or shortlisted books yet.
If you liked Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World, you could also like these
Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle
Stephen Jay Gould
0 wins · 4 score
The Last Whole Earth Catalogue
Stewart Brand (editor)
1 win · 12 score
Strata: Stories from Deep Time
Laura Poppick
0 wins · 5 score
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Annalee Newitz
0 wins · 3 score
Becoming Earth: How Our Planet Came to Life
Ferris Jabr
0 wins · 3 score
The Earth: An Intimate History
Richard Fortey
0 wins · 3 score
The Abyss of Time: Changing Conceptions of the Earth's Antiquity after the Sixteenth Century
Claude C. Albritton
0 wins · 4 score
Adventures in the Anthropocene: A Journey to the Heart of the Planet We Made
Gaia Vince
1 win · 8 score
The Planet Remade: How Geoengineering Could Change the World
Oliver Morton
0 wins · 3 score
Believers: Making a Life at the End of the World
Lisa Wells
0 wins · 2 score
Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform
Martin J. S. Rudwick
0 wins · 3 score
What the Wild Sea Can Be: The Future of the World’s Ocean
Helen Scales
0 wins · 4 score
Despite It All: A Handbook for Climate Hopefuls
Fred Pearce
0 wins · 3 score
Transcendence
Gaia Vince
0 wins · 3 score
Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet
Mark Lynas
1 win · 8 score
Similar Topics
Annals of the Former World
John McPhee
1 win · 12 score
Geology
Countdown: Our Last, Best Hope for a Future on Earth?
Alan Weisman
1 win · 8 score
Environmental sustainability
Basin and Range
John McPhee
0 wins · 4 score
GeologyTime's Arrow, Time's Cycle
Stephen Jay Gould
0 wins · 4 score
Deep timeThe Earth: An Intimate History
Richard Fortey
0 wins · 3 score
Geology