The carbon age : how life's core element has become civilization's greatest threat /: how life's core element has become civilization's greatest threat. (2010 2008)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Eric Roston.
• Other Names: Roston, Eric
• Contents: Prologue: The strange case of carbon -- pt. 1 : The natural. Out of the frying pan : carbon after the Big Bang ; Dancers and the dance : the origins of life ; The flood : molecular fossils and the great greenhouse collapse ; Inherent brutality : predators, defenses, and the ocean carbon cycle ; The witness : CO₂ and a tree of life ; Body heat : running on carbohydrates and hydrocarbons -- pt. 2 : The unnatural. Greased lightning : carbon and the car ; The physical restraint on fantasy : the art in carbon science ; Faster than a speeding bullet : antiballistic carbon ; The bell jar : humans and the hundredfold acceleration of the carbon cycle ; Instructions not included : the potential of biological fuels ; The adventures ahead : life with carbon, civilization without?
• Edition: E-book ed
• Publisher Details: New York : Walker & Co
• Publication Date: 2010
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 577/.144; Science -- Earth Sciences -- General; Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry); Science -- Environmental Science; Science -- Chemistry -- Organic; Science -- General; Science: general issues; Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry); Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780802778970; 0802778976
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.