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What on Earth Happened?
Christopher Lloyd
其他書名
... In Brief - The Complete Story of the Planet, Life and People from the Big Bang to the Present Day
出版Bloomsbury, 2009
主題History / GeneralHistory / WorldHistory / CivilizationScience / Life Sciences / BiologyScience / Earth Sciences / GeneralScience / Life Sciences / Evolution
ISBN14088021639781408802168
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=UJ-_wAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In What On Earth Happened?, Christopher Lloyd tells our story from the very beginning of time to the present day, taking giant narrative leaps across millennia and continents. Along the way, he explains exactly how Muslim conquests gave Spain its paella, how the Earth's collision with another young planet created the moon, how dragonflies the size of seagulls emerged out of the prehistoric waters, and how the Big Bang can be detected in your television.
Accessible and endlessly entertaining, this massive book draws on disciplines as wide-ranging astrophysics and anthropology and will appeal to experts, amateur enthusiasts and the simply curious alike. Completed by 250 colourful photographs, maps, historic paintings, engravings and specially commissioned illustrations, What on Earth Happened? takes an entertaining and informed sideways look at the last 13.7 billion years in the life of our universe.
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