Peter Brannen (1) (1983–)
Auteur de The Ends of the World
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Peter Brannen, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Peter Brannen is an award-winning science journalist whose work has appeared in the New York Times, The Atlantic, Wired, the Washington Post, Slate, the Boston Globe, and Aeon, among other publication. This is his first book.
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- Nom canonique
- Brannen, Peter
- Date de naissance
- 1983
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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I was going to skim this book not thinking I would want to read a book on the geological history of billions of years on earth, but I stopped slimming and became riveted. The ability of Brannen to make somewhat tangible the scale of the earth’s history and our rather insignificant part of that history is remarkable and depressing and it’s all going to end in 1.6 billion years no matter what. So, damn.
Really, are there only 3 women to be interviewed for this book?! Other than the complete lack of diversity in voices, I found the writing very engaging, I feel like I learned quite a bit, and I would recommend to geology enthusiasts.
Very good. The author was able to pain vivid images of the extinctions for me and I was able to understand the bio and geo mechanics involved. I liked his discussion of climate change at the end.
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- Œuvres
- 1
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- 1
- Membres
- 550
- Popularité
- #45,355
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 19
- ISBN
- 19
- Langues
- 2
The author is witty and at times, laugh-out-loud witty, but All. Those. Disasters.
If I owned the book, or if I had been the designer, I would put a timeline on the front endpaper as a reminder of geological eras, times, and extinctions that defined the periods and note chapter numbers and pages associated with each. On the back endpaper I might photocopy and paste one of those colourful charts you used to see in natural history books in the 1950s and 1960s showing different plant and animal groups, when they arose and when they vanished. It needs a little bit of visual material to orient this reader in time. It has an index though, which is always welcome.… (plus d'informations)