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- Publisher: Harpercollins
- ISBN: 0007163649
- WAPI (Tower ID): 101562407
- Release Date: December 1, 2008
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- Tower.com Sales Rank: #148346 in Books (See Top 100 Books Bestsellers)
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Product DescriptionRun a Quick Search on "Eating the Sun" by Oliver Morton to Browse Related Products:Browse more products related to "Eating the Sun"Browse more products related to "Oliver Morton"Review"This original account of photosynthesis does what every popular-science work strives to do: provide a lucid-to-the-lay-reader explanation of a mundane or complex phenomenon. Yet Morton goes beyond that laudable achievement...., [providing] nothing less than a majestic terrestrial biography--a meticulous look at the history and future of the Earth itself." "Among current books about science, my favourite is Oliver Morton's EATING THE SUN, which makes a thriller out of photosynthesis." "Photosynthesis doesn't sound sexy, but Morton...has produced an account of it that fuses science with the history of science to convey its enormous, if nearly invisible, grandeur." Publisher's noteAn accessible introduction to photosynthesis by the author of Mapping Mars reveals how its mechanisms are linked to the history of life and to such contemporary issues as climate change and global food shortages. 20,000 first printing. AnnotationRenowned science journalist Oliver Morton has written an endlessly insightful layman's guide to one of the most mysterious and essential natural processes on the planet--photosynthesis. As Morton entertainingly illuminates the remarkable process by which plants transform sunlight into nutrition, and then expend a byproduct called oxygen (which the rest of us find pretty useful), his narrative expands to encompass the history of all life on earth. But Morton warns that this seemingly miraculous exchange, which we take entirely for granted, is extremely fragile, and is being increasingly disrupted as we "drown" the world's plant-life with our accelerating exhalations of carbon dioxide. If You Enjoy "Eating the Sun (Hardcover)", May We Also Recommend:Customer Reviews for "Eating the Sun (Hardcover)" by Oliver Morton (Author)There are no customer reviews yet. Be the first to write a review! Others Bestsellers
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