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The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood: A Geologist Invesigates Noah's Flood - Hardcover

Montgomery, David R.

 
9780393082395: The Rocks Don't Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah's Flood: A Geologist Invesigates Noah's Flood
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0393082393 ISBN 13: 9780393082395
Verlag: W W NORTON & CO, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Using rocks as proof, a geologist examines the great flood stories found in many cultures and religions and travels across countries and landscapes to discover a place where theology and science converge.

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David R. Montgomery is a professor of Earth and space sciences at the University of Washington. He studies the evolution of topography and the influence of geomorphological processes on ecological systems and human societies. He received a BS from Stanford University (1984, geology) and a PhD from UC Berkeley (1991, geomorphology). His field studies have included projects in the Philippines, eastern Tibet, South America, California, and the Pacific Northwest of North America. He is an elected Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and has received many awards throughout his career, including a MacArthur Fellowship and the Vega Medal. His books Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations, King of Fish: The Thousand-Year Run of Salmon, and The Rocks Don’t Lie: A Geologist Investigates Noah’s Flood have all won the Washington State Book Award in General Nonfiction. Montgomery’s Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life was a finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing. He also coauthored with Anne Biklé The Hidden Half of Nature and, most recently, What Your Food Ate: How to Heal Our Land and Reclaim Our Health. His books have been translated into ten languages. He is also a coauthor of the new textbook Essentials of Physical Geography with W. W. Norton.

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Verlag
W W NORTON & CO
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0393082393
ISBN 13 
9780393082395
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Anzahl der Seiten
302
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