Overview
What is the Turin Shroud? When were the Pyramids built? Why did the dinosaurs die out? How did the Earth take shape? With questions like these, says Chris Turney, time is of the essence. And understanding how we pinpoint the past, he cautions, is crucial to putting the present in perspective and planning for the future.
Full Product Details
Author: C. Turney
Publisher: Palgrave USA
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Edition: 2nd ed. 2006
Dimensions:
Width: 12.90cm
, Height: 1.70cm
, Length: 19.80cm
Weight: 0.296kg
ISBN: 9781403985996
ISBN 10: 1403985995
Pages: 188
Publication Date: 13 June 2006
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
If you like detective stories, you'll love this book. It should satisfy the hungriest of infovores. -- New Scientist absorbing...will appeal to a wide audience, particularly those who got a kick out of Blink or Freakonomics. -- Publishers Weekly A fabulous, entertainingly written account of the amazing science <br>behind calendars, dates and dating objects. Essential reading for anyone <br>interested in prehistory. Professor Tim Flannery, Director of the South Australian Museum<br> A rollicking run through the story of telling the time - lively and well-researched, with many fascinating stories. Professor Michael Benton, author of When Life Nearly Died <br> This delightful introduction successfully fuses history, prehistory and earth science. It captures the imagination from its first page, and then takes the reader on a fun and fact-filled world tour through the past. -- Professor Tim White, University of California at Berkeley What I like best about the book: It's a scie
If you like detective stories, you'll love this book. It should satisfy the hungriest of infovores. -- New Scientist absorbing...will appeal to a wide audience, particularly those who got a kick out of Blink or Freakonomics. -- Publishers Weekly A fabulous, entertainingly written account of the amazing science <br>behind calendars, dates and dating objects. Essential reading for anyone <br>interested in prehistory. Professor Tim Flannery, Director of the South Australian Museum<br> A rollicking run through the story of telling the time - lively and well-researched, with many fascinating stories. Professor Michael Benton, author of When Life Nearly Died <br> This delightful introduction successfully fuses history, prehistory and earth science. It captures the imagination from its first page, and then takes the reader on a fun and fact-filled world tour through the past. -- Professor Tim White, University of California at Berkeley What I like best about the book: It's a scientist clearly explaining what he does for a living and why it is important, at a level that any literate person can understand. Not an easy accomplishment. --scienceblogs.com/pharyngula 5/5: a book that tackles [these] issues is welcome indeed--that it succeeds so brilliantly is a wonderful surprise. -- Peter Andrews of the Natural History Museum, BBC Focus Magazine Well researched and covers a lot of ground in a splendidly personal style. Highly recommended -- Quaternary Australasia A fascinating guide to the measurement of time -- Chemistry World <br>
Author Information
CHRIS TURNEY is a British Geologist currently based at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He did the radiocarbon dating on the 'Hobbit' fossil of Flores, Indonesia, that hit the headlines worldwide. He has published numerous scientific papers and magazine articles and done many media interviews thanks to his infectious enthusiasm for working out how old things are.
