PART ONE - NATURE'S EFFECT ON MAN
1. The Earth is Still Hot and Mobile
2. ...And from Time to Time Its Surface Moves Around
3. There Have Been Frequent Flooding and Sea-Level Change Events on
Earth
4. ...And Occasional Visitors from Outer Space
PART TWO - CHANGES IN CLIMATE AND LIFE ON EARTH
5. The Earth's Climate Changes on a Variety of Time Scales
6. ...And on Rare Occasions There Are Changes in Its Community of
Living Things
PART THREE - MAN'S EFFECT ON NATURE
7. Then Along Came Man and Man Has Effected Vast Environmental
Changes on a Local and Regional Scale
8. ...With the Potential for Equally Great Changes on a Global
Scale
9. The Most Fundamental Question Facing Mankind Today is Whether
Man Can Evolve to Live in Harmony with Nature
Charles Officer is Research Professor in the Earth Sciences
Department and Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth
College.
Jake Page has written some 450 books of fiction and nonfiction
along with hundreds of magazine articles and columns, mostly on the
natural sciences and American Indian affairs. He writes a regular
column for Destination Discovery called "Jake's Page".
"Tales of the Earth reads like 'Ripley's Believe It or Not' with
footnotes, but the authors are never less than scholarly. They
respond to catastrophe with curiosity, not panic: if we can't
banish natural disasters, we can at least learn to be better
stewards of the planet."--Newsweek
"Exceptionally lively....From hundreds of millions of years ago to
this summer, from droughts and ice ages and volcanoes to the black
plague, Officer and Page prance from topic to topic across the
aeons, providing an irresistible combination of history,
speculation, humor and 'hard science' explanation."--Washington
Post Book World
"Each chapter is jam-packed with interesting anecdotes to help
illustrate and drive home the impact of the various events
described....A very entertaining and informative book to
read...suggest it to anyone interested in the mechanisms (and their
results) of the world in which we live."-Douglas J. Galpin, Harvard
University
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