Language of the Earth : [a literary anthology] /
Man's complex relationship to planet Earth is explored in this new edition of the tandmark literary anthology, Language of the Earth. This volume provides a portrait of the planet as experienced not just by scientists, but by artists, aviators, poets, philosophers, novelists, historians, and so...
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2008
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Table of Contents:
- Eyewitness accounts of earth events
- Exploration
- Geologists are also human
- Celebrities
- Philosophy
- Fossil record
- Geotectonics
- Controversies
- Prose
- Poetry
- Art
- Human history
- Resources
- Benevolent planet
- Pt. 1 The Earth Experienced
- 1. Eyewitness Accounts of Earth Events
- 1-1. Los Angeles Against the Mountains / John McPhee
- 1-2. The Night the Mountain Fell / Gordon Gaskell
- 1-3. The Turtle Mountain Slide / R. G. McConnell and R. W. Brock
- 1-4. Candide / Voltaire
- 1-5. The Lisbon Earthquake / James R. Newman
- 1-6. The Temblor / Mary Austin
- 1-7. The Alaskan Good Friday Earthquake / Jonathan Weiner
- 1-8. Tsunami / Francis P. Shepard
- 1-9. Not a Very Sensible Place for a Stroll / Haroun Tazieff
- 1-10. Last Days of St. Pierre / Fairfax Downey
- 1-11. Beacons on the Passage Out / Hans Cloos
- 1-12. Eruption of the Oraefajokull, 1727 / Jon Thorlakson
- 2. Exploration
- 2-1. The Voyage of the Beagle / Charles Darwin
- 2-2. The Map that Changed the World / Simon Winchester
- 2-3. The Exploration of the Colorado River / John Wesley Powell
- 2-4. Mono Lake-Aurora-Sonora Pass / William H. Brewer
- 2-5. Thrills in Fossil Hunting / George F. Sternberg
- 2-6. The Creative Explosion / John E. Pfeiffer
- 2-7. Attending Marvels: A Patagonian Journal / George Gaylord Simpson
- 2-8. Explorations / Robert D. Ballard
- 2-9. The Blue Planet / Louise B. Young
- 3. Geologists are also Human
- 3-1. Stepping Stones / Stephen Drury
- 3-2. William Buckland / Elizabeth O. B. Gordon
- 3-3. The Old Red Sandstone / Hugh Miller
- 3-4. A Long Life's Work / Archibald Geikie
- 3-5. Life, Time, and Darwin / Frank H. T. Rhodes
- 3-6. King's Formative Years / R. A. Bartlett
- 3-7. With Shackleton in the Antarctic / M. E. David
- 3-8. The Great Diamond Hoax / William H. Goetzmann
- 3-9. Sand, Wind, and War / Luna B. Leopold, Paul D. Komar and Vance Haynes
- 3-10. Ship's Wake / Hans Cloos
- 4. Celebrities
- 4-1. Benjamin Franklin and the Gulf Stream / H. Stommel
- 4-2. Leonardo Da Vinci as a Geologist / Thomas Clements
- 4-3. Mineralogy, Geology, Meteorology / R. Magnus
- 4-4. Megalonyx, Mammoth, and Mother Earth / E. T. Martin
- 4-5. Three Short, Happy Months / William A. Stanley
- 4-6. Mountain-Worship / W. G. Collingwood
- 4-7. Stanford University, 1891-1895 / Herbert C. Hoover
- Pt. 2. Interpreting the Earth
- 5. Philosophy
- 5-1. Concerning the System of the Earth, its Duration and Stability / James Hutton
- 5-2. The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses / T. C. Chamberln
- 5-3. Historical Science / George Gaylord Simpson
- 5-4. What is a Species? / Stephen Jay Gould
- 5-5. Messages in Stone / Christine Turner
- 5-6. Natural Science, Natural Resources, and the Nature of Nature / Marcia G. Bjorneurd
- 5-7. Does God Play Dice? / Ian Stewart
- 6. The Fossil Record
- 6-1. Earth and Man / Frank H. T. Rhodes
- 6-2. Flowering Earth / Donald Culross Peattie
- 6-3. Habits and Habitats / Robert Claiborne
- 6-4. Diplodocus, The Dinosaur / James A. Michener
- 6-5. A Window on the Oligocene / Berton Roueche
- 6-6. A Fish Caught in Time / Samantha Weinberg
- 6-7. Ape-like Ancestors / Richard E. Leakey
- 6-8. The Relic Men / Loren Eiseley
- 7. Geotectonics
- 7-1. From the Boundless Deep & the Birth of the Rockies / James A. Michener
- 7-2. When Pigs Ruled the Earth / Anna Grayson
- 7-3. The Living Planet / David Attenborough
- 7-4. The Road to Jaramillo / William Glen
- 7-5. Mao's Almanac: 3,000 Years of Killer Earthquakes / J. Tuzo Wilson
- 7-6. Geologic Jeopardy / Richard H. Jahns
- 8. Controversies
- 8-1. Apes, Angels, and Victorians / William Irvine
- 8-2. The Great Piltdown Hoax / William L. Straus, Jr.
- 8-3. Fossils and Free Enterprisers / Howard S. Miller
- 8-4. The K-T Extinction / Charles Officer and Jake Page
- 8-5. The Founders of Geology / Archibald Geikie
- 8-6. To a Rocky Moon / Don E. Wilhelms
- 8-7. Properties and Composition of Lunar Materials: Earth Analogies / Edward Schreiber and Orson L. Anderson
- 8-8. CFCs / Joel L. Swerdlow
- Pt. 3. Language of the Earth
- 9. Prose
- 9-1. Out of Africa / Isak Dinesen
- 9-2. Seven Pillars of Wisdom / T. E. Lawrence
- 9-3. Green Hills of Africa / Ernest Hemingway
- 9-4. Wind, Sand and Stars / Antoine de Saint-Exupery
- 9-5. The French Lieutenant's Woman / John Fowles
- 9-6. Trip to the Middle and North Forks of San Joaquin River / John Muir
- 9-7. Roughing It / Mark Twain
- 9-8. A Place on the Glacial Till / Thomas Fairchild Sherman
- 9-9. Basin and Range / John McPhee
- 9-10. Neanderthal / John Darnton
- 9-11. Antarctica / Kim Stanley Robinson
- 9-12. The Lost World / Arthur Conan Doyle
- 10. Poetry
- 10-1. Landscape and Literature / Archibald Geikie
- 10-2. The Excursion / William Wordsworth
- 10-3. The Lisbon Earthquake / Voltaire ̃-- 10-4. The Fountains of the Earth / C. S. Rafinesque
- 10-5. To a Trilobite / Timothy A. Conrad
- 10-6. A Shropshire Lad / A. E. Housman
- 10-7. Mente et Malleo / Andrew C. Lawson
- 10-8. Selected Poems / John Stuart Blackie
- 10-9. Lyell's Hypothesis Again / Kenneth Rexroth
- 10-10. Selected Poems / A. R. Ammons
- 10-11. Stone / Charles Simic
- 10-12. Fossils / J. T. Barbarese
- 10-13. Rock / Jane Hirshfield
- 10-14. Poetry Matters: Gary Snyder / W. Scott McLean, Eldridge M. Moores and David A. Robertson
- 10-15. Where Shall Wisdom Be Found? / The Book of Job
- 11. Art
- 11-1. A Land: Sculpture / Jacquetta Hawkes
- 11-2. Beyond Modern Sculpture / Jack Burnham
- 11-3. Time's Profile: John Wesley Powell, Art, and Geology at the Grand Canyon / Elizabeth C. Childs
- 11-4. Thomas Moran: American Landscape Painter / R. A. Bartlett
- 11-5. Earth Calling / Diane Ackerman
- Pt. 4. The Crowded Planet
- 12. Human History
- 12-1. Minerals and World History / John D. Ridge
- 12-2. A Land: Architecture / Jacquetta Hawkes
- 12-3. The Geologic and Topographic Setting of Cities / Donald F. Eschman and Melvin G. Marcus
- 12-4. Topography and Strategy in the War / Douglas W. Johnson
- 12-5. Geology and Crime / John McPhee
- 12-6. Tambora and Krakatau / Kenneth E. F. Watt
- 12-7. Mortgaging the Old Homestead / Lord Ritchie-Calder
- 12-8. Breathing the Future and the Past / Harlow Shapley
- 13. Resources
- 13-1. Wealth from the Salt Seas / Rachel L. Carson
- 13-2. Minerals, People, and the Future / Charles F. Park, Jr.
- 13-3. The Bingham Canyon Pit / M. Dane Picard
- 13-4. The Geological Attitude / John G. C. M. Fuller
- 13-5. Geology - For Human Needs / Michel T. Halbouty
- 14. Benevolent Planet
- 14-1. Gaia / James Lovelock
- 14-2. The Web of Life / Fritjof Capra
- 14-3. Remember the Land / Charles Morgan
- 14-4. Rachel Carson: The Idea of Environment / Gabriele Kass-Simon
- 14-5. Silent Spring / Rachel L. Carson
- 14-6. Who is El Nino? / S. George Philander
- 14-7. Essay on the Earth Sciences / National Research Council
- 14-8. The Round Walls of Home / Diane Ackerman
- 14-9. The Butterfly Effect / Ernest Zebrowski, Jr.
- 14-10. Pale Blue Dot / Carl Sagan.
- The Earth experienced
- Eyewitness accounts of Earth events
- Exploration
- Geologists are also human
- Celebrities
- Interpreting the Earth
- Philosophy
- The fossil record
- Geotectonics
- Controversies
- Language of the Earth
- Prose
- Poetry
- Art
- The crowded planet
- Human history
- Resources
- Benevolent planet