Author:
Roston, Eric.
Edition Statement:1st U.S. ed.
Imprint:New York : Walker : Distributed to the trade by Macmillan, 2008.
Description309 p. : ill. ; 25 cm
Note:Prologue: The strange case of carbon -- Pt. 1 : The natural. Out of the frying pan : carbon after the Big Bang ; Dancers and the dance : the origins of life ; The flood : molecular fossils and the great greenhouse collapse ; Inherent brutality : predators, defenses, and the ocean carbon cycle ; The witness : CO2 and a tree of life ; Body heat : running on carbohydrates and hydrocarbons -- Pt. 2 : The unnatural. Greased lightning : carbon and the car ; The physical restraint on fantasy : the art in carbon science ; Faster than a speeding bullet : antiballistic carbon ; The bell jar : humans and the hundredfold acceleration of the carbon cycle ; Instructions not included : the potential of biological fuels ; The adventures ahead : life with carbon, civilization without?
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references.
