附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Energy balance sheets -- Circulation systems -- The essence of life -- Cosmic setting: dancing to ancient tunes -- Managing time -- Continents adrift -- The surface of events -- Life, rock and air -- Alchemy in stars -- Graveyard for comets -- Landscape for life -- What life is all about -- Genesis and the Deuteronomists -- Life's tender years -- Fumes from the engine room -- Continents shape climate -- Icehouse and greenhouse worlds -- Life becomes complicated -- Armageddon revisited -- Reaching for new horizons -- The ages of ice -- The human record -- All the world's a commodity.
