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Carbon : the book of life / Paul Hawken.
An exploration of carbon's vital role in sustaining life, revealing its profound connections to nature, humanity and the planet's history, while offering a hopeful perspective on embracing its potential to shape a sustainable future.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780525427445 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 243 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: New York : Viking, [2025]
- Copyright: ©2025
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-229) and index. |
Search for related items by subject
| Subject: | Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry) Carbon > Environmental aspects. Carbon > Physiological effect. Chemistry, Organic. Climatic changes > Effect of human beings on. Green movement > Philosophy. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 577.144 Haw | 31681010411312 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
An exploration of carbon's vital role in sustaining life, revealing its profound connections to nature, humanity and the planet's history, while offering a hopeful perspective on embracing its potential to shape a sustainable future. - Baker & Taylor
An exploration of carbonâs vital role in sustaining life, revealing its profound connections to nature, humanity and the planetâs history, while offering a hopeful perspective on embracing its potential to shape a sustainable future. - Penguin Putnam
A journey into the world of carbon, the most versatile element on the planet, by the New York Times bestselling author Paul Hawken
Carbon is the only element that animates the entirety of the living world. Though comprising a tiny fraction of Earthâs composition, our planet is lifeless without it. Yet it is maligned as the driver of climate change, scorned as an errant element blamed for the possible demise of civilization.
Here, Paul Hawken looks at the flow of life through the lens of carbon. Embracing a panoramic view of carbonâs omnipresence, he explores how this ubiquitous and essential element extends into every aperture of existence and shapes the entire fabric of life. Hawken charts a course across our planetary history, guiding us into the realms of plants, animals, insects, fungi, food, and farms to offer a new narrative for embracing carbonâs life-giving power and its possibilities for the future of human endeavor.
In this stirring, hopeful, and deeply humane book, Hawken illuminates the subtle connections between carbon and our collective human experience and asks us to see nature, carbon, and ourselves as exquisitely intertwinedâinseparably connected.
