The Cosmic Connection: How Astronomical Events Impact Life on Earth

by Jeff Kanipe

Book Overview

In this sweeping tour of the cosmos and our place within it, acclaimed science writer Jeff Kanipe shows the many ways we are connected to the vast universe we inhabit. Long before our apelike ancestors dropped from the trees and began playing with fire, even before the Sun emerged from its chrysalis of dust and irradiated its brood of planets, numberless and nameless astronomical events affected Earth and its emerging life-forms. Our chemical makeup--from...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591026679
• ISBN13: 9781591026679
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Prometheus Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"