How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind: Revised and Expanded Edition

How to Build a Habitable Planet: The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind - Revis. and Expanded Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-718

  Langmuir, Charles H ^a   Broecker, Wally ^b,c  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

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