Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time (Record no. 296815)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780198734840
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 363 SCO-B
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Andrew C. Scott
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Burning Planet: The Story of Fire Through Time
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. Oxford, UK
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Oxford University Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2018
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xi, 231 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Introducing fire -- Getting dirty: what charcoal can tell us -- Kindling -- The rise, fall, and rise of fire -- Fire, flowers, and dinosaurs -- Fire and the coming of the modern world -- Prometheus -- The future of fire.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Raging wildfires have devastated vast areas of California and Australia in recent years, and predictions are that we will see more of the same in coming years as a result of climate change. But this is nothing new. Since the dawn of life on land, large-scale fires have played their part in shaping life on Earth. Andrew C. Scott tells the whole story of fire's impact on our planet's atmosphere, climate, vegetation, ecology, and the evolution of plant and animal life. It has caused mass extinctions, and it has propelled the spread of flowering plants. The exciting evidence we can now draw on has been preserved in fossilized charcoal, found in rocks hundreds of millions of years old, from all over the world. These reveal incredibly fine details of prehistoric plants, and tell us about climates from deep in earth's history. They also give us insight into how early hominids and humans tamed fire and used it. Looking at the impact of wildfires in our own time, Scott also looks forward to how we might better manage them in future, as climate change has an increasing effect on our world.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Fire--History. Fire ecology. Forest fires. Wildfires. Fire management.
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        Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Dept. of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Processing Center 09/10/2018   363 SCO-B DCB3488 09/10/2018 09/10/2018 Book