Roston, Eric. <br/><br/>
The carbon age :  how life's core element has become civilization's greatest threat / 
Eric Roston. 
 - 1st U.S. ed. 
 - New York :  Walker & Co. :  Distributed to the trade by Macmillan,  2008. 
 - 309 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-293) and index. 
<br/><br/>Prologue: The strange case of carbon -- Pt. 1 : The natural. Out of the frying pan : carbon after the Big Bang ; Dancers and the dance : the origins of life ; The flood : molecular fossils and the great greenhouse collapse ; Inherent brutality : predators, defenses, and the ocean carbon cycle ; The witness : CO2 and a tree of life ; Body heat : running on carbohydrates and hydrocarbons -- Pt. 2 : The unnatural. Greased lightning : carbon and the car ; The physical restraint on fantasy : the art in carbon science ; Faster than a speeding bullet : antiballistic carbon ; The bell jar : humans and the hundredfold acceleration of the carbon cycle ; Instructions not included : the potential of biological fuels ; The adventures ahead : life with carbon, civilization without? 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780802715579 (alk. paper) 0802715575 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2008002754 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>QH344  / .R67 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>577.144 ROS