Planet Earth Class Exhibit
Collection Items
The Mortal Sea: Fishing the Atlantic in the Age of Sail
Since the Viking ascendancy in the Middle Ages, the Atlantic has shaped the lives of people who depend upon it for survival. And just as surely, people have shaped the Atlantic. In his innovative account of this interdependency, W. Jeffrey Bolster, a…
The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, From Stardust to Living Planet
Earth evolves. From first atom to molecule, mineral to magma, granite crust to single cell to verdant living landscape, ours is a planet constantly in flux. In this radical new approach to Earth’s biography, senior Carnegie Institution researcher and…
Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity’s Unappeasable Appetite for Energy
We don't often recognize the humble activity of cooking for the revolutionary cultural adaptation that it is. But when the hearth fires started burning in the Paleolithic, humankind broadened the exploitation of food and initiated an avalanche of…