Země - 50 myšlenek, které musíte znát – Redfern Martin (2016)

The Earth is not just a 'concrete' sphere that we walk on. It is a living planet that is constantly in motion, and the various processes on its surface and within its core continuously influence each other. The author of this book aims to bring the latest geological insights closer to the reader and explain how knowledge from plate tectonics, the development of seismology, and satellite imaging allows us to understand the Earth as a constantly changing dynamic whole. He discusses individual natural processes, such as oceanic and atmospheric currents, climate, and the aforementioned plate tectonics. Among the 50 ideas that everyone should know are chapters on geological layers, the formation of the atmosphere, the movement of continents, volcanology, the life of simple and multicellular organisms, the snowball theory, supercontinents and historical continents, sexual selection, the Cambrian explosion, dinosaurs, the mystery of sauropods, the end of the Mesozoic, extinction at the end of the Cretaceous and the Cenozoic, the Holocene, global warming, the flood of the world, biodiversity, and the fate of the Earth as a whole.