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Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum

William F. Ruddiman

  • 233 pages · about 4 hours
  • First published 2007
  • 4 editions
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1 About this book

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Good for readers who want: science, popular science, and climate change.

  • Science
  • Meteorology & Climatology
  • Environmental sciences
  • Earth sciences
  • History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science
  • Popular science
  • Philosophy & Social Aspects
  • Climatic changes

2 About William F. Ruddiman

Born 1943

William F. Ruddiman is a palaeoclimatologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. Ruddiman earned an undergraduate degree in geology in 1964 at Williams College, and a Ph.D. in marine geology from Columbia University in 1969. Ruddiman worked at the US Naval Oceanographic Office from 1969 to 1976, and at Columbia's Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory from 1976 to 1991.

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