The Many Lives of Carbon.

Cover -- Title Page -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- Part I: Carbon, Carbon Everywhere -- Carbon in Everything -- Fire Explained -- The Master of Disguise: Soft, Hard and Round -- Nylon Tights and their Descendants -- Carbon on Wheels -- Plastic Fantastic -- Synthias as a Carbon Company -- To Build and to Burn: Carbon in the Life Equation -- From C3 to C4 - and the World's Most Important Protein -- Atomic Physics's Solution to Photosynthesis -- Photosynthesis in Reverse -- Good Neighbours -- C and 4H: A Hot Partnership -- The Benefits of Methane -- Archaea -- Part II: The C in Cycle -- The Keeling Curve -- A Swede before His Time -- One or Many Cycles? -- Pyramids, Chains and Webs -- The Carbon Queen Emiliania -- Borealis -- Paradise Lost -- The Long Carbon Cycle -- The Anthropocene -- Gaia and Feedbacks -- Bluer and More Acidic -- Methane Bombs -- Between a Snowball and Hell -- Oxygen's Evolution -- Nitrogen and Phosphorus: The Great Circulatory Changes -- Part III: The Footprint -- Paradise Lost II -- Shoe Size -- How Bad are Bananas? -- Petroholism's Withdrawal -- Afterlives -- References -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index.

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