{"product_id":"the-last-lost-world-isbn-9780143123422","title":"The Last Lost World","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn enthralling scientific and cultural exploration of the Ice Age—from the author of \u003ci\u003eHow the Canyon Became Grand\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom a remarkable father-daughter team comes a dramatic synthesis of science and environmental history—an exploration of the geologic time scale and evolution twinned with the story of how, eventually, we have come to understand our own past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e            The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. \u003ci\u003eThe Last Lost World\u003c\/i\u003e is an inquiry into the conditions that made it, the themes that define it, and the creature that emerged dominant from it. At the same time, it tells the story of how we came to discover and understand this crucial period in the Earth’s history and what meanings it has for today.\u003c\/p\u003ePraise for THE LAST LOST WORLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Daughter-and-father historians of science pretty fully justify their profession  in this brilliant explanation of the most recent geological epoch […] For  science mavens of a philosophical bent, this may be the book of the year, a font  of knowledge and, what’s more and better, intellectual exercise.\" — \u003cb\u003eBooklist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Written  in clear, supple prose, this title will interest historians, anthropologists,  and anyone fascinated by the Ice Ages, human evolution, and the history of  science and culture.” \u003cbr\u003e — \u003cb\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lasting from about 3 million  to 10,000 years ago, the Pleistocene is both a geological epoch and an idea,  write science historians Stephen Pyne (\u003ci\u003eVoyager: Exploration, Space, and the Third Great Age  of Discovery\u003c\/i\u003e, 2011, etc.) and his daughter Lydia, who proceed to  deliver a perceptive account of both.\"\u003cbr\u003e — \u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[Pyne]  and his daughter dig right into the subject of the tumultuous, fascinating  Pleistocene and do […] a lively, bang-up job of it.”\u003cbr\u003e — \u003cb\u003eOpen Letters Monthly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eLydia V. Pyne\u003c\/b\u003e, a lecturer and visiting fellow at Drexel University, has done extensive fieldwork in archaeology and paleoanthropology. She lives in Philadelphia.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen J. Pyne\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eVoyager\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e Year of the Fires\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e The Ice\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHow the Canyon Became Grand\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other books. He lives in Glendale, Arizona.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305145684197,"sku":"NP9780143123422","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780143123422.jpg?v=1767740141","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-last-lost-world-isbn-9780143123422","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}