From the Book - 1st U.S. ed.
Prologue: The Strange Case of Carbon
1. Out of the Frying Pan: Carbon After the Big Bang
2. Dancers and the Dance: The Origins of Life
3. The Flood: Molecular Fossils and the Great Greenhouse Collapse
4. Inherent Brutality: Predators, Defenses, and the Ocean Carbon Cycle
5. The Witness: CO[subscript 2] and a Tree of Life
6. Body Heat: Running on Carbohydrates and Hydrocarbons
7. Greased Lightning: Carbon and the Car
8. The Physical Restraint on Fantasy: The Art in Carbon Science
9. Faster Than a Speeding Bullet: Antiballistic Carbon
10. The Bell Jar: Humans and the Hundredfold Acceleration of the Carbon Cycle
11. Instructions Not Included: The Potential of Biological Fuels
12. The Adventures Ahead: Life With Carbon, Civilization Without?
