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Zusatztext 'An ambitious history of the planet from the Big Bang to the present day' Informationen zum Autor Christopher Lloyd graduated from Peterhouse! Cambridge! in 1991 with two scholarships and a double first-class degree in History. He then became a graduate trainee journalist on The Sunday Times newspaper and was trained at the City University where he gained a diploma in newspaper journalism. In 1993! Lloyd was appointed The Sunday Times Innovation Editor and won the 1994 Texaco award for Science Journalist of the Year. In 1997 Lloyd co-founded LineOne! a joint venture Internet Service business owned by BT and News International and later became a director of News Internationals' Internet activities. He qualified in direct marketing with a Cert DM from the Institute of Direct Marketing. In January 2001 Lloyd was recruited to become chief executive of Immersive Education! an education software publishing company based in Oxford. In 2006 he left Immersive Education to spend time travelling across Europe with his wife and two children! both of whom were home-educated. The time spent on the road travelling around Europe inspired him to come up with the concept for What on Earth Happened? Klappentext Subtitled! "The Complete Story Of The Planet! Life & People From The Big Bang To The Present Day". Draws on disciplines as wide ranging as astrophysics and anthropology to explain the last 13.7 billion years of the universe! explaining things such as the fact that the Muslim conquest of Spain gave it paella! and that dragonflies the size of seagulls once roamed the world. How old is the universe? How are humans related to a sponge? Where did most of the world's water come from? How much would a complete T Rex skeleton cost? Where did the Himalayas come from? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Zusammenfassung How old is the universe? How are humans related to a sponge? Where did most of the world's water come from? How much would a complete T Rex skeleton cost? Where did the Himalayas come from? Which came first! the chicken or the egg? ...
