Earth Sciences
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Weather: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFrom deciding the best day for a picnic, to the devastating effects of hurricanes and typhoons, the weather impacts our lives on a daily basis. Although new techniques allow us to forecast the weather… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Dunlop, Storm
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0199571317
- Language: English
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The Measure of All Things
$26.99 Add to cartIn June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would mak… [more below]
- Author: Alder, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0743216768
- Language: English
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Earth: The Definitive Visual Guide, New Edition
$50.00 Read moreExplore and understand the natural and human wonders of our planet.
Now, in its third edition, this landmark encyclopedia celebrates our planet and explains the science underpinning the forces and pro- Series: DK Definitive Visual Encyclopedias
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 07 2024
- ISBN10: 0744069831
- Language: English
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The Story of the Plate Tectonics Revolution: A Geology Coloring Book
$11.99 Add to cartIn 1915, a German meteorologist named Alfred Wegener came up with an idea. What if, he proposed, the continents moved around over the face of Earth? When Wegener published his thoughts, he was subject
- Author: Terry, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 62
- Publish Date: August 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0578946882
- Language: English
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The Deep Hot Biosphere: The Myth of Fossil Fuels
$54.99 Add to cartForeword by Freeman Dyson; (1) Our Garden of Eden; (2) Life at the Borders; (3) The Deep-Earth Gas Theory; (4) Evidence for Deep-Earth Gas; (5) Resolviong the Petroleum Paradox; (6) The Siljan Experim… [more below]
- Author: Gold, Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: November 06 1998
- ISBN10: 0387985468
- Language: English
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Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors
$30.00 Read moreA thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive. Human-made climate change may have begun in the last
- Author: Fagan, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 21, 2021
- ISBN10: 154175087X
- Language: English
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The Atlas of Mars: Mapping Its Geography and Geology
$58.00 Add to cartPlanetary scientist and educator Ken Coles has teamed up with Ken Tanaka from the United States Geological Survey’s Astrogeology team, and Phil Christensen, Principal Investigator of the Mars Odyssey … [more below]
- Author: Coles, Kenneth S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: August 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1107036291
- Language: English
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Field Guide to Snowflakes
$27.48 Add to cartThis pocket-size field guide to snowflakes is perfect for science- and weather-loving readers who are curious about these beautiful ice crystals.
Snowflakes begin as water vapor in the air. Just add a
- Author: Libbrecht, Kenneth George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01, 2016
- ISBN10: 0760349428
- Language: English
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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
$19.99 Add to cartFor more than a century we’ve known that much of human evolution occurred in an Ice Age. Starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to rise, the glaciers receded, and sea levels rose. The ris… [more below]
- Author: Fagan, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: December 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0465022820
- Language: English
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The Biosphere
$37.99 Add to cart“What Darwin did for life through time, Vernadsky did for life through space on a geological scale.” –Lynn Margulis This classic 1926 book is the first sustained expression of the idea, now widely ac… [more below]
- Author: Vernadsky, Vladimir I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: March 27 1998
- ISBN10: 038798268X
- Language: English
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An Integrated Framework for Structural Geology: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Rheology of Deformed Rocks
$40.00 Add to cartAN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
A modern and practice-oriented approach to structural geology
An Integrated Framework for Structural Geology: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Rheology of Defo
- Author: Wojtal, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1405106840
- Language: English
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Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity
$27.93 Add to cartA passionate eyewitness account of the mysteries and looming demise of glaciers–and what their fate means for our shared future
The ice sheets and glaciers that cover one-tenth of Earth’s land surfac- Author: Wadham, Jemma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0691241813
- Language: English
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Roadside Geology of Wyoming
$22.00 Add to cartAbove all else, Wyoming is a geological state. In every corner of every mountain range and basin within this big state there is a geological story recorded in the rocks. Here is the overall story of W… [more below]
- Series: Roadside Geology
- Author: Lageson, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: June 15 1991
- ISBN10: 0878422161
- Language: English
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The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
$19.99 Add to cartAll of Earth’s oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials. In The Blue Machine, physicist and oceanogr
- Author: Czerski, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086343
- Language: English
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Fire: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFire is rarely out of the headlines, from large natural wildfires raging across the Australian or Californian countrysides to the burning of buildings such as the disasters of Grenfell tower and Notre… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Scott, Andrew C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198830033
- Language: English
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Fossils: The Key to the Past
$24.95 Add to cart“Richard Fortey is without peer among science writers.”–Bill Bryson
In his accessible introduction to the study and meaning of fossils, the world-renowned paleontologist Richard Fortey provides a comp
- Author: Fortey, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1501700537
- Language: English
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Understanding Climate Change: With Sketchnotes
$27.99 Add to cartWhat is driving climate change? What impact does it have on the Earth’s ecosystems, our environment, and us? What can I do? This book explains in a clear and understandable way the interrelatio
- Author: Lesch, Harald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 163
- Publish Date: August 04 2023
- ISBN10: 3662663716
- Language: English
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50th Anniversary of the Metaphorical Butterfly Effect since Lorenz (1972): Multistability, Multiscale Predictability, and Sensitivity in Numerical Mod
$98.22 Add to cartThis year marks the 50th anniversary of the metaphorical butterfly effect, born from Edward Lorenz’s 1963 work on initial condition sensitivity. In 1972, it became a metaphor for illustrating how mino
- Author: Shen, Bo-Wen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 11 2023
- ISBN10: 3036589104
- Language: English
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Rock Pickers Guide to Lake Superior’s North Shore
$9.95 Add to cartGet this popular guide and start identifying all of those rocks seen on the beaches of the north shore of Lake Superior. Included are color illustrations of each type of rock, a description, tips for … [more below]
- Series: North Woods Naturalist Guides
- Author: Stensaas, Mark Sparky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 096737930X
- Language: English
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Hiking Oregon’s Geology
$21.95 Read more* 90 hikes, many off the beaten path
Visit tropical isl
* Appendices list hikes by rock age, collectible minerals or fossils present, and more; plus a new illustrated section on rock identification- Series: Hiking Geology
- Author: Allen, John Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0898868475
- Language: English
