Earth Sciences
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The Secret Life of Dust: From the Cosmos to the Kitchen Counter, the Big Consequences of Little Things
$16.95 Add to cartHannah Holmes A mesmerizing expedition around our dusty world
Some see dust as dull and useless stuff. But in the hands of author Hannah Holmes, it becomes a dazzling and mysterious force; Dust, we dis… [more below]- Author: Holmes, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: March 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0471426350
- Language: English
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The Last Winter: The Scientists, Adventurers, Journeymen, and Mavericks Trying to Save the World
$18.99 Read moreOne man’s “curiously thrilling joyride” of travelogue, history, and climatology, across a planet on the brink of cataclysmic transformation (Donovan Hohn).
As the planet warms, winter is shrinking. In- Author: Fox, Porter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 15, 2022
- ISBN10: 0316460907
- Language: English
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The Starship and the Canoe
$18.95 Add to cart“The Starship and the Canoe is neither a wilderness survival manual nor a book of blueprints. It is another of those rare books impossible to define: the kind that seeks you in time. And you will know… [more below]
- Author: Brower, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 15 2020
- ISBN10: 1680512781
- Language: English
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The Handy Geography Answer Book
$54.95 Add to cartThe world, its people, its countries, its history, the maps, and more
Geography is more than just maps and finding your destination. It is about the land, the people on that land, the delicate balan
- Series: Handy Answer Books
- Author: Tucci, Paul A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1578595762
- Language: English
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Geology Book (Wonders of Creation Series) [With Pull-Out Poster]
$18.99 Add to cartRocks firmly anchored to the ground and rocks floating through space fascinate us. Jewelry, houses, and roads are just some of the ways we use what has been made from geologic processes to advance civ… [more below]
- Series: Wonders of Creation
- Author: Morris, John Dr
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: December 22 2000
- ISBN10: 0890512817
- Language: English
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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 Add to cartExplore 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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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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