Earth Sciences
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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 Add to cart* 90 hikes, many off the beaten path
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* 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
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Geometry of Complex Numbers
$16.95 Add to cartIlluminating, widely praised book on analytic geometry of circles, the Moebius transformation, and 2-dimensional non-Euclidean geometries. “This book should be in every library, and every expert in cl… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Mathematics
- Author: Schwerdtfeger, Hans
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1980
- ISBN10: 0486638308
- Language: English
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Climate: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn this wide-ranging Very Short Introduction to climate, Mark Maslin considers all aspects of the global climate system, exploring and explaining the different components that control climate on Earth… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Maslin, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0199641137
- Language: English
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Chicago in Stone and Clay: A Guide to the Windy City’s Architectural Geology
$24.95 Add to cartChicago in Stone and Clay explores the interplay between the city’s most architecturally significant sites, the materials they’re made of, and the sediments and bedrock they are anchored in. This uniq
- Author: Wiggers, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 150176506X
- Language: English
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Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures
$17.99 Add to cartWho is Marco Polo and why does his name sound so familiar? Yet why do most people seem to have no idea about who he is?
This book takes you eight centuries back in time to journey with one of the most
- Author: Towle, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 139632108X
- Language: English
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Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet
$36.42 Add to cartThe compelling and adventurous stories of seven pioneering scientists who were at the forefront of what we now call climate science.
From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds- Author: Dry, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0226816842
- Language: English
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Flashes of Brilliance: The Science and Wonder of Arizona Lightning
$32.99 Add to cart- Author: Holle, Ronald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 231
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 3031198786
- Language: English
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New Mexico’s Magnificent Sandia Mountain (Hardcover): The Complete Geological Story
$50.00 Add to cartThe magnificent Sandia Mountain forms an enormous rampart towering over the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Regionally, the feature’s distinctive “whale back” profile utterly dominates the horizon wi
- Author: Van Hart, Dirk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: October 04 2023
- ISBN10: 163293650X
- Language: English
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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History
$22.00 Add to cartRain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive.
It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world’s water. Yet this is the first book to- Author: Barnett, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 05, 2016
- ISBN10: 0804137110
- Language: English
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The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies
$20.00 Add to cartWinner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
The early years of the nineteenth century saw an intriguing yet little-known scientific advance catapult a shy young Quaker to the dizzy heights of fame. The- Author: Hamblyn, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420013
- Language: English
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Heaven’s Breath: A Natural History of the Wind
$19.95 Read moreA “comprehensive and fascinating study” of how wind has shaped the world as we know it, affecting all aspects of human and natural life—from geography to political history, plant life to psychology, … [more below]
- Author: Watson, Lyall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 13 2019
- ISBN10: 1681373696
- Language: English
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Top 100 Interesting Earth Facts for Kids – Earth Science for 6 Year Olds Children’s Science Education Books
$17.99 Add to cartBecause kids are exposed to earth science all the time, their knowledge would naturally grow. Along with observations, there will definitely be questions. If mommy or daddy is not around to answer tho… [more below]
- Author: Baby Professor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: March 15 2017
- ISBN10: 1541910591
- Language: English
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Origins: The Evolution of Continents, Oceans, and Life
$45.00 Add to cartChanges in climate and sea level are nothing new – over the last 700 million years, the Earth has been slowly but constantly changing from within. We now know that our planet’s surface, far from being
- Author: Redfern, Ron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 15 2001
- ISBN10: 0806133597
- Language: English
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The Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration
$29.95 Add to cartUntil a few decades ago, the ocean depths were almost as mysterious and inaccessible as outer space. Oceans cover two-thirds of the earth’s surface with an average depth of more than two miles–yet hu
- Series: Princeton Science Library #50
- Author: Ballard, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175624
- Language: English
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Dynamic Programming: Models and Applications
$16.95 Add to cartIntroduction to sequential decision processes covers use of dynamic programming in studying models of resource allocation, methods for approximating solutions of control problems in continuous time, p… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Computer Science
- Author: DeNardo, Eric V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: April 23 2003
- ISBN10: 0486428109
- Language: English
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Geology Underfoot in Illinois
$20.00 Add to cartIllinois–a flat and boring state with nothing but cornfields and crowded expressways, right? Balderdash Geology Underfoot in Illinois scratches the Prairie State’s surface to expose geologic diversi… [more below]
- Series: Yes, Geology Underfoot
- Author: Wiggers, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: June 15 1997
- ISBN10: 087842346X
- Language: English
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Eric Sloane’s Book of Storms: Hurricanes, Twisters and Squalls
$9.95 Add to cartWhat triggers a tornado? What can you see in the eye of a hurricane? What’s the difference between a thunderbolt and a thunderclap? Popular author and artist Eric Sloane proves why weather is somethin… [more below]
- Author: Sloane, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 04 2006
- ISBN10: 0486451003
- Language: English
