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Earth Lab: Exploring the Earth Sciences
Filled with simple experiments, EARTH LAB: EXPLORING THE EARTH SCIENCES covers a variety of topics in physical geology, environmental geology, and earth science course. Hands-on activities help you ... > read more -
The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began
In September of 1859, the entire Earth was engulfed in a gigantic cloud of seething gas, and a blood-red aurora erupted across the planet from the poles to the tropics. Around the world, telegraph ... > read more -
Essentials of Geology, Second Edition
The first edition of Essentials of Geology—an abridged version of Earth: Portrait of a Planet for courses that require a shorter book—quickly became the bestseller in its market on the ... > read more -
Professional Guide to Diseases (Professional Guide Series)
Professional Guide to Diseases, Eighth Edition is the newest edition of the health care professional's guide to disease management and patient care. This complete yet concise reference covers over ... > read more -
On the Moon: The Apollo Journals (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)
This book explains how the Apollo crews learned to work on the lunar surface. Its lively and informative text draws heavily on transcripts and photographs to illustrate points. It puts the reader on ... > read more -
The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
In this dynamic account, award-winning science writer Ann Gibbons chronicles an extraordinary quest to answer the most primal of questions: When and where was the dawn of humankind?Following four ... > read more -
Exploring Black Holes: Introduction to General Relativity
The goal of this unique book is to provide the tools for readers to become active participants in carrying out their own investigations about curved spacetime near Earth and black holes. To that end, ... > read more -
History of Life
The living world today contains all kinds of creatures that do unexpected things-- we have come to expect that there were complex and unusual ways of life in the past, and that evolution took some ... > read more -
Catastrophes and Lesser Calamities: The Causes of Mass Extinctions
This is a book about the dramatic periods in the Earth's history called mass extinctions - short periods (by geological standards) when life nearly died out on Earth. The most famous is the mass ... > read more -
Archaeology: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
This entertaining Very Short Introduction reflects the enduring popularity of archaeology-a subject which appeals as a pastime, career, and academic discipline, encompasses the whole globe, and ... > read more
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