Near-Earth Object Impact Books

• Nature
  Healthy Aging
  Origin of Life
  Batteries
  Social Psychology
  Marine Biology
   
  

  Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

  The Burgess Shale of British Columbia "is the most precious and important of all fossil localities," writes Stephen Jay Gould. These 600-million-year-old rocks preserve the soft parts of a collection ...  > read more
• Geography
  Atmosphere
  Climate
  Thermodynamics
  Environmental Policies
  Environmental Issues
   
  

  Elemental Geosystems

  This book gives readers an accessible, systematic, non-mathematical, and visually appealing start in physical geography. It features a distinctive, holistic integration of human-Earth relationships, ...  > read more
• Seeds
  Ancient Civilizations
  Geography
  Cultures
  Agriculture and Food
  Optics
   
  

  Seed of Knowledge, Stone of Plenty: Understanding the Lost Technology of the Ancient Megalith-Builders

  Monuments in the Americas and beyond stand as silent testimony to the achievements of ancient technology. The scope of these mammoth structures has amazed generations. Could there be some ...  > read more
• Cosmology
  Astrophysics
  Big Bang
  Astronomy
  Galaxies
  Physics
   
  

  Essential Cosmic Perspective with MasteringAstronomy(TM) and Voyager SkyGazer Planetarium Software, The (4th Edition) (MasteringAstronomy Series)

  KEY MESSAGE: The Essential Cosmic Perspective, Fourth Edition has been thoroughly revised to include more quantitative coverage, an enhanced illustration and photo program, and an unparalleled new ...  > read more
• Geology
  Earth Science
  Earthquakes
  Educational Psychology
  Educational Policy
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
   
  

  Earth: Portrait of a Planet, Second Edition

  The First Edition of Earth: Portrait of a Planet revolutionized the study of geology by integrating traditional geological concepts with the most recent theoretical advances in geology, including ...  > read more
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Disorders and Syndromes
  Software
  Psychology
  Child Psychology
  Psychology Research
   
  

  Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things

  Did you ever wonder why cheap wine tastes better in fancy glasses? Why sales of Macintosh computers soared when Apple introduced the colorful iMac? New research on emotion and cognition has shown ...  > read more
• Medical Technology
  Medical Imaging
  Biochemistry
  Ultrasound
  Microbiology
  Photography
   
  

  Echocardiography, Sixth Edition

  The thoroughly revised Sixth Edition of Feigenbaum's Echocardiography reflects recent changes in the technology and clinical use of echocardiography. Included are detailed discussions of tissue ...  > read more
• Diabetes
  Hormone Disorders
  Cell Biology
  Molecular Biology
  Chronic Illness
  Public Health
   
  

  Think Like a Pancreas: A Practical Guide to Managing Diabetes with Insulin

  There are dozens of books about managing diabetes, but none focuses specifically on using insulin. Now, in Think Like a Pancreas, certified diabetes educator and type 1 insulin user Gary Scheiner ...  > read more
• Human Evolution
  Early Climate
  Artificial Intelligence
  Early Humans
  Physics
  Cultures
   
  

  The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence

  How much do we humans enjoy our current status as the most intelligent beings on earth? Enough to try to stop our own inventions from surpassing us in smarts? If so, we'd better pull the plug right ...  > read more
• Nature
  Environmental Policies
  Environmental Issues
  Climate
  Earth Science
  Early Climate
   
  

  The Revenge of Gaia: Earth's Climate Crisis and the Fate of Humanity

  The key insight of Gaia Theory is that the entire Earth functions as a single living super-organism. But according to James Lovelock, the theory's originator, that organism is now sick. It is ...  > read more

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