Avalanche Books

• Ice Ages
  Climate
  Early Climate
  Fossils
  Statistics
  Trees
   
  

  Paleoclimatology: Reconstructing Climates of the Quaternary (International Geophysics)

  Raymond S. Bradley provides his readers with a comprehensive and up-to-date review of all of the important methods used in paleoclimatic reconstruction, dating and paleoclimate modeling. Two ...  > read more
• Early Climate
  Nature
  Geography
  Extinction
  Ice Ages
  Early Mammals
   
  

  Twilight of the Mammoths:: Ice Age Extinctions and the Rewilding of America (Organisms and Environments)

  As recently as 11,000 years ago--"near time" to geologists--mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals ...  > read more
• Solar System
  Space Missions
  Space Exploration
  Space Policy
  Astronomy
  Space Probes
   
  

  Moons and Planets

  Author William Hartmann has fully updated this text, which retains a comparative approach to the principles of planetology, including organization by physical topic rather than by planet. This unique ...  > read more
• Asteroids, Comets and Meteors
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Extinction
  Dinosaurs
  Earth Science
  Biology
   
  

  Night Comes to the Cretaceous: Comets, Craters, Controversy, and the Last Days of the Dinosaurs

  What killed the dinosaurs? For more than a century, this question has been one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science. But, in 1980, Nobel Prize-winning physicist Luis Alvarez and his son, ...  > read more
• Space Policy
  NASA
  Space Exploration
  Astronomy
  Space Missions
  Solar System
   
  

  Entering Space: Creating a Spacefaring Civilization

  Humans are not native to the Earth. So posits astronautical engineer Bob Zubrin in the opening of Entering Space. We're native to just a small sliver of it, the spot where our species originated in ...  > read more
• Ice Ages
  Early Mammals
  Geography
  Ancient Civilizations
  Earth Science
  Fossils
   
  

  Prehistoric America: A Journey through the Ice Age and Beyond

  When human beings first arrived in North America at the end of the last Ice Age, they encountered a teeming variety of animals, from ground sloths and mastodons to zebras and camels. This ...  > read more
• Ice Ages
  Ancient Civilizations
  Global Warming
  Geography
  World Development
  Nature of Water
   
  

  Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory---How New Science Is Tracing America's Ice Age Mariners

  For decades the issue seemed moot. The first settlers, we were told, were big-game hunters who arrived from Asia at the end of the Ice Age some 12,000 years ago, crossing a land bridge at the Bering ...  > read more
• Anthropology
  Archaeology
  Civil Engineering
  Urbanization
  Cosmology
  Land Management
   
  

  The Last Giant Of Beringia: The Mystery of The Bering Land Bridge

  "A tale of science, adventure, and personality that evolves into a complete review of the history and knowledge of Beringia.... I recommend it to everyone." -The Times (London) The intriguing theory ...  > read more

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