Storm 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
• Weather
  Computer Modeling
  Climate
  Early Climate
  Mathematics
  Multiple Sclerosis
   
  

  Understanding Weather and Climate (4th Edition)

  The fourth edition of Understanding Weather and Climate has been thoroughly updated throughout. Every part of the text has been examined and updated to ensure currency and clarity.Integrating the ...  > 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
• Saturn
  Solar System
  Space Probes
  Astronomy
  Space Exploration
  Space Missions
   
  

  Cassini at Saturn: Huygens Results (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

  Cassini At Saturn – Huygens Results brings the story of the Cassini-Huygens mission and their joint exploration of the Saturnian system right up to date. Cassini entered orbit around Saturn ...  > read more
• Evolutionary Biology
  Evolution
  Charles Darwin
  Nature
  Fossils
  Origin of Life
   
  

  Punctuated Equilibrium

  In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it ...  > read more
• Archaeology
  Anthropology
  Language Acquisition
  Ancient Civilizations
  Geography
  Nature
   
  

  Patterns in Prehistory: Humankind's First Three Million Years (Casebooks in Criticism)

  Who are we? How did the world become what it is today? What paths did humanity traverse along the way? Patterns in Prehistory, Fifth Edition, is a comprehensive and engaging survey of humanity's ...  > read more
• Influenza
  Bird Flu Research
  Bird Flu
  Cold and Flu
  Virology
  Viruses
   
  

  The Monster at Our Door: The Global Threat of Avian Flu

  A “brilliant” and “fascinating” investigation of the looming avian flu pandemic—and how we arrived at the brink of a global health catastrophe—The New York ...  > 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

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