Drought Books

• Fish
  Marine Biology
  Fossils
  Sea Life
  Geography
  Oceanography
   
  

  Oceans Of Kansas: A Natural History Of The Western Interior Sea (Life of the Past)

  "The bright midday sun glinted off the calm waters of the Inland Sea and silhouetted the long, sinuous form of a huge mosasaur lying motionless amid the floating tangle of yellow-green seaweed. ...  > read more
• Genes
  Genetics
  Gene Therapy
  Human Biology
  Biochemistry Research
  Life Sciences
   
  

  iGenetics: A Molecular Approach (2nd Edition with CD-ROM) (The Genetics Place Series)

  iGenetics: A Molecular Approach reflects the dynamic nature of modern genetics by emphasizing an experimental, inquiry-based approach with a solid treatment of many research experiments. ...  > read more
• Geography
  Climate
  Environmental Policies
  Earth Science
  Nature
  Computer Modeling
   
  

  World Regions in Global Context: Peoples, Places, and Environments

  For courses in World Regional Geography. This explicitly global approach to world regional geography emphasizes global connections and the stories behind the maps – and offers ...  > read more
• Menopause
  Sustainability
  Gender Difference
  Environmental Policy
  Trees
  Forest
   
  

  The Green Belt Movement: Sharing the Approach and the Experience

  Wangari Muta Maathai was born in Nyeri, Kenya in 1940. In 1960, she won a Kennedy scholarship to study in America and earned a master's degree in biology from the University of Pittsburgh and became ...  > read more
• Geology
  Earth Science
  Origin of Life
  Healthy Aging
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
  Zoology
   
  

  Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe

  "Do you feel lucky? Well do ya?" asked Dirty Harry. Paleontologist Peter Ward and astronomer Donald Brownlee think all of us should feel lucky. Their rare Earth hypothesis predicts that while simple, ...  > read more
• Extinction
  Environmental Policies
  Environmental Issues
  Global Warming
  Climate
  Early Climate
   
  

  Under a Green Sky: Global Warming, the Mass Extinctions of the Past, and What They Can Tell Us About Our Future

  University of Washington paleontologist Peter D. Ward demonstrates in UNDER A GREEN SKY that the ancient past is not just of academic concern. Everyone has heard about how an asteroid did in the ...  > read more
• Genetics
  Genes
  Life Sciences
  Microbiology
  Biochemistry Research
  Bioethics
   
  

  Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes

  Genetics: Analysis of Genes and Genomes, Sixth Edition by Hartl and Jones presents the modern world of genetics; treating classical, molecular, and population genetics as unified subdisciplines in a ...  > read more
• Ancient Civilizations
  Cultures
  Anthropology
  Archaeology
  Resource Shortage
  Climate
   
  

  The Incas and Their Ancestors: The Archaeology of Peru (Revised Edition)

  In 1532, when Pizarro conquered Peru, the Inca realm was one of the largest empires on earth, graced by gold masterpieces, towns with great palaces and temples, and an impressive network of roads. ...  > read more
• Fossils
  Early Humans
  Origin of Life
  Cultures
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
   
  

  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
• Early Humans
  Human Evolution
  Anthropology
  Evolutionary Biology
  Cultures
  Evolution
   
  

  The Human Career: Human Biological and Cultural Origins

  Described as "by far the best book of its kind" (Henry McHenry, Evolution) and "the best introduction to the problems and data of modern palaeoanthropology yet published" (R. A. Foley, Antiquity), ...  > read more

Search ScienceDaily