Venus Books

• Origin of Life
  Healthy Aging
  Solar System
  Cosmology
  Batteries
  Charles Darwin
   
  

  Life in the Universe (2nd Edition)

  Key Message: Life in the Universe takes readers on a journey through the solar system and beyond, using a rigorous yet accessible introduction to astronomy, biology, chemistry, and geology to explain ...  > read more
• Sun
  Geomagnetic Storms
  Solar Flare
  Earth Science
  Astronomy
  Geology
   
  

  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
• Geology
  Earth Science
  Earthquakes
  Educational Psychology
  Oceanography
  Near-Earth Object Impacts
   
  

  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
• Educational Psychology
  Educational Policy
  Engineering
  Photography
   
  

  Textbook of Clinical Echocardiography

  The new edition of Dr. Otto's benchmark text of echocardiography is a must for everyone learning echo for the first time, or re-learning the essential concepts. Dr. Otto's writing style engages the ...  > read more
• Early Climate
  Geography
  Origin of Life
  Ice Ages
  Healthy Aging
  Fossils
   
  

  After the Ice Age: The Return of Life to Glaciated North America

  The fascinating story of how a harsh terrain that resembled modern Antarctica has been transformed gradually into the forests, grasslands, and wetlands we know today."One of the best scientific books ...  > read more
• Nature
  Origin of Life
  Charles Darwin
  Evolutionary Biology
  Healthy Aging
  Cosmology
   
  

  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
• Extinction
  Global Warming
  Dinosaurs
  Early Climate
  Fossils
  Endangered Animals
   
  

  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
• Mars
  Space Missions
  NASA
  Space Policy
  Space Exploration
  Solar System
   
  

  A Traveler's Guide to Mars

  A Traveler's Guide to Mars revitalizes the Red Planet, leaving readers with the urge to don a spacesuit and take a long trip. With the look and heft of a guide to someplace you might actually go, the ...  > read more
• Environmental Issues
  Environmental Science
  Environmental Policies
  Air Quality
  Energy Technology
  Civil Engineering
   
  

  Introduction to Environmental Engineering and Science (3rd Edition)

  Appropriate for undergraduate engineering and science courses in Environmental Engineering. Balanced coverage of all the major categories of environmental pollution, with coverage of current topics ...  > read more
• Solar System
  Extrasolar Planets
  Astronomy
  Educational Psychology
  Cosmology
  Astrophysics
   
  

  The Solar System (with AceAstronomy, Virtual Astronomy Labs Printed Access Card)

  ASTRONOMY: THE SOLAR SYSTEM AND BEYOND with its accompany online learning tools, Ace Astronomy and Virtual Astronomy Labs shows you your place in the universe,not just your location, but also your ...  > read more

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