Earth sciences

What if the most honest account of reality was written by a mind with an intellect several notches above that of the average human, and who is not exactly human herself?

Earth s subsurface offers many vital resources such as minerals, geothermal energy, and clean water but decisions regarding exploration and extraction must balance resource value against environmental impact.

The dinosaurs are not as gone as you think.

This book sort of pulls you into the fascinating world of coral reefs, some of the most colorful productive and important ecosystems on Earth.

Rocks, Gems, and Minerals of the Rocky Mountains is a field guide to more than 130 of the most common and sought-after rocks, gems, and minerals hidden throughout the Rocky Mountains.

The majestic Cascade Mountains serve as the centerpiece for the Northwest's renowned beauty, with their rugged, snow-capped peaks drawing thousands of visitors to their flanks each summer.

The majestic Cascade Mountains serve as the centerpiece for the Northwest's renowned beauty, with their rugged, snow-capped peaks drawing thousands of visitors to their flanks each summer.

For more than a century, textbooks, universities, encyclopedias, and institutions confidently declared that civilization began in Mesopotamia around 3500 BC.

What if the history of Earth can be read like music?

A holistic view of geospatial data and analysis across the risk management lifecycle Geospatial data and analytical tools are widely used for disaster management, insurance, humanitarian response, and defence yet methodologies remain siloed.

For over 300 years, science has treated gravity as an intrinsic force of mass.

A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behindA Times Book of the Year * A Daily Telegraph Book of the YearWhat will the world look like ten thousand or ten million years from now?

Aviation weather is a wondrous and frightening subject.

A startling new book, his most personal to date, from Philip Hoare, co-curator of 'Moby Dick: Big Read and winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize for 'Leviathan'.

A fascinating, inspiring gift book that helps you make the most of nature, with something to spot for every day of the year.

A beautiful little guide to one of life's simple pleasures - pebble spotting.

A complete guide and source-book brimming with advice on collecting and preparing gems and minerals.

Rich and strange from the tip of its title to its deep-sunk bones' Robert MacfarlaneFrom the author of Leviathan, or, The Whale, comes a composite portrait of the subtle, beautiful, inspired and demented ways in which we have come to terms with our watery planet.

A COMPLETE, UNCOMPLICATED GUIDE TO THE SCIENCE OF LIFE, THE UNIVERSE AND EVERYTHING INBETWEEN Most scientists know only their own field.

Why past climate change tells us it's almost too late.

Discover a dazzling deep-dive into the history of the world through a totally new lens, as told by the V&A s Senior Jewellery Curator.

The Sunday Times bestseller by David Attenborough, who marks his 100th birthday this year - a deeply personal account of his love of the natural world, and the devastating changes to it he's witnessed first hand.

Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet.

The beautiful aurorae, or northern lights, are the stuff of legends.

An introduction to the universe covering everything from the big bang and our understanding of the universe over time, to the earth's formation, the Sun and how it affects us, the Moon and planets, black holes and galaxies.

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Another volume in the widely-read New Naturalist series, this book is an in-depth study of the natural developments and history of Galloway and surrounding areas.

This ebook edition does not include illustrations.

Originally published as The God Species: How the Planet Can Survive the Age of HumansThe green movement has got it very wrong.

'Full of wonder and forensic intelligence' Isabella Tree, author of WildingA moving account of Madagascar told by a researcher who has spent over fifty years investigating the mysteries of this remarkable island.

An all-new edition of one of the most influential books in the earth sciences, endorsed by the International Association of Sedimentologists Richly illustrated with hundreds of new images, this is a completely new edition of the well-known classic text Reading s Sedimentary Environments: Processes, Facies and Stratigraphy.

What does a 4,000-year-old tree remember?

Vinos y vinedos reune una cuidada seleccion de dialogos que acercan el universo de la vitivinicultura a un publico amplio, combinando rigor tecnico con un lenguaje accesible y ameno.

Approximately five million years ago, the Mediterranean Sea did not exist.

Governance Bridge between Earth Observation and One Health - Zoonoses do not arise randomly but at interfaces: between species, landscapes, ecological and human movements and between visible and invisible processes.

Se presenta una relacion fisico-estadistica mundial entre manchas solares y columna total de ozono a partir de observaciones del numero de manchas solares del Centro Mundial de Datos para la Produccion, Preservacion y Difusion del Numero Internacional de Manchas Solares (Real Observatorio de Belgica) y durante mas de 43 anos de la Administracion Nacional de Aeronautica y el Espacio (NASA, por sus siglas en ingles) en cuatro misiones satelitales (1979-2022: Nimbus, Meteor, Earth Probe y Aura).

It took nearly four billion years for the Earth to become a hospitable planet.

Exploring the properties, behavior, and dynamics of particulate gravity currents Particulate gravity currents involve the movement of mixtures of particles and fluid under the influence of gravity.

Desde 2010 Descorchados viene ofreciendo la m�s completa de las radiograf�as de la escena argentina de vinos, una foto en gran angular y en HD de lo �ltimo que se debe saber de los vinos del pa�s.

Esta obra presenta los resultados que permitieron proponer el Campo Volcánico Monogenético Guamuez-Sibundoy (CVMGS), ubicado en la región suroccidental de Colombia entre los departamentos de Nariño y Putumayo.

The history of geosynthetics began over fifty years ago worldwide.

The history of geosynthetics began over fifty years ago worldwide.

The interior of our planet is one of the last 'terra incognita'.

The interior of our planet is one of the last 'terra incognita'.

The silicate mantle and its dynamics have controlled the Earth's internal cooling for over four billion years.

Nicolás Steno puede considerarse uno de los grandes olvidados de la literatura geológica española, ya que no existe ninguna traducción completa de sus obras, a pesar de poder ser considerado junto Hutton, Lyell y Darwin uno de los fundadores de la geología como ciencia.