Earth Sciences
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Climate Chaos: Lessons on Survival from Our Ancestors
$30.00 Read moreA thirty-thousand-year history of the relationship between climate and civilization that teaches powerful lessons about how humankind can survive. Human-made climate change may have begun in the last
- Author: Fagan, Brian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 21, 2021
- ISBN10: 154175087X
- Language: English
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Field Guide to Snowflakes
$27.48 Add to cartThis pocket-size field guide to snowflakes is perfect for science- and weather-loving readers who are curious about these beautiful ice crystals.
Snowflakes begin as water vapor in the air. Just add a
- Author: Libbrecht, Kenneth George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 01, 2016
- ISBN10: 0760349428
- Language: English
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The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
$19.99 Add to cartFor more than a century we’ve known that much of human evolution occurred in an Ice Age. Starting about 15,000 years ago, temperatures began to rise, the glaciers receded, and sea levels rose. The ris… [more below]
- Author: Fagan, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: December 29 2004
- ISBN10: 0465022820
- Language: English
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The Biosphere
$37.99 Add to cart“What Darwin did for life through time, Vernadsky did for life through space on a geological scale.” –Lynn Margulis This classic 1926 book is the first sustained expression of the idea, now widely ac… [more below]
- Author: Vernadsky, Vladimir I.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 178
- Publish Date: March 27 1998
- ISBN10: 038798268X
- Language: English
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An Integrated Framework for Structural Geology: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Rheology of Deformed Rocks
$40.00 Add to cartAN INTEGRATED FRAMEWORK FOR STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY
A modern and practice-oriented approach to structural geology
An Integrated Framework for Structural Geology: Kinematics, Dynamics, and Rheology of Defo
- Author: Wojtal, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1405106840
- Language: English
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Ice Rivers: A Story of Glaciers, Wilderness, and Humanity
$27.93 Add to cartA passionate eyewitness account of the mysteries and looming demise of glaciers–and what their fate means for our shared future
The ice sheets and glaciers that cover one-tenth of Earth’s land surfac- Author: Wadham, Jemma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0691241813
- Language: English
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Roadside Geology of Wyoming
$22.00 Add to cartAbove all else, Wyoming is a geological state. In every corner of every mountain range and basin within this big state there is a geological story recorded in the rocks. Here is the overall story of W… [more below]
- Series: Roadside Geology
- Author: Lageson, David R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: June 15 1991
- ISBN10: 0878422161
- Language: English
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The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
$19.99 Add to cartAll of Earth’s oceans, from the equator to the poles, are a single engine powered by sunlight, driving huge flows of energy, water, life, and raw materials. In The Blue Machine, physicist and oceanogr
- Author: Czerski, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1324086343
- Language: English
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Fire: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartFire is rarely out of the headlines, from large natural wildfires raging across the Australian or Californian countrysides to the burning of buildings such as the disasters of Grenfell tower and Notre… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Scott, Andrew C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0198830033
- Language: English
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Fossils: The Key to the Past
$24.95 Add to cart“Richard Fortey is without peer among science writers.”–Bill Bryson
In his accessible introduction to the study and meaning of fossils, the world-renowned paleontologist Richard Fortey provides a comp
- Author: Fortey, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1501700537
- Language: English
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Understanding Climate Change: With Sketchnotes
$27.99 Add to cartWhat is driving climate change? What impact does it have on the Earth’s ecosystems, our environment, and us? What can I do? This book explains in a clear and understandable way the interrelatio
- Author: Lesch, Harald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 163
- Publish Date: August 04 2023
- ISBN10: 3662663716
- Language: English
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50th Anniversary of the Metaphorical Butterfly Effect since Lorenz (1972): Multistability, Multiscale Predictability, and Sensitivity in Numerical Mod
$98.22 Add to cartThis year marks the 50th anniversary of the metaphorical butterfly effect, born from Edward Lorenz’s 1963 work on initial condition sensitivity. In 1972, it became a metaphor for illustrating how mino
- Author: Shen, Bo-Wen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 11 2023
- ISBN10: 3036589104
- Language: English
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Rock Pickers Guide to Lake Superior’s North Shore
$9.95 Add to cartGet this popular guide and start identifying all of those rocks seen on the beaches of the north shore of Lake Superior. Included are color illustrations of each type of rock, a description, tips for … [more below]
- Series: North Woods Naturalist Guides
- Author: Stensaas, Mark Sparky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 01 2000
- ISBN10: 096737930X
- Language: English
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Hiking Oregon’s Geology
$21.95 Read more* 90 hikes, many off the beaten path
Visit tropical isl
* Appendices list hikes by rock age, collectible minerals or fossils present, and more; plus a new illustrated section on rock identification- Series: Hiking Geology
- Author: Allen, John Eliot
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 13 2004
- ISBN10: 0898868475
- Language: English
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Geometry of Complex Numbers
$16.95 Add to cartIlluminating, widely praised book on analytic geometry of circles, the Moebius transformation, and 2-dimensional non-Euclidean geometries. “This book should be in every library, and every expert in cl… [more below]
- Series: Dover Books on Mathematics
- Author: Schwerdtfeger, Hans
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 1980
- ISBN10: 0486638308
- Language: English
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Climate: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartIn this wide-ranging Very Short Introduction to climate, Mark Maslin considers all aspects of the global climate system, exploring and explaining the different components that control climate on Earth… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Maslin, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0199641137
- Language: English
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Chicago in Stone and Clay: A Guide to the Windy City’s Architectural Geology
$24.95 Add to cartChicago in Stone and Clay explores the interplay between the city’s most architecturally significant sites, the materials they’re made of, and the sediments and bedrock they are anchored in. This uniq
- Author: Wiggers, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: September 15 2022
- ISBN10: 150176506X
- Language: English
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Marco Polo: His Travels and Adventures
$17.99 Add to cartWho is Marco Polo and why does his name sound so familiar? Yet why do most people seem to have no idea about who he is?
This book takes you eight centuries back in time to journey with one of the most
- Author: Towle, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 142
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 139632108X
- Language: English
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Waters of the World: The Story of the Scientists Who Unraveled the Mysteries of Our Oceans, Atmosphere, and Ice Sheets and Made the Planet
$36.42 Add to cartThe compelling and adventurous stories of seven pioneering scientists who were at the forefront of what we now call climate science.
From the glaciers of the Alps to the towering cumulonimbus clouds- Author: Dry, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 15 2021
- ISBN10: 0226816842
- Language: English
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Flashes of Brilliance: The Science and Wonder of Arizona Lightning
$32.99 Add to cart- Author: Holle, Ronald L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 231
- Publish Date: April 05 2023
- ISBN10: 3031198786
- Language: English
