Earth Sciences

This economical workbook offers more than information for describing and memorizing countries and capitals. The information presented in this study guide he...

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Alone among books for the regional geography course, Pulsipher and Pulsipher’s World Regional Geography humanizes geographical issues, showing how larger ...

This trusted text, the market's best-seller, makes an often complex subject accessible to beginning students with a strong focus on readability and illustra...

This book chronicles how successive generations of natural philosophers, geologists and geomorphologists have come to invent the view of the Earth over the...

What made cities 'modern' in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? Cities in Modernity explores connections between culture, economy and built envir...

Designed specifically for introductory globalization courses, Introducing Globalization helps students to develop informed opinions about globalization, in...

Part I. Essays On Fresh Water Issues -- An Introduction To Global Fresh Water Issues / Peter H. Gleick -- World Fresh Water Resources / Igor A. Shiklomanov ...

This undergraduate textbook provides a current and comprehensive survey of the sediments and forms generated within Pleistocene and pre-Pleistocene glacial...

This Revised And Updated Edition Integrates The Latest In Modern Technology With Traditional Cartographic Principles. While Providing A Solid Conceptual Fou...

This unique compilation of current research assesses glacial and fluvial processes of supply, transport, and deposition of sediment in alpine glacerized dra...

Global Warming: The Hard Science presents a comprehensive, qualitatively rigorous, and critical discussion of the science underlying the global warming issu...

the Latest Edition Of This Highly Successful And Popular Textbook Has Been Completely Revised And Updated To Include The Latest Developments In Biogeograp...

Edited By Stephen Graham. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Arts & Photography Architecture Urban & Land Use PlanningLand Us...

This unusual and intriguing study of nationhood explores the 19th-century confrontation of ideas that transformed the kingdom of Siam into the modern concep...

This Fourth Edition of a well-established text on physical geography provides rigorous coverage of the topic at the undergraduate level. It includes a full-...

Urbanization: An Introduction to Urban Geography,Third Edition captures the changes in the nature and outcomes of urbanization processes for people, as wel...

Physical Geography: The Global Environment, Canadian EditionCategories: Science & Math Earth Sciences GeographyGeneral

Today, for the first time in the history of Humankind urban dwellers outnumber rural residents. Urban places, towns and cities, are of fundamental importa...

Contemporary World Regional Geography provides a current, balanced geographical study of world issues through analysis of ten world regions and the countri...

Most social geography undergraduate textbooks are structured around different social categories, splintering the discussion of gender, class, race and incre...

Maps provide information on world politics, climate, vegetation, soil, population, gross national products, languages, religions, health, agriculture, natur...

This new book brings together leading scholars from around the world to provide an international and interdisciplinary overview of twentieth-century devel...

Getting to Know ArcGIS, fourth edition, is a comprehensive introduction to the features and tools of ArcGIS for Desktop. Through hands-on exercises, reader...

A Manifesto For A Radically Different Philosophy And Practice Of Manufacture And Environmentalism. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Urge Environmentalists--in Other ...

A fascinating exploration of lakes around the world, from Walden Pond to the Dead Sea. More than a century and a half have passed since Walden was first pu...

A Revelatory History--spanning Continents And Millennia--of How The Distribution Of Water Has Shaped Human Civilization, By The Chief Strategy Officer And G...

Cartography enthusiasts rejoice: the bestselling author of the Just My Type reveals the fascinating relationship between man and map. Simon Garfieldâ€Â...

From One Of The World’s Most Renowned Cave Divers, A Firsthand Account Of Exploring The Earth’s Final Frontier: The Hidden Depths Of Our Oceans And The ...

In The Wake Of Hurricane Katrina, Longtime New Orleans Residents Abdulrahman And Kathy Zeitoun Are Cast Into An Unthinkable Struggle With Forces Beyond Wind...

Robert J. Twiss, Eldridge M. Moores. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Science & Math Earth Sciences GeologyStructural

in This Short Book, David Archer Gives Us The Latest On Climate Change Research, And Skillfully Tells The Climate Story That He Helped To Discover: Genera...

An award-winning science journalist traces the development of the marine chronometer by an obscure, uneducated clock maker--an invention that revolutionized...

From The Author Of The Bestselling The Professor And The Madman Comes The Fascinating Story Of William Smith, The Orphaned Son Of An English Country Blacksm...

This book introduces students to new ways of thinking about development. It integrates the recent scholarship of cultural studies within the existing framew...

A best-selling author and a popular radio talk show host team up to reveal the pending ill-effects of human-made changes to the Arctic weather patterns, pre...

Need directions? Are you good at getting lost? Then GPS is just the technology you’ve dreamed of, and GPS For Dummies is what you need to help you make t...

Rivers and Floodplains is concerned with the origin, geometry, water flow, sediment transport, erosion and deposition associated with modern alluvial river...

A Concise And Accessible Introduction To Seismic Theory, Focusing On The Mathematical Fundamentals Of Global Seismology. Aimed At Advanced Undergraduate And...

A lovely small-trim edition of the award-winning Atlas of Remote IslandsThe Atlas of Remote Islands, Judith Schalansky’s beautiful and deeply personal ac...

If you love the beauty of gems but have trouble distinguishing a topaz from a sapphire, this book is for you. How can you make sure you are getting good val...

Being a Canadian carries with it a tangible sense of living on the edge of a vast barren interior. Only named as such in 1883, the Canadian Shield is an emp...

The Uninhabitable Earth Hits You Like A Comet, With An Overflow Of Insanely Lyrical Prose About Our Pending Armageddon.--andrew Solomon, Author Of The Noond...

Using Case Studies Focusing On Canadian Cities And Regions, Planning Canada Introduces Undergraduate Students To Planning. The Book Gives Students An Unders...

Geography: A Modern Synthesis (Harper & Row series in geography)Categories: Science & Math Earth Sciences GeographyGeneral

A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bryson, Bill [Broadway Books,2004] [Paperback]Categories: Science & MathHistory & Philosophy

Rural poverty is often unseen or misperceived by outsiders. Dr Chambers contends that researchers, scientists, administrators and fieldworkers rarely apprec...

This colorful textbook explains how the biological and nonbiological systems of the Earth function in synchrony. It walks through the stages of Earth's his...