The Mountains of California by Sierra Club Books $14.95
John Muir’s ebullient spirit and love of nature infuse these accounts of visiting Yosemite Valley, Kings Canyon, sequoia groves, and Mount Whitney. Blending keen observations of flora, geography, and geology, the natural forces that shape the landscape, and the changing seasons, Muir paints a timeless portrait of the wilderness he called the Range of Light, the most divinely beautiful of all...
Salt: A World History by Penguin (Non-Classics) $17.00
Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod and The Basque History of the World, here turns his attention to a common household item with a long and intriguing history: salt. The only rock we eat, salt has shaped civilization from the very beginning, and its story is a glittering, often surprising part of the history of humankind. A substance so valuable it served as currency, salt has...
Rough-Hewn Land: A Geologic Journey from California to the Rocky Mountains by University of California Press $34.95
"Unfold a map of North America," Keith Heyer Meldahl writes, "and the first thing to grab your eye is the bold shift between the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains." In this absorbing book, Meldahl takes readers on a 1000-mile-long field trip back through more than 100 million years of deep time to explore America's most spectacular and scientifically intriguing landscapes. He places us on the...
Torn by Rita J. Knits
Every 26,000 years the earth experiences a magnetic reversal or pole shift. These reversals are always accompanied by disasters of catastrophic proportions. They also coincide with two other events: an ice age and species extinction.We are, at this time, 50,000 years overdue.Darius Cobb wasn’t thinking of man’s extinction. He honestly never gave it a thought. A college professor and part time...
Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology (9th Edition) by Prentice Hall $95.47
This user-friendly, best-selling lab manual examines the basic processes of geology and their applications to everyday life. Featuring contributions from over 170 highly regarded geologists and geoscience educators, along with an exceptional illustration program by Dennis Tasa, Laboratory Manual in Physical Geology, Ninth Edition offers a new activities-based approach that gives you a more...
Elemental Geosystems (with CD-ROM) by Prentice Hall $85.33
Elemental Geosystems offer a briefer treatment of the elements of Physical Geography than its parent text, Geosystmes, 4/E. The book maintains Geosystems popular systems organization that organizes topics in a logical order consistent with the flow of energy and matter in nature.
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, Revised Edition by Penguin (Non-Classics) $18.00
"Beautifully written and meticulously researched."—St. Louis Post-Dispatch. This updated study of the economics, politics, and ecology of water covers more than a century of public and private desert reclamation in the American West.
Oceanography : An Invitation to Marine Sciences by Wadsworth Pub Co $73.95
The ocean affects all aspects of our lives--Tom Garrison will show you how in this new edition of OCEANOGRAPHY: AN INVITATION TO MARINE SCIENCE. Garrison takes you on a vivid exploration of the ocean--from submarine canyons to zooplankton, global warming, the growing plastics problem, and our changing coastlines--and explains oceanography's most important concepts. Garrison's friendly approach...
Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology (10th Edition) by Prentice Hall $139.93
With its strong focus on readability and illustrations, this trusted best seller makes an often-complex subject more accessible for readers like you. It offers a meaningful, non-technical survey that is informative and up-to-date for learning basic principles and concepts. For the Tenth Edition, the text’s design and figures have been updated, and the chapter on climate change has been revised...
Essentials of Geology (Third Edition) by M. Beth Wilkerson $74.50
A substantial revision of an already successful text, the Third Edition of Essentials of Geology combines an accurate and engaging narrative with exceptional visual and pedagogical elements. The optional, free package item includes the two-page guide from the text and a worksheet for each chapter’s Google Earth™ Geotour. It is supported by a complete learning and teaching package. Innovative...