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A Short History of Nearly EverythingClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Bryson takes subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and makes them comprehensible to the average person. Interested not only in finding out what we know, but ...
author: Bill Bryson |
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Annals of the Former WorldClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
In the late 1970's, John McPhee began a series of journeys back and forth across the United States, traveling with prominent geologists and attempting to describe a cross-section of the continent at a...
author: John McPhee |
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Assembling CaliforniaClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Over a span of 15 years, John McPhee made many geological field trips with tectonicist Eldridge Moores, and this book is the result. A cross-section in human and geologic time, this fourth volume in ...
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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2006 edition of this annual series. Series editor Tim Folger and editor Brian Greene bring together 25 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists and writers. Topics of interest to an...
author: Brian Greene, editor |
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Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Twenty-one articles from a wide assortment of scientific fields, chosen by editor Elizabeth Kolbert and series editor Tim Folger.
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Best American Science Writing 2007Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Twenty essays from notable authors selected as the best picks of 2007 by Gina Kolata, award winning science and medicine reporter for the New York Times and author of "Flu: The Story of the Great Infl...
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Crystal & GemClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Describes the seven basic shapes of crystals and how they form in nature, how crystals are studied and identified, how crystals are grown artificially and used in industry, and other aspects of crysta...
author: Dr. R. F. Symes, Dr. R. R. Harding |
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Earth - An Intimate HistoryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
By exploring diverse and geologically significant places such as the Alps, Newfoundland, Hawaii, the San Andreas Fault and Mount Vesuvius, Fortey describes how plate tectonics has changed our percepti...
author: Richard Fortey |
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Elements - What You Really Want to KnowClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Discusses the history of the periodic table of the elements, includes biographies of major figures in the field of chemistry, and provides information on each element. Answers questions such as how e...
author: Ron Miller |
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Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and its PeoplesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An insightful and compelling mix of the history and science of North America, from its birth as a continent to today. Includes the natural history of elephants, giant pigs and other amazing animals th...
author: Tim Flannery |
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Gorgon: Paleontology, Obsession, and the Greatest Catastrophe in Earth's HistoryClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A firsthand account of the search for the cause of Earth's mass extinction 250 million years ago, and of the scientists who work to uncover this mystery.
author: Peter D. Ward |
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Ice Scientist - Careers in the Frozen AntarcticClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Explores different careers in the Antarctic using examples of real scientists in the field. Chapters profile an ecologist, paleontologist, geologist, glaciologist, astrophysicist, marine biologist, an...
author: Sara L. Latta |
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In Suspect TerrainClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
This book is the second in a series of five that together make up Annals of the Former World. In this volume, McPhee travels with and profiles the work of geologist Anita G. Harris as they cover the ...
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Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded (Available in CD & DVD)Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A history of the 1883 eruption of Krakatoa and how it changed the world both physically and socially. Also available on CD and DVD.
author: Simon Winchester |
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Lucy Long Ago - Uncovering the Mystery of Where We Came FromClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Follows the discovery in 1974 of skeletal bones of a human ancestor (hominid) in Ethiopia, and what has been learned since then about ?Lucy.? Heavily illustrated with photos and diagrams, and a text ...
author: Catherine Thimmesh |
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National Audubon Society First Field Guide: Rocks and MinderalsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
A good introductory field guide to rocks and minerals. Divided into four sections: The world of rocks and minerals; How to look at rocks and minerals; the field guide; and the reference section. Ov...
author: Edward Ricciuti, Margaret W. Carruthers |
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Over the Coasts - An Aerial Vivew of GeologyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Stunning aerial photographs accompany vivid text and clear captions to show how the action of waves, tides, wind and weather produce startling transformations along the coast of the North American con...
author: Michael Collier |
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Over the Mountains - An Aerial View of GeologyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Stunning aerial photographs are used to show how mountains form, evolve, deteriorate, and then die. Glaciers, erosion, alluvial fans, fault zones, plateaus, and volcanoes are all explained in readable...
author: Michael Collier |
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Over the Rivers - An Aerial View of GeologyClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Geologist and photographer Michael Collier has combined stunning aerial photographs with clear, vivid text to give the reader a broad sense of how rivers flow, erode and shape the landscape, and how t...
author: Michael Collier |
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Rising From the PlainsClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
McPhee profiles David Love, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, and their travels together across Wyoming studying the rock in roadcuts of the interstate and the geologies these roadcuts repr...
author: John McPhee |
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Rocks and Minerals -
A Gem of a Book!Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
"Imagine the ground beneath your feet as the home of a crowd of crystal-cool characters, each with their own personality. This book is your essential guide to the underworld beings who are the buildin...
author: Dan Green |
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Short History of Nearly EverythingClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Bryson takes subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and makes them comprehensible to the average person. Interested not only in finding out what we know, but ...
author: Bill Bryson |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2006Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The 2006 edition of this annual series. Series editor Tim Folger and editor Brian Greene bring together 25 diverse and fascinating articles by leading scientists and writers. Topics of interest to an...
author: Brian Greene, editor |
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2009Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Twenty-one articles from a wide assortment of scientific fields, chosen by editor Elizabeth Kolbert and series editor Tim Folger.
author: Elizabeth Kolbert, editor |
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The Best American Science Writing 2007Click for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Twenty essays from notable authors selected as the best picks of 2007 by Gina Kolata, award winning science and medicine reporter for the New York Times and author of "Flu: The Story of the Great Infl...
author: Gina Kolata, editor |
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The Elements - What You Really Want to KnowClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
Discusses the history of the periodic table of the elements, includes biographies of major figures in the field of chemistry, and provides information on each element. Answers questions such as how e...
author: Ron Miller |
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The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and its PeoplesClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
An insightful and compelling mix of the history and science of North America, from its birth as a continent to today. Includes the natural history of elephants, giant pigs and other amazing animals th...
author: Tim Flannery |
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Uluru - Australia's Aboriginal HeartClick for more of the annotation or write your own review for this book. Click on link.
The world's biggest single rock, Uluru is a huge, red sandstone rock in Australia more than a thousand feet high. This book describes the Anangu, the Aboriginal people for whom this rock and the area...
author: Caroline Arnold |
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