Blending history, science and eye-witness accounts, and arranged in chapters corresponding to the four elements (earth, air, fire and water), this book explores the relationship between the planet and the humans who inhabit its surfaces. It asks why we don't seem fully able to learn from the catastrophes, mistakes and responses of the past.

This book provides a vivid account of the evolution of the Australian continent over the last 4400 million years.

Designed to be compatible with inquiry-based, active learning in the college classroom, this book allows the instructor to incorporate student-centered teaching methods into their Earth Science course. It emphasizes three scientific themes: scientific literacy; Earth Science and the human experience; and, the science of global change.

'Madingley Rise and Early Geophysics at Cambridge'.

With its unique blend of evolutionary theory, population genetics and behavioural ecology, How Humans Evolved provides students with the most contemporary and complete introduction to physical anthropology available. Robert Boyd and Joan B. Silk's modern presentation of genetics and observable behaviours in living humans and non-human primates moves beyond merely describing anthropological finds .

Thermodynamics deals with energy levels and the transfer of energy between states of matter, and is therefore fundamental to all branches of science. This edition provides a relatively advanced treatment of the subject, specifically tailored for the interests of the Earth sciences. The first four chapters explain all necessary concepts, using a simple graphical approach. Throughout the rest of ...

Provides an overview of the world's cold, non glacial environments. With emphasis placed on the North American and Eurasian polar lowlands, this work gives an interpretation of the frost induced conditions, geomorphic processes, and landforms that typify periglacial environments. It is suitable for undergraduate students of Physical Geography.

A collection of papers, which is a survey of the research frontier in basin dynamics.

New paperback of well-received study of gravity currents for many disciplines, including meteorology, oceanography, earth science.

Provides an overview of the world's cold, non-glacial environments. This work emphasizes on the North American and Eurasian polar lowlands. It also draws examples from Antarctica, the Qinghai-Xizang (Tibet) Plateau, and the northern mid-latitudes.

This survey of the four and half billion years of Earth's history charts both the geological and biological history of the planet. It moves from the origin of the earth's iron core to the formation of today's seven continents, and from the primordial building blocks of life to the evolution of the human form.