Product Description: One of the few texts to integrate earth systems approach with impact of humans on the planet, this volume focuses on modern science and how it works. This approach gives students the tools they need for critical thinking, problem solving, and inquiry into the study of geology, oceanography, and astronomy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Covers geological and biological evolution of the earth through time. Uses major themes of plate tectonics, evolution, and time to show earth and life history as one interrelated sequence of events. Special interest boxes highlight interesting or controversial aspects of historical geology...read more