Product Description: No statement of edition. 8 1/2" x 11", 206 page trade paperback bound in white pictorial wrappers. VG+ condition. Rubs to the book's spine tips and corners. Mild dust soiling to the wrappers. Illustrated.

Product Description: Here is the successor to a long line of physical geology texts from Longwell, Flint and Skinner. While retaining their authoritativeness and logical organization on elementary topics (landforms, rocks, minerals), it integrates current thinking on processes (plate techtonics, chemical cycles, changes throughout geologic time)...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This guide accompanies an introductory geology text emphasizing the main themes of plate tectonics, human interaction with the environment, protection from natural disasters and the supply of resources. The edition has been revised and updated to include a new chapter on global change...read more

Product Description: A unique introduction to the holistic view of the Earth. Stresses the systems approach, showing the energy flows and links between the Earth's different parts—the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and the solid Earth—and the balance in the global environment that exists as a result of these interactions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A unique introduction to the holistic view of the Earth. Stresses the systems approach, showing the energy flows and links between the Earth's different parts—the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and the solid Earth—and the balance in the global environment that exists as a result of these interactions...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A unique introduction to the holistic view of the Earth. Stresses the systems approach, showing the energy flows and links between the Earth's different parts—the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere and the solid Earth—and the balance in the global environment that exists as a result of these interactions...read more

Presents an introduction to earth sciences.

Product Description: A comprehensive introduction that focuses on all of the major scientific processes of physical geology. Researched and written by two eminent geologists, the third edition includes new overarching themes of environmental issues and human interaction with the earth and its resources...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An absorbing exploration of the human-planet relationship. Describes how Earth processes influence our lives on a daily basis and how human actions alter the natural functioning of Earth systems. Explains how to distinguish the effects of anthropogenic change from natural change and be able to predict the impact of both...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A comprehensive introduction that focuses on all of the major scientific processes of physical geology. Researched and written by two eminent geologists, the third edition includes new overarching themes of environmental issues and human interaction with the earth and its resources...read more

Product Description: An absorbing exploration of the human-planet relationship. Describes how Earth processes influence our lives on a daily basis and how human actions alter the natural functioning of Earth systems. Explains how to distinguish the effects of anthropogenic change from natural change and be able to predict the impact of both...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Extensively illustrated, balanced, broad–based, and up–to–date, this book explores the nature and critical issues of all major types of earth resources--energy, metallic, nonmetallic, water, soil--and the impacts that resource usage has on the earth environment. It provides geologic background of resource formation and occurrence of most of the various types of resources; offers an international perspective; discusses resources not only from the scientific point of view, but also from the point of economic, political, historical considerations; and considers how the extraction and use of the resources creates impacts--local or global, immediate or delayed, visible or invisible, singular or cumulative. Minerals: The Foundations of Society. Plate Tectonics and The Origins of Mineral Resources. Earth's Resources Through History. Environmental Impacts of Resource Exploitation and Use. Energy from Fossil Fuels. Nuclear Power and Alternative Energy Sources. Abundant Metals. The Geochemically Scare Metals. Fertilizer and Chemical Minerals. Building Materials and Other Industrial Minerals. Water Resources. Soil as a Resource. Future Resources. For anyone interested in earth resources. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book contains complete coverage of the geologic processes behind major natural hazards -- earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, hurricanes. It also provides an absorbing exploration of the human-planet relationship, describing how Earth processes influence our lives on a daily basis and how human actions alter the natural functioning of Earth systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: A casebook to accompany to text "The Blue Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science", 2nd edition.

Product Description: American Museum of Natural History John Wiley & Sons and the American Museum of Natural History have collaborated to develop a Web site linking this text to the Museum's permanent exhibition, the Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth, Rose Center for Earth and Space...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: "The Dynamic Earth" is a more elementary, less detailed version of the authors' well-known standard text, "Physical Geology". It was created in response to requests from lecturers and students who need a simpler, but equally attractive and authoritative, introduction to physical geology...read more

Featuring articles, essays, and entries written by some two hundred experts in the field, this authoritative, comprehensive resource on the planet Earth provides a wealth of information on the diverse fields of earth science, presenting nine hundred alphabetically arranged entries that discuss geology, geography, ecology, weather, seismology, and more. (view table of contents)

Product Description: * Plate tectonics are covered early in the book, starting with processes then moving to applications. Students are given the tools for understanding plate tectonics before they learn to apply it. * Contains a unique chapter on the Biosphere...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Geodiscoveries, an interactive multimedia CD-ROM, is designed to accompany Skinner and Porter’s The Dynamic Earth: An Introduction to Physical Geology, 5th Edition. It reinforces and illustrates key concepts from the text, and helps students prepare for tests and improve their grades...read more