The first of John McPhee’s works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world—a history of vanished landscapes, ...

This is a comprehensive and well illustrated textbook on all aspects of tsunami. It can be used by a student or layperson to gain encyclopedic knowledge about tsunami.

The Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca is a fresh and compelling series of new English-language translations of his works in eight accessible volumes.

What caused the extinction of so many animals at or near the end of the Pleistocene? Was it overkill by human hunters, the result of a major climatic change or was it just a part of some massive evolutionary turnover?

Plows, Plagues, and Petroleum is the first book to trace the full historical sweep of human interaction with Earth's climate.

The book concludes with an introduction to the fundamental properties of living organisms and the relationship that life has to its host planet.

Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR From one of the world's most distinguished scientists, here is the story of a great intellectual adventure of our time: the search for nature's final laws.

Giant New Foundland trilobites and trilobite eyes that he began two decades ago.

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He cites improvements in the performance, reliability, and cost effectiveness of modern wind turbines to support his contention that wind energy has come of age as a commercial technology.