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Is there a volcano near you? While the soil around one can be excellent for planting, it can also cause immense destruction if it erupts. In this book, we're going to study the signs of volcanic activity prior to an eruption. We're also going to explore what happens after an eruption. The knowledge will hopefully make it possible for you to sense danger. Good luck!

Where do waters in streams and rivers go? Where do oceans lead to? These are important questions that need good answers. Luckily, there are resources – like this book – that have been designed especially for 2nd graders. Big words and systems have been cleverly reworded to make sure that even the...

Icebergs and glaciers are two different things. It’s forgivable for children to now know the difference but it’s a grave sin to not correct them while they're young. Using this book as your tool, help your child build an appreciation for correctness. This way, he/she can carry that attitude as he/she grows to become a successful individual. Buy a copy today!

Though filled with all sorts of bugs and other finds, the soil is very important to life. It is the key ingredient to why plants grow, why animals exist, and why humans live. Educate your child about the soil, and maybe, he/she will learn to love as much as the other living things do. So grab a copy, open it and help your child read it. Enjoy!

Learn to read maps, and locate regions in the world by using latitude and longitude. Is the lesson complicated? Perhaps, but with the right resource it should be easy enough for a second grader to learn. What makes this book effective is the right mix of texts and pictures. A child will be entertained by the colors, and educated by the facts. Buy a copy now!

What will the Earth look like if severe climate change happens, and humans survive?    It is not an easy question to contemplate, let alone answer. If severe climate change happens, the Earth will continue to warm for centuries after we've exhausted our fossil fuels. Civilization will shatter,...

How does life on our planet respond to--and shape--climate? This question has never been more urgent than it is today, when humans are faced with the daunting task of guiding adaptation to an inexorably changing climate. This concise, accessible, and authoritative book provides an unmatched introduction...

The Arctic and Antarctic ice shelves have been an object of obsession for as long as we've known they existed. Countless explorers, including such legends as Richard Byrd, Ernest Shackleton, and Robert Falcon Scott, have risked their lives to chart their frozen landscapes. Now, for the first time...

Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mt. Everest slammed into the Earth, causing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized impactor and debris from the impact site were blasted out through the atmosphere, falling back to Earth...

Applications of radioactive and stable isotopes have revolutionized our understanding of the Earth and near-earth surface processes. The utility of the isotopes are ever-increasing and our sole focus is to bring out the applications of these isotopes as tracers and chronometers to a wider audience...

Man's understanding of how this planet is put together and how it evolved has changed radically during the last 30 years. This great revolution in geology - now usually subsumed under the concept of Plate Tectonics - brought the realization that convection within the Earth is responsible for the origin...

This book tells the story of the catastrophic impact of the giant 10 Km asteroid Chicxulub into the ancient Gulf of Mexico 65.5 million years ago. The book begins with a discussion of the nature of asteroids and the likelihood of future Earth-impacts. The story then turns to the discovery of a global...

This book covers the fundamentals of reservoir engineering in the recovery of hydrocarbons from underground reservoirs. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the topic, including discussion of recovery processes, material balance, fluid properties and fluid flow. It also contains details of...

This book is a contribution to the International Year of Planet Earth arising from the 33rd International Geological Congress, held in Oslo, Norway during August 2008. The first section of the book considers aspects of geochemical processes which led to the development of the solid Earth as it is...