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The Story of the Earth in 25 Rocks tells the fascinating stories behind the discoveries that shook the foundations of geology. This text is essential reading for the armchair geologist, the rock hound, and all who are curious about the earth beneath their feet.
The Age of Mammals examines how nineteenth-century scholars, writers, artists, and public audiences understood the animals they regarded as being at the summit of life. With this book, Manias considers the cultural resonance of mammal paleontology from an international perspective—how reconstructions of the deep past of fossil mammals across the world conditioned new understandings of nature and the current environment.
With this book, Hill and Simons explore the breadth of human knowledge about the sea, offering us entry points for better understanding multiple patterns of observation and different fields of science.
This book describes the physics of water flow into and out of lake systems, explaining the physical parameters that influence lake behavior and the mathematics that describes these systems. This book will greatly benefit professionals and researchers involved in lake management, remediation, or investigation of lake systems, and can be used as is or integrated within graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in limnology.
Sykes delves into the controversies over earthquake prediction and their importance, especially in the wake of the giant 2011 Japanese earthquake and the accompanying Fukushima disaster. He highlights geology's lessons for nuclear safety, explaining why historic earthquake patterns are crucial to understanding the risks to power plants. Plate Tectonics and Great Earthquakes is the story of a scientist witnessing a revolution and playing an essential role in making it.
The mysteries uncovered by deep-sea drilling, and covered by Powell in this eye-opening book, are many and various, often surprising and sometimes alarming—consequential not just for the science of the seafloor, but for how we learn about our planet's past and what we can do about its future.
In Just One Rain Away, Stephanie Kane shows how geoscience, engineering, and law converge to affect flood control in Winnipeg. Through storytelling and environmental analytics, this book provides a starting point for cross-cultural discussions about how expert knowledge and practice should inform egalitarian decision-making about flood control and, more broadly, decolonize current ways of thinking, being, and becoming with rivers.
