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Earth Sciences 27
Our Magnetic Earth
Volcanoes
Ronald T. Merrill “Part science, part history of science, and part personal experience, Our Magnetic Earth seamlessly draws together a variety of seemingly unrelated topics—from climate to space weather to geologic time to the Sun—under the grand heading of magnetism. . . . Ultimately, we come away from this book understanding both much, much more about magnetism and about the importance of scientific literacy in today’s society.”—Bruce Moskowitz, University of Minnesota
David M. Pyle In these pages, anonymous seventeenth-century seafarers tell of exploding islands, Alexander Von Humboldt and Charles Darwin show us volcanoes through the eyes of developing science, and artists sketch the spectacular London sunsets created by the eruption of Krakatoa, half the world away.
The Science of Geomagnetism
2010 272 p. 6 x 9 7 line drawings, 26 halftones 331 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-52050-6 $25.00 Your Price: $10.00 332 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-00659-8 $17.00 Your Price: $7.00
Ice
The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance
Mariana Gosnell “By the time you finish this remarkable book . . . you’ll never think about freezing and melting in quite the same way.”—New York Times “There’s a lot of good, hard science here . . . and a lot of gripping human-interest stuff about ice fishermen cracking through Minnesota lakes and explorers’ ships crushed in polar sea ice.”—Washington Post 2005, 2007 576 p. 6 x 9 19 halftones, 33 line drawings 333 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-30496-0 $18.00 Your Price: $7.00
The Earth Series from Reaktion Books The Earth series is the first of its kind to trace the historical significance and cultural history of natural phenomena and resources.
Comets
P. Andrew Karam 2017 224 p. 5 3/4 x 81/4 80 color plates, 20 halftones 334 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-830-2 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00
Rainbows
Daniel MacCannell 2018 208 p. 5 3/4 x 81/4 90 color plates, 10 halftones 335 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-920-0 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00
Clouds
Richard Hamblyn 2017 240 p. 5 3/4 x 81/4 80 color plates, 20 halftones 336 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-723-7 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00
Swamp
Anthony Wilson 2018 248 p. 5 3/4 x 81/4 80 color plates, 20 halftones 337 Paper ISBN: 978-1-78023-844-9 $24.95 Your Price: $8.00
Encounters through the Ages
Distributed for the Bodleian Library
2017 224 p. 8 3/4 x 8 3/4 83 color plates 338 Paper ISBN: 978-1-85124-459-1 $35.00 Your Price: $11.00
A New Map of Wonders
A Journey in Search of Modern Marvels
Caspar Henderson “Henderson mines the cosmos for wondrous phenomena, from light to transformative technologies. We veer from Saturn’s moon Enceladus—spraying water into space through cracks in its ice sheath—to the human embryo, which at eighteen days resembles ‘a tiny jam sandwich.’ Strung through Henderson’s virtuosic meditations on such marvels is an exploration of felt wonder.”—Nature 2017 368 p. 6 x 9 40 halftones 339 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-29191-8 $29.00 Your Price: $13.00
Invisible
The Dangerous Allure of the Unseen
Philip Ball “Ball leads us on a very fun, largely chronological journey through invisibility, beginning with myth and early magicians, ending with quantum physics, and stopping along the way at Newton, Leibniz, microscopy, photography, spiritualism, B movies, and science fiction. He is lucid and interesting on every topic he touches, from the ghost in Hamlet to those unseen extra dimensions posited by string theory.”—New Yorker
2015 322 p. 6 x 9 62 halftones, 8 line drawings 340 Paper ISBN: 978-0-226-37825-1 $18.00 Your Price: $8.00
Walden Warming
Climate Change Comes to Thoreau’s Woods
Richard B. Primack “Determined to help the public understand global warming, Primack decided to search for evidence of climate change in Concord, Massachusetts, home of Walden Pond, made famous by pioneering environmentalist Henry David Thoreau. . . . Primack shares striking tales from the field and elucidates from an unnervingly closeto-home perspective the dynamics and impact of climate change on plants, birds, and myriad other species, including us.”—Booklist 2014 264 p. 6 x 9 15 halftones 341 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-68268-6 $26.00 Your Price: $8.00
Gems and Gemstones
Timeless Natural Beauty of the Mineral World
Lance Grande and Allison Augustyn “Displays beautiful gemstones (cut and uncut) and explains the geography and science behind their creation. Photos of creations such as the Aztec ‘Sun-god Opal’ . . . show just how long gems have retained their hold on the human imagination.”—Seattle Times 2009 352 p. 81/2 x 10 290 color plates, 7 line drawings, 5 tables 342 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-30511-0 $45.00 Your Price: $17.00
Climate of Alaska
Martha Shulski and Gerd Wendler Replete with striking photos, maps, and charts, The Climate of Alaska presents a detailed picture of what to expect in this state of climate extremes, from the 40-below temperatures of the Interior to the 24 hours of daylight in a northern summer. Distributed for University of Alaska Press 2007 208 p. 6 x 9 82 color plates, maps, and graphs 343 Paper ISBN: 978-1-60223-007-1 $21.95 Your Price: $8.00
Relics
Travels in Nature’s Time Machine
Piotr Naskrecki “Embedded in this showcase book of exotic plants and animals is a plea to preserve what’s left of the planet’s evolutionary history.”—Seattle Times 2011 384 p. 91/4 x 91/4 414 color plates 344 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-56870-6 $45.00 Your Price: $15.00
Curiosity
How Science Became Interested in Everything
Philip Ball “Curiosity emerges as a first-rate popular account of how science in Europe began. . . . Ball adeptly sketches the virtuoso sensibility: a combination of intellectual nosiness and experimental dexterity plus the belief that, as he writes, ‘to understand everything, you could start from anywhere.’”—Wall Street Journal 2013 480 p. 6 x 9 38 halftones, 5 line drawings 345 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-226-04579-5 $35.00 Your Price: $8.00
