Geography, Earth Sciences

Interstellar , from acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan, takes us on a fantastic voyage far beyond our solar system. Yet in The Science of Interstellar , Kip Thorne, the Nobel prize-winning...

A captivating drama from the frontlines of the race to save birds set against the devastating loss of one third of the avian population. Three years ago, headlines delivered shocking...

After the huge national and international success of 'Longitude' and 'Gallileo's Daughter', Dava Sobel tells the human story of the nine planets of our solar system. This groundbreaking new work...

Escape from Earth is the untold story of the engineers, dreamers and rebels who started the American space programme. In particular, it is the story of Frank Malina, founder of...

A leading astronomer and gifted teacher takes readers on a wondrous tour of how science confronts the big questions-about the universe's origins, destiny, and fundamental nature-and how it contends with...

"Explorers Wanted" is an exciting new non-fiction series aimed at children of 10+. Each book in the series presents the reader with an exciting expedition to tackle, and is crammed...

Chris Packham enthusiastically invites you into his world of birdwatching Chris Packham's infectious passion for nature will inspire you on your birdwatching journey. Chris is a lifelong birdwatcher and the...

Author: Isaac AsimovBinding: HardbackPublisher: CROWN PUBLISHERS, INC. NEW YORK, 1982Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Tanning and foxing , price clippedMarkings: No markingsIsaac Asimov's Exploring The Earth & The...

Author: Isaac AsimovBinding: HardbackPublisher: Simon and Schuster, 1979Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerThis compelling non-fiction work by a master of science writing presents a comprehensive...

Author: Fred Hoyle And Chandra WickramasingheBinding: HardbackPublisher: J. M. DENT & SONS LTD, 1988Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis seminal work, Cosmic Life-Force, presents a...

Author: Alan LightmanBinding: PaperbackPublisher: Viking Penguin, 1992Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: No dust jacketPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageTime For The Stars: Astronomy In The 1990S...

Author: John ManBinding: HardbackPublisher: Octopus Book, 1979Condition remarks:Book: Very good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis comprehensive reference work, The Encyclopedia Of...

Author: Nigel HenbestBinding: HardbackPublisher: Marshall Cavendish Books Limited, 1985Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Condition as shown in imageThis compelling work, The Mysterious Universe,...

Author: Sir James JeansBinding: HardbackPublisher: Cambridge University Press, 1945Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThe classic work The Universe Around Us by Sir James Jeans presents...

This is the astonishing visual record of a legendary find- the wreck of Ernest Shackleton's Endurance, located 10,000 feet below the ice in Antarctica's Weddell Sea. A gripping narrative describes...

This lively introduction to geologic fracture mechanics provides a consistent treatment of all common geologic structural discontinuities. It explores the formation, growth and interpretation of fractures and deformation bands, from...

Antarctica is the coldest and driest continent on Earth - a place for adventure and a key area for global science. Research conducted there has received increasing international attention due...

A guided tour of the world's most important and beautiful maps This glorious guided tour of cartographic history features more than 300 of the most famous and important maps of...

Author: Aloysius F. Hepp, Joseph H. Prahl, Theo G. Keith, Michelle G. Bailey, J. Robert FowlerBinding: HardbackPublisher: Materials Research Society, 2001Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsThis comprehensive...

1999 sees the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing. One Giant Leap sees the story of that famous first moon landing, detailing the history of the US space...

Free yourself from cosmological tyranny! Everything started in a Big Bang? Invisible dark matter? Black holes? Why accept such a weird cosmos? For all those who wonder about this bizarre...

Climate change is not 'a problem' waiting for 'a solution'. It is an environmental, cultural and political phenomenon which is re-shaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and...

A shattering discovery reveals the secret of the universe through a mathematical formula.

Ancient Greek geographical writing is represented not just by the surviving works of the well-known authors Strabo, Pausanias, and Ptolemy, but also by many other texts dating from the Archaic...

Through four decades of space exploration and ever-better telescopes, astronomers have searched in vain, unable to find even a single planet orbiting any of the myriad of sunlike stars strewn...

A look at the future of space travel examines the true potential for human expeditions into outer space, the prospects for colonization of the outer planets of the solar system,...

Discover the secrets of the planet we call home, from its fiery insides to the landforms and life forms on its surface; unlock the mysteries of Earth's ever-moving surface with...

The book titled Powers of Ten: About the Relative Size of Things in the Universe by the author Philip Morrison. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

This edition of this brief text has been thoroughly updated. The accompanying CD-ROM features a special student version of the award-winning virtual planetarium software "Starry Night" plus software animations and...

The book is divided into two parts. In the first, the reader is taken on an ideal 'world tour' of many wonderful and enigmatic places in almost every continent, in...

Caldecott winner Beth Krommes and Newbery Honor-winning poet Joyce Sidman team up in this singular celebration of a beautiful, fascinating shape in nature. A nonfiction picture book companion to their...

Two bestselling authors first met in a televised Caltech debate on "the future of God," one an articulate advocate for spirituality, the other a prominent physicist. This remarkable book is...

Professor Sir Roger Penrose's groundbreaking and bestselling The Road to Reality (2005) provided a complete guide to the laws that govern our universe. In Cycles of Time, Penrose offers a...

Although mostly concealed, our bedrock geology profoundly determines what we see around us - not just our landforms, but the built environment too, from Aberdeen, often called the "granite city"...

'Always the leader and always the best' Bear Grylls 'Fiennes has so much to fit in, it's a wonder to grasp the full breadth of a lifetime of adventuring' -...

'A gripping account of a physicist whose speculations could prove as revolutionary as those of Albert Einstein . . . Its combination of erudition, warmth, robustness, and wit is entirely...

Follow in the footsteps of the world's greatest pioneers Discover the epic history of human exploration and migration, and the stories of fearless pioneers the world over, with this stunning...

A vivid philosophical tour de force that initiated ecological thought and writing as we know it today 'There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot,'...

In Cosmic Numbers , mathematics professor James Stein traces the discovery, evolution, and interrelationships of the great numbers that define our world. Some numbers, like the speed of light and...

Slide down the layers of the Earth with the Stickmen, from the mountaintops to the grassy plains that teem with wildlife, and digging down through the crust to the super-hot...

The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history. Travel around the world 100 billion times. A strong...

Voyages that Changed the World tells, chronologically, the stories of the most momentous sea voyages in history and, in doing so, provides an intriguing look at the unveiling of our...

'Superb: as much a feat of imagination as it is a work of globe-trotting scholarship' TELEGRAPH 'I learned more about the Moon by reading this book than after a lifetime...

The course of one's life never unfolds quite as we imagine it would. While traveling to gain perspective on her life, Mony, a Lebanese-Canadian woman feels called to walk an...

Aiming to provoke thought and elicit questions, this book explains facts about the world's population simply. Instead of unimaginable billions, it presents the whole world as a village of just...

Between 1856 and 1876, five explorers, all British, took on the seemingly impossible task of discovering the source of the White Nile. Showing exceptional courage and extraordinary resilience, Richard Burton,...

A sparkling exploration of the four cardinal directions, by the acclaimed author of A History of the World in 12 Maps North, south, east and west- almost all societies use...

A brilliant, paradigm-shifting global survey of how human history has reshaped the planet, and vice versa over the last 500 years In this paradigm-shifting global history of how humanity has...