Earth Sciences Books

What would happen if humans suddenly disappeared? Almost everything around us artificially created would be consumed by nature within a few hundred years of our disappearance. Buildings would collapse; road and dams would disintegrate. Some...
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While this is undoubtedly an intriguing premise, the authors drive readers away in droves by incessantly listing example after example of every conceivable tree, bush, weed, bird, or other creature that currently inhabits a region, is endangered,...
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This book examines what would happen to the world if we were all to suddenly disappear from it...ie: how long would it take for the world to get back to normal (or at least back to how it was) before us. It uncovers this by looking at regions of...
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Beyond a doubt, this was the best of the books I read during this past year. Having had many family members who were caught up in this, one of the worst natural (actually it seems it was more man made than natural) disasters to strike our...
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This account of one of the worst environmental disasters to hit this country, next to the "Andrea Gail' in 1938 is well done but a little dull. Since I was not born before it happened, what I thought was interesting apparently was not what the...
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Timothy Egan's "The Worst Hard Time" proffers a look at the Dust Bowl from a slightly different perspective than most Americans are familiar...he tells it from the inside out. This is not a book about the Okies who packed up and moved west. "The...
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As a map junkie all my life, this is the one I go to when I need a fix. Others may have a better feature here and there, but for overall cartographic satisfaction, detail, and tons of data, you can't beat National Geographic's.
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I found the quality, accuracy, and ease of this atlas underwhelming for the price. It's the most expensive atlas out there, but has nothing on Hammond, Oxford, or Goode's--all of which are half the price. Don't be fooled by the big marketing...
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I ordered an atlas for a friend for Christmas and I was sent a 1963 atlas for ($). Not really a solid value considering it's almost half a century out of date!

It is beautiful however and the service was fantastic. It's just not what I was...
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As this book shows, the debate over global warming is not as one-sided as the media would have you believe. The authors do a great job showing that there is great debate on whether it even exists and the problems they have telling this version. As...
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Years ago I remember reading an amusing article on the John Birch society which was written as if by a supporter; what made the piece fun was that it took serious thought to determine whether you were reading something that was truly by JBS...
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NONE of the one-star reviews stay on topic?

they start out about this book..and then seem to ramble off into "bushchimphitler WMD's iraq haliburton blah blah blah"

if you are reviewing this book...talk about the book....
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I have found reading this text to be an awful lot of fun. Does that sound strange? Learning how the physical features and materials of the Earth came to be has always been fascinating to me. Part of it is because of the vast amounts of time...
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A really great book full of really detailed pictures. The story of a first class kid and a third class kid both abord the Titanic. Shows the time of things that happened. A really great book for kids of all ages.
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I Never read this book! Oh well.
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I must confess that I bought this book solely for a few of
Raul Martins illustrations.
I think it would be ok to call it a beginnersbook for adults and why not teenagers, but not for younger children bcause the textstyle is not suited for...
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The book has an extraordinary content to learn about the atmosphere. I advise buy it, the CD is very good.
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The students in my class and I thought that this textbook was too newsy. it had WAY too much information for an Intro to Meteorology class. The questions at the end of the chapters were hard also because they were almost impossible to solve....
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This is an excellent acount of the transcontinental journey of Lewis and Clark in 1803-1806, by prize-winning historian Stephen Ambrose. The book gains immediacy from the fact that Mr. Ambrose has actually retraced the steps of Lewis and Clark,...
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This book was very dissapointing. I started it thinking I was going to learn some history and get a good adventure story at the same time. Instead, I got really bogged down about half way through the book in all the minute details of Lewis and...
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If my history teacher had graded this book, she no doubt would have reminded us that we cannot forget good writing when we leave English class. The content was fascinating, but the style was turgid and boring. Ironically, Anbrose criticizes...