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  A Short History of Nearly Everything

  by Bill Bryson

  One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer. In A Walk in the Woods , Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail --- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country , he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest... (more)
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  A Journey to the Center of the Earth

  by Jules Verne

  In this classic tale, a newly-discovered ancient parchment reveals that a secret passage through a volcano extends into the depths of the earth. Three men are hurled into the adventure of their lives as they undertake a journey of geological discovery and terrific danger.Although it is technically the same book there are two basic translations available. In the US the definitive translation involves a... (more)
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  The Map That Changed the World

  William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology

  by Simon Winchester

  In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell -- clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world -- making it possible, for the first time ever, to draw a chart of the hidden underside of the earth. Determined to expose what... (more)
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  A Crack in the Edge of the World

  America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906

  by Simon Winchester

  Unleashed by ancient geologic forces, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake rocked San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906. Less than a minute later, the city lay in ruins. Bestselling author Simon Winchester brings his inimitable storytelling abilities to this extraordinary event, exploring the legendary earthquake and fires that spread horror across San Francisco and northern California in 1906 as well as its... (more)
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  Krakatoa

  The day the world exploded: August 27, 1883

  by Simon Winchester

  Simon Winchester , New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman , examines the legendary annihilation in 1883 of the volcano-island of Krakatoa, which was followed by an immense tsunami that killed nearly forty thousand people. The effects of the immense waves were felt as far away as France. Barometers in Bogotá and Washington, D.C., went haywire. Bodies were washed up in Zanzibar. The... (more)
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  Annals of the Former World

  by John McPhee

  The Pulitzer Prize-winning view of the continent, across the fortieth parallel and down through 4.6 billion years Twenty years ago, when John McPhee began his journeys back and forth across the United States, he planned to describe a cross section of North America at about the fortieth parallel and, in the process, come to an understanding not only of the science but of the style of the geologists he traveled... (more)
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  Basin and Range

  by John McPhee

  The first of John McPhee’s works in his series on geology and geologists, Basin and Range is a book of journeys through ancient terrains, always in juxtaposition with travels in the modern world—a history of vanished landscapes, enhanced by the histories of people who bring them to light. The title refers to the physiographic province of the United States that reaches from eastern Utah to eastern California, a... (more)
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  Earth

  An Intimate History

  by Richard Fortey

  In Earth , the acclaimed author of Trilobite! and Life takes us on a grand tour of the earth’s physical past, showing how the history of plate tectonics is etched in the landscape around us. Beginning with Mt. Vesuvius, whose eruption in Roman times helped spark the science of geology, and ending in a lab in the West of England where mathematical models and lab experiments replace direct observation,... (more)
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  Assembling California

  by John McPhee

  At various times in a span of fifteen years, John McPhee made geological field surveys in the company of Eldridge Moores, a tectonicist at the University of California at Davis. The result of these trips is Assembling California, a cross-section in human and geologic time, from Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevada through the golden foothills of the Mother Lode and across the Great Central Valley to the wine country... (more)
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  Rocks and Minerals

  by Chris Pellant

  The Smithsonian Handbook of Rocks and Minerals combines 600 vivid full--color photos with descriptions of more than 500 specimens. This authoritative and systematic photographic approach, with words never separated from pictures, marks a new generation of identification guides. Each entry combines a precise description with annotated photographs to highlight the chief characteristics of the rock or mineral and... (more)
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  National Audubon Society: Book 5

  National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals

  by Charles Wesley Chesterman

  Perfect for mountain climbers and hikers, this valuable reference covers more rocks and minerals in North America than any other available guide. 794 full-color photographs depict all the important rocks, gems, and minerals -- in many variations of color and crystal form -- and the natural environments in which they occur; written descriptions provide information on field marks, similar rocks and minerals,... (more)
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  A Journey to the Center of the Earth (Great Illustrated Classics)

  by Jules Verne

  This is an abridged adaption of the original.Professor Hardwigg, his nephew Harry, and their guide Hans explore a volcanic crater in Iceland that leads them to the center of the Earth and to incredible and horrifying discoveries.
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  Rocks and Minerals A Guide to Minerals, Gems and Rocks (A Golden Nature Guide)

  by Paul R. Shaffer, Herbert S. Zim

  This Golden Press edition was continuously in print from 1957 through the 1970's (first from Simon and Schuster, then from Western Publishing). A guide to identifying rocks and minerals, and an explanation of their importance in our daily lives. Lavishly illustrated and clearly written, the Golden Guides were the most popular and revered series of science and nature books for young people ever published, inspiring... (more)
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  The Seashell on the Mountaintop

  by Alan Cutler

  Seventeenth-century scientists were baffled: How did the fossils of seashells find their way to the tops of mountains? Nicolaus Steno, hailed by Stephen Jay Gould as "the founder of geology," solved the puzzle, looking directly at the clues left in the layers of the Earth. Paradoxically, at the same time his ideas were undermining the Bible’s authoritative claim as to the age of the planet, Steno was entering... (more)
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  Rising from the Plains

  by John McPhee

  Rising from the Plains is John McPhee’s third book on geology and geologists. Following Basin and Range and In Suspect Terrain , it continues to present a cross section of North America along the fortieth parallel—a series gathering under the overall title Annals of the Former World .
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  Wonderful Life

  The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History

  by Stephen Jay Gould

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  Noah's Flood

  The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History

  by William B. F. Ryan

  Over the millennia, the legend of a great deluge has endured in the biblical story of Noah and in such Middle Eastern myths as the epic of Gilgamesh. Now two distinguished geophysicists have discovered a catastrophic event that changed history, a gigantic flood 7,600 years ago in what is today the Black Sea. Using sound waves and coring devices to probe the sea floor, William Ryan and Walter Pitman revealed... (more)
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  Roadside Geology

  Roadside Geology of Utah

  by Halka Chronic

  No one can ignore the colorful rocks of Utah: the Vermilion Cliffs of Wingate sandstone, the snow white and salmon pink bluffs of Navajo sandstone, or the yellow and pink rhyolite of Big Rock Candy Mountain. Roadside Geology of Utah is a riveting account of the forces that made the brilliant cliffs, mountains, and canyonlands we see today. The author's smooth prose brings the rocks of Utah and their long history... (more)
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  Roadside Geology

  Roadside Geology of Arizona

  by Halka Chronic

  The rise of mountains and the spread of the deserts has marked the geologic history of Arizona. Landscapes that we see her (sic) today are here because of landscapes of the past, and because of tremendous forces deep within the earth, forces that carry continents into collisions and then drag them apart again, forces of heat and pressure and the slow churning boil of the earth's interior. Landscape features... (more)
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  Reading the Rocks

  The Autobiography of the Earth

  by Marcia Bjornerud

  For readers of John McPhee and Stephen Jay Gould, this engaging armchair guide to the making of the rock record shows how to understand messages written in stone. To many of us, the Earth's crust is a relic of ancient, unknowable history. But to a geologist, stones are richly illustrated narratives, telling gothic tales of cataclysm and reincarnation. For more than four billion years, in beach sand,... (more)