Earth Sciences Books 2007-2008
- Fundamentals of geomorphology
- Location: General
Call Number: GB401.5 .H845 2007
Author: Huggett, Richard J
Publication information: London New York : Routledge, 2007
Physical description: xv, 458 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 26 cm
- Atlas of cultural and environmental change in arid Africa
- Location: General
Call Number: GB618.82 .A753 2007
Publication information: Köln : Heinrich-Barth-Institut, 2007
Physical description: 239 p. : col. ill., col. maps 35 cm. + supplemental German text (60 p. 30 cm.)
- Hydrologic sciences: taking stock and looking ahead proceedings of the 1997 Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture and Symposium on the Hydrologic Sciences
- Location: General
Call Number: GB652 .A24 1997
Author: Abel Wolman Distinguished Lecture and Symposium on the Hydrologic Sciences (1997 : Washington, D.C.)
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1998
Physical description: ix, 138 p. : ill., maps 23 cm
- Elements of physical hydrology
- Location: General
Call Number: GB661.2 .E44 1998
Publication information: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1998
Physical description: viii, 302 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 26 cm. + 1 computer laser optical disc (4 3/4 in.)
- Opportunities in the hydrologic sciences
- Location: General
Call Number: GB665 .O315 1991
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991
Physical description: xvii, 348 p. : ill., maps 24 cm
- Field hydrogeology
- Location: General
Call Number: GB1002.3 .B73 2007
Author: Brassington, Rick
Publication information: Chichester, England Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, c2007
Physical description: xi, 264 p. : ill. 18 cm
Contents: Introduction -- Desk study -- Field evaluation of aquifers -- Groundwater levels -- Rainfall, springs and streams -- Pumping tests -- Groundwater chemistry -- Recharge estimation -- Specialist techniques -- Practical applications
- Sustainability of ground-water resources
- Location: General
Call Number: GB1015 .A66 1999
Author: Alley, William M
Publication information: Denver, CO : U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey [Washington, D.C.] : U.S. G.P.O. Denver, CO : U.S. Geological Survey, Branch of Information Services [distributor], 1999
Physical description: v, 79 p. : ill. (some col.) 28 cm
- Darkening peaks: glacier retreat, science, and society
- Location: General
Call Number: GB2405 .D37 2008
Publication information: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008
Physical description: viii, 282 p. : ill., maps 27 cm
Contents: The place of glaciers in natural and cultural landscapes / Ben Orlove, Ellen Wiegandt and Brian h. Luckman -- pt. 1. Societal perceptions: cultures and institutions. Changing views of changing glaciers / Wilfred Haeberli -- Challenges of living with glaciers in the Swiss Alps, past and present / Ellen Wiegandt and Ralph Lugon -- Environment, history, and culture as influences on perceptions of glacier dynamics: the case of Mt. Shasta / Barbara Wolf and Ben Orlove -- Glacial hazards: perceiving and responding to threats in four world regions / Christian Huggel, Wilfried Haeberli, and Andreas Kaab -- pt. 2. Scientific observations: measurement, monitoring and modeling. Two alpine glaciers over the past two centuries: a scientific view based on pictorial sources / Daniel Steiner, Heinz J. Zumbuhl, and Andreas Bauder -- Long-term observations of glaciers in Norway / Liss Andreassen...[et al.] -- Alpinewide distributed glacier mass balance modeling: a tool for assessing future glacier change / Frank Paul...[et al.] -- Modeling climate-change impacts on mountain glaciers and water resources in the central dry Andes / Javier Corripio...[et al.] -- pt. 3. Trends in natural landscapes: climate change. Glacier mass balance in the Northern U.S. and Canadian Rockies: paleo-perspectives and 20th century change / Emma Watson...[et al.] -- Glacier fluctuations in the European Alps, 1850-2000: an overview and spatio-temporal analysis of available data / Michael Zemp...[et al.] -- Tropical glaciers, climate change, and society: focus on Kilimanjaro (East Africa) / Thomas Molg...[et al.] -- pt. 4. Impacts on human landscapes: resources, hazards and cultural landscapes. New Zealand's glaciers: key national and global assets for science and society / John Hay and Tui Elliot -- The impact of mining on rock glaciers and glaciers: examples from Central Chile / Alexander Brenning -- Glacier changes and their impacts on mountain tourism: two case studies from the Italian Alps / Claudio Smiraglia...[et al.] -- Mama Cotacachi: history, lo
- The Facts on File dictionary of marine science
- Location: Reference
Call Number: GC9 .F28 2008
Author: Charton, Barbara
Publication information: New York : Facts on File, c2008
Physical description: x, 468 p. : ill., maps 24 cm
- An introduction to the world's oceans
- Location: General
Call Number: GC11.2 .D89 2008
Author: Sverdrup, Keith A
Publication information: Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2008
Physical description: xx, 521 p. : col. ill., col. maps 29 cm
- Oceans: a Scientific American reader
- Location: General
Call Number: GC21 .O28 2007
Publication information: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007
Physical description: 315 p. : ill., maps 23 cm
- The human, the orchid, and the octopus: exploring and conserving our natural world
- Location: New Books
Call Number: GC30.C68 A3 2007
Author: Cousteau, Jacques Yves
Publication information: New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007
Physical description: xi, 305 p. 25 cm
Description: Explorer, diving pioneer, filmmaker, inventor, and activist, Jacques Cousteau was blessed from childhood with boundless curiosity about the natural world. As the leader of fascinating, often dangerous expeditions all over the planet, he discovered firsthand the complexity and beauty of life on earth and undersea--and watched the toll taken by human activity. In his last book, written over the last ten years of his life and finally available in the United States, Cousteau describes his philosophy about protecting our world for future generations. Weaving stories of his adventures throughout, he and collaborator Susan Schiefelbein address the risks we take with human health, the overfishing and sacking of the world's oceans, the hazards of nuclear proliferation, and the environmental responsibility of scientists, politicians, and people of faith. Cousteau's lyrical, passionate call for action is even more relevant today than when this book was completed in 1996.--From publisher description
Contents: The drive to explore -- Personal risk -- Public risk -- Irreplaceable water, irreplaceable air -- The Holy Scriptures and the environment -- Saccage -- Catch as catch can -- Science and human values -- The hot peace : nuclear weapons and nuclear energy -- Life in a billion years -- The miracle of life : the human, the orchid, and the octopus -- Epilogue: An update since the writing of this book
- Careers for aquatic types & others who want to make a splash
- Location: College and Career Information Center
Call Number: GC30.5 .C36 2008
Author: Camenson, Blythe
Publication information: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008
Physical description: xii, 137 p. 22 cm
- An ocean blueprint for the 21st century: final report
- Location: General
Call Number: GC58 .U48 2004
Author: United States. Commission on Ocean Policy
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy, [2004]-
Physical description: v. : ill. 28 cm. + 2 CD-ROMs (4 3/4 in.)
- To follow the water: exploring the sea to discover climate from the Gulf Stream to the blue beyond
- Location: General
Call Number: GC190.2 .M87 2007
Author: Murphy, Dallas
Publication information: New York : Basic Books, c2007
Physical description: 278 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps 22 cm
- El Nino: fact and fiction
- Location: General
Call Number: GC296.8.E4 V613 2000
Author: Voituriez, Bruno
Publication information: Paris : United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, 2000
Physical description: 128 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 24 cm
- Ebb and flow: tides and life on our once and future planet
- Location: General
Call Number: GC301.2 .K67 2007
Author: Koppel, Tom
Publication information: Toronto : Dundurn, c2007
Physical description: 292 p. : ill., maps, port. 23 cm
- Cambridge illustrated dictionary of astronomy
- Location: ebook
Call Number: QB14
Author: Mitton, Jacqueline
Publication information: Cambridge, UK New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007
Physical description: vi, 397 p. : ill
- The history of astronomy
- Location: General
Call Number: QB15 .C647 2007
Author: Couper, Heather
Publication information: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2007
Physical description: 288 p. : col. ill., photos 30 cm
Contents: Living with the sky -- Reading the heavens -- Wheels within wheels -- The Earth moves -- The new solar system -- Beyond the human eye -- Matters of some gravity -- Planet hunters -- Powerhouse of the stars -- The universe beckons -- Violent universe -- Are we alone?
- A brief introduction to astronomy in the Middle East
- Location: General
Call Number: QB23 .S73 2008
Author: Steele, John M
Publication information: London San Francisco : Saqi, 2008
Physical description: 153 p. : ill., maps 20 cm
- Copernicus' secret: how the scientific revolution began
- Location: General
Call Number: QB36.C8 R387 2007
Author: Repcheck, Jack
Publication information: New York : Simon & Schuster, 2007
Physical description: xvi, 239 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps 23 cm
- James Van Allen: the first eight billion miles
- Location: General
Call Number: QB36.V357 F64 2007
Author: Foerstner, Abigail, 1949-
Publication information: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, c2007
Physical description: xx, 322 p. : ill. 25 cm
Contents: Frontier roots -- Heartland boyhood -- The making of a scientist -- Physicists to the war effort -- Enter Abigail Fithian Halsey -- The dawn of space exploration -- The mighty little aerobee -- It's a rocket! It's a balloon! It's a rockoon! -- Sputnik and the space race -- Countdown to explorer I -- Celebrity scientist and the birth of NASA -- Discovery of the radiation belts -- Space shield for the Cold War -- Space as a cottage industry -- The mariners -- Pioneers to the outer planets -- Space politics -- Journey to the edge of the solar system
- Fundamental astronomy
- Location: General
Call Number: QB43.2 .T2613 2007
Publication information: Berlin New York : Springer, c2007
Physical description: xi, 510 p. : ill. (some col.) 25 cm
- Astronomy today
- Location: General
Call Number: QB43.3 .C48 2007
Author: Chaisson, Eric
Publication information: San Francisco, CA : Pearson / Addison Wesley, c2008
Physical description: xxv, 777, [64] p. : ill. (chiefly col.) 29 cm
- Universe
- Location: General
Call Number: QB43.3 .F733 2008
Author: Freedman, Roger A
Publication information: New York : W.H. Freeman, c2008
Physical description: xxxi, 762, [60] p. : ill. (chiefly col.) 28 cm
- Foundations of Astronomy
- Location: General
Call Number: QB43.3 .S43 2008
Author: Seeds, Michael A
Publication information: Belmont, CA : Thomson Brooks/Cole, c2008
Physical description: xiii, 667 p. : col. ill. 29 cm
- Stars and planets: the most complete guide to the stars, planets, galaxies, and the solar system
- Location: Reference
Call Number: QB63 .R527 2007
Author: Ridpath, Ian
Publication information: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2007
Physical description: 400 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 20 cm
- Stargazing with binoculars
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QB63 .S366 2008
Author: Scagell, Robin
Publication information: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2008
Physical description: 208 p. : col. ill. 20 cm
- The 50 best sights in astronomy and how to see them: observing eclipses, bright comets, meteor showers, and other celestial wonders
- Location: General
Call Number: QB63 .S389 2007
Author: Schaaf, Fred
Publication information: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2007
Physical description: vii, 280 p. : ill. (some col.) 24 cm
- Illustrated guide to astronomical wonders
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QB64 .T492 2007
Author: Thompson, Robert Bruce
Publication information: Sebastopol, CA : Make:Books, c2007
Physical description: 519 p. : ill., charts 25 cm
- 300 astronomical objects: a visual reference to the universe
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QB64 .W54 2006
Author: Wilkins, Jamie, 1981-
Publication information: Buffalo, N.Y. Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2006
Physical description: 528 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. 17 cm
Contents: Solar system -- Sun -- Mercury -- Venus -- Earth -- Moon -- Mars -- Asteroid belt -- Jupiter -- Jupiter's moons -- Saturn -- Saturn's moons -- Uranus -- Neptune -- Pluto and Charon -- Outer belts and comets -- Space telescopes -- Uncrewed probes
- The telescope: its history, technology, and future
- Location: General
Call Number: QB88 .A64 2007
Author: Andersen, Geoff
Publication information: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2007, c2006
Physical description: 248 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) 24 cm
- Star ware: the amateur astronomer's guide to choosing, buying, and using telescopes and accessories
- Location: General
Call Number: QB88 .H37 2007
Author: Harrington, Philip S
Publication information: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2007
Physical description: x, 417 p. : ill. 24 cm
- Digital astrophotography: a guide to capturing the cosmos
- Location: General
Call Number: QB121 .S45 2008
Author: Seip, Stefan
Publication information: Santa Barbara, CA : Rocky Nook, c2008
Physical description: ix, 155 p. : col. ill. 26 cm
Contents: Before you start -- The digital compact camera -- The webcam -- The digital single lens reflex camera -- The astronomical CCD camera -- Conclusion
- Titan unveiled : Saturn's mysterious moon explored
- Location: General
Call Number: QB405 .L675 2008
Author: Lorenz, Ralph, 1969-
Publication information: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008
Physical description: xii, 243 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps 24 cm
- Astrophysics: decoding the cosmos
- Location: General
Call Number: QB461 .I79 2007
Author: Irwin, Judith A., 1954-
Publication information: Chichester, England Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, c2007
Physical description: xxvii, 417 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) 25 cm
- Astrophysics is easy!: a complete introduction for amateur astronomers
- Location: General
Call Number: QB461.3 .I55 2007
Author: Inglis, Mike, 1954-
Publication information: New York : Springer, 2007
Physical description: xvii, 204 p. : ill. 23 cm
- Rejuvenating the sun and avoiding other global catastrophes
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QB501 .B44 2008
Author: Beech, Martin, 1959-
Publication information: New York : Springer, 2008
Physical description: xi, 225 p. : ill. 24 cm
- Ice, rock, and beauty: a visual tour of the new Solar System
- Location: General
Call Number: QB501 .B84 2008
Author: Brodie, David
Publication information: New York : Springer, c2008
Physical description: xvii, 130 p. : ill. (some col.) 29 cm
- Lives of the planets: a natural history of the solar system
- Location: General
Call Number: QB501 .C6618 2007
Author: Corfield, R. M
Publication information: New York : Basic Books, c2007
Physical description: xiv, 268 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (chiefly col.) 25 cm
Contents: Ages of dark and light : the sun -- The piper at the gates of dawn : Mercury -- The greenhouse in the sky : Venus -- The wizards of earthsea : Earth and moon -- The Martian chronicles : Mars -- The outward urge : asteroids -- The eye of the universe : Jupiter -- Ringing infinity : Saturn -- The harmonies of the ice giants : Uranus and Neptune -- Termination shock : Pluto and the Kuiper Belt
- The Solar System
- Location: General
Call Number: QB501 .S43 2008
Author: Seeds, Michael A
Publication information: Belmont, CA : Thomson Brooks/Cole, c2008
Physical description: xiii, 658 p. : col. ill., col. maps 28 cm
- The formation of the solar system: theories old and new
- Location: General
Call Number: QB503 .W665 2007
Author: Woolfson, M. M
Publication information: London : Imperial College Press Hackensack, NJ : Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., c2007
Physical description: xxii, 318 p. : ill. (some col.) 24 cm
- Total solar eclipses and how to observe them
- Location: General
Call Number: QB541 .M63 2007
Author: Mobberley, Martin, 1958-
Publication information: New York : Springer, c2007
Physical description: xiv, 201 p. : ill. (some col.), maps 24 cm
- The Moon: resources, future development, and settlement
- Location: General
Call Number: QB582.5 .S37 2008
Publication information: Berlin New York : Springer Chichester, UK : Published in association with Praxis Pub., c2008
Physical description: xlvi, 561 p., [14] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) 25 cm
- Venus and Mercury, and how to observe them
- Location: General
Call Number: QB606 .G74 2008
Author: Grego, Peter
Publication information: New York, : Springer, 2008
Physical description: xiii, 262 p. : ill. (some col.) 24 cm
- Planet Earth as you've never seen it before
- Location: General
Call Number: QB631.2 .P57 2006
Publication information: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2006
Physical description: 309 p. : col. ill., col. map 29 cm
Description: This book, companion to the Discovery Channel/BBC series, is an enduring record of one of the most ambitious natural history projects ever undertaken. Using the latest aerial surveillance, state-of-the-art cameras, and high definition technology, the creators have assembled more than 400 photographs of landscapes from around the globe, including footage of rarely seen creatures. Many of the images reveal inaccessible places and record animal behavior that has never been filmed or photographed before. With the help of this advanced technology and the world's premier wildlife photographers, the book takes us on a journey from the world's greatest rivers and impressive gorges, to its mightiest mountains, hidden caves and caverns, and vast deserts. Includes sequences of predators and their prey, lush vistas of forests viewed from the tops of towering trees, the oceans and their mysterious creatures viewed from beneath the surface, and more.--From publisher description
- Marswalk One: first steps on a new planet
- Location: General
Call Number: QB641 .S4815 2005
Author: Shayler, David, 1955-
Publication information: Berlin New York : Springer Chichester, UK : In association with Praxis Publishing, c2005
Physical description: xxvii, 244 p. : ill. 25 cm
- Jupiter and how to observe it
- Location: General
Call Number: QB661 .M44 2008
Author: McAnally, John W
Publication information: London : Springer, c2008
Physical description: x, 217 p. : ill. (some col.) 24 cm
- Saturn and how to observe it
- Location: General
Call Number: QB671 .B46 2005
Author: Benton, Julius
Publication information: London : Springer, c2005
Physical description: vii, 182 p. : ill. (some col.) 24 cm
- David Levy's guide to observing meteor showers
- Location: General
Call Number: QB743 .L49 2008
Author: Levy, David H., 1948-
Publication information: Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008
Physical description: x, 128 p. : ill. 25 cm
- Dark side of the universe: dark matter, dark energy, and the fate of the cosmos
- Location: General
Call Number: QB791.3 .N53 2007
Author: Nicolson, Iain
Publication information: Baltimore, MD : John Hopkins University Press, 2007
Physical description: 184 p. : col. ill. 29 cm
- Searching for water in the universe
- Location: General
Call Number: QB791.5 .E53 2007
Author: Encrenaz, Thérèse, 1946-
Publication information: Berlin New York : Springer Chichester, UK : Published in association with Praxis Pub., c2007
Physical description: viii, 193 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) 24 cm
Contents: Introduction why water? -- A very simple molecule -- The quest for cosmic water -- The ice line and the birth of the planets -- Comets and water -- Water in the solar system -- At the ice line: the asteroids -- Water and the terrestrial planets -- The search for other earths
- Stars and galaxies
- Location: General
Call Number: QB801 .S44 2008
Author: Seeds, Michael A
Publication information: Belmont, CA : Thomson Brooks/Cole, c2008
Physical description: xiii, 479 p. : col. ill. 28 cm
- The new worlds: extrasolar planets
- Location: General
Call Number: QB820 .C36813 2007
Author: Casoli, F. (Fabienne), 1959-
Publication information: Berlin New York : Springer, 2007
Physical description: xi, 188 p. : col. ill. 24 cm
Contents: Extrasolar planets: the holy grail of astronomers -- In search of exoplanets -- Twelve years of discovery -- What do we learn from our own solar system? -- The formation of planetary systems -- Life in the universe -- Future projects
- Understanding variable stars
- Location: General
Call Number: QB835 .P395 2007
Author: Percy, John R
Publication information: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007
Physical description: xxi, 350 p. : ill. 26 cm
Contents: History and development -- Stars -- Variable stars -- Rotating variable stars -- Eclipsing variable stars -- Pulsating variable stars -- Eruptive variable stars -- Pre-main-sequence variable stars -- Miscellaneous variable stars -- Epilogue
- The galactic supermassive black hole
- Location: General
Call Number: QB843.B55 M454 2007
Author: Melia, Fulvio
Publication information: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2007
Physical description: xiv, 296 p. : ill. (some col.) charts, photos. 24 cm
- Einstein's enigma, or, Black holes in my bubble bath
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QB843.B55 V57 2006
Author: Vishveshwara, C. V
Publication information: New York : Copernicus Books, c2006
Physical description: 360 p. : ill. 24 cm
Contents: The bathtub -- The stellar bed -- The Casanova connection -- Footprints of the giants -- Cosmic framework -- A moving experience -- The fabric of spacetime -- Grappling with gravity -- Beetles on a branch -- Tub talk -- The first solution and the last statement -- Sphere of darkness -- The voracious whirlpool -- Dynamics of the unique -- A date with Dante -- Imprints of the invisible -- Celestial swan song -- Cibo per la mente -- Curtain call -- Foundations of fact and fantasy
- Cosmic catastrophes: exploding stars, black holes, and mapping the universe
- Location: General
Call Number: QB843.S95 W48 2007
Author: Wheeler, J. Craig
Publication information: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007
Physical description: xviii, 339 p. : ill. 24 cm
Contents: Setting the stage: star formation and hydrogen burning single stars -- Stellar death: the inexorable grip of gravity -- Dancing with stars: binary stellar evolution -- Accretion disks: flat stars -- White dwarfs: quantum dots -- Supernovae: stellar catastrophes -- Supernova 1987A: lessons and enigmas -- Neutron stars: atoms with attitude -- Black holes in theory: into the abyss -- Black holes in fact: exploring the reality -- Gamma-ray bursts, black holes and the universe: long, long ago and far, far away -- Supernovae and the universe -- Wormholes and time machines: tunnels in space and time -- Beyond: the frontiers
- Galaxies in turmoil: the active and starburst galaxies and the black holes that drive them
- Location: General
Call Number: QB858.3 .K48 2007
Author: Kitchin, C. R. (Christopher R.)
Publication information: London : Springer, c2007
Physical description: xiii, 298 p. : ill. (some col.) 25 cm
- Your cosmic context: an introduction to modern cosmology
- Location: General
Call Number: QB981 .D886 2009
Author: Duncan, Todd
Publication information: San Francisco : Pearson Addison Wesley, c2009
Physical description: x, 466 p., 32 p. of plates ill. (some col.) 26 cm
Description: Provides a cumulative guide to the general lessons of modern scientific cosmology, as well as the historical background that connects the nature of the universe with the reader's place in it --Provided by publisher
- The illustrated a brief history of time
- Location: General
Call Number: QB981 .H377 1996
Author: Hawking, S. W. (Stephen W.)
Publication information: New York : Bantam Books, 1996
Physical description: 248 p. : col. ill. 25 cm
Description: The book was on the cutting edge of what was then known about the nature of the universe, but since that time there have been extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic worlds. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background Explorer satellite (COBE), which probed back in time to within 300,000 years of the universe's beginning and revealed wrinkles in the fabric of space-time that he had projected. Eager to bring his original text the new knowledge revealed by these many observations, as well as his most recent research, for this expanded edition Professor Hawking has prepared a new introduction to the book, written an entirely new chapter on the fascinating subject of wormholes and time travel, and updated the original chapters. This edition is enhanced throughout with more than 240 full-color illustrations, including satellite images, photographs made possible by spectacular technological advances such as the Hubble Space Telescope, and computer-generated images of three and four dimensional realities
Contents: Our picture of the universe -- Space and time -- Expanding universe -- Uncertainty principle -- Elementary particles and the forces of nature -- Black holes -- Black holes ain't so black -- Origin and fate of the universe -- Arrow of time -- Wormholes and time travel - Unification of physics -- Conclusion: Albert Einstein Galileo Galilei Isaac Newton
- Cosmological enigmas: pulsars, quasars, & other deep-space questions
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QB982 .K53 2007
Author: Kidger, Mark R. (Mark Richard), 1960-
Publication information: Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
Physical description: viii, 224 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) 25 cm
Contents: How are stars born and how do they die? -- How do we know that black holes exist? -- Who is the strangest in the cosmic zoo? -- How far is it to the stars and will we ever be able to travel to them? -- How old is the universe? -- Is anybody there? -- How will the universe end? -- Why is the sky dark at night? -- How do we know that there was a big bang? -- What is there outside the universe?
- Cosmology 101
- Location: General
Call Number: QB982 .L37 2007
Author: Larsen, Kristine M., 1963-
Publication information: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007
Physical description: xxi, 187 p. : ill. 25 cm
- Endless universe: beyond the Big Bang
- Location: General
Call Number: QB991.C92 S83 2007
Author: Steinhardt, Paul J
Publication information: New York : Doubleday, c2007
Physical description: xv, 284 p. : ill. 25 cm
Description: The Big Bang theory--the leading explanation for the origin of the universe--posits that space and time sprang into being about 14 billion years ago in a hot, expanding fireball of nearly infinite density. Over the last three decades, the theory has repeatedly had to be revised to address such issues as how galaxies and stars first formed and why the expansion of the universe is speeding up--let alone what caused the Big Bang in the first place. This book presents a bold new cosmology: Steinhardt and Turok recount remarkable developments in astronomy, particle physics, and superstring theory that together form the basis of their groundbreaking Cyclic Universe theory. According to this picture, the Big Bang was not the beginning of time, but the bridge to a past filled with endlessly repeating cycles, each accompanied by the creation of new matter and the formation of new galaxies, stars, and planets.--From publisher description
Contents: 2001 -- Act two -- Two tales of one universe -- From particles to the cosmos -- Inflation and the tale of two cosmologists -- From strings to Ekpyrosis -- A cyclic model of the universe -- The last question -- Seeing is believing -- Inflationary multiverse or cyclic universe -- Back to the future
- The tri-state tornado: the story of America's greatest tornado disaster
- Location: General
Call Number: QC955 .F31 2004
Author: Felknor, Peter S
Publication information: New York : IUniverse, Inc., 2004
Physical description: xix, 119 p. : ill., map 23 cm
- F5: devastation, survival, and the most violent tornado outbreak of the twentieth century
- Location: General
Call Number: QC955.5.U6 L483 2007
Author: Levine, Mark, 1965-
Publication information: New York : Miramax Books, c2007
Physical description: xi, 307 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., map 25 cm
- Aurora: observing and recording nature's spectacular light show
- Location: General
Call Number: QC971.7.A1 B66 2007
Author: Bone, Neil, 1959-
Publication information: New York : Springer, 2007
Physical description: x, 182 p. : ill., photos. (some col.) 24 cm
- Weather
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981 .B35 2007
Author: Bell, Trudy E
Publication information: Irvington, NY : Hydra Pub., c2007
Physical description: 218 p. : col. ill., maps 24 cm
- Blame it on the rain: how the weather has changed history
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981 .L43 2006
Author: Lee, Laura, 1969-
Publication information: New York : Harper, c2006
Physical description: xi, 314 p. 21 cm
- Extreme weather: understanding the science of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, heat waves, snow storms, global warming and other atmospheric disturbances
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QC981 .M637 2007
Author: Mogil, H. Michael
Publication information: New York, NY : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, c2007
Physical description: v, 304 p. : col. ill., maps 26 cm
Description: Looks at the how and why behind the planet's most devastating natural events, including hurricanes, floods, tidal waves, tornadoes, and heat waves
- Climatology
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981 .R649 2008
Author: Rohli, Robert V
Publication information: Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2008
Physical description: xv, 466 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 28 cm
- Weather
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.3 .C68 2007
Author: Cosgrove, Brian, 1926-
Publication information: London New York : DK, 2007
Physical description: 72 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps 29 cm
- Climate solutions: a citizen's guide
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 B365 2008
Author: Barnes, Peter, 1942-
Publication information: White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., c2008
Physical description: xvi, 93 p. : ill., map 21 cm
- Earth under fire: how global warming is changing the world
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 B715 2007
Author: Braasch, Gary
Publication information: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2007
Physical description: 267 p. : col. ill., col. maps 27 cm
- Fixing climate: what past climate changes reveal about the current threat--and how to counter it
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 B738 2008
Author: Broecker, Wallace S., 1931-
Publication information: New York : Hill and Wang, 2008
Physical description: xvi, 253 p. : ill., map 24 cm
Description: An unconventional study of the issue of global warming focuses on the root cause of the problem--the influx of carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere--and argues that only the development of new technologies can reduce carbon dioxide output
Contents: Taming the beast -- Pyramid lake -- Finding science -- Ice ages and the Serb theory -- Proving Milankovic, doubting Milankovic -- Carbon dioxide and the keeling curve -- Where the carbon goes -- A conveyor belt in the ocean -- Conveyor jams, climate lurches -- Why worry? -- Ice melts, sea level rises -- Megadroughts of the past -- The drying of the future -- Green is not enough -- Scrubbing the air -- Disposing of carbon -- Fixing climate
- Climate change 2007: mitigation of climate change: contribution of Working Group III to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovenmental Panel on Climate Change
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 C5113453 2007
Publication information: Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007
Physical description: x, 851 p. : col. ills., col. maps 29 cm
- Climate change: what it means for us, our children, and our grandchildren
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 C6126 2007
Publication information: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007
Physical description: xii, 217 p. : ill. 21 cm
- Climate change: biological and human aspects
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 C766 2007
Author: Cowie, Jonathan
Publication information: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007
Physical description: xvi, 487 p. : ill., maps 25 cm
- Global climate change: national security implications
- Location: genrl,ebook
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 G652 2008
Publication information: Carlisle, Pa. : Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, [2008]
Physical description: viii, 446 p. 23 cm
Description: On March 30-31, 2007, the Strategic Studies Institute (SSI) and the Triangle Institute for Security Studies (TISS) held a colloquium on 'Global Climate Change: National Security Implications'.... This edited volume is based on this event. It reflects, as closely as possible, the form and content of the conference --Pref
Contents: 1. Defining the problem -- A National Security Issue? How People Tried to Frame Global Warming -- Spencer R. Weart -- The Science of Climate Change / Robert W. Corell -- A Threat Assessment / Richard A. Matthew -- Commentator, James A. Rotenberg -- Discussion -- 2. Human security -- Water, Climate Change, and Human Security Erika Weinthal -- On Climate Change and Infectious Disease: Implications for Political Destabilization and Conflict / Andrew Price-Smith -- Climate Change, Population Movements, and Conflict / Timothy J. McKeown -- Commentator, David Gilmartin -- Discussion -- 3. U.S. National Defense -- Climate Change: Complicating the Struggle against Extremist Ideology / Kent Hughes Butts -- Under What Conditions Could Climate Change Pose a Threat to U.S. National Security? / Joshua Busby -- The Perfect Storm / John T. Ackerman -- Commentator, Gregory M. Douquet -- Discussion -- 4. Meeting the challenge -- International Diplomacy / Dennis Tanzler -- Meeting the Challenge of Climate Change: The Role of the Corporation / Simon Rich -- Climate Change in the American Mind / Anthony Leiserowitz -- Commentator, Marvin S. Soroos -- Discussion -- 5. Preparing for a changed environment -- Achilles' Other Heel: Early Warning Systems / Michael H. Glantz -- Good Governance and Stability / Robert H. Dorff -- Defense Planning / Henry H. Gaffney, Jr. -- Commentator, William Schlesinger -- Discussion -- 6. Opportunities or obstacles for the military -- Climate, Energy, and Security: a Related Set of Challenges / E. Thomas Morehouse, Jr. -- Military Technology and Renewable Energy / David A. Sheets -- Warfare and Climate Change / Karen Lesley Hulme -- Commentator, Christopher H. Schroeder -- Discussion -- 7. The U.S. Military: Planning for the future -- The Role of the Military in Civil Support / Bert B. Tussing -- Peace Operations / William L. Nash -- The Strategic Challenges of the U.S. Army in the Face of Global Climate Change / Douglas V. Johnson II -- Commentator, Richard J. Kilroy, Jr. -- Discussion -- 8. Keynote a
- Climate change
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 J39 2007
Author: Jarman, Melanie
Publication information: Black Point, N.S. : Fernwood Pub., c2007
Physical description: xi, 193 p. : ill. 18 cm
- Heat: how to stop the planet from burning
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.C5 M65 2007
Author: Monbiot, George, 1963-
Publication information: Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, c2007
Physical description: xix, 276 p. : ill. 23 cm
Description: Discusses the causes and effects of global climate change, as well as possible solutions to the problem --Provided by publisher
Contents: A Faustian pact -- The denial industry -- A ration of freedom -- Our leaky homes -- Keeping the lights on -- How much energy can renewables supply? -- The energy internet -- A new tansport system -- Love miles -- Virtual shopping -- Apocalypse postponed
- Global warning: the last chance for change
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 B763 2007
Author: Brown, Paul, 1944-
Publication information: Pleasantville, NY : Reader's Digest Association, c2007
Physical description: 320 p. : col. ill. 28 cm
Contents: Our changing world -- How close is runaway global warming? -- Creating a scorched earth -- Mad, bad, or greedy? -- Even termites are to blame -- We need ice -- Rising tides -- Shellfish on death row -- Extreme events -- Fiddling while the globe burns -- Peak oil and China -- Boom time for jobs and sunrise industries -- Voodoo economics -- What can we do?
- Taken by storm: the troubled science, policy and politics of global warming
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 E78 2007
Author: Essex, Christopher
Publication information: Toronto : Key Porter Books, c2007
Physical description: 356 p. : ill. 23 cm
- Global warming
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 G574414 2008
Publication information: Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2008
Physical description: 189 p. 23 cm
Contents: Is global warming a real problem? Chapter overview / Jeff Severns Guntzel -- Scientists have reached a consensus about global warming / Sandi Doughton -- The United Nations says the evidence on global warming is unequivocal / Environment News Service -- Global warming deniers are politically motivated and funded by oil corporations / Chris Mooney -- There is no scientific consensus on global warming / Lawrence Solomon -- Claims about global warming are based on junk science / Richard Lindzen -- Is global warming caused by human activities? Leading scientists are certain that global warming is caused by human activities / Lisa Bryant -- Mounting evidence supports the view that global warming is caused by human activities / Andrea Thompson -- Conservatives must accept the reality that human activities cause global warming / Jim Manzi -- Global warming is the result of natural forces / Bob Carter -- Sunspots and cosmic rays may contribute to climate change / Peter N. Spotts -- Some scientists believe a cooling trend is more likely than global warming / Kate Ravilious -- What are the potential threats from global warming? Global warming will have severe effects on the environment in all regions of the world / Jürg Rohrer -- By 2050, global warming could cause the extinction of more than a million species / Shaoni Bhattacharya -- Global warming may increase the risk of wildfires / Peter N. Spotts -- Global warming will likely bring a rise in infectious diseases / American Society for Microbiology -- Global warming may cause food shortages / Martin Mittelstaedt -- Global warming could cause resource wars / Brad Knickerbocker -- Global warming could make the earth unlivable for humans / Dale Allen Pfeiffer -- What action should be taken to reduce global warming? The United Nations calls for urgent international action on global warming / Environment News Service -- The United States must reduce its carbon emissions by 80 percent by 2050 / Emily Robinson -- An energy revolution is needed to create a sustainable energy
- Is global warming a threat?
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 I775 2007
Publication information: Detroit : Greenhaven Press, 2007
Physical description: 102 p. 23 cm
- Six degrees: our future on a hotter planet
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 L983 2008
Author: Lynas, Mark, 1973-
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2008
Physical description: 335 p. 24 cm
Contents: One degree -- Two degrees -- Three degrees -- Four degrees -- Five degrees -- Six degrees
- A question of balance: weighing the options on global warming policies
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 N65 2008
Author: Nordhaus, William D
Publication information: New Haven, Conn. London : Yale University Press, 2008
Physical description: xiii, 234 p. : ill. 22 cm
Contents: Summary for the concerned citizen -- Background and description of the DICE model -- Derivation of the equations of the DICE-2007 model -- Alternative policies for global warming -- Results of the DICE-2007 model runs -- The economics of participation -- Dealing with uncertainty in climate-change policy -- The many advantage of carbon taxes -- An alternative perspective: the Stern review -- Summary and conclusions
- Global warming and climate change demystified
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 S548 2008
Author: Silver, Jerry
Publication information: New York : McGraw-Hill, c2008
Physical description: xii, 289 p. : ill., maps 24 cm
- The complete idiot's guide to global warming
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 T46 2008
Author: Tennesen, Michael
Publication information: Indianapolis, IN : Alpha, c2008
Physical description: xxiv, 327 p. : ill., maps 24 cm
- How the world will change with global warming
- Location: General
Call Number: QC981.8.G56 T73 2006
Author: Trausti Valsson
Publication information: ReykjavÃk : University of Iceland Press, 2006
Physical description: 168 p. : col. ill., col. maps 24 cm
- Guide to weather forecasting
- Location: General
Call Number: QC995.4 .D86 2008
Author: Dunlop, Storm
Publication information: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2008
Physical description: 176 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps 20 cm
- Earth science: geology, the environment, and the universe
- Location: General
Call Number: QE28 .E2765 2005
Publication information: New York, N.Y. : Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, c2005
Physical description: xxii, 1002 p. : ill. 27 cm
- Earth: the biography
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QE31 .S72 2007
Author: Stewart, Iain S
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, 2007
Physical description: 240 p. : col. ill., col. maps 28 cm
Contents: Impact -- Heat -- Atmosphere -- Ocean -- Ice -- Rare Earth
- Careers in focus.
- Location: College and Career Information Center
Call Number: QE34 .C37 2008
Publication information: New York, NY : Ferguson, c2008
Physical description: 188 p. : ill. 24 cm
Contents: Introduction -- Botanists -- Cartographers -- Ecologists -- Geographers -- Geographic information systems specialists -- Geological technicians -- Geologists -- Geophysicists -- Groundwater professionals -- Marine biologists -- Meteorologists -- Oceanographers -- Paleontologists -- Petrologists -- Range managers -- Science writers -- Soil conservationists and technicians -- Soil scientists -- Surveying and mapping technicians -- Surveyors
- Birth of the mountains: the geologic story of the southern Appalachian mountains
- Location: General
Call Number: QE78.5 .C47 2001
Author: Clark, Sandra H. B
Publication information: [Washington, D.C. : U.S. G.P.O., 2001]
Physical description: 23 p. : ill., map 23 cm
- Roadside geology of Florida
- Location: General
Call Number: QE99 .B79 2008
Author: Bryan, Jonathan R
Publication information: Missoula, Mont. : Mountain Press Pub., 2008
Physical description: xi, 376 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 23 cm
- Canada rocks
- Location: General
Call Number: QE185 .E97 2007
Author: Eyles, N
Publication information: Markham, Ont. Brighton, Mass. : Fitzhenry & Whiteside, c2007
Physical description: xvi, 512 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps (chiefly col.) 28 cm
Contents: A hellish beginning -- Moving Earth : plate tectonics -- The united plates of Canada : 4 billion years of tectonic activity -- Canada's heartland : the Shield -- Giant seas cover the Shield : the interior platform -- Building eastern Canada -- Building Arctic Canada -- Building western Canada -- Cool times : the ice sheets arrive -- Rocky resources : mining in Canada -- Challenges for the future -- Geology and the building of a Canadian identity
- Gems of the world
- Location: General
Call Number: QE392 .O385 2008
Author: Oldershaw, Cally
Publication information: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2008
Physical description: 256 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. port. 26 cm
- Lake Superior rock picker's guide
- Location: General
Call Number: QE445.S9 G38 2007
Author: Gauthier, Kevin
Publication information: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press Traverse City : Petoskey Pub. Co., c2007
Physical description: 103 p., [15] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps 22 cm
- Earliest Wisconsinan sediments and soils
- Location: General
Call Number: QE472 .I6 1974
Author: Illinois State Geological Survey
Publication information: Urbana, 1974
Physical description: 12 p
- Nature's clocks: how scientists measure the age of almost everything
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QE508 .M27 2008
Author: Macdougall, J. D., 1944-
Publication information: Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008
Physical description: xi, 271 p. : ill. 24 cm
Contents: No vestige of a beginning-- -- Mysterious rays -- Wild Bill's quest -- Changing perceptions -- Getting the lead out -- Dating the boundaries -- Clocking evolution -- Ghostly forests and Mediterranean volcanoes -- More and more from less and less
- The chronologers' quest: episodes in the search for the age of the earth
- Location: General
Call Number: QE508 .W97 2006
Author: Wyse Jackson, Patrick
Publication information: Cambridge, UK New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006
Physical description: xvii, 291 p. : ill., maps 24 cm
Description: The debate over the age of the Earth has been ongoing for over two thousand years, and has pitted physicists and astronomers against biologists, religious philosophers against geologists. The Chronologers' Quest tells the story of our attempts to determine the age of the Earth. This book investigates the many novel methods used in the search for the Earth's age, from James Ussher and John Lightfoot examining biblical chronologies, Comte de Buffon and Lord Kelvin determining the length of time for the cooling of the Earth, to the more recent investigations of Arthur Holmes and Clair Patterson into radioactive dating of rocks and meteorites
Contents: The ancients : early chronologies -- Biblical calculations -- Models of Aristotelian infinity and sacred theories of the Earth -- Falling stones, salty oceans, and evaporating waters : early empirical measurements of the age of the Earth -- Thinking in layers : early ideas in stratigraphy -- An infinite and cyclical Earth and religious orthodoxy -- The cooling Earth -- Stratigraphical laws, uniformitarianism and the development of the geological column -- 'Formed stones' and their subsequent role in biostratigraphy and evolutionary theory -- The hour-glass of accumulated or denuded sediments -- Thermodynamics and the cooling Earth revisited -- Oceanic salination reconsidered -- Radioactivity : invisible geochronometers -- The universal problem and duck soup
- Supercontinent: ten billion years in the life of our planet
- Location: General
Call Number: QE511.5 .N54 2007
Author: Nield, Ted
Publication information: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2007
Physical description: xv, 288 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 25 cm
- Volcano: a visual guide
- Location: General
Call Number: QE522 .D65 2008
Author: Donovan-O'Meara, Donna, 1954-
Publication information: Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2008
Physical description: 288 p. : col. ill. 27 cm
- Supervolcano: the catastrophic event that changed the course of human history (could Yellowstone be next?)
- Location: General
Call Number: QE522 .S28 2007
Author: Savino, John
Publication information: Franklin Lakes, NJ : New Page Books, c2007
Physical description: 287 p. : ill., maps, graphs 23 cm
- When the earth moves: rogue earthquakes, tremors, and aftershocks
- Location: New Books
Call Number: QE534.3 .B36 2007
Author: Barnes-Svarney, Patricia L
Publication information: New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, 2007
Physical description: xv, 272 p. : ill. 21 cm
- Education of architects and engineers
- Location: General
Call Number: QE539.2.S34 D43 1993
Author: Del Compare, Lisa
Publication information: Urbana-Champaign, Ill. : Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, [1993]
Physical description: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. 28 cm
- Critical facilities
- Location: General
Call Number: QE539.2.S34 H3 1993
Author: Hanley, Paul
Publication information: Urbana-Champaign [Ill.] : Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, [1993]
Physical description: ii, 22, [20] p. : ill. 28 cm
- Local earthquake hazard reduction plans
- Location: General
Call Number: QE539.2.S34 O38 1997
Author: Olshansky, Robert B
Publication information: Urbana-Champaign [Ill.] : Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, [1997]
Physical description: ii, 30, [8] p. : ill., maps 28 cm
- Nonstructural hazards
- Location: General
Call Number: QE539.2.S34 O39 1992
Author: Olshansky, Robert B
Publication information: Urbana-Champaign [Ill.] : Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, [1993]
Physical description: ii, 12, [11] p. : ill. 28 cm
- Seismic building codes
- Location: General
Call Number: QE539.2.S34 O397 1993
Author: Olshansky, Robert B
Publication information: Urbana-Champaign, [Ill.] : Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, [1993]
Physical description: ii, 61, [20] p. : ill. 28 cm
- Seismic hazard mapping
- Location: General
Call Number: QE539.2.S34 O4 1993
Author: Olshansky, Robert B
Publication information: Urbana-Champaign [Ill.] : Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, [1993]
Physical description: ii, 18, [6] p. : ill. 28 cm
- Seismic safety of existing buildings
- Location: General
Call Number: QE539.2.S34 O412 1997
Author: Olshansky, Robert B
Publication information: Urbana-Champaign [Ill.] : Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, [1997]
Physical description: ii, 29, [41] p. : ill., map 28 cm
- State seismic safety advisory committees
- Location: General
Call Number: QE539.2.S34 O424 1993
Author: Olshansky, Robert B
Publication information: Urbana-Champaign [Ill.] : Dept. of Urban and Regional Planning, College of Fine and Applied Arts, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, [1993]
Physical description: ii, 13, [7] p. : ill. 28 cm
- A reef in time: the Great Barrier Reef from beginning to end
- Location: General
Call Number: QE566.G7 V47 2008
Author: Veron, J. E. N. (John Edward Norwood)
Publication information: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008
Physical description: ix, 289 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) 24 cm
Contents: The big picture -- The Great Barrier Reef : an overview -- Corals and reefs : controls and processes -- The state of the Great Barrier Reef -- Mass extinctions and reef gaps -- Messages from deep time -- The Cenozoic roller-coaster -- Australia adrift -- The ice ages -- The last glacial cycle -- Many origins -- Stone age utopia -- An enhanced greenhouse world -- Temperature and mass bleaching -- Ocean acidity and coralline osteoporosis -- The ocean's canary
- The morphology of the sub-St. Peter surface of northeastern Illinois
- Location: General
Call Number: QE627.5.I6 B8 1961
Author: Buschbach, T. C. (Thomas Charles), 1923-
Publication information: Urbana, 1961
Physical description: p. 83-89 : ill., diagrs. 23 cm
- The Mississippian and Pennsylvanian (Carboniferous) systems in the United States --Illinois
- Location: General
Call Number: QE672 .A83 1979
Author: Atherton, Elwood, 1909-
Publication information: Washington : U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1979
Physical description: iii, 42 p. : ill., maps 29 cm
- The last interglacial-glacial transition in Illinois: 123-25 ka
- Location: General
Call Number: QE697 .C77 1992
Author: Curry, B. B
Publication information: Champaign, Ill. : Illinois Dept. of Energy and Natural Resources, State Geological Survey Division, [1992]
Physical description: p. 71-88 : ill., maps 28 cm
- Evolution: what the fossils say and why it matters
- Location: General
Call Number: QE721.2.E85 P76 2007
Author: Prothero, Donald R
Publication information: New York : Columbia University Press, c2007
Physical description: xxi, 381 p. : ill. (some col.) 27 cm
Contents: The nature of science -- Science and creationism -- The fossil record -- The evolution of evolution -- Systematics and evolution -- Life's origins -- Cambrian explosion or slow fuse? -- Spineless wonders of evolution -- Fish tales -- Fish out of water -- Onto the land and back to the sea: the amniotes -- Dinosaurs evolve and fly -- Mammalian explosion -- Bossies and blowholes -- The ape's reflection -- Why does it matter?
- Fossil ecosystems of North America: a guide to the sites and their extraordinary biotas
- Location: General
Call Number: QE721.2.E87 N83 2008
Author: Nudds, John R
Publication information: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2008
Physical description: 288 p. : col. ill. 22 cm
Contents: The gunflint chert -- Mistaken point -- The burgess shale -- Beecher's trilobite bed -- The Bertie waterlime -- Gilboa -- Mazon creek -- The Chinle group -- The Morrison formation -- The Hell Creek formation -- The Green River formation -- Florissant -- Dominican amber -- Rancho la Brea -- Appendix : museums and site visits
- Terra: our 100-million-year-old ecosystem--and the threats that now put it at risk
- Location: General
Call Number: QE721.2.E97 N68 2007
Author: Novacek, Michael J
Publication information: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007
Physical description: xxiv, 451 p. : ill., maps 24 cm
Contents: Prologue: The hyena -- pt. 1: The way of the world. A creature in the forest -- Lush life -- Ephemeral life -- Elephants, dung beetles, and ecosystems -- Evolution : life through a new lens -- pt. 2: The world becomes modern. Ancient ground -- Imperial collapse -- The dinosaurs of Middle Earth -- A flower in the forest -- The garden of delights -- Toward a new ecosystem -- Dinosaur Camelot -- pt. 3: Death and resurrection. A puzzling catastrophe -- The era after -- pt. 4: Terra Humana. Who they were -- The exterminators -- The cultivators -- Land rush -- Dark forces -- The waste of a world -- Heat wave -- Future world
- Jurassic West: the dinosaurs of the Morrison Formation and their world
- Location: General
Call Number: QE733 .F68 2007
Author: Foster, John Russell
Publication information: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2007
Physical description: xx, 389 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps 27 cm
Contents: Rainbow country : an introduction to Morrison Formation geology -- Vertebrates and the Jurassic world -- The Morrison vertebrates come to light -- The picture fills in -- Fins, scales, and wings : the Morrison menagerie, part 1 -- Gargantuan to minuscule : the Morrison menagerie, part 2 -- Patterns in the record : paleoecology of the Morrison Formation -- Many rivers to cross : a late Jurassic journey across the Morrison floodplain --The Morrison fauna in world context
- Sea monsters: prehistoric creatures of the deep
- Location: General
Call Number: QE766 .E894 2007
Author: Everhart, Michael J
Publication information: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2007
Physical description: 191 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map 29 cm. + 1 pair 3-D glasses
Description: Sharks and dinosaurs--we find them both alien and awe-inspiring. This book is a plunge into the Cretaceous oceans of 80 million years ago, a merciless realm ruled by the most ferocious animals ever to stalk the seas of planet Earth. More terrifying than anything known to humankind, it scarcely seems possible that these swift, massive underwater predators actually existed--but they did. The book interweaves dramatic scenes of the far, far distant past scientific profiles of nearly two dozen sea monsters and a group portrait of the eccentric Sternberg family, Kansas-bred pioneers of marine paleontology. From giant sharks and fierce reptiles to the fossil-hunters who proved that today's land-locked Great Plains were once submerged, this book will forever change how we think about marine predators.--From publisher description
Contents: What is a sea monster? -- The fossil finders -- In dangerous waters -- Where did they go? -- The making of the 3-D movie
- Glorified dinosaurs: the origin and early evolution of birds
- Location: General
Call Number: QE871 .C45 2007
Author: Chiappe, Luis M
Publication information: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, 2007
Physical description: ix, 263 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps 29 cm
Contents: Mesozoic birds and their world -- The ancestry of birds and the origin of flight -- The bizarre Mononykus and its kin : an evolutionary experiment -- Archaeopteryx : the earliest bird -- Rahonavis and other long-tailed birds -- The first short-tailed birds -- The great Mesozoic radiation : the flying Enantiornithes -- Early predecessors of modern birds -- Hesperornis and its relatives : divers of the cretaceous seas -- The beginnings of modern birds
- Mammoths: giants of the ice age
- Location: General
Call Number: QE882.P8 L57 2007
Author: Lister, Adrian
Publication information: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, c2007
Physical description: 192 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. maps 29 cm
Contents: Origins -- Mammoths unearthed -- The natural history of mammoths -- Mammoths and human culture -- Extinction -- Glossary -- Interpreting the evidence -- Maps of mammoth sites -- Guide to sites
- The emerald planet: how plants changed Earth's history
- Location: General
Call Number: QE905 .B44 2007
Author: Beerling, D. J
Publication information: Oxford New York : Oxford University Press, 2007
Physical description: xvi, 288 p. : ill., maps 23 cm
Contents: Leaves, genes, and greenhouse gases -- Oxygen and the lost world of giants -- An ancient ozone catastrophe? -- Global warming ushers in the dinosaur era -- The flourishing forests of Antarctica -- Paradise lost -- Nature's green revolution -- Through a glass darkly
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