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Blue Machine: How the Ocean Shapes Our World by Helen Czerski 9781804991961
RRP: £10.99£7.12FINANCIAL TIMES 2023 HIGHLIGHT'Helen Czerski weaves together physics and biology, history and science, in a beautifully poetic way.'Professor Alice Roberts'In Helen Czerski's hands, the mechanical becomes magical. An instant classic.'Tristan Gooley,... -
Physics I For Dummies by Steven Holzner
RRP: £20.99£12.75An easy-to-follow guide to introductory physics, from the Big Bang to relativity All science, technology, engineering, and math majors in college and university require some familiarity with physics. Other career paths, like medicine, are also only open... -
The Northern Lights by Daryl Pederson
RRP: £22.00£14.96Shot with ultra-high definition cameras, this book of amazing photographs showcases a period of unusually high solar activity in the Northern Lights. The northern lights, also known as the aurora borealis, put on remarkable shows of light and motion in... -
Around the World in 80 Ways: Exploring Our Planet Through Maps and Data Stephen Webb 9783031024399
RRP: £34.99£31.79Around the World in 80 Ways offers a (sometimes opinionated) discussion of 80 data-driven maps of our planet. Taken together, the maps tell a story about the physical world; about the impact our species is having on the world; and about how people live... -
Revealing the Buried Past: Geophysics for Archaeologists by John Gater
RRP: £25.00£18.94Thanks to ever-more sophisticated technology archaeologists can identify much that is beneath the soil without having to excavate. From Pitt-Rivers banging the surface of the ground with a pick in the late nineteenth century, through Atkinson's... -
Concise World Atlas: Everything You Need to Know About Our Planet Today by DK
RRP: £17.99£15.35See the Earth revealed in amazing detail through more than 640 spectacular maps, along with fascinating fact files about countries all over the world.The world is a big place, but this best-selling reference atlas keeps things suitably small for children... -
Physics II For Dummies by Steven Holzner 9780470538067
RRP: £21.99£14.96A plain-English guide to advanced physics Does just thinking about the laws of motion make your head spin? Does studying electricity short your circuits? Physics II For Dummies walks you through the essentials and gives you easy-to-understand and... -
Black Holes: The Reith Lectures by Stephen Hawking
RRP: £8.99£6.45"It is said that fact is sometimes stranger than fiction, and nowhere is that more true than in the case of black holes. Black holes are stranger than anything dreamed up by science fiction writers."In 2016 Professor Stephen Hawking delivered the BBC... -
The Physics of Climate Change by Lawrence M. Krauss 9781837933532
RRP: £9.99£6.87'Brilliant and fundamental, this is the necessary book about our prime global emergency' Ian McEwan The news is full of hotly debated and divergent claims about the impacts and risks of climate change. Lawrence Krauss, one of the world's most... -
Rocks and Minerals in Thin Section: A Colour Atlas by W. S. MacKenzie
RRP: £36.99£32.53This concise, clear and handy-sized volume, aimed at the undergraduate level, provides an introduction to the observation, description and identifi cation in thin section, using the polarizing microscope, of samples of the commonlyoccurring rocks and... -
Revolutions that Made the Earth by Tim Lenton 9780199673469
£35.39The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable, near-catastrophic revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences. The revolutions have certain features in common, such as an increase in... -
Geophysics: A Very Short Introduction by William Lowrie 9780198792956
RRP: £8.99£6.45Geophysics is the physics of the Earth. Central to the Earth Sciences today, it encompasses areas such as seismology, volcanism, plate tectonics, gravitational anomalies, and the Earth's magnetic field (present and past, as captured in rocks), all of... -
Essential Maths for Geoscientists: An Introduction by Paul I. Palmer
RRP: £35.95£32.91Essential Maths for Geoscientists An Introduction Essential Maths for Geoscientists: An Introduction is an accessible, student-friendly introduction to the mathematics required by those students taking degree courses within the geosciences. Clearly... -
The Red Planet: A Natural History of Mars by Simon Morden 9781783965618
RRP: £14.99£10.95Uncover the mysteries, wonders and natural history of Mars: as close as you'll get to an eye-witness perspective of the incredible 'Red Planet'. 'Impassioned and thought-provoking, it's a highly readable work of popular science' The Observer ... -
The Tectonic Plates are Moving! by Roy Livermore 9780198847939
RRP: £23.49£17.53Plate tectonics is a revolutionary theory on a par with modern genetics. Yet, apart from the frequent use of cliches such as 'tectonic shift' by economists, journalists, and politicians, the science itself is rarely mentioned and poorly understood. This... -
Age Of The Earth, The: A Physicist's Odyssey by Archibald W Hendry 9789813279698
RRP: £55.00£48.03This book spells out in detail how the age of the Earth has been determined over the centuries. First -the 'biblical' age: how was the date of Creation 4004 BC figured out? A date which is so important even today ... it is the basis of claims made by... -
Global Tectonics Philip Kearey (Bristol University, UK) 9781405107778
RRP: £54.95£48.69The third edition of this widely acclaimed textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to all aspects of global tectonics, and includes major revisions to reflect the most significant recent advances in the field. A fully revised third edition of... -
Looking into the Earth: An Introduction to Geological Geophysics by Alan E. Mussett 9780521785747
RRP: £54.99£49.02Looking Into the Earth comprehensively describes the principles and applications of both 'global' and 'exploration' geophysics on all scales. It forms an introduction to geophysics suitable for those who do not necessarily intend to become professional... -
Geology of Shropshire by Peter Toghill
RRP: £30.00£24.57This book explains the geological history of Shropshire, a story based on Shropshire's incredible journey, lasting 500 million years, from the Antarctic Circle through the Tropics and across the equator to our present latitudes, a distance of 12,000km... -
The Glorious Geology of Iceland's Golden Circle by Agust Gudmundsson 9783319551517
RRP: £32.99£27.12This is the first book describing the glorious geology of Iceland's Golden Circle and four additional excursions:(1) the beautiful valleys and mountains of the fjord of Hvalfjoerdur, (2) the unique landscape and geothermal fields of the Hengill Volcano,... -
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond by Robin George Andrews
RRP: £14.99£12.03Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon and can even tip entire planets over... -
Fundamentals of Geophysics by William Lowrie 9781108716970
RRP: £54.99£49.02This enduringly popular undergraduate textbook has been thoroughly reworked and updated, and now comprises twelve chapters covering the same breadth of topics as earlier editions, but in a substantially modernized fashion to facilitate classroom teaching... -
Fundamentals of Geomorphology Richard Huggett (University of Manchester, UK) 9781032169637
RRP: £39.99£35.06This revised and updated edition continues to provide a comprehensive introduction to the subject, exploring the world's landforms from a broad systems perspective. It covers the basics of Earth surface forms and processes, while reflecting on the latest... -
The Solid Earth: An Introduction to Global Geophysics by C. M. R. Fowler
RRP: £55.99£50.47The Solid Earth is a general introduction to the study of the physics of the solid Earth, including the workings of both the Earth's surface and its deep interior. The emphasis throughout is on basic physical principles rather than instrumentation or... -
52 Things You Should Know About Geophysics by Matt Hall 9780987959409
RRP: £19.00£14.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987959409Author Matt HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Agile LibrePublisher Agile LibreWeight(grams) 191gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 7mm -
Revolutions that Made the Earth by Tim Lenton
RRP: £72.00£64.82The Earth that sustains us today was born out of a few remarkable, near-catastrophic revolutions, started by biological innovations and marked by global environmental consequences. The revolutions have certain features in common, such as an increase in... -
Super Volcanoes: What They Reveal about Earth and the Worlds Beyond by Robin George Andrews 9780393542066
RRP: £21.99£17.87Volcanoes are capable of acts of pyrotechnical prowess verging on magic: they spout black magma more fluid than water, create shimmering cities of glass at the bottom of the ocean and frozen lakes of lava on the moon and can even tip entire planets over... -
Climatology by Robert V. Rohli 9781284119985
£63.70Welcome to the exciting journey of learning about one of the most widely discussed sciences. Praised for its detail and accuracy, Climatology continues to lead as the most comprehensive presentation of our dynamic climate system. The Fourth Edition... -
Beyond Global Warming: How Numerical Models Revealed the Secrets of Climate Change by Syukuro Manabe
RRP: £35.00£27.74From Nobel Prize winner Syukuro Manabe and Anthony Broccoli, a definitive account of how we have come to understand the fundamental processes behind global warmingSyukuro Manabe is perhaps the leading pioneer of modern climate modeling. Beyond Global... -
Classical Field Theory by Davison E. Soper 9780486462608
RRP: £13.49£8.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486462608Author Davison E SoperFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
An Introduction to Our Dynamic Planet by Nick Rogers 9780521729543
RRP: £43.99£39.63This is the first undergraduate textbook to fully integrate results from geophysics, geochemistry, and petrology to describe the structure, composition, and dynamic processes that operate throughout the solid Earth. It presents an Earth system science... -
An Introduction to Geophysical Exploration Philip Kearey (University of Bristol) 9780632049295
RRP: £57.95£50.62This new edition of the well-established Kearey and Brooks text is fully updated to reflect the important developments in geophysical methods since the production of the previous edition. The broad scope of previous editions is maintained, with even... -
Field Geophysics by John Milsom
RRP: £27.95£24.25This handy pocket-sized field guide provides practical information and assistance to anyone engaged in small-scale surveys on the ground. Fully revised and updated throughout, the Fourth Edition includes comprehensive updates on the use of GPR and GPS... -
Reversals of the Earth's Magnetic Field by J. A. Jacobs 9780521675567
RRP: £49.99£44.97By measuring the direction and intensity of magnetism in rocks of different ages, a record of the Earth's magnetic field in the past can be obtained. This 1994 book deals with the particular case of reversals of the Earth's magnetic field. These have... -
Geologic Time Scale 2020 by F.M. Gradstein 9780128243602
RRP: £79.00£73.38Geologic Time Scale 2020 (2 volume set) contains contributions from 80+ leading scientists who present syntheses in an easy-to-understand format that includes numerous color charts, maps and photographs. In addition to detailed overviews of... -
Geophysics for the Mineral Exploration Geoscientist by Michael Dentith 9780521809511
RRP: £69.99£62.43Providing a balance between principles and practice, this state-of-the-art overview of geophysical methods takes readers from the basic physical phenomena, through the acquisition and processing of data, to the creation of geological models of the... -
Remote Sensing Physics: An Introduction to Observing Earth from Space by Rick Chapman 9781119669074
RRP: £99.95£88.68An introduction to the physical principles underlying Earth remote sensing The development of spaceborne remote sensing technology has led to a new understanding of the complexity of our planet by allowing us to observe Earth and its environments on... -
Seismic Amplitude: An Interpreter's Handbook by Rob Simm 9781107011502
RRP: £66.99£60.30Seismic amplitudes yield key information on lithology and fluid fill, enabling interpretation of reservoir quality and likelihood of hydrocarbon presence. The modern seismic interpreter must be able to deploy a range of sophisticated geophysical... -
Magnetometry for Archaeologists by Arnold Aspinall 9780759113480
RRP: £40.00£35.22Magnetometry for Archaeologists covers the most widely used method for archaeological surveying. Authors Arnold Aspinall, Chris Gaffney, and Armin Schmidt recount the history of magnetometers from their inception through today's state-of-the-art... -
Earth's Low-Latitude Boundary Layer by Patrick T. Newell 9780875909929
£82.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780875909929Author Patrick T. NewellFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint American Geophysical UnionPublisher American Geophysical UnionWeight(grams) 1266g