Earth Science Systems

The world doesn’t end with fire. It ends with a notification you can feel in your bones. Alec West was just trying to keep a remote communications relay alive when reality stutters—then rewrites itself. The sky fractures into a vast geometric lattice. The ground splits with impossible blue-white seams. And a force racing across the mountains—the First Wave—turns ordinary rules into a new kind of math.

Earth and Life: From a Molten World to the Age of Primates is a cause-and-effect journey through 4.5 billion years of Earth’s history—told in plain, clear language, but built on real science. This is not a timeline of facts. It is a logical reconstruction of how a dead, molten planet became a stable world with oceans, continents, ecosystems, dinosaurs, mammals, and eventually primates. You begin at the true starting line: a universe that initially had almost no heavy elements, the birth and death of ancient stars, and the formation of the solar system. From there, the book follows ...

Understanding Climate, Ecosystems, and Planetary Balance. Ecology and Earth Systems take you on a clear and insightful journey into how our planet truly works as an interconnected system. From climate patterns to carbon and water cycles, from oceans and forests to soil, deserts, and polar regions, this book explains the essential processes that sustain life on Earth. Written in simple, accessible language, this book helps readers understand complex environmental concepts without confusion. It shows how the atmosphere, biosphere, hydrosphere, and geosphere interact to maintain Earth’s ...

The only planet to support life, Earth has a lot going for it. Think you know everything there is to know about our home planet? Think again. Discover more about the blue planet we call home.

From the author of New York Times bestseller The New New Deal, a groundbreaking piece of reportage from the trenches of the next climate war: the fight to fix our food system. Humanity has cleared a land mass the size of Asia plus Europe to grow food, and our food system generates a third of our...

From one IT Career Into Another Jace never asked for much out of life—just a steady paycheck, a quiet desk, and maybe fewer wedgies than the average orphan. After years of surviving bullies and clawing his way into an IT Security career, he thought he’d finally found stability. That was… until the pink slip landed on his desk. Fired. But when one door slams shut, sometimes a very strange one creaks open. While scrolling the job board, Jace stumbled across a very different IT career path. Join Jace in this action-packed LitRPG adventure—equal parts slice-of-life, tycoon sim, and stat...

From one IT career to another Jace never asked for much out of life—just a steady paycheck, a quiet desk, and maybe fewer wedgies than the average orphan. After years of surviving bullies and clawing his way into an IT Security career, he thought he’d finally found stability. That was… until the pink slip landed on his desk. Fired. But when one door slams shut, sometimes a very strange one creaks open. While scrolling the job board, Jace stumbled across a very different IT career path. Join Jace in this action-packed LitRPG adventure—equal parts slice-of-life, tycoon sim, and stat-...

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Midnight Library offers his funniest, most devastating dark comedy yet, a “silly, sad, suspenseful, and soulful” (Philadelphia Inquirer) novel that’s “full of heart” (Entertainment Weekly). When an extra-terrestrial visitor arrives on Earth...

From one IT Career Into Another Jace never asked for much out of life—just a steady paycheck, a quiet desk, and maybe fewer wedgies than the average orphan. After years of surviving bullies and clawing his way into an IT Security career, he thought he’d finally found stability. That was… until the pink slip landed on his desk. Fired. But when one door slams shut, sometimes a very strange one creaks open. While scrolling the job board, Jace stumbled across a very different IT career path. Join Jace in this action-packed LitRPG adventure—equal parts slice-of-life, tycoon sim, and stat...

He was a simp, now he's chillin' like a villain. Kurt was your average good guy—the kind who worked hard, followed the rules, and believed that doing the right thing would one day pay off. It didn’t. When he left work early to surprise his wife, he walked straight into his own worst nightmare—and his last moment alive. But death wasn’t the end. Instead of the afterlife, Kurt woke up to find his entire planet drafted into a deadly interstellar game show—a brutal competition where survival earns ratings and morality gets you killed. Given a second chance at life, Kurt decides that ...

The Royal Society's Science Book of the Year "...Henry Gee presents a pithy, fascinating account of the stages of biological evolution. He's a deliberate, engaged narrator whose slow pacing will require adaptation. This and creative background music and sound effects (dinosaur sounds?) create a...

One of us is enormous. The rest of us are rounding errors. The Solar System has been here for four and a half billion years. It was present for all of it — the collapse, the fire, the crashing, the long slow settling. And it understood almost none of it. Then something opened its eyes on the third planet and started asking questions. This is the Solar System's own story, told in its own voice — warm, funny, and endlessly curious about the strange species that finally figured out where it came from and told it. Inside, young readers will find out: Why Earth has a Moon, and why that was ...

Unlock Your Path to a 5 in AP Human Geography! Are you tired of wasting time on verbose resources and want clear and practical explanations? Do you need a study partner that fits into your busy schedule, helping you grasp complex concepts in just 15 minutes? Thinking Geographically: Everyday Skills to Navigate a Complex World is your ideal companion to transform those daily bus rides into powerful study sessions and ace your AP exams. Overcome Your Academic Hurdles with Ease We understand the challenge of juggling school, Model UN, and tutoring sessions while preparing for your AP exams. ...

Start with a number, because the number is the only honest place to start. The Sun accounts for 99.8 percent of the Solar System's mass. Everything else — every planet, every moon, every comet, and the world you are standing on — fits inside the remaining two-tenths of one percent. This is the Solar System's own account of itself, told in its own voice: dry, precise, and candid about the fact that it understood none of its own history until human beings worked it out and told it. What this book covers: How a rock becomes a clock — and how meteorites date the Solar System to 4.567 ...

Turn your next family road trip into a playful STEM adventure that brings natural science to life for curious minds. Guided by a warm, engaging narrator, young listeners will zoom from the outer edges of our solar system down to the bubbling, hot rock beneath their feet. It is the perfect...

Ruby the Metal Horn Unicorn With Rubidium MagicElement 37 — Magical Elementals Chemistry Fantasy Series, Book 37 On the magical planet of MarBryn, where the ancient philosophy "No Metal, No Magic" shapes every village, ward, and spell, one truth binds the world together: without the elements, there is no civilization at all. When that truth comes under attack, it will take a unicorn made of fire, precision, and pure elemental power to save it. Meet Ruby — a crimson-coated unicorn whose silver, spiraling horn channels the extraordinary magic of Rubidium, Element 37. Fiercely passionate, ...

The World Without Mosquitoes explores the shocking science behind mosquito extinction, genetic engineering, and ecosystem balance. Discover how eliminating disease-carrying species could impact global health, biodiversity, and the environment. This powerful and thought-provoking book dives into malaria, dengue, CRISPR gene editing, ecological consequences, and the future of mosquito control. Perfect for readers interested in science, nature, environmental studies, public health, and fascinating real-world “what if” scenarios.

What happens when a species intelligent enough to understand planetary collapse becomes psychologically, economically, and politically incapable of preventing it? The Anthropogenic Equation: An Empirical Analysis of Cognitive Bias, Economic Structuralism, and the Permanent Geological Legacy is an interdisciplinary examination of the forces driving modern environmental destabilization and the long-term consequences industrial civilization is imposing upon the Earth system. Drawing from psychology, economics, political science, climatology, geology, ecology, systems theory, and Earth-system ...

Greatly updated second version! Four of the original topics greatly expanded with images and information, how-to info, details and Q&A's, and more. The non-electric solar topics include: 1) how to make a solar oven, 2) how to design a solar water distiller, 3) how to design a passive solar house, and 4) how to make air conditioning earth tubes. These topics are built on each other in concept, going from easier to harder, with the exception of earthtubes, which are supplementary to passive solar house design and involves passive cooling rather than passive heating (the latter of which is ...

Master geology and climate change without heavy math, transforming your daily commute into an awe-inspiring adventure. This conversational guide treats the world as one dynamic engine where deep underground heat shapes the air we breathe. Whether you are walking in nature or relaxing at home...