Earth Science Technology

Dig into geology with this curricular high-interest, low-learning level series. An engaging exploration of rocks, minerals, and fossils will keep struggling learners interested and make learning easy. Featured infographics and SilverTips for Success guide listeners in reviewing key concepts from the books to reinforce comprehension and even gives them test-taking tips. This volume includes The Rock Cycle and Sedimentary Rocks.

Reveals the cutting edge of New Science and shows how established science disallows inquiry that challenges the status quo--even when it produces verifiable results Contains 43 essays by 19 researchers denoting cutting-edge, heretical, or suppressed scientific research, including Immanuel...

Although we usually think of technology as something unique to modern times, our ancestors began to create the first technologies millions of years ago in the form of prehistoric tools and weapons. Over time, eight key technologies gradually freed us from the limitations of our animal origins.

The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us an extraordinary space opera about humanity on the brink of extinction, and how one man's discovery will save or destroy us all. "Tchaikovsky is the breakout star of contemporary British SF." —Guardian The war is over. Its...

Apologia’s Physical Science course has everything that students need to complete this course and successfully transition into high school biology, chemistry, and physics. Exploring Creation with Physical Science, 4th Edition teaches an introduction to properties of matter, atomic structure, the periodic table, chemical bonds, reactions, motion, forces, energy, waves, sound, light, electricity, magnetism, Earth’s structure, weathering, atmosphere, chemistry and physics in the life sciences, and finally physical science research.

Terry Tempest Williams's mother told her: "I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone." Fans of Williams's iconic and unconventional memoir, Refuge, well remember that mother. She was a member of a large Mormon clan in northern Utah who developed cancer as a result of the nuclear testing in nearby Nevada. It was a shock to Williams that her mother had kept journals. But not as much of a shock as what she found when the time came to read them.

Want to impress your buddies at school? Need to think of something fun to do at Thanksgiving or Christmas? Want to learn a bunch of random facts about history, science, and the paranormal? If you answered yes to any or all of those questions, then pick up Interesting Stories for Curious Kids: A Fascinating Collection of the Most Interesting, Unbelievable, and Craziest Stories on Earth! This book is the coolest collection of interesting facts about a whole bunch of several different topics.

In Sacred Revolution, licensed therapist Kristy Crabtree unveils a transformative path to spiritual awakening and personal liberation. Drawing from her own profound journey through trauma, mystical experiences, and healing work with hundreds of clients, she reveals how our deepest wounds become gateways to our greatest power.

For fans of John Scalzi’s wry humor and Becky Chambers’ warmth, The Prospector is a first contact story where the alien isn’t here to conquer—he’s here to loot the gift shop. In this present-day science fiction novel, Earth confronts an alien invasion. But not from a marauding army. It’s just one guy who got a bad tip. Jacob is a Prospector. He makes a living discovering lost civilizations on long dead-worlds and selling off their cultural relics. And now he’s chasing a hot lead about a world where the population has only recently perished due to climate change. The artifacts ...

Effie didn’t intend to bring death and destruction to Earth. But when Enforcers close in, Special Agent EAFY584 crashes her stolen starship into an uncharted solar system, and the only habitable planet is one its inhabitants call Earth. Good news: she can pass for a human teenager. Bad news: standard Enforcer protocol is to sterilize any world where a fugitive might be hiding. Now Effie has to warn an entire civilization that extinction is coming. There’s just one problem, nobody believes her. She tells the government she’s an alien. She tells them an invasion fleet is on its way. All...

For fans of Dennis E. Taylor, John Scalzi, and Andy Weir—a first contact story where the aliens don’t want our planet. They want our cigarettes. Charles Haley is unemployed, nearly broke, and desperate enough to accept a job offer he can barely hear over construction noise. He misses the part about artificial intelligence and alien species. All he catches is that someone wants him to run an import/export business. The product? Medical devices from beyond the stars that can cure any disease—including his fourteen-year-old daughter Suzy’s fatal bone condition. The price? Marlboros and...

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When it comes to climate change, the media, politicians, and other prominent voices have declared that "the science is settled." In reality, the long game of telephone from research to reports to the popular media is corrupted by misunderstanding and misinformation. Core questions - about the way the climate is responding to our influence, and what the impacts will be - remain largely unanswered. The climate is changing, but the why and how aren't as clear as you've probably been led to believe.

Deep beneath the Earth lies a world no one was meant to find. When explorer Nathaniel “Nate” Kane and archaeologist Sophia Calder discover the hidden civilization of Aurelion, they uncover an impossible secret — a vast underground world illuminated by a colossal artificial sun known as the Heart of Aurelion. But this hidden realm is far from peaceful. A ruthless military empire called the Obsidian Dominion believes the Heart should belong to the strongest ruler. Their armies march toward the shining city of Luminara, determined to seize control of the sun that sustains the entire ...

Max Axiom and the Society of Super Scientists go on a fact-finding mission to learn about Near-Earth Objects and discover methods that scientists are developing to defend our planet.

A preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal genome to answer the biggest question of them all: what does it mean to be human? What can we learn from the genes of our closest evolutionary relatives? Neanderthal Man tells the story of geneticist Svante Pbo’s mission to answer that question, beginning with the study of DNA in Egyptian mummies in the early 1980s and culminating in his sequencing of the Neanderthal genome in 2009.

Earth Science experiments pertaining to changes on Earth, including plate tectonics, erosion, the greenhouse effect, and glaciers. An engaging way to support the Next Generation Science Standards. Experiments are simple, accessible, and something that could be used at a science fair, in the classroom, or at home. Exploring changes on Earth has never been simpler.

Mark Sully is a software architect approached by a representative of billionaire George Ellenberg. He saved a failing project for the billionaire and is now tasked with signing onto a much larger project to build a sentient, sapient AI named Tertia. The project will align Mark with Mia Constance, who brings Tertia to life. As a team, they detect and stop multiple threats on Earth, which leads them to take on a much more significant role - where Mark declares himself Supreme Commander of Earth Defense. He leads Earth Defense in building a starship and exploring the galaxy. In doing so, he ...

Some mysteries are buried beneath the earth. Others wait beneath the stars. The Omega Chronicles is an expansive science fiction and fantasy adventure series that begins with survival on a remote island — and unfolds into a far-reaching journey across hidden worlds, lost civilizations, advanced technologies, and the vast unknown of space itself. When a daring expedition strands two explorers on an uncharted island in the Atlantic, what begins as a struggle to survive soon reveals something extraordinary. Strange rescues occur at impossible moments. Ancient mechanisms lie concealed beneath...

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.