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.

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.The war is over. Its heroes forgotten. Until one chance discovery . . . Idris has neither aged...

ELEVEN ELEMENTS - Book One: HEALING WATERS Five centuries from now, Earth is a paradise: war, poverty, and hunger are erased; freedom is not an illusion. But a ripple in time threatens to undo it all. Commander Maxilon Renner and his team of time travelers arrive in the 21st century with one mission: find Joshua DeWine, the author whose words shaped their reality. To the FBI, he’s a threat. To foreign operatives, a target. To his psychologist, a prophet decoding hidden energy in our DNA. But now, DeWine has vanished, his unpublished work scattered; their link to the future has gone dark; ...

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.

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...

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...

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.

Rejected by the Galactic Council, Earth forges its own destiny—founding the Galactic Conclave, a rising alliance that draws civilizations from across the stars. What began as defiance soon becomes a rival power, threatening the Council’s ancient authority. As Earth’s reach expands—constructing vast starbases, opening markets beyond Sol, and deploying fleets of warships and investigative vessels—the galaxy begins to take notice. But with growth comes peril: pirates stalk the trade routes, forgotten enemies resurface, and stealth probes slip into Earth’s system, whispering of ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Learn about Earth.

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.

All canyons are deep, steep valleys, but there is more to these landforms than meets the eye! Rivers form some canyons, while the movement of Earth's crust forms others. To get to the bottom of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, you'd have to travel more than a mile!

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Jason M. Hough’s pulse-pounding debut combines the drama, swagger, and vivid characters of Joss Whedon’s Firefly with the talent of sci-fi author John Scalzi. In the mid-23rd century, Darwin, Australia, stands as the last human city on Earth. The world has...

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.

Discover the surprising case for how conservatism can help us achieve the epic sci-fi future we were promised. America was once the world’s dream factory. We turned imagination into reality, from curing polio to landing on the Moon to creating the internet. And we were confident that more...

Unlock the mystery of life on planet Earth . . . with a talking bacterium! Bertie the Bacteria takes listeners on a joke-fueled journey, revealing how small organisms became some of Earth’s largest creatures, including the epically humongous blue whale. With laugh-out-loud text science lovers and comic book fans alike will delight in exploring the history of our precious blue planet.

Where is the world’s tallest tree? Where is the biggest cave? Listen to this book to find out!