What’s an oasis? Is a “finger of land” smaller than your hand? How can water be stronger than stone? What’s another name for giant floating ice cubes?
In Planet Earth, you’ll discover answers to these questions and many more. Through pictures, articles, and fun facts, you’ll travel around the world, seeing the highest and the lowest, the hottest and the coldest, and the strangest and most beautiful places on Earth.

"Earth Science: Geology, the Environment, and the Universe" provides comprehensive coverage of concepts, and is designed to be universally accessible to a broad range of learners. To aid comprehension, the conceptual presentation is organized around Themes, Big Ideas, and Main Ideas in earth science. Themes are overarching concepts used throughout the book that help students make connections between various topics and concepts; Big Ideas found in the Unit Opener summarize each chapter and help students focus on topics that relate to the Themes; Big Ideas are broken down into Main Ideas at section level ...
Reading age for native speakers: High School students

This interesting guide covers all aspects of Google Earth, the freely downloadable application from Google that allows users to view satellite images from all points of the globe

This an exellent book for undergratuation level and also as an introductory post-graduation course. It presents an overview of the internal structure of the Earth, its evolution since Archean to Recent times and relations among plate tectonic, mantle plumes and magma genesis. New insight on interaction and evolution of Earth system, Examines the role of castrophic events in Earth's history, New section on the evolution of the mantle