This informative two-part program presents the principles of ecology, followed by a discussion of the relationship between people and the environment. Relevant, balanced coverage reflects diverse perspectives on controversial issues. Topical essays provide students with an understanding of the principles of ecology and the impact of human actions on the environment. A mix of formal and field activities provides extensive opportunities for hands-on learning.

Environmental Science

Science & Math

Tweed, Anne

Schoch, Robert M.

Lapinski, Andrew H.

Earth Sciences

Pearson\Prentice Hall

Teen & Young Adult

DuBay

Education & Reference

This collection of sixty case studies explores controversial issues in environmental science. Questions that emphasize critical examination of these issues and the impact that good or bad decisions can have on the environment follow each case study.

Case Studies in Environmental Science

Biological Sciences

Jones& Bartlett Learning

Phylogeny Reconstruction in Paleontology

Van Nostrand-Reinhold Co.

Voices of the Rocks: A Scientist Looks at Catastrophes and Ancient Civilizations

History

Ancient Civilizations

Thorsons Publishing Group Ltd.

Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions provides a thorough overview and analysis of environmental science. By using an "earth systems" approach, students recognize society and the environment as an interrelated system. Environmental issues are examined throughout the text and realistic solutions to these issues are thoroughly investigated. This Web Enhanced Version directs students to Internet-based activities and exercises designed to expand their knowledge and understanding of key concepts in environmental science.

Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions : Web Enhanced Edition

McKinney, Michael L.

Jones & Bartlett Pub

What is the “big picture” in environmental science? Our authors know and effectively communicate it in Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions, Sixth Edition. Whether you view the subject through a scientific, social, political, or historical lens, you’ll find the concrete foundations here that work for courses in both environmental science and environmental studies. A systems approach is the connective fabric that makes sense of the wealth of topics and data, which demonstrates how aspects of the natural environment interconnect with each other and with human society. A section on Resource Use and Management introduces the concept of sustainability, and another on Dealing with Environmental Degradation discusses threats to the environment and mitigation strategies. A bonus section available online on Social Solutions to Environmental Concerns, discusses the complex issues impacting the environment and the scientific, technologic, and human behavioral ways to address them. Throughout the text you will find the hard data necessary for a scientific study of the environment and the measured analysis ideal for our time. Combining evidence-based, contemporary information and data with relevant case studies, practical applications, numerous calculations, and modern references, Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions teaches and engages.

Environmental Science: Systems and Solutions: Systems and Solutions

Yonavjak, Logan

Mincy, Grant

Contends that ancient cultures traveled great distances by sea and that primeval sailors were responsible for exchanging information on how to build pyramid-like structures throughout the world. 15,000 first printing.

Voyages of the Pyramid Builders: The True Origins of the Pyramids from Lost Egypt to Ancient America

McNally, Robert Aquinas

Reference

Jeremy P. Tarcher / Penquin

Is it a mere coincidence that pyramids are found throughout our globe? Did cultures ranging across vast spaces in geography and time, such as the ancient Egyptians; early Bud-dhists; the Maya, Inca, Toltec, and Aztec civilizations of the Americas; the Celts of the British Isles; and even the Mississippi Indians of pre-Columbus Illinois, simply dream the same dreams and envision the same structures? Robert M. Schoch-one of the world's preeminent geologists in recasting the date of the building of the Great Sphinx-believes otherwise. In this dramatic and meticulously reasoned book, Schoch, like anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl in his classic Kon-Tiki, argues that ancient cultures traveled great distances by sea. Indeed, he believes that primeval sailors traveled from the Eastern continent, primarily Southeast Asia, and spread the idea of pyramids across the globe, particularly to the New World of the Americas where they abounded until the days of the Conquistadors.

Americas

Penguin Publishing Group

The Egyptologist acclaimed for re-dating the Great Sphinx at Giza sets his sights on one of the true mysteries of antiquity: the Great Pyramid of Giza. What is the Great Pyramid of Giza? Ask that basic question of a traditional Egyptologist, and you get the basic, traditional answer: a fancy tombstone for a self-important pharaoh of the Old Kingdom. This, Egyptologists argue, is the sole finding based on the data, and the only deduction supported by science. By implication, anyone who dissents from this point of view is unscientific and woolly-minded-a believer in magic and ghosts. Indeed, some of the unconventional ideas about the Great Pyramid do have a spectacularly fabulous ring to them. Yet from beneath the obvious terms of this controversy, a deeper, more significant question arises: how is it that the Great Pyramid exercises such a gripping hold on the human psyche- adding cryptic grace to the back of the one-dollar bill and framing myriad claims of New Age "pyramid power"? In Pyramid Quest, Robert M. Schoch and Robert Aquinas McNally use the rigorous intellectual analysis of scientific inquiry to investigate what we know about the Great Pyramid, and develop a stunning hypothesis: This ancient monument is the strongest proof yet that civilization began thousands of years earlier than is generally thought, extending far back into a little-known time. In tracing that story, we come to understand not only the Great Pyramid but also our own origins as civilized beings.

Pyramid Quest: Secrets of the Great Pyramid and the Dawn of Civilization

Tarcher

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