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Title: Earth System, The by Lee R. Kump, James F. Kasting, Robert Crane ISBN: 0-13-177387-9 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 03 March, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $62.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: This is the best textbook for earth system science
Comment: Earth System Science is a new field, one that evolves much more quickly than textbooks can be revised. This one is as current as you can expect, and it approaches the field of science in a much better way than any other textbook I have seen. In particular, most earth system texts approach the field by morphing from a traditional discipline. Usually, it's a geology textbook revised to include atmospheric, oceanic, and climatic studies. But earth system science requires an interdisciplinary approach from the start, a problem based approach. Our global environmental problems need this approach, and this book covers them in a reasonably detailed and accurate manner.
Rating: 4
Summary: Good overview of how our earth works
Comment: I used this book for an introductory environmental studies course. The book is full of information I had never before discovered. The chapters clearly describe how smaller cycles and feedback mechanisms relate the health of the earth as a whole.
If you are curious about global warming this book has great factual information to start an understanding of the concept.
Rating: 3
Summary: Not a bad textbook
Comment: I used this book for my Environmental Geology class. Overall I think it's an ok text. It's not as readily understandable an reader friendly as some of the other introductory geology texts on the market that I have read--it's somewhat obsecure at times. I think that it's rather overpriced as well for a black and white paperback textbook.
It does however cover a large selection of material in a succint manner, yet with enough detail to satisfy the curiosity of the interested student. Some of the stuff in this textbook is not common to geology texts--principally the aspects that have to do with the biosphere.
Overall, it's a reasonable textbook, besides the cost, which I think is inflated. Textbook prices are inflated in general in any case!
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Title: The American West as Living Space by Wallace Stegner ISBN: 0472063758 Publisher: UMP Pub. Date: 01 January, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.22 |
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Title: Environmental Policy: New Directions for the Twenty-First Century by Norman J. Vig, Michael E. Kraft ISBN: 1568026986 Publisher: CQ Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $44.95 |
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Title: Biogeochemistry : An Analysis of Global Change by William H. Schlesinger ISBN: 012625155X Publisher: Academic Press Pub. Date: 20 February, 1997 List Price(USD): $54.95 |
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Title: A Beautiful, Cruel Country by Eva Antonia Wilbur-Cruce, Michael McCurdy ISBN: 0816511942 Publisher: University of Arizona Press Pub. Date: December, 1991 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Principles of Conservation Biology by Gary K. Meffe, C. Ronald Carroll ISBN: 0878935215 Publisher: Sinauer Associates, Inc. Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $84.95 |
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