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Astronomer Duncan Steel provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive introduction to the serious science behind these predictions. Steel is a world authority on the comet hazard and member of the NASA team set up to study the problem. Here he…

Explosive asteroids with diameters of 100 feet or more are believed to strike the earth about every 30 years, with impacts equal to the energy released by hydrogen bombs. Many scientists believe that even larger asteroids, as wide as five miles,…

Introduction; 1. A much misunderstood man; 2. Magnolias and marigolds: hippos and hiatuses; 3. Modern terrestrial deposits; 4. Ancient terrestrial deposits; 5. Modern shorelines; 6. Ancient shorelines; 7. Ancient platform deposits; 8. Off-shore…

A highly engaging study of mirages, illusions of multiple moons, the fata morgana, colored shadows and scores of other phenomena in a book praised by Science and Math Weekly as "a great depository of projects, science fair ventures, experiments,…

We live in a world of optical marvels - from the commonplace, but beautiful rainbow, to the rare and eerie superior mirage. Have you ever asked yourself how a rainbow is formed, why the setting sun is red and flattened, or even why the sky at night…

This illustrated volume reviews the wealth of information that has been generated by satellite and ground-based observations of the aurora. Opening with a broad overview of why we should continue to be interested by a phenomenon which occurs in the…

Building on the tremendous reception to its parent volume, Earth 8th edition, the same groundbreaking media package is now integrated into the brief version of the best-selling introductory physical geology volume. This eighth edition of Essentials…

In this lively and accessible book an internationally known scientist proposes a scenario that explains why, in the great extinction 65 million years ago, certain groups of animals such as the dinosaurs were extinguished while others…