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  • Ordinary Chondrites

    The Most Common Meteorites

    by Alan E. Rubin ...
    Series series Cambridge Planetary Science
    Ordinary chondrites, the most abundant meteorites, constitute about 80% of meteorite falls and are essential to our understanding of cosmochemistry. They provide important information about planetary accretion, the early Solar System, and the geological history of asteroids, including such processes as thermal metamorphism, shock metamorphism, and aqueous alteration. This comprehensive guide ... Read more

    $156.99 CAD

  • Surface/Volume

    How Geometry Explains Why Grain Elevators Explode, Hummingbirds Hover, and Asteroids are Colder than Ice

    by Alan E. Rubin ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book explains that diffusion, osmosis, dissolution, evaporation, and heat loss all preferentially affect small bodies due to their high surface/volume ratios. Because surface area increases as the square of length, but volume (and mass) increase as the cube, large objects have low surface/volume ratios and small objects have high surface/volume ratios. This simple physical constraint governs ... Read more

    $44.99 CAD

  • Disturbing the Solar System

    Impacts, Close Encounters, and Coming Attractions

    by Alan E. Rubin ...
    The solar system has always been a messy place in which gravity wreaks havoc. Moons form, asteroids and comets crash into planets, ice ages commence, and dinosaurs disappear. By describing the dramatic consequences of such disturbances, this authoritative and entertaining book reveals the fundamental interconnectedness of the solar system--and what it means for life on Earth.After relating a brief ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

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    Edited by José Funes, Chris Impey, Jonathan Lunine ...
    Astrobiology is an exciting interdisciplinary field that seeks to answer one of the most important and profound questions: are we alone? In this volume, leading international experts explore the frontiers of astrobiology, investigating the latest research questions that will fascinate a wide interdisciplinary audience at all levels. What is the earliest evidence for life on Earth? Where are the ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Activated Carbon

    by Harry Marsh, Francisco Rodríguez Reinoso ...
    Recent years have seen an expansion in speciality uses of activated carbons including medicine, filtration, and the purification of liquids and gaseous media. Much of current research and information surrounding the nature and use of activated carbon is scattered throughout various literature, which has created the need for an up-to-date comprehensive and integrated review reference. In this book, ... Read more

    $234.99 CAD

  • Everything You Need to Ace Science in One Big Fat Notebook

    The Complete Middle School Study Guide

    by Workman Publishing, Sharon Madanes, Editors of Brain Quest, Michael Geisen ...
    Series series Big Fat Notebook
    Help kids ace science with this revolutionary study guide just for middle school students from the brains behind Brain Quest.Everything You Need to Ace Science ... takes readers from scientific investigation and the engineering design process to the Periodic Table; forces and motion; forms of energy; outer space and the solar system; to earth sciences, biology, body systems, ecology, and more.The ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Introduction to Geochemistry

    Principles and Applications

    by Kula C. Misra ...
    INTRODUCTION TO GeochemistryThis book is intended to serve as a text for an introductory course in geochemistry for undergraduate/ graduate students with at least an elementary-level background in earth sciences, chemistry, and mathematics. The text, containing 83 tables and 181 figures, covers a wide variety of topics – ranging from atomic structure to chemical and isotopic equilibria to modern ... Read more

    $95.99 CAD

  • How to Build a Habitable Planet

    The Story of Earth from the Big Bang to Humankind - Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Charles H. Langmuir, Wallace Broecker ...
    A classic introduction to the story of Earth's origin and evolution—revised and expanded for the twenty-first centurySince its first publication more than twenty-five years ago, How to Build a Habitable Planet has established a legendary reputation as an accessible yet scientifically impeccable introduction to the origin and evolution of Earth, from the Big Bang through the rise of human ... Read more

    $63.79 CAD

  • Atmospheric Evolution on Inhabited and Lifeless Worlds

    by David C. Catling, James F. Kasting ...
    As the search for Earth-like exoplanets gathers pace, in order to understand them, we need comprehensive theories for how planetary atmospheres form and evolve. Written by two well-known planetary scientists, this text explains the physical and chemical principles of atmospheric evolution and planetary atmospheres, in the context of how atmospheric composition and climate determine a planet's ... Read more

    $96.99 CAD

  • Trace Metals in Aquatic Systems

    by Robert P. Mason ...
    This book provides a detailed examination of the concentration, form and cycling of trace metals and metalloids through the aquatic biosphere, and has sections dealing with the atmosphere, the ocean, lakes and rivers. It discusses exchanges at the water interface (air/water and sediment/water) and the major drivers of the cycling, concentration and form of trace metals in aquatic systems. The ... Read more

    $152.99 CAD

  • Precambrian Age

    by Giancarlo Varnier ...
    The Precambrian is the oldest era of Earth's history, and, of its origins (4 billion and 500 million years ago), the appearance of the first invertebrates with exoskeletons (542 million years ago). In this long period of time, the planet, newly formed, was affected by cosmic events and geological shocking that border on the limits of imagination. ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How it All Works

    All scientific laws and phenomena illustrated & demonstrated

    by Adam Dant, Brian Clegg ...
    In this beautiful and unique combination of art and science, this stunningly detailed book examines how the rules of science govern the the world around us, from the rooms in our houses to the planet, the solar system and the universe itself!The Universe is inconceivably complex. Its component parts though follow a set of unbreakable laws that have somehow been coded into their very fabric since ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD