South Pole

Elizabeth Leane

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• As one of two points where the Earth's axis meets its surface, the South Pole should be a precisely defined place. But as Elizabeth Leane shows in thi... Lees meer

Wind

Louise M Pryke

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• A natural and cultural history of wind from ancient deity to Twister . By turns creative and destructive, wind spreads seeds, fills sails, and dispers... Lees meer

Silver

Lindsay Shen

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• From spoons to bullets to sterling coins, silver permeates our everyday culture and language. For millennia we've used it to buy what we need, adorn o... Lees meer

Mountain

Veronica Della Dora

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• Majestic and awe-inspiring, there is nothing like the sight of a mountain on the horizon. Throughout all of human history mountains have been linked t... Lees meer

Lightning

Derek M Elsom

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• Few phenomena inspire more awe than lightning. Streaking across the sky, it daunts us with its power and amazes us with its beauty. In Lightning , Der... Lees meer

Earthquake

Andrew Robinson

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• The 2011 devastating, tsunami-triggering quake off the coast of Japan and 2010's horrifying destruction in Haiti reinforce the fact that large cities ... Lees meer

Air

Peter Adey

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• Outside of yoga class, we don't pay too much attention to the air we take in every day. Long one of the essential elements to life on earth--from the ... Lees meer

The Sea

Richard Hamblyn

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• Sailing across time and geography, the imaginary and the real, The Sea chronicles the many physical and cultural meanings of the watery abyss. This bo... Lees meer

Meteorite

Maria Golia

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• Among the rarest things on earth, meteorites carry an air of mystery and drama while having left a pervasive, outsized mark on our planet and civiliza... Lees meer

Storm

John Withington

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• Gales, cyclones, blizzards, tornados, and hurricanes--few things demonstrate the awesome power of nature like a good storm. Devastating, diverse, and ... Lees meer

Volcano

James Hamilton

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• For years, tourists have trekked across cracked rock at Hawaii's Kilauea volcano to witness the awe-inspiring sight of creeping lava and its devastati... Lees meer

Ice

Klaus Dodds

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• In Ice , Klaus Dodds provides a wide-ranging exploration of the cultural, natural, and geopolitical history of this most slippery of subjects. Beyond ... Lees meer

Glacier

Peter G Knight

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• As major actors in the unfolding drama of climate change, glaciers feature prominently in Earth's past and its future. Wherever on the planet we live,... Lees meer

North Pole

Michael Bravo

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• The North Pole has long held surprising importance for many of the world's cultures. Interweaving science and history, this book offers the first unif... Lees meer

Cave

Ralph Crane, Lisa Fletcher

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• Shortlisted for the Tratman Award 2015 To enter caves is to venture beyond the realm of the everyday. From huge vaulted caverns to impassable, water-f... Lees meer

Earth 1

• Paperback | Engels | Earth | nr. 1
• This beautifully illustrated book teaches how the Earth moves in space to bring about days, nights and years. The student learns about gravity, the mo... Lees meer

Rainbows

Daniel MacCannell

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• The rainbow is a compelling spectacle in nature--a rare, evanescent, and beautiful bridge between subjective experience and objective reality--and no ... Lees meer

Moon

Edgar Williams

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• Long before a rocket hit the Man in the Moon in the eye in Georges Méliès's early film Le Voyage dans la Lune , the earth's lone satellite had entranc... Lees meer

Earth 2

• Paperback | Engels | Earth | nr. 2
• An engaging look at the relationship of Earth to the sun, moon, other planets and asteroids. With accompanying Learning Guide student will learn about... Lees meer

Islands

Stephen A Royle

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• From Charles Darwin's enlightening voyage to the Galapagos Islands to moat-encased prisons incarcerating the world's deadliest prisoners, islands have... Lees meer

Comets

P Andrew Karam

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• Radiating fire and ice, comets as a phenomenon seem part science, part myth. Two thousand years ago when a comet shot across the night sky, it convinc... Lees meer

Explaining and Exploring Diversity in Agricultural Technology

• Hardcover | Engels | Earth | nr. 2
• This volume is the outcome of collaborative European research among archaeologists, archaeobotanists, ethnographers, historians and agronomists, and f... Lees meer

Earth in Love

Eisja

• Paperback | Engels | Earth | nr. 1
• Told through the eyes of two narrators, "Earth In Love" explores the human experience. Flowing seamlessly between engaging dialogue and internal musin... Lees meer

Swamp

Anthony Wilson

• Paperback | Engels | Earth
• Throughout history, swamps have been idealized and demonized, purged and protected. Today, they are simultaneously considered metaphorical places of e... Lees meer