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This beautifully illustrated book teaches how the Earth moves in space to bring about days, nights and years. The student learns about gravity, the moon, stars and the sun and how the relate to each other. With the accompanying Learning Guide, student will explore gravity and the motions of the earth and moon.

An engaging look at the relationship of Earth to the sun, moon, other planets and asteroids.

This fully illustrated book combines map and globe skills with an engaging look at the land forms, climate zones and biomes of our planet. With the accompanying learning guide, the student will learn how to read simple maps, use latitude and longitude coordinates, and correlate climate zones with life on Earth.

This wide-ranging book describes the importance, as well as the fragility of glaciers.

In this richly illustrated account, James Hamilton explores the scientific and cultural history of the volcano. The book moves from Greek and Roman myth to the earliest-known wall painting of an erupting volcano in 6200 BC, to the distinctive colours of Andy Warhol, to Michael Sandle's exploding mountains of the 1980s.

Meteorite: Nature and Culture is a unique, richly illustrated cultural history of these ancient and mysterious phenomena.

In this compelling journey through peaks both real and imaginary, Veronica della Dora explores how the history of mountains is deeply interlaced with cultural values and aesthetic tastes, with religious beliefs and scientific practices.

Tracing poles and polarity back to their sacred ancient civilizations, this book explores how the idea of a North Pole has given rise to utopias, satires, fantasies, paradoxes and nationalist ideologies, from the Renaissance to the Third Reich.

An beautifully illustrated account of the sea and its meanings, from ancient myths to contemporary geopolitics.

"By turns creative and destructive, wind spreads seeds, fills sails, and disperses the energy of the sun. Worshipped since antiquity, wind has molded planets, determined battles, and shaped the evolution of life on earth yet this invisible element remains intangible and unpredictable."--