Sciences de la Terre

Curious about the clouds above or fascinated by the changing winds? Build Your Own Weather Station is your complete hands-on guide to creating, understanding, and predicting the weather—right from your backyard.

The story of our world and the different living things that have populated it is an amazing epic with millions of species, exotic settings, planet-wide cataclysms, and surprising plot twists....

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS' CHOICE AN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR Sand, salt, iron, copper, oil, and lithium. These fundamental materials have created empires, razed civilizations, and fed our ingenuity and greed for thousands of years. Without them, our modern world...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history—from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White City “A gripping account ... fascinating to its core, and all the more compelling for being...

Using Australia as a springboard, this book explores the science in folk history. It looks at ancient tales and traditions that may in all probability be rooted in scientifically verifiable fact and can be explored via geological evidence, such as the biblical flood....

Les connaissances sur les volcans ont beaucoup progressé dans la période récente.Claude Jaupart en dresse ici un panorama complet. Il définit les...

The author of Cod and The Basque History of the World takes an extraordinary look at an ordinary substance — salt, the only rock humans eat — and how it has shaped civilization from the very beginning....

***NARRATED BY THE MAP MEN!*** *AN INSTANT INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER!* *An Audible Most Anticipated Listen!* From YouTube’s Map Men comes a funny and fascinating journey into the maps that messed up: big time! In their long-awaited debut, Mark Cooper-Jones and Jay Foreman (aka, the Map Men)...

In this work on a subject too often dismissed as paranormal or disreputable, Jeffrey Meldrum gives us the first book on Sasquatch to be written by a scientist with impeccable academic credentials. He gives an objective look at the facts in a field mined with hoaxes and sensationalism....

Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was an intrepid explorer and the most famous scientist of his age. His restless life was packed with adventure and discovery....