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Frederick K. Lutgens Edward J. Tasa, Tasa Graphic Arts, Inc. If You're an Educator Download instructor resources Additional order info. Art that teaches and motivates includes high-quality photographs and line art that were carefully selected to aid understanding, add realism, and heighten student interest.
The art program is the work of Dennis Tasa, a gifted artist and respected geological illustrator. Emphasis on currency and relevance includes broad, up-to-date coverage of topics and principles.
Strong Readability is achieved through the book's straightforward language, written to be understood. Clear, readable discussions with a minimum of technical language are the rule. Focus on Basic Principles is stronger than ever with the Eleventh Edition, fostering student understanding of basic principles while also addressing topical issues.
Flexibility for the instructor is achieved through the text's adaptable organization. This passage—which some environmentalists and religious scholars treat as a "green" creation myth—drives renowned ecologist H. Shugart's extraordinary investigation, in which he uses verses from God's speech to Job to explore the planetary system, animal domestication, sea-level rise, evolution, biodiversity, weather phenomena, and climate change.
Shugart calls attention to the rich resonance between the Earth's natural history and the workings of religious feeling, the wisdom of biblical scripture, and the arguments of Bible ethicists.
The divine questions that frame his study are quintessentially religious, and the global changes humans have wrought on the Earth operate not only in the physical, chemical, and biological spheres but also in the spiritual realm. Shugart offers a universal framework for recognizing and confronting the global challenges humans now face: the relationship between human technology and large-scale environmental degradation, the effect of invasive species on the integrity of ecosystems, the role of humans in generating wide biotic extinctions, and the future of our oceans and tides.
For courses in Earth Science. This brief, paperback version of the best-selling Earth Science, offers a user-friendly overview of the physical environment. It retains the hallmarks professors expect from Fred Lutgens and Ed Tarbuck a student-friendly writing style, carefully crafted art program, and coverage of the most recent current events.
GEODe: Earth Science covers all major areas of Earth Science with an updated geology unit, broad coverage of the oceans, basic meteorology, and the solar system; along with many new animations, video clips, and interactive activities. An accessible book for graduate students and researchers that describes how the laws of thermodynamics apply to Earth system processes. Earth: Exploring Our Home sends children out into the far corners of our planet to discover natural wonders, while along the way gaining new insights and understanding about the world in which they live.
From the formation of mountain ranges caused by shifting tectonic plates, to the earth's tilt and our rotation around the sun which gives us the four seasons; from our many-layered atmosphere and the solar energy that permeates it, to a study of weather patterns and climate.
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From the formation of mountain ranges caused by shifting tectonic plates, to the earth's tilt and our rotation around the sun which gives us the four seasons; from our many-layered atmosphere and the solar energy that permeates it, to a study of weather patterns and climate. Designed to accompany Tarbuck and Lutgens' Earth Science and Foundations of Earth Science, this manual can also be used for any Earth science lab course and in conjunction with any text.
It contains twenty-four step-by-step exercises that reinforce major topics in geology, oceanography, meteorology, and astronomy.
Ideal for undergraduates with little or no science background, Earth Science is a student-friendly overview of our physical environment that offers balanced, up-to-date coverage of geology, oceanography, astronomy, and meteorology.
The authors focus on readability, with clear, example-driven explanations of concepts and events. The Thirteenth Edition incorporates a new active learning approach, a fully updated visual program, and is available for the first time with MasteringGeology--the most complete, easy-to-use, engaging tutorial and assessment tool available, and also entirely new to the Earth science course. John W. Burgess was one of the indisputable founders of the discipline of political science in the United States.
His interest in these historical events, which he saw as central to understanding the importance of the nation-state, deeply influenced the Foundations of Political Science, his most compact exposition of what he believed to be the core principles of political science.
Modern Global Seismology, Second Edition, is a complete, self-contained primer on seismology, featuring extensive coverage of all related aspects—from observational data through prediction—and emphasizing the fundamental theories and physics governing seismic waves, both natural and anthropogenic.
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Statistical Foundations of Data Science gives a thorough introduction to commonly used statistical models, contemporary statistical machine learning techniques and algorithms, along with their mathematical insights and statistical theories.
It aims to serve as a graduate-level textbook and a research monograph on high-dimensional statistics, sparsity and covariance learning, machine learning, and statistical inference. It includes ample exercises that involve both theoretical studies as well as empirical applications. The book begins with an introduction to the stylized features of big data and their impacts on statistical analysis. It then introduces multiple linear regression and expands the techniques of model building via nonparametric regression and kernel tricks.
It provides a comprehensive account on sparsity explorations and model selections for multiple regression, generalized linear models, quantile regression, robust regression, hazards regression, among others. High-dimensional inference is also thoroughly addressed and so is feature screening. The book also provides a comprehensive account on high-dimensional covariance estimation, learning latent factors and hidden structures, as well as their applications to statistical estimation, inference, prediction and machine learning problems.
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