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Soil (Earth Rocks) by Richard Spilsbury
Category: Children's Educational | Series: Earth Rocks
This book goes on a journey underground to examine the many kinds of soil, microorganisms and inorganic matter that make it, and the critical role it plays in ecosystems around the world. Most people don't think about the soil under their feet, but basic dirt can reveal a lot about Earth's past. Soil is ...Show more
Solar by Ian McEwan
Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Earth Ser.
'Beard sank into a gloom of inattention, not because the planet was in peril - that moronic word again - but because someone was telling him it was with such enthusiasm'Michael Beard is a Nobel prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. A compulsive womaniser, Beard finds his fifth marriage ...Show more
Solar Water Heating: A Comprehensive Guide to Solar Water and Space Heating Systems by Bob Ramlow
Category: Home and Garden | Series: Mother Earth News Wiser Living Ser.
Heating water with the sun is a practice almost as old as humankind itself. This book, now completely revised and expanded, is the definitive guide to this clean and cost-effective technology. Beginning with a review of the history of solar water and space heating systems from prehistory to the present ...Show more
Song of Blood and Stone (#1 Earthsinger Chronicles) by L. Penelope
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: Earthsinger Ser.
A Time Magazine Best Fantasy Book of 2018 L. Penelope's Song of Blood & Stone is a treacherous, thrilling, epic fantasy about an outcast drawn into a war between two powerful rulers. The kingdoms of Elsira and Lagrimar have been separated for centuries by the Mantle, a magical veil that has enforce ...Show more
Sons by Pearl S. Buck
Category: General Fiction | Series: Good EarthTrilogy
Second in the trilogy that began with The Good Earth, Buck's classic and starkly real tale of sons rising against their honored fathers tells of the bitter struggle to the death between the old and the new in China. Revolutions sweep the vast nation, leaving destruction and death in their wake, yet also ...Show more
Sound of Seas by Gillian Anderson
Category: Sci-fi & Fantasy | Series: The\EarthEnd Saga Ser.
From Gillian Anderson and Jeff Rovin - the final book in their 'addictive' (Marie Claire) Earth End Saga comes to a thrilling conclusion in a wild story involving time travel, ghosts, alien technology, and strange spiritual powers... the perfect combination for X-Files fans. After discovering the sec ...Show more
Space (Life on Earth) by Heather Alexander
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Life on Earth
How old is the universe? What was the Big Bang? How does space travel work? Find out in this interactive book with 100 questions and answers and 70 flaps to lift. Discover what a planet is, look at the eight planets of the solar system, learn why a year is 365 days long, find out what life is like for a ...Show more
Stairway to Heaven: Earth Chronicles 2 by Zecharia Sitchin
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Earth Chronicles S.
Since earliest times, human beings have pondered the incomprehensible questions of the universe, life . . . and the afterlife. Where did mortal man go to join the immortal Gods? Was the immense and complex structure at Giza an Egyptian Pharaoh's portal to immortality? Or a pulsating beacon built by extr ...Show more
Storm Nature and Culture by John Withington
Category: Science | Series: Earth
Storms affect our lives in many remarkable and dangerous ways. Gales, hurricanes, cyclones, blizzards, tornados, hail and sand and dust storms regularly demonstrate the awesome power of nature that all of us experience in some form. But what causes them? What role have they played in our history, religi ...Show more
Suchomimus Smiles like a Crocodile by Tortoise Dreaming
Category: Education | Series: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth Ser.
With its crocodile-like mouth and a big claw, Suchomimus hunt fish. Neither did it miss a prey that came to the river to drink of water. Find out more about it and other interesting dinosaurs in the book.
Sustainable Home Refurbishment - The Earthscan Expert Guide to Retrofitting Homes for Efficiency by David Thorpe
Category: Craft | Series: Earthscan Expert Ser.
A retro-fit offers many benefits: cutting electricity and heating bills, increasing the resale value of homes, slashing carbon emissions and creating a healthier place to live. This book is the guide to making it happen. It looks at: draught-proofing, insulation and damp ventilation, heating and cooli ...Show more
THE 12TH PLANET by Zecharia Sitchin
Category: Health and Wellbeing | Series: The First Book of the Earth Chronicles
Over the years, startling evidence has been unearthed, challenging established notions of the origins of Earth and life on it, and suggesting the existence of a superior race of beings who once inhabited our world. The product of thirty years of intensive research, The 12th Planetis the first book in Ze ...Show more