Earth : the definitive visual guide
(2024)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
550/EARTH
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2024
EDITION
New edition, Revised edition, American edition
DESCRIPTION
528 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780744069839, 0744069831 :, 0744069831, 0241515610, 9780241515617, 9780744069839
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Includes index
Planet Earth -- Land -- Ocean -- Atmosphere -- Tectonic Earth
Now, in its third edition, this landmark encyclopedia celebrates our planet and explains the science underpinning the forces and processes that have made and shaped it. Artworks, photographs, terrain models, and maps are combined to capture the power of landscapes and natural events and show their hidden sides, explaining, for example, how an earthquake is triggered and how burning fossil fuels is driving a climate emergency
At head of title: Smithsonian