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Understanding Earth 5th EDITION

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This is an amazing and wonderful book that will surely attract many new students who would otherwise not choose to study geology. It is full of colour pictures and photographs, written in an extremely entertaining style, and is also full of high-quality science put in perspectives that I have not seen in any other text. The authors truly have everything at their fingertips. The book comprehensively covers the full breadth of what the reader might infer from the title "Understanding Earth", including (in addition to geology) weather and climate, the evolution of life (concentrating mainly on microbes), biogeology, human impact on the earth, and study of the other terrestrial planets (Mercury, Venus and Mars). The information presented is up to date and, astonishingly given its publication date, includes detailed coverage of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, the 2005 impact of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans, and results of the latest space probes to other planets.

I have some background in biological science and I have always wanted to find a way to get up to speed on geology because so much of evolutionary biology has reference to geology. I have gone through one textbook and numbers of Internet readings on geology. I can say that I learnt a great deal from these. Yet when I started to read this book 'Understanding Earth' a whole new understanding opens up before me. I like this book for its simple and comprehensive explanations and its coloured cross sectional representations which seem to transport me to be right there on the spot! I am halfway through the book and I have a great feeling that when I finish I will have then acquired a whole new discipline, not perhaps to the level of a graduate student but sufficient for me to base my biology on it.

This is by far the best geology textbook I've ever read. I mean honestly, you can't get much better than something that accurately informs me all about the rock cycle, plate tectonics, and the Earth's molten core. I am very pleased with the book and hope to do further business with the seller.

I ordered this book because it was selected as the text for MIT's free online self-study course "Introduction to Geology." I am very satisfied with the book after reading the first 3 chapters. There is now a new edition available that will probably makes a good thing even better.

Arrived on time and in much better condition than description and at a very low price. Some text has already been highlighted as well. Great product.

This is an excellent that explains earth processes extremely well and keeps your attention the entire time.

Got the book in only a few days in better than the condition I expected. Waaay cheeper than buying it from the book store! Thanks

Good, clear information on the condition of this textbook. However, the outside condition is not so important, as a damaged textbook generally just shows it has been well loved. Highlighting, underlining, names inside cover however, decrease the value of books, because they diminish the aesthetic appeal, and just make it harder to read. This book had none of those problems.

Alot of higlighted text and notes written in book, cover and pages dogeared, quality could have been better For "GOOD Condition"

Not so Good Shape but Good service though. I was not comfort with the shape of the book, so i wanted to return it, they don't have the return policies right in their profile, but on the contrary for how hard i thought it was gonna be to return it, the process was really smooth.