An easy-to-use, highly informative photographic field guide that introduces the great variety of geological structures to be found all around us.

Starts with the basics of weather—temperature, pressure, humidity, and wind—before moving on to cover highs, lows, fronts, and storms, and finally ending with a look at weather forecasts, cloud watching, weather tools, and much more.

Provides coverage of all major aspects of Earth's solar system, from major planets to their satellites, small bodies, interplanetary phenomena, and cosmological context.

Provides students and researchers with an easy-to-understand introduction to the fundamentals of chemistry, from elements and molecules to chemical reactions and properties of matter.

A comprehensive introductory text on the physical aspects of geology, including rocks and minerals, plate tectonics, earthquakes, volcanoes, glaciation, groundwater, streams, coasts, mass wasting, climate change, planetary geology and much more. It has a strong emphasis on examples from western Canada, especially British Columbia, and also includes a chapter devoted to the geological history of western Canada.

Beginning with a brief historical context, this book explains the interactions and the role of each ocean basin in the functioning of the planetary ocean.

Provides a comprehensive exploration of mathematical principles and meets scope and sequence requirements for a typical precalculus course. The text proceeds from functions through trigonometry and ends with an introduction to calculus.

An up-to-date record of the many recent discoveries made about our solar system and other planetary systems using ground-based and space probe technology.