REFERENCE LIST March, 2005 EAS 100 REFERENCE LIST (*Highly Recommended) (+Especially Useful for Teachers) (Organized in the following topic areas: General Geoscience and Science, Earth Science, Oceanography, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Astronomy and Planetary Geology) GENERAL GEOSCIENCE Abbott, P.L., Natural Disasters, 2nd Ed., WCB/McGraw-Hill, Boston, 397 pp., 1999. Allègre, C., From Stone to Star: A View of Modern Geology, Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, 287 pp., 1992. *Asimov, I., Beginnings: The Story of Origins - of Mankind, Life, the Earth, the Universe, Berkley Books, New York, 289 pp., 1987. Campbell, C.J. and J.H. Laherrère, The End of Cheap Oil, 78-83, Scientific American, March, 1998. *Cloud, P., Cosmos Earth and Man: A Short History of the University, Yale University Press, New Haven, 372 pp., 1978. Crutchfield, James P., et al., Chaos, Scientific American, December, 1986. +De Vito, A. and G.H. Krockover, Creative Sciencing: Ideas and Activities for Teachers and Children, Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 257 pp., 1976. Denny, M.W., Air and Water: The Biology and Physics of Life's Media, Princeton Univ. Press, Princeton, 341 pp., 1993. Doyle, H., Seismology, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 218 pp., 1995. Eldredge, N., The Pattern of Evolution, W.H. Freeman & Co., New York, 219 pp., 1999. *Emiliani, C., The Scientific Companion: Exploring the Physical World with Facts, Figures, and Formulas, J. Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 287 pp., 1988. Ernst, W.G., Earth Systems: Processes and Issues, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 566pp., 2000. Gamow, G., One, Two, Three, Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 340 pp., 1974. Gould, S.J. (General Editor), The Book of Life, W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 256 pp., 2001. Harper, C.L., Environment and Society: Human Perspectives on Environmental Issues, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 443 pp., 1996. Harre, R., Great Scientific Experiments, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 216 pp., 1983. Harrington, J.W., To See a World, Holocene, Spartanburg, 155 pp., 1994. +*Hazen, R.M. and J. Trefil, Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy, Doubleday, New York, 294 pp., 1991. 2 Horgan, J., Universal truths, Scientific American, 109-117, October, 1990. Horgan, J., Trends in Evolution: In the beginning …, Scientific American, 116-125, February, 1991. Hurlbut, S., Jr. and R.C. Kammerling, Gemology, 2nd Edition, J. Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 336 pp., 1991. League of Women Voters, The Nuclear Waste Primer: A Handbook for Citizens, (Revised Edition), Lyons & Burford, New York, 170 pp., 1993. Mackenzie, F.T., Our Changing Planet: An Introduction to Earth System Science and Global Environmental Change, 2nd Ed., Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, 496 pp., 1998. +*Morrison, P., P. Morrison and Office of C. and Ray Eames, Powers of Ten, Scientific American Library, New York, 159 pp., 1982. Murray, R.L., Understanding Radioactive Waste, (4th Edition), Battelle Press, Ohio, 212 pp., 1994. National Academy of Sciences, Teaching About Evolution and the Nature of Science, National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 140 pp., 1998. National Science Teachers Association, The Creation Controversy & the Science Classroom, NSTA Press, Arlington, 55 pp., 2000. Oliver, J.E., The Incomplete Guide to the Art of Discovery, Columbia University Press, New York, 208 pp., 1991. Osterbrock, D.E. and P.H. Raven, Origins and Extinctions, Yale University Press, New Haven, 119 pp., 1988. +Project 2061, Science for All Americans, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 217 pp., 1989. +*Rutherford, F.J. and A. Ahlgren, Science for All Americans, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 246 pp., 1990. Shermer, M., Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of our Time, W.H. Freeman and Co., New York, 306 pp., 1997. Tobin, W., Léon Foucault, 70-77, Scientific American, July, 1998. Wegener, A., The Origin of Continents and Oceans, Dover Publications, Inc., New York, 246 pp., 1966. EARTH SCIENCE Ahrens, T.J., The Origin of the Earth, Physics Today, 38-45, 1994. *Alexander, R.M., Dynamics of Dinosaurs & Other Extinct Giants, Columbia University Press, New York, 167 pp., 1989. *Alexander, R.M., How dinosaurs ran, Scientific American, 130-136, April, 1991. Alvarez, L.W., Mass extinctions caused by large bolide impacts, Physics Today, 40, 24-33, 1987. *Alvarez, W. and F. Asaro, An extraterrestrial impact, Scientific American, 78-84, October, 1990. Atkinson, W., The Next New Madrid Earthquake: A Survival Guide for the Midwest, SIU Press, Carbondale, 1989. Ausich, W.I. and N.G. Lane, Life of the Past, 4th Ed., Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, 321 pp., 1999. Bailey, R.H., and Editors of Time-Life Books, Glacier, Time-Life Books, Virginia, 176 pp., 1982. 3 Bakker, R., Cretaceous Park, Earth, 24-43, September, 1993. Bakker, R.T., The Dinosaur Heresies, W. Morrow and Co., New York, 481 pp., 1986. Bakker, R.T., Unearthing the Jurassic, in Science Year 1995, World Book Encyclopedia, Chicago, p. 76-89. Bardintzeff, J.-M. and A.R. McBirney, Volcanology (2nd Edition), Jones and Bartlett Publ., Boston, 268 pp., 2000. Barnes-Svarney, P., Righting the risk of radon, Earth Science, Publ. Of Am. Geophys. Un., 17-18, Fall, 1989. Begley, S. with E. Yoffe, New Theories and Old Bones Reveal the Lifestyles of the Dinosaur, Newsweek, October 28, 1991, 52-58, 1991. *Beus, S.S. and M.J. Morales (Eds.), Grand Canyon Geology, Oxford Press, New York, 288 pp., 1990. Bloxham, J. and D. Gubbins, The evolution of the Earth's magnetic field, Scientific American, December-1989, 68- 75, 1989. Bodansky, D., M.A. Robkin and D.R. Stadler (Eds.), Indoor Radon and its Hazards, University of Washington Press, Seattle, 147 pp., 1987. *Bolt, B.A., Inside the Earth, W.H. Freeman & Company, San Francisco, 191 pp., 1982. +*Bolt, B.A., Earthquakes, (revised), W.H. Freeman & Company, New York, 331 pp., 1993. *Bolt, B.A., W.L. Horn, G.A. Macdonald, R.F. Scott, Geological Hazards: Earthquakes-Tsunamis-Volcanoes- Avalanches-Landslides-Floods, (2nd edition), Springer-Verlag, New York, 330 pp., 1977. +Bonnet, R.L. and G.D. Keen, Earth Science: 49 Science Fair Projects, Tab Books, Inc., Blue Ridge Summit, 146 pp., 1990. Brimhall, G., The Genesis of Ores, Scientific American, May-1991, 84-91, 1991. *Brookins, D.G., The Indoor Radon Problem, Columbia Univ. Press, Irvington, NY, 229 pp., 1990. +Bullard, F.M., Volcanoes of the Earth, University of Texas Press, Austin, 579 pp., 1976. +British Museum (Natural History), Dinosaurs and Their Living Relatives, 2nd Edition, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 72 pp., 1985. *Brown, G.C., C.J. Hawkesworth and R.C.L. Wilson (Eds.), Understanding the Earth, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 551 pp., 1992. Bruchfield, J.D., Lord Kelvin and The Age of the Earth, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago, 267 pp., 1990. Burnham, R., Arizona's meteor crater, Earth, 50-58, January, 1991. +*Bryant, E.A., Natural Hazards, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 294 pp., 1992. *Carpenter, K. and P.J. Currie, Dinosaur Systematics, Cambridge University Press, New York, 334 pp., 1992. Cattermole, P., Building Planet Earth: Five Billion Years of Earth History, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 283 pp., 2000. Chapman, D., Natural Hazards, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 174 pp., 1994. 4 +*Cloud, P., Oasis in Space: Earth History from the Beginning, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 508 pp., 1988. Condie, K.C., Plate Tectonics & Crustal Evolution, 3rd Edition, Pergamon Press, Oxford, 476 pp., 1989. Corcoran, E., Cleaning Up Coal, Scientific American, May-1991, 106-116, 1991. *Courtillot, V.E., A volcanic eruption, Scientific American, 85-92, October, 1990. Courtillot, V., Evolutionary Catastrophes: The Science of Mass Extinction, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 173 pp., 1999. Cowen, R., History of Life, Blackwell, Cambridge, MA, 470 pp., 1990. +Culver, S.J., (Series Editor), The Age of Dinosaurs, Short Course in Paleontology, #2, K. Padian & D.J. Chure (Convenors), The Paleontological Society, 210 pp., 1989. Cvancara, A.M., Sleuthing Fossils; The Art of Investigating Past Life, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 203 pp., 1990. *Dalrymple, G.B., The Age of the Earth, Stanford University Press, Stanford, 474 pp., 1991. Dalziel, I.W.D., Earth Before Pangea, Scientific American, 58-63, January, 1995. Davidson, K. and A.R. Williams, Under our skin: Hot theories on the center of the Earth, Natl. Geogr., v. 189, January, 100-111, 1996. Decker, R.W., T.L. Wright and P.H. Stauffer, Volcanism in Hawaii, U.S. Geological Survey Professional Paper 1350, v. 1 & 2, 1987. Decker, R.W. and B. Decker, Volcanoes, Revised and updated version, W.H. Freeman and Company, New York, 285 pp., 1989. +*Decker, R.W. and B.B. Decker, Mountains of Fire: The Nature of Volcanoes, Cambridge University press, Cambridge, 198 pp., 1991. Decker, R. and B. Decker, Volcanoes in America’s National Parks, W.W. Norton and Company, New York, 256 pp., 2001. Deery, R., Earthquakes & Volcanoes, The Natural Disaster Series, Good Apple, Inc., 42 pp., 1985. +DeVito, A. and G.H. Krockover, Activities Handbook for Energy/Education, Goodyear Publishing Company, Inc., Santa Monica, 163 pp., 1981. +Diagram Group, A Field Guide to Dinosaurs, Avon Books, New York, 256 pp., 1983. Dickey, J.S., Jr., On the Rocks: Earth Science for Everyone, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, 252 pp., 1996. *Donovan, S.K., Mass Extinctions: Processes and Evidence, Columbia University Press, New York, 266 pp., 1989. Dvorak, J., Hawaii's volcanoes: Windows into the Earth, Earth, 28-35, January, 1991. Edwards, L.E. and J. Pojeta, Jr., Fossils, Rocks, and Time, U.S. Geological Survey, 25 pp., 1993. *Emiliani, C., Planet Earth, Cambridge University Press, New York, 744 pp., 1992. 5 Erickson, J., Plate Tectonics: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Earth, Checkmark Books, New York, 289 pp., 2001. *Ernst, W.G., The Dynamic Planet, Columbia University Press, New York, 281 pp., 1990.