San Antonio College Library

"Written in an informal and engaging style, Saving the Earth as a Career is an ideal resource for students and professionals pursuing a career in conservation The book explores the major skills needed to become an effective conservation professional by offering useful advice on a range of topics. Chapters examine how to select the right educational program and develop an effective research project. Tips on writing papers, attending conferences, and...

Since its first publication, How to Build a Habitable Planet has established a reputation as an accessible yet scientifically impeccable introduction to the origin and evolution of Earth, from the Big Bang through the rise of human civilization. Now Harvard geochemist Charles Langmuir has worked with the original author to revise and expand the book for a new generation of readers for whom active planetary stewardship is becoming imperative. Interweaving...

"Spanning nine time zones from Norway to the Bering Strait, the immense Russian Arctic was mostly unexplored before the twentieth century. This changed rapidly in the 1920s, when the Soviet Union implemented plans for its conquest. The Conquest of the Russian Arctic, a definitive political and environmental history of one of the world's remotest regions, details the ambitious attempts, from Soviet times to the present, to control and reshape the Arctic,...