Earth Resources And The Environment (4th Edition) Download Free (EPUB, PDF)
Balanced, broad-based, and up to date, this comprehensive text explores the nature and critical issues of earth resources and the impacts that resource usage has on the earth environment. The authors assume little to no scientific background, and you'll find full coverage of all major types of earth resources—energy, metallic, nonmetallic, water, and soil.
Hardcover: 528 pages
Publisher: Pearson; 4 edition (January 25, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0321676483
ISBN-13: 978-0321676481
Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 1.4 x 10.8 inches
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Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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Great textbook that is organized very well. The book has a very nice layout and several pages of color photographs. This book has helped me tremendously in my physical geography course and I would recommend it to someone taking a 300-400 level physical geography course at a university. The book is comprised of 13 chapters:Chapter 1: Minerals: The Foundations of SocietiesChapter 2:Plate Tectonics and the origins of ResourcesChapter 3:Earth Resources Through HistoryChapter 4: Environmental Impacts of Resource Exploitation and UseChapter 5: Energy from Fossil FuelsChapter 6: Nuclear and Renewable Energy SourcesChapter 7: Abundant MetalsChapter 8: The Geochemically Scarce MetalsChapter 9: Fertilizer and Chemical MineralsChapter 10: Building Materials and Other Industrial MaterialsChapter 11: Water ResourcesChapter 12: Soil as a ResourceChapter 13: Future Resources
Its an OK textbook, I need it for the class...-lots of statistics and information that will be forgotten once the class is over.-only has a small section in the middle with color photos, everything else is black and white.-bought it new, wish I hadn't, definitely mostly useless compared to wikipedia other than for passing the class-if you have a book shelf, it might look nice up there and make you appear smart or concerned about the environmetnt-it does have some interesting factoids and tidbits and such, a few good side stories that support the chapter material-most of the info in it it will probably be too out of date within 10 years or so to be worth revisiting-it is a good interdisciplinary science treatment and if your professor is like mine, all the tests will have questions directly from it.
I purchased this book from our boookstore as new, but it did not come with the online access code. I wouldd advise people to ensure they have the access code as it provides online student access. If you want to purchase this card you can purchase seperately, but it is quite expensive
This book is NOT "up to date" on causes of pollution and global warming. Suggest you buy the newer updated "International Edition" of "Earth Resources and the Environment."
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Too boring in it's writing style. Unless you are required to read this for school or a job then there are better ways to learn the subject.
very informative of how our world is going to s***
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