Earth: Portrait of a Planet 4th Edition by Stephen Marshak offers the perfect balance between an authoritative, yet accessible text and a stunning narrative art program. This makes it the book of choice for instructors and students, who all have their own diverse styles of both teaching and learning.
This edition emphasizes active student learning with a new chapter format, interactive media, and the power and insight of Google Earth. Using satellite and aerial photography, Google Earth™ creates spectacular 3-D maps of the planet's surface. Utilizing this technology, Steven Marshak has developed Geotours for every chapter in the text, taking students on virtual fieldtrips where they can apply textbook lessons to real-world geological features.
This text constitutes a major revision, packed with recent updates and new features such as beautiful and innovative narrative figures, stimulating inquiry-based pedagogy, a tightened core narrative, hundreds of new photographs, and coverage of hot topics, like the March 2011 earthquake/tsunami that devastated Japan, the rare element crisis, the shifting price of oil, and the recent tornado outbreaks.
This book includes chapters, framed by a Geopuzzle or guiding question, and concludes with a Take-Home Message and On Further Thought questions which synthesize core ideas and help students retain information. With over 100 new figures, including new "What a Geologist Sees" figures, revised and improved synoptic paintings by Gary Hincks, more satellite photos, as well as new animations on StudySpace and zoomable images on the instructors' CD-ROM, theEarth art program is as visually appealing as it is pedagogically sound.
The Earth: Videos of a Planet Instructor's DVD features 24 short film clips carefully selected from the U.S. Geological Survey archives. New 3D simulations illustrate complex geologic phenomena on subjects including the formation of the solar system, plate tectonics, continental collision, and glacier erosion. The Instructors CD-Rom includes online lecture PowerPoints, clicker questions, illustrations and photographs from the text, and more, provide a rich array of visual resources for use in the classroom.
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