Earth science and the environment 4th edition ebook

SmartBook 2. With the ReadAnywhere mobile app, students can now read and complete SmartBook 2. For instructors, SmartBook 2. Creating accessible products is a priority for McGraw-Hill. We have put in place processes to make accessibility and meeting the WCAG AA guidelines part of our day-to-day development efforts and product roadmaps.

Please review our accessibility information for this specific product. McGraw-Hill sites may contain links to websites owned and operated by third parties. McGraw-Hill has no control over and is not responsible for the content or accessibility of any linked website.

After completing your transaction, you can access your course using the section url supplied by your instructor. Skip to main content x Sign In. This text emphasizes how human survival is highly dependent on the natural environment and students should find the topics to be quite relevant to their own lives and, therefore, more interesting.

Lowest Price. Rent now. Listing page for eBook Subscription Program. Your monthly rental cart is already full. Click continue to view and update your selected titles. Back Continue. Rent or purchase for a fraction of the printed textbook price Easily highlight, take notes and search Download the free ReadAnywhere App for offline access and anytime reading Watch a quick video to learn more Note: the eBook does not include access to Connect.

If your instructor assigned Connect, click the "Digital" tab. Rent for a fraction of the printed textbook price Rental transaction occurs through McGraw Hill's authorized rental partner. Purchase un-bound 3-ring binder ready textbook Flexibility and ease of selecting chapters to take where you want to go What are my shipping options? Personalize your learning, save time completing homework, and possibly earn a better grade Access to eBook, homework and adaptive assignments, videos, and study resources Download free ReadAnywhere App for offline access to eBook for anytime reading Connect may be assigned as part of your grade.

Future Resources. Download Ch. Pearson offers affordable and accessible purchase options to meet the needs of your students. Connect with us to learn more. James R. C before joining the geosciences faculty at Texas Tech University in He then moved to the Department of Geological Sciences of Virginia Tech where he remained until his retirement from teaching in During his 32 years at Virginia Tech, he taught Resources Geology Courses to more than 15, students and published more than research papers.

Craig and Vaughan then coauthored the first edition of Resources of the Earth with Brian Skinner in New editions were published in and ; the fourth edition appears in under the title Earth Resources and the Environment. His research interests centre on fundamental studies of minerals, particularly metal sulfides and oxides, and the applications of such studies to problems of Earth resources and the environment.

Brian Skinner was born in Australia, attended the University of Adelaide, and then entered the mining industry as the mine geologist for Aberfoyle Tin in Tasmania. After 2 years he entered graduate studies at Harvard, obtaining his PhD in His subsequent career has involved employment or consulting for various mining companies, several years as a research geochemist for the US Geological Survey and for the past 40 years serving as a faculty member at Yale University.

Skinner has published extensively, including papers and 20 books. He served as editor of Economic Geology for 20 years and of International Geology Review for 14 years. We're sorry! We don't recognize your username or password.

Please try again. Access 6 months. Save money with our loose, 3-hole punched pages. Read and study old-school with our bound texts. Rent 3 months. Rent 4 months. Rent 6 months. Rent 1 year. This package includes Achieve and Paperback.

This package includes Achieve and Loose-Leaf. Home Features New to This Edition. Real stories. Real science. Captivating stories in each of the 31 modules, organized into chapters, follows an engaging, real story that illustrates and motivates core science concepts. Magazine-like photos and layout bring the story to life. Infographics provide the scientific background students need to understand the environmental science concepts. Clear and concise captions and callouts help students interpret data.

Critical Thinking Questions accompany each infographic, encouraging students to explore concepts more deeply, while fostering scientific literacy. Effective pedagogy promotes student learning throughout the text. Infographics and section headings are tagged with icons that relate them to the Guiding Questions. New Revisit the Concepts end-of-module section features a bulleted list of key concepts for review. Revised Environmental Literacy: Understanding the Issue end-of-module section, eliminates multiple choice questions in favor of open-ended questions.

Answers are available online as an instructor resource. Bring it Home boxes in every module provides students with ways they can make a difference: individually, as a group, and by influencing policy.

Global Case Studies highlight related stories around the world, because events are more compelling when they happen in your own backyard. New to This Edition. Digital Options.