Well-known geologist Nick Norman leads young readers into the absorbing world of geology. Budding rock collectors will find out all about the rocks that they’ll encounter in southern Africa, with a view to building their own rock collections. Box of Rocks is packed with fascinating information about: how rocks form, how to identify the different rock types, what rocks are made of, what different rocks are used for, and where to go to collect each rock type. Readers will also learn about St...

Geology off the beaten track follows on the success of author Nick Norman’s earlier Geological Journeys(co-authored with Gavin Whitfi eld), which has sold more than 20 000 copies in the last 6 years.This new book helps readers understand and interpret the geology along SA’s regional and other less-travelled roads.● It features 13 detailed routes across the country, taking in geologically interesting areas such as the Richtersveld,Cape winelands and the Valle...

Geological Journeys: a traveller’s guide to South Africa’s rocks and landforms is an essential companion for car journeys. How often have we wondered about the jaunty tilt of a mountain ahead, the unusual patterns of a road cutting, the colour and texture of the roadside soil, or the purpose of a distant minehead? This handy volume offers answers and explanations about features along all the major routes across South Africa, and some of the lesser, but geologically interesting, routes too....

A Seismic Event.A Choice. Your True NorthWe stand at a philosophical fork in the road. The arrival of AI is not an incremental update; it is a seismic event that forces every leader to answer a fundamental question: What is the purpose of education?.Drawing on John Dewey's experiential wisdom, Margaret Chadwick famously stated, "Pioneering must be present in every school that is striving to meet the changing conditions of life".This playboo...

His return shattered her carefully built world.Sabrina Pembroke has spent eight years rebuilding her life after Bryce Harrington's sudden disappearance and the humiliating annulment of their secret marriage. Now a devoted single mother, she's focused on protecting her son, Darren, from heartbreak. But when Bryce returns to Freedom Ridge as her new boss, the undeniable spark between them threatens to reignite old flames and expose a truth that could change ...

He's a wounded hero, she's the chef who brings him back to life.Former Army Ranger Dan Winchester is a man haunted by his past. The weight of command, the loss of his men, and a painful betrayal by his ex-fiancée, Ivy, have left him with scars that run deeper than the battlefield. He's returned to Freedom Ridge, a place that once offered solace, but now feels as empty. He’s convinced himself that professional distance is the only way to protect his heart, ...

The Robert Traver Fly-Fishing Writing Award has been the most widely recognized international award for fly fishing stories in the English language for thirty years. The annual Traver Award is jointly administered by the John D. Voelker Foundation of Marquette, Michigan and the American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester, Vermont. As an anthology of twenty honored stories from 2008 to 2025, this volume includes many of the best voices in fly fishing over the past twenty years. Foreword is...

Dashing tales of heroics and everyday life abound in the second System Apocalypse short story anthology. Competing alien and human settlements clash, and a simple party planner is caught between in After Party. A New York trashman and his friend fight off loan sharks and exploit the System for gain, finding treasure among others garbage in Completely Trashed and a prisoner must decide between his humanity and humanity itself in WWMRD?With over ten stories from exciting new...

An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth and our civilisation if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of ‘High Tide’.Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average temperatures are three degrees higher than they are now. On the edge of Greenland, rivers ten times the size of the Amazon are gushing off the ice sheet into the north Atlantic. Displaced victims of North Africa's drought establish a new colony o...

This ebook edition does not include illustrations.An awe-inspiring journey through the eons and across the globe, in search of visible traces of evolution in the living creatures which have survived from earlier times and whose stories speak to us of seminal events in the history of life.The history of life on Earth is far older – and far odder – than many of us realise. In ‘Survivors’, acclaimed author Richard Fortey traces this history not through fossil records, but in t...

This book is a geological history of Britain from over 2,000 million years ago to the present day and describes the enourmous variety of rocks, minerals and fossils that form this fascinating island.

Human activity has irreversibly changed the natural environment. But the news isn't all bad.It's accepted wisdom today that human beings have permanently damaged the natural world, causing extinction, deforestation, pollution, and of course climate change. But in Inheritors of the Earth, biologist Chris Thomas shows that this obscures a more hopeful truth -- we're also helping nature grow and change. Human cities and mass agriculture have created new place...