TEXTBOOKS

"The World's Greatest Geologic Wonders"

This Teaching Company course, "The World's Greatest Geologic Wonders: 36 Spectacular Sites," consists of 36 half-hour lectures that describe more than 200 of the world's most spectacular geologic wonders, providing geologic information about their formation and evolution.Each lecture has a main focus, but a "Top 5" list shows the remarkable diversity of geology around the globe. For more information on the course at The Teaching Company's web site, go to: Geologic Wonders.

"How The Earth Works"

This Teaching Company course, "How the Earth Works," consists of 48 half-hour lectures that describe the fundamental processes that continually shape our planet. The course covers physical and historical geological, environmental geology, and many aspects of human sustainability. For more information on the course at The Teaching Company's web site, go to: How The Earth Works.

A description of the course can be found in a TeachCo promotional piece.

An overview of the course can be found in the course's Introduction. _____________________________________________________________

"Introduction to Seismology, Earthquakes, and Earth Structure,"
by Seth Stein and Michael Wysession

This textbook is aimed at an audience of beginning graduate students or advanced undergraduates. The text is designed as a teaching tool, with more than 1300 equations, 600 figures, and 180 homework problems (with solutions available to instructors). For more about this book, including digital versions of all of the figures and the homework solutions in pdf format, see the web site.

"Interactive Science,"
by Michael Padilla, Don Buckley, Zipporah Miller, Kathryn Thornton, and Michael Wysession

This is a K-8 national science textbook program that covers biology, chemistry, physics, and earth and space science in a modular and interactive manner. The program is innovative in its integration of content, interactivity, and web content. It is pubished by Pearson. For more information about this book, see Interactive Science.

"Physical Science: Concepts in Action,"
by Michael Wysession, David Frank, and Sophia Yancopoulis

This is a high school (9th grade) Physical Science book, including sections on chemistry, physics, and earth and space sciences, published by Prentice-Hall. For more about this book, see the web site.

Tarbuck and Lutgen's "Earth"
Book Editor: Michael Wysession

This is a high school (9th grade) Earth Science book, rewritten for high school based upon the college text by the same name, published by Prentice-Hall. I supervised the conversion, making sure the content was accurate and upto date. For more about this book, see the web site.

Science Explorer books "Inside Earth," "Earth's Changing Surface," "Earth's Waters"
Book Editor: Michael Wysession

These three books are part of the Prentice Hall Middle School "Science Explorer" series. I supervised thed the construction of the books, making sure content was accurate and up to date. For more about this book, see the web site.

"Exploring Our Evolving Planet: An Introduction to Geophysics" (IN PREPARATION)
By Seth Stein, Michael Wysession, and John DeLaughter

This book, in the process of being written, aims to provide sophomore-level students with an intuitive understanding of the physical processes that have shaped our planet. The book is designed to give students the foundations of geophysics, while also providing many lab-based activities for labs and demonstrations. ________________________________________________________________