Just an ordinary day before Christmas vacation turns out to be nightmares in the coming weeks. Nature has gone wild and it gets serious worldwide.

Responding to a plethora of media representing end times, this anthology of essays examines pop culture's fascination with end of the world or apocalyptic narra

Explains what rocks, minerals, and gemstones are found on the earth and how they are used by people.

Modern science can speak with authority regarding only a tiniest fraction of the earth's interior. We have, quite literally, scratched just the surface of our p

A “poignant [and] powerful” novel about a 1920s Midwestern community in the aftermath of a devastating tornado (The New Yorker). In March 1925, the worst to