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For courses in Earth Science. The brief, paperback version of the best-selling Earth Science, 9/E, this text offers a user-friendly overview of the physical environment. It retains the hallmarks professors expect from Fred Lutgens and Ed Tarbuck - a student-friendly writing style, carefully crafted art program, and coverage of the most recent current events. For the first time, each copy of the text comes packaged with the GEODE II student CD-ROM. Many enhancements have been made to the instructional package. Carefully crafted art program. Art program - Includes Dennis Tasa illustrations and hundreds of high quality photographs, makes difficult concepts less abstract for students through carefully planned and executed artwork. Coverage of current events, Up-to-date coverage of many current issues in Earth science - From coastal hazards and earthquakes to global warming and ozone depletion, providing students with recent examples to which they can relate. Emphasis on basic Earth science principles, provides students with a strong sense of the reasoning processes of science. Student-friendly writing style. Readable discussions - Uses a minimum of technical language. Presents Earth science concepts clearly, enabling students to easily comprehend material and maintain interest. Comprehensive organization - Seven self-contained units. Gives instructors flexibility in structuring their course. Focus on learning. Chapter-opening objectives, alerts students to important ideas so they can organize their chapter goals and studies. Chapter-end summary, provides students with a recap of all the major points. Chapter-end review questions and 20-item test, this built-in study guide helps students examine their knowledge of significant facts and ideas from the chapter. Key terms with page references, encourages students to check their understanding of unfamiliar language related to various topics - in context. MEDIA Bring Earth science to life in and out of the classroom with a ground breaking media package including GEODE II (for the first time included with every copy of the text), Companion Website, the Digital Image Gallery for Interactive Teaching (DIGIT), and numerous course management options. GEODE II CD-ROM -  Created by renowned illustrator and CD-ROM developer Dennis Tasa in collaboration with Edward Tarbuck and Frederick Lutgens, this dual-platform CD-ROM provides a highly interactive learning experience for beginning Earth Science students. Provides exercises and activities that increase students understanding of Earth science facts and concepts and enables students to examine and review important concepts. Excellent animations, illustrations, and photographs accompany explanations to make this an especially effective learning tool. GEODE II is packaged, in a special two-for-the-price-of-one offering, with every copy of the text. The authors have placed CD icons throughout the book (in the table of contents, and beside the major headings within the text), to indicate where there is corresponding tutorial material. Multiple choice questions give students extra practice on key concepts and provide immediate feedback/results on their performance. Annotated Web destinations enable students to explore beyond the pages of the text to see the geosciences in action. NEW - Digital Image Gallery for Interactive Teaching CD-ROM (DIGIT) - Provides high-quality electronic versions of photos and illustrations from the book as well as additional photographs - for easy import into lecture presentation software, such as PowerPoint or Astound. Also includes all of the illustrations and a selection of photos from the text in 32-bit, low compression JPEG files. To further guarantee classroom projection quality, all images are manually adjusted for color, brightness, and contrast. The images are organized by chapter for easy reference. Professors can utilize Prentice Halls content - including test questions, Web links, and practice problems - with any of the above course management systems to design their own online course components. Even instructors with little or no technical experience can use a point-and-click navigation system to set up course calendars, quizzes, lectures, and self-paced study help. Instructors can go to www.prenhall.com/demo to find out which course management system would be most beneficial.

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