Ice Age Earth

The Little Ice Age tells the story of the turbulent, unpredictable, and often very cold years of modern European history, how climate altered historical events, and what they mean in the context of today’s global warming.

The early history of Earth covers such vast stretches of time that years, centuries, and even millennia become virtually meaningless. Instead, paleontologists and scientists who study geochronology divide time into periods and eras. What humans commonly refer to as the “Ice Age” is actually a series of fluctuating climate events that have occurred throughout the planet’s history. These ongoing historical phenomena are difficult to conceptualize because of both the time frame involved and the natural process by which they cyclically unfold.

JOIN THE CORPS AND EXPLORE NEW PLANETS. EXPERIENCE ADVENTURE IN FARAWAY LANDS The Corps of Discovery goes where most men fear to tread - unexplored alternate Earths! Bill Clark thought he had joined the Corps to explore new planets, only to find out there was a lot more to it than that. His new home is far freer than the one he left, but also more dangerous. Bill begins to wonder if he'll be able to survive on these new worlds. It’s not just the Pleistocene predators he has to avoid, but somebody is actively trying to kill him and the woman he loves. Is his life really worth joining the ...

The Pleistocene is the epoch of geologic time closest to our own. It’s a time of ice ages, global migrations, and mass extinctions - of woolly rhinos, mammoths, giant ground sloths, and not least early species of Homo. It’s the world that created ours. But outside that environmental story there exists a parallel narrative that describes how our ideas about the Pleistocene have emerged.

Earth (Ship book four) is two stories occurring in the same place but at different points in time. The first timeline starts seven years after a man-made plague appears to kill everyone on Earth. Six Technical Force survivors struggle to discover what happened to all the people and defend themselves against Ice Age animals and an unknown human enemy that also survived. They establish a new home in Oregon where generations of children spread their exploration throughout the mainland U.S. The second timeline concerns the events following Jake McDonald’s return to Earth more than a hundred ...

Published to coincide with the centenary of the first expeditions to reach the South Pole, An Empire of Ice presents a fascinating new take on Antarctic exploration. Retold with added information, it's the first book to place the famed voyages of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen, his British rivals Robert Scott and Ernest Shackleton, and others in a larger scientific, social, and geopolitical context.

Lions and saber-tooth tigers and cave bears. Oh my! Bill Clark realizes he’s not on Earth anymore when his plane crash lands 10,000 miles from help on an unexplored, uninhabited planet. Uninhabited by homo sapiens, that is. It seems most of the inhabitants are hungry predators straight out of the Ice Age. With no hope of rescue, Bill and his fellow survivors have to rely on all their training, skills, and quick reactions to stay alive. And that's just the first week! Experience this hero's journey now by reading the latest installment in the Corps of Discovery Series. Goodreads Review: ...

The penultimate novel in the Great Blue Above series follows the fiery ending of the Tunnel War. Survivors of the great battle deal with the eruptive fate of the City Below, and those living Above realize there's only one place to go to continue humankind: The Mountain, where descendants of One, Corp.'s founders have tortured and tested their remaining humans while vehemently defending their facility from the threat of outsiders. . .

The rise of human civilization and all of recorded history occurred in this warm period, known as the Holocene. Until very recently, we had no detailed record of climate changes during the Holocene. Now we do. In this engrossing and captivating look at the human effects of climate variability, Brian Fagan shows how climate functioned as what the historian Paul Kennedy described as one of the “deeper transformations” of history—a more important historical factor than we understand.

The fourth novel in the Great Blue Above series tells the prequel story of the Jonas founders, how the City Below came into existence and what happened to the world to plunge it into snowy whiteness. Many of your questions about the past will be answered and its shocking conclusion will not only change the way you've seen the characters since the first book, it will alter the futures of every main character from the City Below.

In Once and Future Giants, science writer Sharon Levy digs through the evidence surrounding Pleistocene large animal ("megafauna") extinction events worldwide, showing that understanding this history - and our part in it - is crucial for protecting the elephants, polar bears, and other great creatures at risk today. These surviving relatives of the Ice Age beasts now face an intensified replay of that great die-off, as our species usurps the planet's last wild places while driving a warming trend more extreme than any in mammalian history.

As recently as 11,000 years ago - "near time" to geologists - mammoths, mastodons, gomphotheres, ground sloths, giant armadillos, native camels and horses, the dire wolf, and many other large mammals roamed North America. In what has become one of science's greatest riddles, these large animals vanished in North and South America around the time humans arrived at the end of the last great ice age.

The third novel in the Great Blue Above series follows the events of The City Below and The Dome of Life. The Battle Above follows the aftermath a bloody change in leadership within the Dome. As Chad learns more of the city's history and the history of the world, his vehicle continues across the White Nothingness with Sally's journey beside an unexpected friend. . . or foe? Nobody is safe from the wrath of Prince Oliver, who will do anything to retrieve Paige from Above while also proving himself worthy to be the Jonas Heir. And while the City Below's final survivors fight for their way of ...

The fifth novel in the Great Blue Above series follows the surprising ending of the prequel, Before the Nothingness. In The Tunnel War, the Jonas family marches toward a final conclusion to their struggle for power. King Edmond and Prince Oliver must decide if they will work together as father and son, or work against each other as enemies. A shocking conclusion ensures that the City Below and those living in it will never be the same again.

THE FINAL CHAPTER IN THE GREAT BLUE ABOVE SAGA. . . Following the explosive battle versus the Board inside The Mountain, the survivors (citizens of the City Below, Tunnelers, the Swarm, Mountain host mothers, Mountain guards) band together with the help of a famous person from the past. Not only must they wrest control of The Mountain from their most dangerous enemy, they must also plan the best way to continue humankind. With a centuries-long plan unknowingly initiated, will Emma, Chad, Artie and Olly survive long enough to fulfill their childhood dreams of starting a new beginning in a ...