Robert Dean Hazen

Gen-e-sis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origins

The Poetry of Geology

The Breakthrough: The Race for the Superconductor

Science Matters

Why Aren't Black Holes Black?: The Unanswered Questions at the Frontiers of Science

The Diamond Makers

Wealth Inexhaustible: A History of America's Mineral Industries to 1850

The Sciences: An Integrated Approach

Robert Hazen

Robert Hazen is a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Washington's Geophysical Laboratory and Clarence Robinson Professor of Earth Science at...

The Origin and Evolution of Earth: From the Big Bang to the Future of Human Existence

This course chronicles the history of Earth and life on Earth from the point of view of the minerals that made it all happen. A major theme is how minerals and life coevolved, leading to the unprecedented mineral diversity on our world compared to the other planets in the solar system. Professor Haz...

The Sciences, Binder Ready Version: An Integrated Approach

This text is an unbound, three hole punched version.The Sciences: An Integrated Approach, Binder Ready Version, 8th Edition by James Trefil and Robert Hazen uses an approach that recognizes that science forms a seamless web of knowledge about the universe. This text fully integrates physics, chemist...

The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years, from Stardust to Living Planet

Hailed by The New York Times for writing “with wonderful clarity about science . . . that effortlessly teaches as it zips along,” nationally bestselling author Robert M. Hazen offers a radical new approach to Earth history in this intertwined tale of the planet’s living and nonliving spheres. With a...

Physics Matters: An Introduction to Conceptual Physics

From amusement park rides to critical environmental issues such as energy generation-physics affects almost every aspect of our world. In PHYSICS MATTERS, James Trefil and Robert Hazen examine the fundamental physics principles at work behind the many practical applications that fuel our society and...

Genesis: The Scientific Quest for Life's Origin

Life on Earth arose nearly 4 billion years ago, bursting forth from air, water, and rock. Though the process obeyed all the rules of chemistry and physics, the details of that original event pose as deep a mystery as any facing science. How did non-living chemicals become alive? While the question i...

The Sciences: An Integrated Approach

A solid text with all the key coverage needed, The Sciences: An Integrated Approach, 7th Edition focuses on updated information on the science, examples and integration. The new issue includes additional virtual labs, updated end-of-chapter activities, extensively revised biology coverage and online...

The Sciences: An Integrated Approach

Over 100,000 readers have relied on Trefil to gain a better understanding of physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth sciences, and biology. The book focuses on the great ideas in each field while showing readers how core scientific principles connect to their daily lives. The sixth edition emphasizes i...

Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy

Knowledge of the basic ideas and principles of science is fundamental to cultural literacy. But most books on science are often too obscure or too specialized to do the general reader much good.Science Matters is a rare exception-a science book for the general reader that is informative enough to be...