Streamlined Presentation. The new edition is approximately 15% shorter than the original, with the author carefully removing unnecessary or redundant coverage and moving the chapter on Earth’s Climate System Today to the book’s companion Web site.
Up-to-Date Coverage. The new edition examines the evidence behind the fundamental shift toward belief that human activity is a significant contributing factor to climate change. It also gauges the impact of increased concentrations of greenhouse gases in the past few years, including the melting of sea ice and glaciers.
New “In Summary” Statements. These statements appear at the conclusion of each major section, to re-emphasize the essential points that have just been covered.
Reorganized Part V, Historical and Future Climate Change. This part, now divided into five chapters, now more clearly follows time’s arrow for older to younger time scales. Included is coverage of extensive new research on climate changes spanning the last few centuries and millennia.
An enhanced Web site at
www.whfreeman.com/ruddiman2e. The site features all art and photos in electronic format; teaching tips from Bill Ruddiman; Chapter 2 from the First Edition, "Earth's Climate System today," for reference.
Test Bank CD, Kristen St. John, James Madison University (Windows and Mac on one disc) The test bank offers hundreds of questions. The CD format makes it easy to add, edit, and resequence questions as well as create and manage assignments over the Internet or a network.