Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions
Bridging the Gap Between Physical and Social Sciences
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
International voices fill the pages of Water and Sustainability in Arid Regions, forming an original scientific exploration of current water research and management issues.
In arid regions, agriculture that is ill-adapted to the environment, accelerated urbanization, poverty, and increasing...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Did you know that desserts, though barren, are abuzz with life? Learn all about the beautiful creatures that thrive in the harsh conditions of the desert. This educational resource is complete with pictures for a full learning experience. Learn about the desserts today, and the rest of the world tomorrow. Secure a copy of this book now!
Life
A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2011
By one of Britain's most gifted scientists: a magnificently daring and compulsively readable account of life on Earth (from the "big bang" to the advent of man), based entirely on the most original of all sources--the evidence of fossils.
With excitement and driving intelligence, Richard...
Horseshoe Crabs and Velvet Worms
The Story of the Animals and Plants That Time Has Left Behind
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
From one of the world’s leading natural scientists and the acclaimed author of Trilobite!, Life: A Natural History of Four Billion Years of Life on Earth and Dry Storeroom No. 1 comes a fascinating chronicle of life’s history told not through the fossil record but through the stories of organisms...
by Ruggero Bertani
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
The potential for energy transformation from geothermal heat is limitless. For millennia natural sources of this energy, in the form of thermal springs, have been used by populations for heating, cooking and bathing. Modern-day usage has been extended to electricity generation from binary cycle power...
North Pole, South Pole
The Epic Quest to Solve the Great Mystery of Earth's Magnetism
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
This “fantastic story” of one of physics’ great riddles takes us through centuries of scientific history (Simon Lamb, author of Devil in the Mountain).
Why do compass needles point north—but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world’s oceans?...
The Worst of Times
How Life on Earth Survived Eighty Million Years of Extinctions
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Two hundred sixty million years ago, life on Earth suffered wave after wave of cataclysmic extinctions, with the worst wiping out nearly every species on the planet. The Worst of Times delves into the mystery behind these extinctions and sheds light on the fateful role the primeval supercontinent,...
Anthropocene Reading
Literary History in Geologic Times
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2017
Few terms have garnered more attention recently in the sciences, humanities, and public sphere than the Anthropocene, the proposed epoch in which a human “signature” appears in the lithostratigraphic record. Anthropocene Reading considers the implications of this concept for literary history and...
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
Did you think the mountain you see in the horizon is already high? Wait until you see the highest mountains in the world! In this book, we're going to climb the highest mountains and learn interesting facts about them. Know the world and gain knowledge that will make you curious and hungry for more! Grab a copy of this book today!
by Baby Professor
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2017
For children, all big mounds of land with trees or grass are mountains. Hills may not be as popularly used. It’s time to create a black and white description of hills and mountains so that children can properly identify them. Such basic knowledge can be used later on for more complex lessons on geology. So what are you waiting for? Grab a copy today!
Geophysics, Realism, and Industry
How Commercial Interests Shaped Geophysical Conceptions, 1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Did industry and commerce affect the concepts, values and epistemic foundations of different sciences? If so, how and to what extent? This book suggests that the most significant influence of industry on science in the two case studies treated here had to do with the issue of realism. Using wave propagation...
Mine Wastes
Characterization, Treatment and Environmental Impacts
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2010
This book is not designed to be an exhaustive work on mine wastes. It aims to serve undergraduate students who wish to gain an overview and an understanding of wastes produced in the mineral industry. An introductory textbook addressing the science of such wastes is not available to students despite...
Oxygen
A Four Billion Year History
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2014
The air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield—one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth history, and...
by William Buckland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004
Moving away from his earlier belief in a short, catastrophic history of the Earth, this volume shows how Buckland envisages instead progressive change as the Earth gradually cooled as it was prepared for human occupation. Extinct creatures did not die out because they were poorly designed; God loved the dinosaurs and had adapted them to their various circumstances.