Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
A Crack in the Edge of the World
America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2013
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative informative look...
Antarctica
An Intimate Portrait of a Mysterious Continent
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
Antarctica is the most alien place on the planet, the only part of the earth where humans could never survive unaided. Out of our fascination with it have come many books, most of which focus on only one aspect of its unique strangeness. None has managed to capture the whole story—until now.
Drawing...
Uranium
War, Energy, and the Rock That Shaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2009
The fascinating story of the most powerful source of energy the earth can yield
Uranium is a common element in the earth's crust and the only naturally occurring mineral with the power to end all life on the planet. After World War II, it reshaped the global order-whoever could master uranium...
by Rajdip Biswas
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2011
The science that I know is very simple and straight. Just like an apple falling from a tree led to the discovery of a force called Gravity. The concept that I want to place in front of you, has emerged from a very simple thought.
A plethora of scientific discoveries and theories facilitated my approach...
Fixing Climate
What Past Climate Changes Reveal About the Current Threat--and How to Counter It
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Dealing with the Root Cause of Global Warming Calls for New Remedies, Says Expert
The product of a unique collaboration between a pioneering earth scientist and an award winning science writer, Fixing Climate takes an unconventional approach to the vitally important issue of global warming....
by Risteárd Mulcahy
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Now that he has reached his tenth decade, Risteárd Mulcahy is issuing his twelfth and last book. He has always been interested in the relationship between population and the planet and is deeply concerned about the future of mankind as it ignores the wellbeing of our planet home. As in previous publications,...
by James Frank Loretta
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2009
Our thoughts interacting with the subatomic particle field is what makes feng shui work. It is shown as an ancient earth science that really can improve our surroundings and health by influencing the energy systems of our bodies and the Earth. White Tiger and Blue Dragon are discussed as well as other...
by Steven McFadden
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2019
Agroecology is an ecological approach to growing food and fiber that views farms and orchards as ecosystems. Internationally, agroecology is increasingly recognized as an approach capable of meeting productivity goals while replenishing the soil, sequestering climate destabilizing CO2, and striving...
Reading the Rocks
How Victorian Geologists Discovered the Secret of Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A rich and exuberant group biography of the early geologists, the people who were first to excavate from the layers of the world its buried history.
The birth of geology was fostered initially by gentlemen whose wealth supported their interests, but in the nineteenth century, it was advanced...
by David Rothery
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2015
Written by David Rothery, who is Professor of Planetary Geosciences at the Open University, Geology: A Complete Introduction is designed to give you everything you need to succeed, all in one place. It covers the key areas that students are expected to be confident in, outlining the basics in clear...
by Kenneth Lacovara
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
What can long-dead dinosaurs teach us about our future? Plenty, according to paleontologist Kenneth Lacovara, who has discovered some of the largest creatures to ever walk the Earth.
By tapping into the ubiquitous wonder that dinosaurs inspire, Lacovara weaves together the stories of our geological...
by Agust Gudmundsson
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Rock fractures control many of Earth's dynamic processes, including plate-boundary development, tectonic earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and fluid transport in the crust. An understanding of rock fractures is also essential for effective exploitation of natural resources such as ground water, geothermal...
by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010
In two earlier books, Hubbert's Peak (2001) and Beyond Oil (2005), the geologist Kenneth S. Deffeyes laid out his rationale for concluding that world oil production would continue to follow a bell-shaped curve, with the smoothed-out peak somewhere in the middle of the first decade of this millennium—in...
North Pole, South Pole
The Quest to Understand Earth's Magnetism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Going all the way back to the Roman legend of a shepherd whose iron-studded boots stuck to the rocks, this book charts the history of the earth's magnetism, which intrigued and stumped scientists and ordinary people for centuries. Absorbing and accessible, it is a lively study of what exactly magnetic...