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Fire in America
A Cultural History of Wildland and Rural Fire
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.
Catastrophic Gumbo
Part Two: the International Series
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2011
From avalanches to volcanoes, and from the Gulf Oil Spill to bridge collapses, author Alvin JacQues explores the fascinating world of disastersboth manmade and natural. Inspired by his survival of Hurricane Katrina, chronicled in his first book Catastrophic Gumbo, JacQues delivers a compilation of...
by Jeremy Purseglove
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
‘Exquisitely written’ Sunday Times Beautifully written and magnificently illustrated with photographs, line drawings and maps, this book serves both as a celebration of the richness of the British countryside, and as a warning of the legacy of loss and destruction we could so easily leave to future...
Are We Digging Our Ecological Crypt?
. . . And Gulliver Returns, #2
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2014
This is a discussion of some of the issues related to climate change such as greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, water vapor and how they are heating the Earth and particularly the oceans—and the dire consequences we can expect..
by Kenneth Libbrecht
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
A cute giftbook packed with glorious color microphotography of real snow crystals by Dr. Snow—Caltech physicist Kenneth Libbrecht. His photos of snowflakes have appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times, and on Martha Stewart’s TV show, as well as numerous other places. This thick “cube”...
by David K Langford, Rick Bass, Myrna Langford
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2015
While fog does not come easily or frequently to Central Texas, when it does, it inspires moments of quiet and reflection. David K. Langford captures those moments here in stirring images of the comings and goings of fog on Hillingdon Ranch, family land that has benefited from the stewardship of six...
Her Ladyship's Guide to the British Season
The essential practical and etiquette guide
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2016
Great Britain has a long tradition of spectacular seasonal events, parties, pomp and ceremony. But times have moved on since the days of formal manners and dress codes and with many exclusive events now accessible to everyone, it can be tricky to know where to go, what to wear and how to act. Luckily,...
De tuin
Ontdek de verborgen boodschappen van wind, wolken, planten en dieren
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 12, 2019
Hoor, zie en sta versteld! Ontdekkingstochten door de natuur beginnen in je eigen tuin, zo stelt Peter Wohlleben in dit fascinerende boek. Boven en onder de grond vinden duizenden kleine en grote fenomenen plaats, die vaak fascinerend en mooi zijn – als je weet waar je naar moet kijken.
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by Kevin Ambrose
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2013
On the evening of January 28, 1922, several hundred people fought their way through the greatest snowstorm in Washington's history to see a show at the Knickerbocker Theater, the city's largest and most modern moving picture theater of the time. Unbeknownst to the theater patrons, the Knickerbocker Theater's...
Global Climate Change
Turning Knowledge Into Action
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
The science of climate change is a complex subject that balances the physical record and scientific fact with politics, policy, and ethics - and is of particular importance to the geosciences. This thoughtfully crafted new text and accompanying media encourage non-science majors to practice critical...
Il primo inverno
La piccola era glaciale e l’inizio della modernità europea (1570-1700)
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Quella che è stata definita la «piccola era glaciale», tra il 1570 e il 1700, vide le temperature abbassarsi con variazioni da tre a cinque gradi, dando avvio a una vera e propria «rivolta della natura» che sortì effetti devastanti sui raccolti. Philipp Blom dimostra la sorprendente correlazione...
Fraser's Penguins
A Journey to the Future in Antarctica
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2010
A dramatic chronicle of Antarctica's penguins that bears witness to climate changes that foreshadow our own future
The towering mountains and iceberg-filled seas of the western Antarctic Peninsula have for three decades formed the backdrop of scientist Bill Fraser's study of Adélie penguins....
by Dana Andrew Nuccitelli
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Although some politicians, pundits, and members of the public do not believe it, global warming predictions by mainstream climate scientists have been remarkably accurate while those made by climate deniers have not. And if mainstream global warming predictions continue to prove correct, the window...