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by Rob Wesson
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
An acclaimed geologist leads the reader on an adventure through the landscape that absorbed and inspired Charles Darwin.
Everybody knows—or thinks they know—Charles Darwin, the father of evolution and the man who altered the way we view our place in the world. But what most people do not...
Flat Earth
The One
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2017
Would you like to learn the truth about Earth, about its shape, nature, meaning, and characteristics? Then get ready to embark in the study of one of the most restricted and controversial topics, the Flat Earth Theory. ...Yes, the Flat Earth is back and it has always been around since it has always...
by Michael J. Benton
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2008
There are few stories more remarkable than the evolution of life on earth. This Very Short Introduction presents a succinct guide to the key episodes in that story - from the very origins of life four million years ago to the extraordinary diversity of species around the globe today. Beginning with...
The Gaia Hypothesis
Science on a Pagan Planet
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2013
In 1965 English scientist James Lovelock had a flash of insight: the Earth is not just teeming with life; the Earth, in some sense, is life. He mulled this revolutionary idea over for several years, first with his close friend the novelist William Golding, and then in an extensive collaboration with...
The Long Thaw
How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth’s Climate
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
The human impact on Earth's climate is often treated as a hundred-year issue lasting as far into the future as 2100, the year in which most climate projections cease. In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world’s leading climatologists, reveals the hard truth that these changes in climate will...
by Elliott Maynard
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2012
The Twelve MetaStrategies are essentially a Set of inspirational tools for Creative Thinking and Action, designed to promote an Environmentally Sustainable Future for the universal benefit of Humans, their Planetary Homeworld, and the Generations yet to come.
Despite the bad news regarding...
Building Bridges at the Science-Stakeholder Interface
Towards Knowledge Exchange in Earth System Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2018
This book covers the approaches, applied methods and central participatory processes at the science-stakeholder interfaces embedded in the development of the "Earth System Knowledge Platform (ESKP)". The latter is an initiative of the German Helmholtz Association, synthesizing the...
by V.P. Singh
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Since the pioneering work of Shannon in the late 1940's on the development of the theory of entropy and the landmark contributions of Jaynes a decade later leading to the development of the principle of maximum entropy (POME), the concept of entropy has been increasingly applied in a wide spectrum...
Sedimentary Basins
Evolution, Facies, and Sediment Budget
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The modern geological sciences are characterized by extraordinarily rapid progress, as well as by the development and application of numerous new and refined methods,most of them handling an enormous amount of data available from all the continents and oceans. Given this state of affairs, it seams...
The Global Water System in the Anthropocene
Challenges for Science and Governance
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2014
The Global Water System in the Anthropocene provides the platform to present global and regional perspectives of world-wide experiences on the responses of water management to global change in order to address issues such as variability in supply, increasing demands for water, environmental flows...
Ice
The Nature, the History, and the Uses of an Astonishing Substance
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2011
Like the adventurer who circled an iceberg to see it on all sides, Mariana Gosnell, former Newsweek reporter and author of Zero Three Bravo, a book about flying a small plane around the United States, explores ice in all its complexity, grandeur, and significance.More brittle than glass, at times...
Deep Future
The Next 100,000 Years of Life on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction of 2011 title
A bold, far-reaching look at how our actions will decide the planet's future for millennia to come.
Imagine a planet where North American and Eurasian navies are squaring off over shipping lanes through an acidified, ice-free Arctic. Centuries...
Deep Life
The Hunt for the Hidden Biology of Earth, Mars, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
Deep Life takes readers to uncharted regions deep beneath Earth's crust in search of life in extreme environments and reveals how astonishing new discoveries by geomicrobiologists are helping the quest to find life in the solar system.
Tullis Onstott, named one of the 100 most influential people...
Climate Change
Observed impacts on Planet Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
The climate of the Earth is always changing. As the debate over the implications of changes in the Earth's climate has grown, the term climate change has come to refer primarily to changes we've seen over recent years and those which are predicted to be coming, mainly as a result of human behavior....