Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
Origins
How Earth's History Shaped Human History
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
A New York Times-bestselling author explains how the physical world shaped the history of our species
When we talk about human history, we often focus on great leaders, population forces, and decisive wars. But how has the earth itself determined our destiny? Our planet wobbles, driving changes...
On Gaia
A Critical Investigation of the Relationship between Life and Earth
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
One of the enduring questions about our planet is how it has remained continuously habitable over vast stretches of geological time despite the fact that its atmosphere and climate are potentially unstable. James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis posits that life itself has intervened in the regulation of...
by Rod Martin, Jr
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Subtitle: How humans saved all life on Earth by burning fossil fuels
How could burning fossil fuels save all life on Earth? While the answer remains quite simple, so many who have been indoctrinated into the "climate change" way of thinking will need to unlearn a few things, first.
The...
Earth System Modelling - Volume 1
Recent Developments and Projects
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2013
Collected articles in this series are dedicated to the development and use of software for earth system modelling and aims at bridging the gap between IT solutions and climate science. The particular topic covered in this volume addresses the usefulness of coupling infrastructures and data management,...
Vanished Ocean
How Tethys Reshaped the World
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2010
This is a book about an ocean that vanished six million years ago - the ocean of Tethys. Named after a Greek sea nymph, there is a sense of mystery about such a vast, ancient ocean, of which all that remains now are a few little pools, like the Caspian Sea. There were other great oceans in the history...
Earth Materials 2nd Edition
Introduction to Mineralogy and Petrology
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2016
This concise, accessible, market-leading textbook brings together the wide-ranging fundamentals students need to understand rocks and minerals, and shows them how they relate to the broader Earth, materials and environmental sciences. Designed specifically for one-semester courses, it is beautifully...
Sciences of Geodesy - II
Innovations and Future Developments
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
This series of reference books describes the sciences of different fields in and around geodesy. Each chapter, is written by experts in the respective fields and covers an individual field and describes the history, theory, the objective, the technology, and the development, the highlight of the research,...
REFAG 2014
Proceedings of the IAG Commission 1 Symposium Kirchberg, Luxembourg, 13–17 October, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2017
This book series is composed of peer-reviewed proceedings of selected symposia organized by the International Association of Geodesy. It deals primarily with topics related to Geodesy as applied to the Earth Sciences : terrestrial reference frame, Earth gravity field, Geodynamics and Earth rotation, Positioning and engineering applications.
by Dr Andy Cundy, Andy Cundy, Steve Kershaw
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
This work provides a wide perspective of the oceans by examining their places in the earth sciences, drawing together all the key strands of ocean study and presenting a holistic view of ocean processes, ancient and modern.
Geoheritage and Geotourism
A European Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
Europe's engagement from the late sixteenth century onwards in scientific Earth science inquiry has generated numerous and varied collections of minerals, rocks, and fossils, together with their associated archives, artworks and publications, forming a rich cultural geoheritage held in major private...
by Archana Bhattacharyya
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2011
This book is a multi-author treatise on the most outstanding research problems in the field of the aeronomy of the Earth’s atmosphere and ionosphere, encompassing the science covered by Division II of the International Association of Geomagnetism and Aeronomy (IAGA). It contains several review articles...
by David Randall
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2015
This is a graduate-level textbook on the global circulation of the Earth's atmosphere—the large-scale system of winds by which energy is transported around the planet, from the tropical latitudes to the poles. Written by David Randall, one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject, it is...
by Shunlin Liang, Xin Li, Xianhong Xie
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
This book is unique in its ambitious and comprehensive coverage of earth system land surface characterization, from observation and modeling to data assimilation, including recent developments in theory and techniques, and novel application cases. The contributing authors are active research scientists,...
Geochemistry
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
Introducing the essentials of modern geochemistry for students across the Earth and environmental sciences, this new edition emphasises the general principles of this central discipline. Focusing on inorganic chemistry, Francis Albarède's refreshing approach is brought to topics that range from measuring...