Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
by Robin Gill
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Chemical principles are fundamental to the Earth sciences, and geoscience students increasingly require a firm grasp of basic chemistry to succeed in their studies. The enlarged third edition of this highly regarded textbook introduces the student to such ‘geo-relevant’ chemistry, presented in...
Engineering Geology and Geological Engineering for Sustainable Use of the Earth’s Resources, Urbanization and Infrastructure Protection from Geohazards
Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
The ongoing population growth is resulting in rapid urbanization, new infrastructure development and increasing demand for the Earth's natural resources (e.g., water, oil/gas, minerals). This, together with the current climate change and increasing impact of natural hazards, imply that the engineering...
by Pascal Richet
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
The quest to pinpoint the age of the Earth is nearly as old as humanity itself. For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide the answer, even though nature abounds with clues to the past of the Earth and the stars. In A Natural History of Time, geophysicist Pascal Richet tells...
First Life
Discovering the Connections between Stars, Cells, and How Life Began
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
This pathbreaking book explores how life can begin, taking us from cosmic clouds of stardust, to volcanoes on Earth, to the modern chemistry laboratory. Seeking to understand life’s connection to the stars, David Deamer introduces astrobiology, a new scientific discipline that studies the origin...
by Imke de Pater, Jack J. Lissauer
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
An authoritative introduction for graduate students in the physical sciences, this textbook explains the wide variety of physical, chemical, and geological processes that govern the motions and properties of planets. The second edition of this award-winning textbook has been substantially updated...
Evolution
An Evolving Theory
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Is evolution predictible? Taking into account the results of such diverse disciplines of natural sciences as e. g. genetics embryology, ecology, palaeontology on the threshold of the coming century, the authors stretch out their ideas for discussing this question. Charles Devillers, biologist, and...
Introduction to Geochemistry
Principles and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2012
This book is intended to serve as a text for an introductory course in geochemistry for undergraduate/graduate students with at least an elementary–level background in earth sciences, chemistry, and mathematics. The text, containing 83 tables and 181 figures, covers a wide variety of topics —...
Global Biodiversity in a Changing Environment
Scenarios for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The scientific community has voiced two general concerns about the future of the earth. Firstly, climatologists and oceanographers have focused on the changes in our physical environment, ie climate, oceans, and air. And secondly, environmental biologists have addressed issues of conservation and...
by Zhihua Zhang
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2017
This book offers comprehensive information on the theory, models and algorithms involved in state-of-the-art multivariate time series analysis and highlights several of the latest research advances in climate and environmental science. The main topics addressed include Multivariate Time-Frequency...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2006
Glaciers provide an unparalleled tool for studying global environmental change. This book is the first of its kind concentrating on the paleoenvironmental record archived in mid- and low-latitude glaciers. By concentrating mainly on the last 500 years of these records, we can now see that laws enacted...
Origins and Grand Finale
How the Bible and Science Relate to the Origin of Everything, Abuses of Political Authority, and End Times Predictions
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Origins and Grand Finale presents an in-depth study of how modern science and astronomy compare to the biblical narrative of the origin of the universe as well as the origin of life. Distinguishing between scientific facts and fairy-tales, as well as biblical facts and poetry, author Gary Haitel attempts...
Lakes of the World with Google Earth
Understanding our Environment
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Featuring satellite imagery from Google Earth, this guide provides a unique, highly visual tour of lakes across the globe, from the simple to the complex, the nearby to the remote. Clear text accompanies each image and identifies important aspects of each lake along with such information as its coordinates,...
by Dr Iain Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Man with hammer, rucksack and GSOH offers gritty adventure holidays. Looking for sun, sea, sand and - science.
Scheduled to tie in with a major new BBC series, Hot Rocks explores the Mediterranean - the cradle of western civilisation - and discovers alongside its tranquil, sun-lapped shores,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2016
What affects the oceans affects terra firma. Ocean Solutions, Earth Solutions gathers the insights of more than 50 ocean and coastal science researchers exploring ocean components and their relationships, patterns, and trends over time and space. The book's 16 chapters feature geographic information...