Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
by Seymour Simon
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2012
Imagine exploring the most extreme parts of our amazing planet—trekking though the driest desert, climbing the snowiest mountaintops, and diving to the deepest regions of the ocean floor. Seymour Simon, the dean of children's science nonfiction, investigates Earth's biggest, smallest, deepest, and...
by Molly Bang, Penny Chisholm
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
With stunning artwork and compelling scientific explanation, Bang and Chisholm have brought forth a masterpiece that is critically relevant in this environmentally tumultuous time. How does the sun keep ocean currents moving and lift fresh water from the seas? What can we do to conserve one of our...
Is the Earth Flat or Round?
Christian Journeys, #6
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2018
Is the planet Earth flat, as some people say, or is it round, as most people believe?
Is there scientific evidence either way?
What does the Bible have to say about the Earth?
Earth
An Intimate History
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
In Earth, the acclaimed author of Trilobite! and Life takes us on a grand tour of the earth’s physical past, showing how the history of plate tectonics is etched in the landscape around us.
Beginning with Mt. Vesuvius, whose eruption in Roman times helped spark the science of geology,...
by Jan Zalasiewicz
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Rocks, more than anything else, underpin our lives. They make up the solid structure of the Earth and of other rocky planets, and are present at the cores of gas giant planets. We live on the rocky surface of the planet, grow our food on weathered debris derived from rocks, and we obtain nearly all...
Earth Democracy
Justice, Sustainability, and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
World-renowned environmental activist and physicist Vandana Shiva calls for a radical shift in the values that govern democracies, condemning the role that unrestricted capitalism has played in the destruction of environments and livelihoods. She explores the issues she helped bring to international...
by Muhammad Iqbal
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
An Introduction to Solar Radiation is an introductory text on solar radiation, with emphasis on the methods of calculation for determining the amount of solar radiation incident on a surface on the earth. Topics covered include the astronomical relationship between the sun and the earth; thermal radiation;...
How to Cool the Planet
Geoengineering and the Audacious Quest to Fix Earth's Climate
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2010
“Thoughtful, informative, and darkly entertaining. It’s the best treatment of this important (and scary) topic you can find.” —Elizabeth Kolbert
Right now, a group of scientists is working on ways to minimize the catastrophic impact of global warming. But they’re not designing hybrids...
Earth Odyssey
Around the World in Search of Our Environmental Future
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Like many of us, Mark Hertsgaard has long worried about the declining health of our environment. But in 1991, he decided to act on his concern and investigate the escalating crisis for himself. Traveling on his own dime, he embarked on an odyssey lasting most of the decade and spanning nineteen countries....
Air Con
The Seriously Inconvenient Truth About Global Warming: Climategate Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2013
For the past twenty five years, climate change has dominated the news agenda and the political sector. As the media whip up a frenzy of public concern, politicians use that concern as a cover to seize more taxes, more power and much more control of the daily lives of the public.
But what...
ACT Test Prep Earth Science Review--Exambusters Flash Cards--Workbook 10 of 13
ACT Exam Study Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
"ACT Prep Flashcard Workbook 10: EARTH SCIENCE-GEOLOGY" 600 questions. Topics: Earth's Origin, Minerals, Rocks, Weathering, Wind and Glaciers, Oceans, Maps, Atmosphere, Astronomy [==================] ADDITIONAL WORKBOOKS: "ACT Prep Flashcard Workbook 3: VOCABULARY-Advanced" 350...
Earth System Modelling - Volume 4
IO and Postprocessing
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 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 issue of data input/output and post-processing in the context...
by Catherine Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Teeter on the edge of outer space with the Stickmen. Then fly down, down, down to atmospheric layers that wrap around Earth. Follow the Stickmen to view the galaxies through the Hubble Space Telescope and stop by the International Space Station. The Stickmen will take you on a tour of satellites in...
The Unnatural World
The Race to Remake Civilization in Earth's Newest Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
A brilliant young environmental journalist argues that we must innovate and adapt to save planet Earth in this enlightening “trip around the world to meet people working out new ways for humanity to live as well as survive” (The New York Times Book Review).
With the historical perspective...