Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Jensen's furthest-reaching book yet, Dreams challenges the "destructive nihilism" of writers like Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris who believe that there is no reality outside what can be measured using the tools of science. He introduces the mythologies of ancient cultures and modern indigenous...
The World Is Blue
How Our Fate and the Ocean's Are One
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2009
A Silent Spring for our era, this eloquent, urgent, fascinating book reveals how just 50 years of swift and dangerous oceanic change threatens the very existence of life on Earth. Legendary marine scientist Sylvia Earle portrays a planet teetering on the brink of irreversible environmental crisis.
In...
The Ocean of Life
The Fate of Man and the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2012
A Silent Spring for oceans, written by "the Rachel Carson of the fish world" (The New York Times)
Who can forget the sense of wonder with which they discovered the creatures of the deep? In this vibrant hymn to the sea, Callum Roberts—one of the world’s foremost conservation biologists—leads...
The Shadows of Consumption
Consequences for the Global Environment
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2010
An environmentalist maps the hidden costs of overconsumption in a globalized world by tracing the environmental consequences of five commodities.
The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth's ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences...
Dragon Bone Hill
An Ice-Age Saga of Homo erectus
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2004
"Peking Man," a cave man once thought a great hunter who had first tamed fire, actually was a composite of the gnawed remains of some fifty women, children, and men unfortunate enough to have been the prey of the giant cave hyena. Researching the famous fossil site of Dragon Bone Hill in...
Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids
65 Million Years of Mammalian Evolution in Europe
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2005
Mammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids takes us on a journey through 65 million years, from the aftermath of the extinction of the dinosaurs to the glacial climax of the Pleistocene epoch; from the rain forests of the Paleocene and the Eocene, with their lemur-like primates, to the harsh landscape of...
by Lucy Jago
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
Science, biography, and arctic exploration coverage in this extraordinary true story of the life and work of Norwegian scientist Kristian Birkeland, the troubled genius who solved the mysteries of one of nature’s most spectacular displays.
Captivated by the otherworldly lights of the...
The Pseudoscience Wars
Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2012
Properly analyzed, the collective mythological and religious writings of humanity reveal that around 1500 BC, a comet swept perilously close to Earth, triggering widespread natural disasters and threatening the destruction of all life before settling into solar orbit as Venus, our nearest planetary...
Terra
Our 100-Million-Year-Old Ecosystem--and the Threats That Now Put It at Risk
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2008
A paleontologist awakens us to the "extinction event" that human activity is bringing about today
The natural world as humans have always known it evolved close to 100 million years ago, with the appearance of flowering plants and pollinating insects during the age of the dinosaurs....
by Frank R. Spellman, Joan Price-Bayer
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 29, 2011
The study of nature is a complex science involving many different fields from geology and meteorology to biology, zoology, and botany. This complexity indicates nature’s broad scope of impact. It is at once beautiful and dangerous, displaying power beyond human control. An understanding of the basic...
Schumann Resonance for Tyros
Essentials of Global Electromagnetic Resonance in the Earth–Ionosphere Cavity
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013
Schumann resonance has been studied for more than half a century. The field became popular among researchers of the terrestrial environment using natural sources of electromagnetic radiation—lightning strokes, primarily—and now many Schumann observatories have been established around the world....
by Francesco Tampieri
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2016
This book offers a comprehensive review of our current understanding of the planetary boundary layer, particularly the turbulent exchanges of momentum, heat and passive scalars between the surface of the Earth and the atmosphere.
It presents and discusses the observations and the...
Nonlinear Mathematical Physics and Natural Hazards
Selected Papers from the International School and Workshop held in Sofia, Bulgaria, 28 November – 02 December, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
This book is devoted to current advances in the field of nonlinear mathematical physics and modeling of critical phenomena that can lead to catastrophic events. Pursuing a multidisciplinary approach, it gathers the work of scientists who are developing mathematical and computational methods for the...
by Kisira Yeeko
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Bachelor Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Geography / Earth Science - Geology, Mineralogy, Soil Science, Makerere University (College of Agriculture and Environmental sciences), course: Bachelor of Arts (Geography Major), language: English, abstract: The study focused on examining the impacts...