Other Sciences category: 9579 books
by Natural Resources Defense Council
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Challenge of Global Warming examines the causes and effects of global climate change.
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Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2014
This book describes thoroughly the North American Climate of the past 65 million years, with special emphasis on the last 21,000 years, as revealed by paleoclimatic observations and climate models. It analyzes weather observations over the past century and satellite measurements of the last few decades...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Greenhouse-induced climate warming increasingly appears to be a reality, and the warming climate will be accompanied by an accelerated sea level rise - as much as 60-100 cm over the next century. What is commonly absent in the discussion of rising sea level, however, is the role played by the subsidence...
Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation in Asia and the Pacific
Manila, Philippines, 15–19 January 1996
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
PREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi L. AMADORE, W. C. BOLHOFER, R. V. CRUZ, R. B. FEIR, C. A. FREYSINGER, S. GUILL, K. F. JALAL, A IGLESIAS, A. JOSE, S. LEATHERMAN, S. LENHART, S. MUKHER JEE, J. B. SMITH, and J. WISNIEWSKII Climate Change Vulnerability and Adap tion in Asia and the Pacific: Workshop...
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Flood Problem and Management in South Asia focuses on both the hazard and the vulnerability aspects of floods. This book addresses floods in South Asia from a multidisciplinary approach. The characteristics and nature of the flood problem and its management aspects are examined. It is suggested that...
by Bob Brothers
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011
"Sunshine, Blue Skies...At Home with Wind and Solar Energy" brings organization and perspective to the fragmented and rapidly evolving landscape of conventional and alternative energy sources. It looks at the range of energy technologies - fossil fuels, nuclear, hydroelectric, wind and solar...
Linked
How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
The best-selling guide to network science, the revolutionary field that reveals the deep links between all forms of human social life
A cocktail party. A terrorist cell. Ancient bacteria. An international conglomerate. All are networks, and all are a part of a surprising scientific revolution....
Elements
A Visual Exploration of Every Known Atom in the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2012
With more than 1 million copies sold worldwide, The Elements is the most entertaining, comprehensive, and visually arresting book on all 118 elements in the periodic table.
Based on seven years of research and photography by Theodore Gray and Nick Mann, The Elements presents the most complete...
by Alfred Russel Wallace
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2016
This early work by Alfred Russel Wallace was originally published in 1913 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'Social Environment and Moral Progress' is a work that looks at various civilisations and cultural environments and analyses their social morality. Alfred...
The Climate Change Playbook
22 Systems Thinking Games for More Effective Communication about Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Advocates and teachers often find it difficult to communicate the complexities of climate change, because the people they are trying to reach hold so many mistaken assumptions. They assume, for example, that when climate change becomes an obvious threat to our everyday lives, there will still be time...
Machine Learning and Data Mining Approaches to Climate Science
Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Climate Informatics
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
This book presents innovative work in Climate Informatics, a new field that reflects the application of data mining methods to climate science, and shows where this new and fast growing field is headed. Given its interdisciplinary nature, Climate Informatics offers insights, tools and methods that...
The Economics of Climate Change
The Stern Review
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2007
There is now clear scientific evidence that emissions from economic activity, particularly the burning of fossil fuels for energy, are causing changes to the Earth´s climate. A sound understanding of the economics of climate change is needed in order to underpin an effective global response to this...
by 安東尼歐．達馬吉歐(Antonio Damasio)
Language: Chinese
Release Date: October 12, 2017
Language: Chinese
Release Date: October 12, 2017
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◆第五屆吳大猷科普獎著作類金籤獎得主 林正焜醫師、清華大學腦科學研究中心主任 江安世教授、前台大神經生物與認知科學研究中心主任 嚴震東教授、諾貝爾文學獎得主 V. S. 奈波爾、大提琴家...