Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
Waking the Frog
Solutions for Our Climate Change Paralysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A “provocative [and] compelling” look at how we can achieve both economic growth and environmental sustainability (The Columbus Dispatch).
A venture capitalist, entrepreneur, and engineer, Tom Rand looks to contemporary psychology, economics, business, and finance to explain our difficulty...
by Marco Casella
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2016
This book traces the origin of the evolution giving an overview of the precursors who inspired Darwin's work. It will be analyzed with all its scientific and philosophic implications.
How to Build a Dinosaur
The New Science of Reverse Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009
A world-renowned paleontologist reveals groundbreaking science that trumps science fiction: how to grow a living dinosaur
Over a decade after Jurassic Park, Jack Horner and his colleagues in molecular biology labs are in the process of building the technology to create a real dinosaur.
Based...
by Jane Tormey
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different disciplines:...
Facing the Change
Personal Encounters with Global Warming
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
"Steven Pavlos Holmes offers a rich, refreshing, and much-needed collection of personal responses to climate change. Though the volume is slender, its selections of poetry and prose-written over the past ten years by a variety of mostly lesserknown authors-provide a tonal and emotional diversity that...
by Joosr
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
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The Ground Beneath Us
From the Oldest Cities to the Last Wilderness, What Dirt Tells Us About Who We Are
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Our most compelling resource just might be the ground beneath our feet.
Finalist for the Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award
When a teaspoon of soil contains millions of species, and when we pave over the earth on a daily basis, what does that mean for our future? What is the risk to...
by Derrick Jensen
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
In this impassioned polemic, radical environmental philosopher Derrick Jensen debunks the near-universal belief in a hierarchy of nature and the superiority of humans. Vast and underappreciated complexities of nonhuman life are explored in detail—from the cultures of pigs and prairie dogs, to the...
A Green Reef
The Impact of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2013
In spite of its disturbing implications, the impact of climate change on our physical environment can be difficult for us to understand or imagine. Moving from a memoir of a journey through an abundant yet fragile natural world to the daunting scientific evidence that climate change will lead to the...
Does God Exist?
A Scientific Enquiry into Relevance of God and Spirituality in our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2016
God has been most vaguely defined term. None of his worshippers, messengers, messiahs has ever been able to say anything definite about Him. Ask 10 persons what they mean by God and you are sure to get 10 different answers. He has been wrapped in mystery and described in confusing terms by all religious...
by Alastair Bonnett
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2008
"I cannot imagine a better guide to the transition between school and undergraduate geography than this short, informative and confidently-argued book. Written without fuss but based on solid learning and clear thinking, it tackles head-on a question many professional academic geographers would...
by Barry Smith
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
From Treasure Island to Robben Island, from the paradise of Thomas More's 'Utopia' to Napoleon's purgatory on Elba, islands have proved irresistible to mankind's imagination since time immemorial.
Self-confessed islomaniac Barry Smith explores how islands bewitch us so, and examines the kind...
Dinosaurs Without Bones
Dinosaur Lives Revealed by Their Trace Fossils
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
“[Bubbling] over with the joy of scientific discovery. . . . Great fun for anyone looking to revive their childhood dinosaur obsessions.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
What if we woke up one morning all of the dinosaur bones in the world were gone? How would we know these iconic...
by Tao Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
This book reflects the latest research results in computer modelling of landslide-induced debris flows. The book establishes an understanding of the initiation and propagation mechanisms of landslides by means of numerical simulations, so that mitigation strategies to reduce the long-term losses from...