Earth Sciences category: 10037 books
by A.P. Dimri, Amulya Chevuturi
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
This book examines the meteorological phenomenon known as Western Disturbances (WDs) and traces their influence on the Indian subcontinent. It fully details the unique characteristics and dynamics of these disturbances, which produce large-scale instabilities in the atmosphere over northern India...
Applications of Palaeontology
Techniques and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Palaeontology, the scientific study of fossils, has developed from a descriptive science to an analytical science used to interpret relationships between Earth and life history. This book provides a comprehensive and thematic treatment of applied palaeontology, covering the use of fossils in the ordering...
The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack
and Other Cautionary Tales from Human Evolution
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
In his new book The Strange Case of the Rickety Cossack, human paleoanthropologist Ian Tattersall argues that a long tradition of "human exceptionalism" in paleoanthropology has distorted the picture of human evolution. Drawing partly on his own career—from young scientist in awe of his...
by David Norman
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
Dinosaurs are fascinating creatures and their popularity seems never ending, fuelled by films such as Jurassic Park and documentaries such as Walking with Dinosaurs. Yet dinosaurs (or more precisely non-avian dinosaurs) last trod the Earth 65 million years ago. All we know of them today are their...
Bringing Fossils to Life
An Introduction to Paleobiology
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
One of the leading textbooks in its field, Bringing Fossils to Life applies paleobiological principles to the fossil record while detailing the evolutionary history of major plant and animal phyla. It incorporates current research from biology, ecology, and population genetics, bridging the gap between...
Forrest Mims' Science Experiments
DIY Projects from the Pages of Make:
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2016
Forrest M. Mims is a revered contributor to Make: magazine, where his popular columns about science-related topics and projects for Makers are evergreen treasures. Collected together here for the first time, these columns range from such simple projects as building an LED tracker for hand-launched...
The Measure of All Things
The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
In June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would make his way north to Dunkirk, while Pierre-François-André Méchain voyaged south to Barcelona. Their...
Out of Water
From Abundance to Scarcity and How to Solve the World's Water Problems
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
From cities to biofuels, competition for water is accelerating. Climate change threatens to intensify the onset and severity of the water crisis in several regions of the developing world: this is already happening throughout much of Asia, the Mediterranean, southwestern Australia, and the southwestern...
Hot, Hungry Planet
The Fight to Stop a Global Food Crisis in the Face of Climate Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Earth will have more than 9.6 billion people by 2050 according to U.N. predictions. With resources already scarce, how will we feed them all? Journalist Lisa Palmer has traveled the world for years documenting the cutting-edge innovations of people and organizations on the front lines of fighting...
Mother Nature Is Awesome (From Volcanoes To Earthquakes)
Children's Books for Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
As children see things in our movie theaters and television sets, they are probably often left wondering why they are not able to see some of the scenery in their very own hometowns. This is when they begin to learn how large the world is, and what all is contained within it. A Mother Nature Is Awesome...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
Although the species is one of the fundamental units of biological classification, there is remarkably little consensus among biologists about what defines a species, even within distinct sub-disciplines. The literature of paleobiology, in particular, is littered with qualifiers and cautions about...
Carnivoran Evolution
New Views on Phylogeny, Form and Function
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2010
Members of the mammalian clade Carnivora have invaded nearly every continent and ocean, evolving into bamboo-eating pandas, clam-eating walruses and of course, flesh-eating sabre-toothed cats. With this ecological, morphological and taxonomic diversity and a fossil record spanning over sixty million...
by William H. Calvin
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2010
Mankind has recently come to the shocking realization that our ancestors survived hundreds of abrupt and severe changes to Earth's climate. In this unique travelogue, William H. Calvin takes us around the globe and back in time, showing us how such cycles of cool, crash, and burn provided the impetus...
The Conflict of the Ages Teacher III They Deliberately Forgot The Flood and the Ice Age
The Conflict of the Ages Teacher Edition, #3
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Includes full student text, review questions, vocabulary, and answer keys. The worldwide Flood is one of the most discounted records in the Scriptures. Yet it is supported around the world by historical accounts. Take a look at feasibility studies on the safety and the stocking of the Ark.
The...