POLLUTED EARTHA fresh and engaging introduction to the science behind pollution disasters for science and non-science majorsComing generations will have to reckon with a growing number of environmental challenges, whether caused by climate change, population growth or industrial production. Polluted Earth: The Science of the Earth’s Environment combines the best features of a textbook and a popular science book. It retains the orga...

EARTH’S FURYNatural disasters are any catastrophic loss of life and/or property caused by a natural event or situation. This definition could include biologic issues such as contagion, injurious bacterial colonization, invasion of dangerous plants and infestations of insects and other vermin. However, the popular understanding of what constitutes a natural disaster still focuses on disasters involving the physical properties of the earth and its atmosphere: earthqu...

Looks at the most significant natural disasters in Earth's history and considers whether we can prevent them from happening again.Natural disasters occur on a regular basis throughout the world with severe events occurring every few years or less. Each disaster type impacts human settlements in different ways and can be local, affecting small countries or areas, or global, affecting the world. These disasters destabilized populations, the governments of provinces a...

Offers hope for beating climate change by highlighting moments in history in which humans have successfully reversed environmental damage.The popular media is full of doomsday scenarios regarding the environment and especially climate change. Perhaps these scare-tactics are necessary to call the public to action, however, they also have the unintended effect of convincing people that there is no hope for our planet.In Reclaiming Our Planet: How Environm...

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS & SYNTHESISSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS & SYNTHESIS A LABORATORY COURSE IN STRUCTURAL GEOLOGYStructural Analysis and Synthesis is the best-selling laboratory manual of its kind. Specifically designed to support the laboratory work of undergraduates in structural geology courses, the book helps students analyze the various aspects of geological structures, and to combine their analyses into an overarching synthesis.

I'm writing this down in an attempt to make sense of the events that have unfolded. If you are reading this, it is possible you could be at risk. When my grandfather passed away, he left me the house my brother and I were raised in. I thought growing up I had learned every secret of the house, yet I am finding now, I knew very little about my grandfather and a world I never knew existed. If you take this journey with me, I must stress extreme caution. There are those who would stop at noth...

The leviathan structure which had been bearing down on Iathera had finally been neutralized. In a matter of speaking, that is. While crippled, it still presented a looming threat of invasion from the harbor in which it now lay.  However, with a blockade fleet now surrounding it, John and his friends could now deal with it under much less stressful time constraints.  If only.  Shortly after, all contact is lost with a remote, but extremely important, fort on the w...

Neste livro urgente e ricamente detalhado, Bill Gates propõe um plano abrangente, prático e acessível para zerar a emissão de gases de efeito estufa e evitar uma catástrofe climática.Bill Gates passou uma década investigando as causas e os efeitos da mudança climática. Com a ajuda de especialistas nas áreas de física, química, biologia, engenharia, ciência política e finanças, ele se concentrou no que deve ser feito para impedir uma catástrofe ambiental. Neste livr...

Winner of an Abraham Lincoln Institute Book AwardThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the complex nature of views on Lincoln through the writings and thought of Frederick Douglass, Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Mary Mc...

*** Limitierte Auflage mit Farbschnitt! Nur solange der Vorrat reicht! ***Ein magischer WettkampfZwei ahnungslose SchwesternDrei tödliche TageDer Job klang leicht: Die Schwestern Ruby und Wren sollten einen Abend lang die Enkeltöchter der exzentrischen Mrs Blackgate spielen – während eines Dinners im legendären Hegemony Manor. Doch nun sind sie im Herrenhaus eingesperrt, ein Geist hat einen Wettkampf ausgerufen und außer ihnen sind alle Gäste Magier. Um zu überl...

Damien Blackwell hoped against hope that he'd left the worst of it behind him. For the first time in far too long, the nights were still and quiet in the city of London, tea cooling on the table, a faithful cat on watch at the door, and Vivian at his side with the promise of a future he'd never thought he'd have a right to. He'd even dared to buy a ring and hope for a future with the woman he loved.Until the night the silence is broken.A child is brought to Vivian's hidden ...

Was machen die erfolgreichsten Menschen der Welt anders? Dieses Buch liefert die Antwort - konkret, fundiert und direkt anwendbar. Vier Namen, ein gemeinsames Muster: Elon Musk revolutioniert das Auto, die Raumfahrt, die KI und (bald auch) die Robotik; Jeff Bezos baut den mächtigsten Online-Markt der Welt, revolutioniert Cloud-Computing und greift mit Raketen und Satelliten nach den Sternen; Bill Gates prägt die digitale Gesellschaft und das globale Gesundheitswesen - und Warren Buffett be...