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...

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 ...

The Syriac text entitled Neshana d-Aleksandros (also known as Syriac Alexander Legend) is a seminal text for late Christian and Muslim apocalyptic traditions. Containing the earliest recorded versions of literary motifs that would become central to the medieval apocalyptic tradition, it represents an early witness to an influential political ideology that guided both Byzantine and early Islamic imperial policies. While the scholarly consensus commonly dates the Neshan...

Trapped in a boring, mundane life, amnesia stricken with no one to turn to, Lucas isn't having the best of luck lately. Tack on a visit from actual, biblical demons and angels, and things certainly aren't getting much better. Luckily, there to help ease Lucas into the new world he's fallen prey to is a band of angels with one mission: To fight the good fight. If Lucas is to recover his own memories and stop a new threat that looms over the horizon, he'll have to trust his new friends and e...