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Science Essentials Serie de eBooks

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  • Oxygen

    A Four Billion Year History

    de Donald E. Canfield ...
    Series series Science Essentials
    The remarkable scientific story of how Earth became an oxygenated planetThe air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it become this way? Donald Canfield—one of the world's leading authorities on geochemistry, earth history, and the early oceans—covers this ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

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  • Earth's Deep History

    How It Was Discovered and Why It Matters

    de Martin J. S. Rudwick ...
    "Tells the story . . . of how 'natural philosophers' developed the ideas of geology accepted today . . . Fascinating." — San Francisco Book ReviewEarth has been witness to dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing, as well as the birth of humans who are curious to understand it. But how was all this discovered? How was the evidence for ... Leer más

    $22.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Planet of the Bugs

    Evolution and the Rise of Insects

    de Scott Richard Shaw ...
    This "excellent guide to the history of our planet" offers a bugs-eye view of evolution, biodiversity, and todays ecological crises ( The Guardian, UK).According to entomologist Scott Richard Shaw, dinosaurs never ruled the earth—and neither do humans. The true potentates of our planet are, and always have been, insects. Starting in the shallow oceans of ancient Earth and ending in the far reaches ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Collapse of Western Civilization

    A View from the Future

    de Naomi Oreskes, Erik Conway ...
    The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought and—finally—the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093, when the disintegration of the West Antarctica Ice Sheet led to mass migration and a complete reshuffling of the global order. Writing from ... Leer más

    $8.09 USD

  • The Sixth Extinction

    An Unnatural History

    de Elizabeth Kolbert ...
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALISTThe 10th-anniversary edition of the instant classic, The Sixth Extinction, now with a new epilogue. Kolbert blends intellectual and natural history and field reporting into a powerful account of the mass extinction unfolding before our ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Undeniable

    Evolution and the Science of Creation

    de Bill Nye ...
    The popular scientist explains the marvels and mysteries of evolution in this "fun to read and easy to absorb" New York Times bestseller ( The Washington Post).Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads to new answers, new discoveries, and new smarter questions. The science of evolution is as expansive as ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

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  • When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time

    de Michael J. Benton ...
    "Michael Benton's splendid book brings back to Earth Science a sense of adventure. . . . It is both a wonderfully good read and a valued reference." —James Lovelock, author of Gaia and Homage to GaiaToday it is common knowledge that the dinosaurs were wiped out by a meteorite impact 65 million years ago that killed half of all species then living. Far less well-known is a much greater catastrophe ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Rain

    A Natural and Cultural History

    de Cynthia Barnett ...
    Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive.It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Yet this is the first book to tell the story of rain.Cynthia Barnett's Rain begins four billion years ago with the torrents that filled the oceans, and builds to the storms of climate change. It weaves together science—the true ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • 17 GREATEST ASTRONOMERS IN HISTORY

    Thier life and strife for change

    de Robert S. Ball, Gabrielle de la Fair - editor ...
    17 GREATEST ASTRONOMERS IN HISTORY is a beautifully handcrafted eBook with more than 100 pictures.High school student or a person deeply immersed in the study of astronomy will find basic personal information and pictures alongside the carefully chosen facts from their lives, profession, and career.The significant advantage of that book is that the author – also astronomer himself - dutifully ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD

  • Basic Earthquake Engineering

    From Seismology to Analysis and Design

    de Halûk Sucuoğlu, Sinan Akkar ...
    Series series Engineering (R0)
    This book provides senior undergraduate students, master students and structural engineers who do not have a background in the field with core knowledge of structural earthquake engineering that will be invaluable in their professional lives. The basics of seismotectonics, including the causes, magnitude, and intensity of earthquakes, are first explained. Then the book introduces basic elements of ... Leer más

    $80.09 USD

  • Transport and Chemical Transformation of Pollutants in the Troposphere

    An Overview of the Work of EUROTRAC

    Edición de Peter Borrell, Patricia M. Borrell ...
    Series Libro 1 - Transport and Chemical Transformation of Pollutants in the Troposphere
    A major environmental concern is the increasing burden on all scales of photo-oxidants, acidifying substances and potential nutrients in the troposphere. These lead to episodes of summer smog, and appreciable damage to eco-systems both on land and at sea. Underlying the environmental effects is the complex scientific problem of linking the man-made and biological emissions to the myriad chemical ... Leer más

    $89.99 USD

  • Advances in Reinforced Soil Structures

    Proceedings of the 1st GeoMEast International Congress and Exhibition, Egypt 2017 on Sustainable Civil Infrastructures

    Edición de Sanjay Kumar Shukla, Erol Guler ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Soil reinforcement is a very useful technique to construct several cost-effective soil structures in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner. The most commonly used reinforcement materials are galvanised steel strips, geosynthetics in the form of woven geotextiles, geogrids and geocomposites, and fibres from natural and waste products. In recent years, there have been advances in the ... Leer más

    $89.09 USD