epub |eng | 2016-05-04 | Author:Michael E. Webber [Webber, Michael E.]

SEVEN Trends THE KEY UNDERLYING DEMOGRAPHIC trend that can strain the energy-water nexus is growth: population growth and economic growth. Population is growing, exceeding 7 billion people globally in 2011, ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2019-10-10 | Author:Sarah Dry [Dry, Sarah]

FIG. 5.8. Joanne and Herbert Riehl puzzling over hurricanes, in a cartoon by Margaret LeMone. Note the “real hand-analyzed data” and the big question: “Why are there so few hurricanes?” ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-23 | Author:Heather Hansman

WHAT’S THE POINT OF A WILD RIVER? The last major undammed tributary of the whole Colorado River system, the Yampa River, flows into the Green in Dinosaur National Monument, just ...

epub |eng | 2019-01-08 | Author:Sudipta Sen [Sen, Sudipta]

The empire of Harshavardhana of Kanauj. Map by M. Roy Cartography. CHAPTER 7 CRUCIBLE OF EMPIRES The Ganges near Kanauj that the Chinese traveler and scholar Xuanzang saw was pure ...

epub |eng | 2010-12-16 | Author:Alick Bartholomew

ORDER FROM CHAOS The principle has been recognized by the philosophers of all the great civilizations—that change can come only from the failure of the status quo. Put another way: ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2016-09-11 | Author:Tristan Gooley [Gooley, Tristan]

Wave diffraction through a narrow gap. A narrow gap gives the most dramatic demonstration of wave diffraction, but it’s actually happening whenever any waves pass obstacles. If you hide behind ...

epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:David R. Montgomery [Montgomery, David R.]

9 Recycled Tales CENTURIES BEFORE GEORGE SMITH discovered that the opening chapters of the Bible were reworked Babylonian tales, controversy over the authorship of the Bible centered on how to ...