Earth Sciences
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-01-15 | Author:Serreze, Mark C. [Serreze, Mark C.]

EPIPHANY The new century dawned. Arctic changes became ever more obvious and now clearly included the Greenland ice sheet, ice caps, and glaciers. Even the landscape was changing, with areas ...
( Category: Environmental Science January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-05-02 | Author:Paul B. Wignall

The first extinctions For the first few billion years of Earth history, during the Precambrian Eon, evolution was on the microbial, single-celled level. This changed around 540 million years ago ...
( Category: Paleontology January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2018-05-15 | Author:David Turner

ECOLOGICAL MODERNIZATION THEORY Ecological modernization (EM) is a process by which societies address environmental change issues. Ecological modernization theory (EMT) is a theory of social change, i.e., an effort to ...
( Category: Ecology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-05-30 | Author:Jess Bier

Immobile Elites: NGOs on the Move Since 2008, the raids on institutions (e.g., Matar 2012; Nusseibeh 2012) and attacks on data infrastructure (Tawil-Souri 2011b) have continued. The incursion into mapping ...
( Category: Cartography January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2006-01-15 | Author:Edwards, Steve; [Edwards, Steve;]

16. Daguerre, Still Life, 1837 Working in England, Talbot came up with a different process, which, while it did not have the high resolution of Daguerre’s technique, did enable him ...
( Category: Reference January 19,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2017-06-02 | Author:Geoffrey Parker [Parker, Geoffrey]

CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Americas, Africa and Australia1 Most of the surviving human and natural archives from the mid-seventeenth century relate to Europe and Asia. Despite the immense size of the ...
( Category: History & Theory January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-15 | Author:Amanda Gearing

The aftermath As darkness settled over the disaster zone, hundreds of people who had lost their homes – but escaped with their lives – gathered at local meeting points: schools ...
( Category: Social Sciences January 19,2020 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Andrew Roberts

TWELVE Wellington Protects Napoleon (and His Own Reputation) JUNE—JULY 1815 Wellington had always been baneful to Bonaparte, or rather the rival genius to France, the English genius, barred the road ...
( Category: United States January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-08-06 | Author:Andreas Michalsen

STRESS OCCURS WHEN WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER THINGS Stress is aggravated when we have no control over it or can’t see the purpose of it. This, for example, is ...
( Category: Holistic January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-15 | Author:Michael Newton

4: Elegy to Iain MacGilleBhràth The following elegy was composed to the celebrated musician-scholar Iain MacGilleBhràth “am Pìobaire Mór” (the Great Bagpiper) on his death on April 19, 1860, in ...
( Category: History & Criticism January 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-09-16 | Author:Tim Flannery

Oolacunta! 2004 I’M WRITING THESE words in 2003, on my way home from London where I’ve been studying some of Australia’s most interesting mammals. It’s been a sad pilgrimage, but ...
( Category: Conservation January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-08-30 | Author:Michael White [White, Michael]

Chapter 19 ~ Masquerade~ Two days passed in a flurry as deliveries arrived at the Drowned Duck in either very small or very large packages with hardly any middle ground ...
( Category: Action & Adventure January 17,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-02 | Author:Ryszard Kapuściński

The Geezer The road was barren. The line of asphalt dwindled away, and the air hung above it in a sweltering quiver. No vehicles. I asked the boy if he ...
( Category: Photojournalism January 17,2020 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2018-10-17 | Author:Angus Donald

Chapter Twenty 18 May 1688: Palace of White Hall ‘Absolutely not!’ said Lord Dartmouth. ‘I must make clear my strongest opposition to the idea. As Admiral of the Fleet, I ...
( Category: Military January 16,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-17 | Author:Rachel Ignotofsky

BIGGEST BENEFITS The Cape of Africa has been named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO because of its amazing biodiversity. The system of ocean currents brings plentiful marine life to ...
( Category: Climatology January 12,2020 )