Earth Sciences
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Martin Price [Price, Martin]

Timberline Floristics The vast majority of timberline trees of northern hemisphere mountains are pine (Pinus), spruce (Picea), and fir (Abies). These genera are represented by similar species throughout the northern ...
( Category: Earth Sciences May 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Michael Bloomberg [Bloomberg, Michael]

CARL POPE 10 OIL’S TWILIGHT Oil dependence is a problem we need no longer have—and it’s cheaper not to. U.S. oil dependence can be eliminated by proven and attractive technologies ...
( Category: Environmental Policy May 7,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:James S.J. Schwartz & Tony Milligan

10.2 Children of the Stars: Being in Space Before accessing the topic of space migration , we shall start our reflection by asking the question: “should we go to space?”. ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 26,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Carrie Nugent

6 My Favorite Telescope Most asteroid hunters use telescopes sensitive to the wavelengths of light that our eyes can see. But there’s one asteroid-hunting telescope that uses a different type ...
( Category: Astronomy April 23,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-01-05 | Author:Eric Weiner [Weiner, Eric]

* * * I’m walking along the Royal Mile one day, feeling pleased with my progress, when I spot a church. Called St. Giles, it is impressive with its crown-shaped ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 10,2017 )
epub |eng | | Author:Holmberg, Tora

Out of control Although most of the informants explain the phenomenon of animal hoarding as love that has gone awry, other explanations are also discursively available. I: Well, there are ...
( Category: Zoology April 7,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Eric R. Pianka

Figure 13. 1. Niche relationships among members of competitive communities are usually modeled with bell-shaped utilization curves along a resource spectrum such as height above ground or prey size. Among ...
( Category: Organic March 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2017-01-23 | Author:Nicola Moriarty

It was during the second or third obstacle of the day that the woman felt herself snap. Before the four of them split off into pairs. When they were all ...
( Category: Family Life March 23,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-12-24 | Author:Madison Stevens [Stevens, Madison]

Chapter Ten As the credits rolled, Marcus frowned at the TV. “Is there more to the movie?” “No,” Courtney said. “Is there a sequel?” “No.” “I don’t understand. When do ...
( Category: Romantic Suspense March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2010-11-24 | Author:Rothery, David A. [Rothery, David A.]

Clouds Clouds are highly reflective, so the cloudier an atmosphere, the more solar energy is reflected directly back into space. However, a cloudy sky increases the ability of an atmosphere ...
( Category: Astronomy March 22,2017 )
epub, azw3, azw |eng | 2016-12-01 | Author:Jan Zalasiewicz [Zalasiewicz, Jan]

Chapter 5 Rocks in the deep We only really know the exterior of our planet, rather like the microbes that cling only to the surface of the skin of an ...
( Category: Geochemistry March 22,2017 )
epub |eng | 2016-03-19 | Author:John Michael Greer

6 THE SUICIDE OF SCIENCE EVERY HUMAN SOCIETY LIKES TO THINK THAT ITS CORE CULtural and intellectual projects, whatever those happen to be, are the be-all and end-all of human ...
( Category: Human Geography March 20,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:John Reed [Reed, John]

Problem 3: The vanishing record Another problem is one that geologists downplay to the public, because to examine it carefully would be like dumping a bucket of water on the ...
( Category: Geology March 16,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2014-10-01 | Author:John Reed

Problem 3: The vanishing record Another problem is one that geologists downplay to the public, because to examine it carefully would be like dumping a bucket of water on the ...
( Category: Geology March 16,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2010-03-29 | Author:Comins, Neil F. [Comins, Neil F.]

Why Stars with Different Amounts of Matter Have Different Lifetimes As just noted, more massive stars live for much shorter lengths of time than do less massive ones. A 25 ...
( Category: Astrophysics & Space Science March 15,2017 )