Earth Sciences
epub |eng | 2000-05-05 | Author:J. R. McNeill

TABLE 8.1 GLOBAL FISH CATCH, 1800–1996 The aggregate figures conceal a persistent pattern. Numerous important fisheries collapsed in the twentieth century, generally the most valuable ones. The catch of the ...
( Category: Ecology May 6,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:The Worldwatch Institute

NOAA Marine debris on a beach in Kanapou Bay, Hawaii. Once released into the ocean, plastic debris is transported widely by tides and currents, and ingested by mammals, fish, birds, ...
( Category: Environmental Science May 3,2016 )
azw3 |eng | 2008-02-01 | Author:Vaclav Smil

OFFSHORE DRILLING In 1949 John Hayward combined a submersible barge and a piled platform to build the first submersible rig, Breton Rig 20; he devised a way to stabilize a ...
( Category: Petroleum May 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-09 | Author:Marteel-Parrish, Anne E.; Abraham, Martin A.; & MARTIN A. ABRAHAM

Aspartame was discovered by accident by Jim Schlatter, a chemist at G.D. Searle in 1965. Jim Schlatter was working on drugs for the treatment of gastric ulcers when he spilled ...
( Category: Environmental May 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2006-04-30 | Author:Edward O. Wilson

An ivory-billed woodpecker. (From James C. Greenway Jr., Extinct and Vanishing Birds [New York: American Committee for International Wildlife Protection, 1958], p. 358.) A new and already world famous Lazarus ...
( Category: Environmental May 1,2016 )
epub | | 2015-10-12 | Author:Christian de Perthuis, Pierre-André Jouvet, Michael Westlake

This bipolar view of the world, already questionable in 1992, is totally out of step with contemporary reality, in which emerging economies have shifted the center of gravity of the ...
( Category: Natural Resources April 29,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gary Sernovitz

9. GUAR AND LEASE, OR ANOTHER SIDE OF DISRUPTION Tolstoy would smirk. When I get caught up with using The Innovator’s Dilemma as the uncanny explanation of the shale revolution ...
( Category: Oil & Energy April 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-24 | Author:Rose Mitchell & Rose Mitchell & Andrew Janes

CHAPTER FIVE CHARTING THE SEAS ‘… THOU AT HOME, WITHOUT … TIDE OR GALE, CANST IN THY MAP SECURELY SAIL …’ Robert Herrick ’s verse evokes the delights afforded to ...
( Category: Earth Sciences April 28,2016 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:Duncan Clark

eBay Comes to China In the fall of 2001, eBay CEO Meg Whitman made a trip to Shanghai to meet Bo. In March 2002, EachNet once again surprised the market ...
( Category: General April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-12 | Author:Dominic Ziegler

CHAPTER 9 52°21.7' N 127°31.0' E The narrative of the European conquest and settlement of new lands comes everywhere now with acknowledgment of guilt and open shows of contrition. Except ...
( Category: General April 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Robert Crease

Interlude SCIENCE AND METAPHOR YOUNG’S EXPERIMENT, whose beauty stems from the clarity with which he made one phenomenon—light—show itself acting like another—waves—is a classic example of the successful use of ...
( Category: Experiments & Projects April 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-18 | Author:jansen, marius b [jansen, marius b]

5. The Diplomacy of Imperialism In the years after the Treaty of Shimonoseki imperialist pressures increased in East Asia. Expansion driven by industrialization seemed to be the destiny of modern ...
( Category: Regional April 23,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:George Monbiot

32 The Self-Attribution Fallacy If wealth were the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire. The claims that the ultra-rich 1 per ...
( Category: Specific Topics April 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-11 | Author:Brian Sussman

AMERICANS HELD HOSTAGE Since 1960, we’ve elected federal leaders who have allowed us to be held hostage by a small cabal callous to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism April 12,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:David A. J. Seargent

A Universe for All Time? According to the most recent data from the Planck space probe, the age of the universe is 13.82 billion (1,000 million) years. This is the ...
( Category: Astronomy April 8,2016 )