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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 )
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