Earth Sciences
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-11-17 | Author:Shane M Brown [Brown, Shane M]

Chapter Seventeen 'What's she doing?' Megan asked suspiciously. 'We said two minutes. She's already taken five.' Chrissie's turn at using the phone to record a message had Megan on edge. ...
( Category: Environmental Science February 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-10-26 | Author:Robert Tombs

* * * *1 Mrs. Dalton was a prostitute; X meant “rescue work.” *2 The Act created an electorate equal to 16 percent of the total population, compared with 27 ...
( Category: Historic February 15,2016 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 1998-11-05 | Author:John Reader

CHAPTER 38 Africa Transformed The significance of the slave trade for Africa lay less in the number of people lost than in the changed social patterns and reproductive capabilities of ...
( Category: Regional February 15,2016 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 2016-01-21 | Author:J. F. P. Galvin [Galvin, J. F. P.]

Figure 10.1 A sequence of water-vapour satellite images from Meteosat on 13–14 March 2006. An MCC can be seen developing and decaying over a period of 18 hours at 6-hourly ...
( Category: Weather February 5,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:John Dvorak

The role of gases in volcanic eruptions was self-evident to anyone who has seen an eruption. Lava froths furiously and fountains during eruptions, causing huge plumes of gas to rise ...
( Category: Volcanology February 1,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Sergei R. Grinevetsky, Igor S. Zonn, Sergei S. Zhiltsov, Aleksey N. Kosarev & Andrey G. Kostianoy

“Knorr” the US (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) research vessel that in May-June 1988 conducted explorations in B.S. Equipped with the modern precision measuring instruments they managed to unveil the interaction ...
( Category: Geology January 31,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-19 | Author:Castells, Manuel;

It does not follow that societies at large are upgraded in their skills, education, or income status, nor in their stratification system. The impact of a somewhat upgraded employment structure ...
( Category: Regional January 27,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Middleton, Nick [Middleton, Nick]

Water power The energy in flowing and falling water has been harnessed to perform work by turning waterwheels for more than 2,000 years. The moving water turns a large wheel ...
( Category: Rivers January 23,2016 )
epub |eng | 2004-06-23 | Author:Mark Twain [Twain, Mark]

CHAPTER XL. Few of us can stand prosperity. Another man's, I mean. —Pudd'nhead Wilson's New Calendar. The next picture in my mind is Government House, on Malabar Point, with the ...
( Category: Travel January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Paul Murdin

Fig. 6.35 Sand dunes, ripples, ice and dust-devils . At the top and bottom of this image are small ripples of sand on Mars, their south-facing slopes highlighted with frost. ...
( Category: Geology January 21,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-18 | Author:Mark Maslin [Maslin, Mark]

On a more theoretical note, a recent study by Chris Thomas and colleagues (published in Nature in 2004) investigated the possible increase in the likely extinction rate over the next ...
( Category: Climatology January 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-09 | Author:Spike Walker

CHAPTER 6 When Lt. Bill Adickes walked down the short distance from his office and stepped into the Operations Center in the remote Coast Guard outpost in Sitka, Alaska, things ...
( Category: State & Local January 10,2016 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-08-05 | Author:Alexander C. Diener & Joshua Hagen

6. Maritime claims in the South China Sea. Another maritime controversy has developed in the Arctic region as the steady retreat of ice pack opens the region for exploration and ...
( Category: Historic January 10,2016 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2013-06-26 | Author:Mark Maslin [Maslin, Mark]

The great salt crisis About 6 million years ago the gradual tectonic changes resulted in the closure of the Strait of Gibraltar. This led to the transient isolation of the ...
( Category: Climatology January 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-04 | Author:Wolin, Richard, Wolin, Richard

Perils of Political Guardianship While the dynamism and scope of Jonas’s metaphysical vision are undeniably powerful, that vision, like all claims to knowledge, is hardly above criticism. The strategy of ...
( Category: Regional January 5,2016 )