Earth Sciences
mobi, pdf |eng | | Author:Kraft, Michael E. [Kraft, Michael E.]

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS 1. Do the major environmental protection laws reviewed in this chapter need significant change? If so, what kinds of changes are most needed? 2. How good a job ...
( Category: Environmental Policy June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2003-01-01 | Author:Dava Sobel; William J. H. Andrewes

10. The Diamond Time keeper The cabinet is formed of gold And pearl and crystal shining bright, And within it opens into a world And a little lovely moony night. ...
( Category: Scientific Instruments June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:Redmond O'Hanlon

SOMEONE TURNED the light on; Sean had turned the light on: “Up ye get, boys! Ye’ve had a whole eight hours! And the storm’s gone—there’s yer heavy swell up there ...
( Category: Oceanography June 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-09-29 | Author:Sylvia A. Earle

Perversely spilled oil blackens Saudi Arabian marshes in 1991. Worldwide, more than 4,000 rigs are now working in depths up to 1,830 meters (6,000 feet). The deepest offshore rig, Shell ...
( Category: Oceanography June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-20 | Author:Katie Lee

fresh pineapple-coconut martinis SERVES 4, WITH PINEAPPLE-INFUSED VODKA LEFT OVER By now we’ve all heard how good coconut water is for us: It’s hydrating, it has potassium, and so on. ...
( Category: Mid-Atlantic June 7,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Stewart [Stewart, Ben; McCartney, Paul]

NINETEEN The appeals go on, the process grinds forward, always with a sense of impending, inevitable rejection. But the Kremlin does not only have the thirty in its sights. Mads ...
( Category: Politics & Government June 2,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-30 | Author:Graham Robb [Robb, Graham]

It was like a vision: She was sitting in the middle of the bench, all on her own . . . A long shawl with purple stripes was placed behind ...
( Category: Historic June 1,2015 )
mobi |eng | | Author:Burroughs, John [Burroughs, John]

* * * V SPRING AT THE CAPITAL WITH AN EYE TO THE BIRDS I came to Washington to live in the fall of 1863, and, with the exception of ...
( Category: Nature Writing & Essays May 30,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-02-09 | Author:Lochbaum, David & Lyman, Edwin & Stranahan, Susan Q. [Lochbaum, David]

On the opening day of the school year on April 6, 2011, a first-grader puts on her hat during an elementary school enrollment ceremony in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. Despite the ...
( Category: Nuclear May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-11 | Author:Sandi Doughton [Doughton, Sandi]

Nisqually was Carol Davis’s most serene seismic experience. From the chairlift at Crystal Mountain ski area, she noticed something odd about the treetops. “They were dancing, waving back and forth,” ...
( Category: Seismology May 27,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:David Lochbaum [Lochbaum, David; Lyman, Edwin; Stranahan, Susan Q.]

On the opening day of the school year on April 6, 2011, a first-grader puts on her hat during an elementary school enrollment ceremony in Iwaki, Fukushima Prefecture. Despite the ...
( Category: Environmental Science May 27,2015 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2015-03-04 | Author:Robert Macfarlane [Macfarlane, Robert]

V Eawl-leet – north Lancashire noun, variant pronunciation of owl-light, meaning ‘twilight, dusk’. Late in the afternoon, as dark was falling, Richard and I left the cottage and walked back ...
( Category: Historic May 27,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-02-21 | Author:Wagner, Gernot & Weitzman, Martin L. [Wagner, Gernot]

None of that yet includes the truly frightening low-probability events. There’s a huge difference between a likely sea-level rise of 0.3 to 1 meters (1 to 3 feet) by the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy May 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-10 | Author:Brian Fagan

LIFE ALONG CHINA’S long, low-lying coastline has involved constant adjustment to changing sea levels ever since the end of the Ice Age. Many people call this a “muddy coast,” a ...
( Category: Oceanography May 11,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2004-01-08 | Author:Duncan J. Watts

NETWORKS, VIRUSES, AND MICROSOFT THIS RESULT WAS A PROMISING START AND DEMONSTRATED THAT for some problems at least, epidemics can be better understood by using a percolation approach than with ...
( Category: System Theory May 10,2015 )