Earth Sciences
epub |eng | 2011-03-20 | Author:William Stolzenburg

SURFBOARDS AND BIRKENSTOCKS Within two years of Bill Wood’s arrival, Croll and Tershy’s team had gathered two more linchpins to their Baja campaign. Brad Keitt had come to the team ...
( Category: Wildlife March 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-19 | Author:Rudolf Steiner [Steiner, Rudolf]

Other oracles were called into being by the members of the Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter humanities. The intuitive vision of their Initiates was confined to seeing those beings who were ...
( Category: Occultism March 19,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Watts [Watts, Jonathan]

It was not far from heaven to hell in Xinjiang. At the foot of the Tian Mountains was the Turpan Depression, the lowest and hottest place in China. In classical ...
( Category: Asian March 12,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-05-19 | Author:Anna Katharine Green

CHAPTER VI THE LAWYER The answer was an unexpectedly sensible one. “Hunt up her man of business and see what he can do for you. She cannot get along without ...
( Category: Cozy March 7,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Taylor, Jay [Taylor, Jay]

9 The Great Failure With his recent victory over Lin Biao still untarnished, Du Yuming was suffering another bout of bad health, and in early July after Li Zongren declined ...
( Category: Regional March 7,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-28 | Author:Michael Oard [Oard, Michael]

What Trees Produce Amber? It was once thought that the resin that produced amber came from only one type of tree, the araucariacean conifer, also called the Kauri pine, currently ...
( Category: Geology March 6,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-02-04 | Author:Mike Davis

Figure 8.1 Teleconnection as Selective Interaction In these entangled modes, ENSO impulses interact on longer timescales with regional climate periodicities, which, depending on phase, can either amplify or decrease the ...
( Category: History March 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-08-03 | Author:Andrew Nikiforuk

9. Peak Science “[The blame for the future plight of civilization] must rest on scientific men, equally with others, for being incapable of accepting the responsibility for the profound social ...
( Category: Conservation March 5,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2009-06-16 | Author:Ham, Ken & Lovett, Tim & Snelling, Andrew & Whitmore, John [Ham, Ken]

This “discovery” poses somewhat of a dilemma for conventional uniformitarian (slow-and-gradual) geologists, because no known sediment transport system is capable of carrying sand across the entire North American continent during ...
( Category: Geology March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Gabrielle Walker [Walker, Gabrielle]

In 1947, three years after Midgley's death, his former boss Charles Kettering made a similar point during an address to the National Academy of Sciences. Kettering recalled the words of ...
( Category: Rivers March 4,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-04-19 | Author:Pryor, Francis [Pryor, Francis]

SPAS AND RESORTS IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY I noted at the start of this chapter that resorts and spa towns played an important part in the development of Britain as ...
( Category: Historic March 4,2015 )
epub, azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-08-27 | Author:David R. Montgomery [Montgomery, David R.]

9 Recycled Tales CENTURIES BEFORE GEORGE SMITH discovered that the opening chapters of the Bible were reworked Babylonian tales, controversy over the authorship of the Bible centered on how to ...
( Category: Hydrology March 4,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-03-20 | Author:Ewan W. Anderson; Liam D. Anderson

* * * UNITED ARAB EMIRATES (UAE) Location: A promontory separating the Gulf from the Gulf of Oman. (Map 53) Area: 83,600 km² % Middle East: 0.5 Comparison with Bahrain: ...
( Category: Regional March 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-15 | Author:Howard Lee [Lee, Howard]

Dating humans Carbon-dating with 14C In the most recent past, the time of modern humans, dates are measured using isotopes with relatively short half-lives, like carbon-14 (14C). Carbon dating is ...
( Category: Climatology March 3,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-06-25 | Author:Menke, William [Menke, William]

(7.32) The matrix U is an N × N matrix of eigenvectors that span the data space S(d): (7.33) where the u(i)s are the individual vectors. The vectors are orthogonal ...
( Category: Geophysics March 3,2015 )