Earth Sciences
epub |eng | 2011-09-30 | Author:Bill Gammage

9 A capital tour Until 1788 almost no-one in Australia imagined attack from the sea. Sea and shore belonged to the Dreaming, eternal eddies. Only in Sydney and Adelaide did ...
( Category: Historic December 27,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-12-26 | Author:Alice Oswald [Alice Oswald]

Jan Coo! Jan Coo! have you any idea what goes into water? I have verified the calibration records have you monitored for colour and turbidity? I’m continually sending light signals ...
( Category: British & Irish December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-12-16 | Author:James Palmer

Back in Beijing, the staff of the Seismological Bureau ran to work. Like most people with government positions, they had free housing near their offices. Their office was covered with ...
( Category: Earthquakes & Volcanoes December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-01 | Author:Naomi Oreskes

Epilogue The former state of Florida (part of the former United States) In one of the many paradoxes of history, the inhabitants of late-twentieth-century Florida were engaged in a grand ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-10 | Author:Eve Devon

Chapter Eight Oh please, please tell me those words didn’t actually leave my lips? Nora stood floundering in front of Tod Collingsworth, watching in horror as he turned beetroot-red. Oh, ...
( Category: Information Systems December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Chris Turney [Turney, Chris]

Not six weeks after the Tokyo parade for Shirase’s men, Emperor Meiji died and the nation went into mourning. The emperor who had heralded a new start for Japan had ...
( Category: Arctic & Antarctica December 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Marie-Monique Robin [Robin, Marie-Monique]

When Manufacturers Evade Embarrassing Questions I hadn’t expected Angelika Tritscher’s advice to seek an interview with representatives from the pesticide industry. Naturally, as I was particularly interested in chlorpyrifos-methyl and, ...
( Category: Safety December 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Wall, Derek [Wall, Derek]

The antagonists in the forest are disparate and unequal in almost every way. On one side is a massive paramilitary force armed with the money, the firepower, the media, and ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-09-23 | Author:Brian Tokar [Tokar, Brian]

Trading Pollution The notion that new commodity markets can become a tool for reducing global emissions of greenhouse gases is perhaps the most brazen expression of capitalist ideology in the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy December 8,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1960-12-31 | Author:Robert van Gulik

12 JUDGE DEE GOES TO VISIT MEDICINE HILL; A WOMAN DEFIES THE ORDERS OF THE TRIBUNAL As soon as the door had closed behind the coroner, Judge Dee threw the ...
( Category: Regional December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1970-12-31 | Author:Richard Maury

Quite suddenly the bell sounds – and he awakes. Midnight already! Half asleep, he feels for the bell-clapper over the bunk, striking an answer before turning up the wick and ...
( Category: Travel December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 1969-12-31 | Author:Nicholas Tomalin & Ron Hall

ENJOYED ROUND THE HORN SAILING TOWARDS TRINIDAD WITH LAST SOUTHEAST TRADE AND BRAZIL CURRENT Hallworth rightly worked out that ‘round the Horn sailing’ meant round-the-Horn-type sailing. And he realised that ...
( Category: Narratives December 8,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-31 | Author:Intelligence Agency, Central

LATVIA INTRODUCTION Background: The name “Latvia” originates from the ancient Latgalians, one of four eastern Baltic tribes that formed the ethnic core of the Latvian people (ca. 8th-12th centuries A.D.). ...
( Category: Earth Sciences December 1,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-02-03 | Author:Jamieson, Dale [Jamieson, Dale]

FIGURE 5.1 Decay of fossil fuel CO2 emission. Source: IPCC 2007 Science Technical. Consider a radically oversimplified story that begins with me emitting some molecules of carbon dioxide.73 As Figure ...
( Category: Environmental Policy November 27,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2009-05-18 | Author:Ian Wishart

There are thousands of volcanoes, and millions of vents, under the ocean. All of them piping emissions at temperatures of 300°C (576°F) or higher into the oceans around them. It’s ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism November 24,2014 )