Earth Sciences
epub |eng | 2010-05-27 | Author:Dorrik Stow [Stow, Dorrik]

RISE AND FALL OF SEA LEVEL At this stage in the history of Tethys, therefore, a huge mid-ocean ridge ran as a jagged submarine mountain belt, somewhere hidden from view ...
( Category: Oceanography July 16,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-07-14 | Author:Ozzie Zehner

11. Improving Consumption And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! “Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 13,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2014-02-26 | Author:Moyes, Jojo [Moyes, Jojo]

20. Ed Ed Nicholls had thought that spending eight hours in a damp car park was the worst possible way to spend a night. Then he’d concluded that the worst ...
( Category: Family Life July 12,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-23 | Author:Bob Berman

CHAPTER 12: Brooks and Breakers Earth’s Greatest Assets Are Liquid But ol’ man river, He jes’ keeps rollin’ along. —OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II, “OL’ MAN RIVER” (1927) The headline was grim. ...
( Category: Optics July 11,2014 )
epub, pdf |deu | 2010-05-24 | Author:Roy W Spencer [Spencer, Roy W]

(W/sq. m.) slope = -0.6 -1.0 Radiative Energy Imbalance -2.0 -0.4 -0.2 0.0 0.2 0.4 Temperature Change (degrees C) experience to interpret the subtleties of a c t or m ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 10,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-03 | Author:Alex Smith [Smith, Alex]

* Choosing the Right Vehicle * The point of this section is not to encourage you to go out and buy a new vehicle, but rather to help you in ...
( Category: Natural Disasters July 9,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-09 | Author:Fairlie, Simon [Fairlie, Simon]

13 GLOBAL WARMING: COWS OR CARS? When I began this book, the global warming impact of livestock, mostly related to methane from cows, was considered a side issue. Since 2007, ...
( Category: Environmental Science July 9,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:The Worldwatch Institute [The Worldwatch Institute]

When delegates to the UN climate conference in Indonesia in 2007 agreed to the so-called Bali Roadmap, ICLEI gathered local government organizations to form the Local Government Climate Roadmap 2007–2009—the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Bill Powers, Art Berman [Powers, Bill; Berman, Art]

FIGURE 18.03. Japan Liquefied Natural Gas Import Price Chart.29 While the high South American prices can be partially explained by winter weather in the Southern Hemisphere, there is little doubt ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels June 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-09 | Author:Deborah Levy

Ah. Where am I? We will have to spin time forwards to where I am now. How reassuring it is to sit on the edge of my own bed again. ...
( Category: Short Stories June 20,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Walter Isaacson

* * * * Apparently it was valid; when CIA station chief Tom Polger later showed him a similar copy captured by the Americans, Kissinger commented, “It has the odious ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents June 1,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:George Pelecanos

MAYBELLINE WALKER lived in one of the apartment houses that lined 15th Street along the green of Meridian Hill, which many in the city now called Malcolm X Park. Drugged-out-looking ...
( Category: Police Procedurals May 30,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1998-11-15 | Author:John M. Barry [Barry, John M.]

HUNDREDS OF MILES upriver levees were bursting and 200,000 people were homeless. The rivers were still swelling. In New Orleans at noon the next day, Klorer, Garsaud, and the state ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 29,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-01-02 | Author:R.A. Scotti [Scotti, R.A.]

Chapter 15 The Dangerous Right Semicircle Survivors in eastern Connecticut and Massachusetts could not believe that the storm was holding anything back, but the Hurricane of 1938 saved the worst ...
( Category: Weather May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-27 | Author:Wood, Gillen DArcy

A CATASTROPHE, BUT NOT CATASTROPHISM Now largely forgotten outside Switzerland, the 1818 Val de Bagnes disaster was nevertheless widely reported in the European press and became a major talking point ...
( Category: Volcanology May 28,2014 )