epub |eng | 2010-03-30 | Author:Garret Keizer

SPRINGFIELD, USA The first motorcycles manufactured in the United States were made in 1901 at the Indian Company in Springfield, Massachusetts, now the location of the corporate headquarters for handgun-makers ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Vaclav Smil

4.6 Life-Cycle Assessments Quantifications of energies embedded in materials are useful and revealing companions to standard analyses of material flows using mass or value. But a brief reflection shows that ...

epub |eng | | Author:Vaclav Smil

Figure 4.10 Life expectancy at birth rises from just over 50 years to about 70 years as the average annual per capita energy use goes from a few GJ to ...

epub |eng | 2011-04-18 | Author:Mckay Jenkins [Jenkins, McKay]

The day was getting late. As Kauffman and I pulled our canoe out of the water, a few miles upstream from the city of Wilmington, I noticed a pair of ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-19 | Author:Edward Humes [Humes, Edward]

TRASHY DELUSIONS From a Garbage Project study for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on the Lean Cuisine syndrome (how people overestimate and underestimate their consumption of certain foods based on ...

epub |eng | | Author:Vaclav Smil [Smil, Vaclav]

Figure 19 James Watt’s steam engine (left) and detail of separate condenser (right) The typical power of Watt’s engines was about twenty-five horsepower (about 20 kW); the largest engines, built ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-22 | Author:Laurence C. Smith

Contrasting Patterns of Settlement The decision of Soviet planners to relocate millions of people and force the growth of giant cities across her coldest, most remote terrain has created one ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2010-08-03 | Author:Heidi Cullen

Perhaps because of what Gearheard, Pearce, and others have seen personally, many scientists believe that cultural preservation, along with housing and infrastructure improvements, is an important way to help the ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2005-10-14 | Author:David Dobbs

4 Even as he was composing his Chile notes, Darwin was turning his mind west. The Beagle, having finished its laborious survey of the South American coast, was making ready ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 1996-01-02 | Author:David Quammen

105 THESE CASES from Tasmania, Guam, Mauritius, and Hawaii are only a sample. Dozens more species, subspecies, and genetically discrete populations could be mentioned, all native to islands, all lost ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-05-14 | Author:Fred Pearce

We now know that two main ice sheets formed. One stretched from the British Isles across the North Sea and Scandinavia, and then west through Russia and western Siberia, and ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-05-05 | Author:Christian Parenti

From Guerrillas to Gangs Behind bars, the political radicals of Galeria B of Cândido Mendes Prison organized themselves and then united with the general-population inmates. The common criminals saw how ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-17 | Author:Alan Weisman

5. Beyond the Farm Rothamsted research scientist Paul Poulton stands in November drizzle, knee-deep in holly, surrounded by what will be around after human cultivation ceases. Born just a few ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-02-05 | Author:Mark Lynas

BOUNDARY SIX TOXICS There is perhaps no better illustration of the domestication of our world than how rapidly we are turning it into plastic. Plastics are everywhere. In the deepest ...

mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Carl Safina

By the start of the third week of June, one-third of the Gulf’s federal waters, 81,000 square miles, remain closed to fishing. And the Economist estimates that BP is on ...