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The Earth: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) by Martin Redfern
epub, mobi |eng | 2003-06-25 | Author:Martin Redfern [Redfern, Martin]

Drilling the seas From 1968 the ocean floor was sampled directly and scientifically by the US-led Deep Sea Drilling Program using a drilling vessel named the Glomar Challenger. This was ...
( Category: Regional December 20,2015 )
The Dictionary of Human Geography by Michael Watts
epub |eng | 2009-06-21 | Author:Michael Watts [Watts, Michael]

Lamarck(ian)ism A theory of evolutionary change originating with the French naturalist Jean Baptiste de Lamarck (1744 1829). A non Darwinian doctrine of organic progres sion, early Lamarckism differed significantly from ...
( Category: Regional November 21,2015 )
Cartographies of Time by Daniel Rosenberg
epub |eng, eng | 2012-08-28 | Author:Daniel Rosenberg

[11] * * * J. Pearson’s Historical and Astronomical Diagram from 1846 is marked out at regular one-year intervals from 31 BCE to 37 CE. Pearson strives to correct William ...
( Category: Historic November 9,2015 )
The Making of Modern Japan by Marius B. Jansen
epub, pdf |eng | 2002-09-30 | Author:Marius B. Jansen [Jansen, Marius B.]

446 The Making of Modern Japan 6. The Meiji Empire, 1910. Japan secured possession of the Kurils in 1875, asserted full control over Ryukyu in 1879, acquired Taiwan after the ...
( Category: Regional November 8,2015 )
The Measure of All Things by Ken Alder
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ken Alder

All that remained was to boil down those concatenated results into a single number: the meter. For the next few weeks, each commissioner calculated independently, using his own preferred method. ...
( Category: Geography October 13,2015 )
An Introduction to Indian Philosophy by Gupta Bina
epub |eng | | Author:Gupta, Bina

Viśeṣa (Particularity) Things not only are experienced as being alike, they are also perceived as being different, and even when they share the same qualities they are distinct, e.g., though ...
( Category: Regional October 3,2015 )
The Song of the Dodo by David Quammen
epub, mobi | | | Author:David Quammen [Quammen, David]

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 ...
( Category: Geography June 12,2015 )
Forest Prairie Edge by Merle Massie
epub |eng | 2014-04-07 | Author:Merle Massie

Commercial Fishing Overland freighting tied in with burgeoning commercial fisheries. In fact, the growth of fishing as a commercial enterprise led to an intriguing shift in freighting contracts. Hauling fish ...
( Category: Historic June 12,2015 )
The Illustrated Longitude by Dava Sobel; William J. H. Andrewes
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 )
The Discovery of France by Graham Robb
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 )
Landmarks by Robert Macfarlane
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 )
Unruly Places by Alastair Bonnett
epub |eng | 2015-04-02 | Author:Alastair Bonnett

Bright Light, 4 Mures Street, Bucharest 44° 28′ 04″ N, 26° 02′ 45″ E Number 4 Mures Street is an off-white single-story office building with plenty of large windows. It’s ...
( Category: Historic April 7,2015 )
The Best Australian Sea Stories by Jim Haynes
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-10-14 | Author:Jim Haynes

The amazing Mr Swallow The runaways who actually did make it to China did so aboard a 110-ton, two-masted brig called the Cyprus. During August 1829, Cyprus was anchored up ...
( Category: Oceans & Seas April 5,2015 )
The Generalissimo by Taylor Jay
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 )
The Making of the British Landscape by Pryor Francis
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 )

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