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, pdf |eng | | Author:Hansen, James [Hansen, James]

IN 2007, THE ENVIRONMENTALIST AND writer Bill McKibben began bugging me, very politely, to either confirm 450 parts per million as the appropriate target level of carbon dioxide in the ...

mobi |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:James Hansen

I am not sure that it is fair to say that it is a problem we must wrestle with. To assume that it is a problem is to assume that ...

mobi |eng | | Author:Spratt, David & Sutton, Philip [Spratt, David]

CHAPTER 17 When ‘Reasonable’ Is Not Enough In November 2007, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-Moon told the world that global warming is an emergency, and ‘for emergency situations we need emergency ...

mobi |eng | 2013-01-08 | Author:Chomsky, Noam [Chomsky, Noam]

There are indications that the cables WikiLeaks exposed about the dictatorship of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali in Tunisia had a big influence on the revolt there. It’s questionable. The leaks ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2008-12-14 | Author:R.A. Scotti

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 ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-10-19 | Author:Erik Larson

BOLIVAR POINT The Lost Train ABOUT NOON ON Saturday, two trains converged on Galveston, one from the north, the other from the east. The first train belonged to the Galveston, ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-03-11 | Author:Carl Hiaasen

"—doesn't give you the right to sabotage mine." Sabotage? A scalding accusation from mild-mannered Emma. Of all my schemes to rescue her from the newsroom, sabotage was never once contemplated. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-25 | Author:P.G. Wodehouse

12 In supposing that their heart-to-heart talk would cause Rupert Baxter to abandon his intention of making a public exposure of his machinations, Lord Ickenham had been correct. In his ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1999-09-23 | Author:Sebastian Junger

GRAVEYARD OF THE ATLANTIC In a few days the El Dorado expedition went into the patient wilderness, that closed upon it like the sea closes over a diver. Long afterwards ...

epub |eng | 2010-03-24 | Author:Russell Foster

8 TIMING REPRODUCTION IN HUMANS In the Spring a fuller crimson comes upon the robin’s breast; In the Spring the wanton lapwing gets himself another crest; In the Spring a ...

mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2010-08-02 | Author:Heidi Cullen [Cullen, Heidi]

In any case, Erik the Red must have been a good pitchman, because in 985 he led a fleet of twenty-five Viking longships to settle two new colonies on Greenland. ...

mobi, epub |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Parker, Geoffrey [Parker, Geoffrey]

16 Getting it Right: Early Tokugawa Japan1 The Pax Tokugawa EARLY IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY, THE FOREMOST JAPANESE CHRONICLER of his day rejoiced that ‘In this age, there are none ...

epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-04 | Author:Lee Sandlin [Sandlin, Lee]

11 Premonitory Symptoms In the early 1880s, curious flags began appearing in prominent places all over America. They were seen flying above post offices and railroad depots and weather stations—enormous ...

epub, mobi |eng | | Author:David Laskin

Ole and Charley had gotten the wagon loaded up with hay and were about half a mile from home when the storm overtook them. The wind came up so fast ...