What will remain of our plastic, cans, and other junk long after humans have vanished What kind of fossils will we leave, as relics into the far future? A blizzard of new objects has suddenly appeared on Earth: plastic bottles, ballpoint pens, concre...Loe edasi...
What will remain of our plastic, cans, and other junk long after humans have vanished What kind of fossils will we leave, as relics into the far future? A blizzard of new objects has suddenly appeared on Earth: plastic bottles, ballpoint pens, concre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2022, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192584748)
Alone in the known universe the Earth glows bright with life, a unique cosmic oasis of biodiversity which is now under threat from our own actions. The Earth is a unique as a living planet, a cosmic oasis drifting in the vastness of barren space. I...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-May-2022, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192584731)
Alone in the known universe the Earth glows bright with life, a unique cosmic oasis of biodiversity which is now under threat from our own actions. The Earth is a unique as a living planet, a cosmic oasis drifting in the vastness of barren space. I...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Nov-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191024733)
Volcanoes are some of the most dramatic expressions of the powerful tectonic forces at work in the Earth beneath our feet. But volcanism, a profoundly important feature of Earth, and indeed of other planets and moons too, encompasses much more than j...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Nov-2020, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191024726)
Volcanoes are some of the most dramatic expressions of the powerful tectonic forces at work in the Earth beneath our feet. But volcanism, a profoundly important feature of Earth, and indeed of other planets and moons too, encompasses much more than j...Loe edasi...
Julia Adeney Thomas, Mark Williams, Jan Zalasiewicz
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-Oct-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: John Wiley and Sons Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781509534616)
Humans rank with the powerful forces of nature transforming Earth. Since the mid-20th century, population growth, industrialization, and globalization have had such deep and wide-ranging impacts that our planet no longer functions as it did during th...Loe edasi...
Akeel Bilgrami, David Bromwich, Bina Gogineni, Nikolas Kompridis, Anthony Laden, Kyle Nichols, Joanna Picciotto, Robert Pollin, Jedediah Purdy, Sanjay G. Reddy...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jan-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231550901)
Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed...Loe edasi...
Akeel Bilgrami, David Bromwich, Bina Gogineni, Nikolas Kompridis, Anthony Laden, Kyle Nichols, Joanna Picciotto, Robert Pollin, Jedediah Purdy, Sanjay G. Reddy...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jan-2020, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231550901)
Today, as we confront an unprecedented environmental crisis of our own making, it is more urgent than ever to consider the notion of nature and our place within it. This book brings together essays that individually and as a whole present a detailed...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jul-2018, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192526632)
Ranging across the 4.6 billion year history of the planet, geology is the subject that encompasses almost all that we see around us, in one way or another, and also much that we cannot see, beneath our feet, and on other planets. The fruits of geolog...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Jun-2018, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192526625)
Ranging across the 4.6 billion year history of the planet, geology is the subject that encompasses almost all that we see around us, in one way or another, and also much that we cannot see, beneath our feet, and on other planets. The fruits of geolog...Loe edasi...
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Jan Zalasiewicz, Anne-Sophie Milon, Mateusz Zalasiewicz
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Apr-2018, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226395579)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffons The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les Epoques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of Russi...Loe edasi...
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Jan Zalasiewicz, Anne-Sophie Milon, Mateusz Zalasiewicz
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Apr-2018, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226395579)
Georges-Louis Leclerc, le comte de Buffons The Epochs of Nature, originally published as Les Epoques de la Nature in 1778, is one of the first great popular science books, a work of style and insight that was devoured by Catherine the Great of Russi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 13-Mar-2018, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192522467)
Over half a billion years ago life on earth took an incredible step in evolution, when animals learned to build skeletons. Using many different materials, from calcium carbonate and phosphate, and even silica, to make shell and bone, they started cre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Mar-2018, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192522450)
Over half a billion years ago life on earth took an incredible step in evolution, when animals learned to build skeletons. Using many different materials, from calcium carbonate and phosphate, and even silica, to make shell and bone, they started cre...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2016, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191038303)
Rocks, more than anything else, underpin our lives. They make up the solid structure of the Earth and of other rocky planets, and are present at the cores of gas giant planets. We live on the rocky surface of the planet, grow our food on weathered de...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2016, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191038310)
Rocks, more than anything else, underpin our lives. They make up the solid structure of the Earth and of other rocky planets, and are present at the cores of gas giant planets. We live on the rocky surface of the planet, grow our food on weathered de...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Oct-2014, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780191653568)
Oceans make up most of the surface of our blue planet. They may form just a sliver on the outside of the Earth, but they are very important, not only in hosting life, including the fish and other animals on which many humans depend, but in terms of t...Loe edasi...
