[PDF] Hemispheric Giants eBook

Author : Britta H. Crandall
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 2011-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1442207892

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This comprehensive book traces the full arc of U.S.-Brazilian bilateral relations over time. Despite the common critique of U.S. "neglect" of Brazil, Britta H. Crandall convincingly shows that the relationship has been marked by mutual, ongoing policy engagement. To be sure, different relative power positions and foreign policy traditions have limited high-level bilateral engagement. However, Crandall argues convincingly that the diminishing power disparity between the United States and Brazil is leading to closer ties in the twenty-first century—a trend that will bring about growing cooperation as well as competition in the future.

Author : Britta H. Crandall
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 47,96 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Latin America
ISBN : 0300248105

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An accessible course book on U.S.-Latin American relations

Author : David R. Schiel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520278860

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The largest seaweed, giant kelp (Macrocystis) is the fastest growing and most prolific of all plants found on earth. Growing from the seafloor and extending along the ocean surface in lush canopies, giant kelp provides an extensive vertical habitat in a largely two-dimensional seascape. It is the foundation for one of the most species-rich, productive, and widely distributed ecological communities in the world. Schiel and FosterÕs scholarly review and synthesisÊtake the reader from DarwinÕs early observations to contemporary research, providing a historical perspective for the modern understanding of giant kelp evolution, biogeography, biology, and physiology. The authors furnish a comprehensive discussion of kelp species and forest ecology worldwide, with considerations of human uses and abuses, management and conservation, and the current and likely future impacts of global change. This volume promises to be the definitive treatise and reference on giant kelp and its forests for many years, and it will appeal to marine scientists and others who want a better appreciation and understanding of these wondrous forests of the sea.

Author : Marshall Cavendish Reference
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Mammals
ISBN : 9780761479376

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Colorful artworks, photographs, and range maps enhance coverage of taxonomy, anatomy, behavior, habitat, and survival of various mammals in the southern hemisphere.

Author : Marshall Cavendish
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 2011-01-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 076149961X

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Contains colorful artwork, photographs, and range maps that enhance coverage of taxonomy, anatomy, behavior, habitat, and survival.

Author : Michael Carroll
Publisher : Springer
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319106740

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The outer Solar System is rich in resources and may be the best region in which to search for life beyond Earth. In fact, it may ultimately be the best place for Earthlings to set up permanent abodes. This book surveys the feasibility of that prospect, covering the fascinating history of exploration that kicks off our adventure into the outer Solar System. Although other books provide surveys of the outer planets, Carroll approaches it from the perspective of potential future human exploration, exploitation and settlement, using insights from today’s leading scientists in the field. These experts take us to targets such as the moons Titan, Triton, Enceladus, Iapetus and Europa, and within the atmospheres of the gas and ice giants. In these pages you will experience the thrill of discovery awaiting those who journey through the giant worlds and their moons. All the latest research is included, as are numerous illustrations, among them original paintings by the author, a renowned prize-winning space artist.

Author : Bill McGuire
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 17,56 MB
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 0191633887

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Twenty thousand years ago our planet was an icehouse. Temperatures were down six degrees; ice sheets kilometres thick buried much of Europe and North America and sea levels were 130m lower. The following 15 millennia saw an astonishing transformation as our planet metamorphosed into the temperate world upon which our civilisation has grown and thrived. One of the most dynamic periods in Earth history saw rocketing temperatures melt the great ice sheets like butter on a hot summer's day; feeding torrents of freshwater into ocean basins that rapidly filled to present levels. The removal of the enormous weight of ice at high latitudes caused the crust to bounce back triggering earthquakes in Europe and North America and provoking an unprecedented volcanic outburst in Iceland. A giant submarine landslide off the coast of Norway sent a tsunami crashing onto the Scottish coast while around the margins of the continents the massive load exerted on the crust by soaring sea levels encouraged a widespread seismic and volcanic rejoinder. In many ways, this post-glacial world mirrors that projected to arise as a consequence of unmitigated climate change driven by human activities. Already there are signs that the effects of climbing global temperatures are causing the sleeping giant to stir once again. Could it be that we are on track to bequeath to our children and their children not only a far hotter world, but also a more geologically fractious one?