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Author : Jan Zalasiewicz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 11,35 MB
Release : 2012-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 0199645698
"Every pebble has many stories to tell. Its particular atoms, its crystals, its minerals, its grains, its textures, its strata, its tiny fossils bear evidence to a history that stretches back billions of years."--Book flap.
Author : Isaac Asimov
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 28,77 MB
Release : 2010-04-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429968192
One moment Joseph Schwartz is a happily retired tailor in Chicago, 1949. The next he's a helpless stranger on Earth during the heyday of the first Galactic Empire. Earth, as he soon learns, is a backwater, just a pebble in the sky, despised by all the other 200 million planets of the Empire because its people dare to claim it's the original home of man. And Earth is poor, with great areas of radioactivity ruining much of its soil--so poor that everyone is sentenced to death at the age of sixty. Joseph Schwartz is sixty-two. This is young Isaac Asimov's first novel, full of wonders and ideas, the book that launched the novels of the Galactic Empire, culminating in the Foundation series. This is Golden Age SF at its finest. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Ellen Labrecque
Publisher : Pebble
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 27,39 MB
Release : 2019-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1977108482
"You are here: Universe - Milky Way Galaxy - Solar System - Third Planet from the Sun, Earth. Our place in the universe determines what we see in the night sky and the length of every day. Help students learn how the patterns they see fit into the grand scheme of the universe. Connect directly to the Next Generation Science Standards to answer this big question: What is the universe, and what is Earth's place in it?"--
Author : Jan Zalasiewicz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 49,46 MB
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199683506
Presents a history of climate to reveal that the climatic changes happening hardly compare to the changes the Earth has seen over the last 4.5 billion years.
Author : Jan Zalasiewicz
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 18,19 MB
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0199214980
If aliens came to Earth 100 millions years in the future, what traces would they find of long-extinct humanity's brief reign on the planet? This engaging and thought-provoking account looks at what our species will leave behind, buried deep in the rock strata, and provides us with a warning of our devastating environmental impact.
Author : Martin Pessah
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319606093
This book's interdisciplinary scope aims at bridging various communities: 1) cosmochemists, who study meteoritic samples from our own solar system, 2) (sub-) millimetre astronomers, who measure the distribution of dust and gas of star-forming regions and planet-forming discs, 3) disc modellers, who describe the complex photo-chemical structure of parametric discs to fit these to observation, 4) computational astrophysicists, who attempt to decipher the dynamical structure of magnetised gaseous discs, and the effects the resulting internal structure has on the aerodynamic re-distribution of embedded solids, 5) theoreticians in planet formation theory, who aim to piece it all together eventually arriving at a coherent holistic picture of the architectures of planetary systems discovered by 6) the exoplanet observers, who provide us with unprecedented samples of exoplanet worlds. Combining these diverse fields the book sheds light onto the riddles that research on planet formation is currently confronted with, and paves the way for a comprehensive understanding of the formation, evolution, and dynamics of young solar systems. The chapters ‘Chondrules – Ubiquitous Chondritic Solids Tracking the Evolution of the Solar Protoplanetary Disk’, ‘Dust Coagulation with Porosity Evolution’ and ‘The Emerging Paradigm of Pebble Accretion’ are published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license via link.springer.com.
Author : David Beerling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 2017-05-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 0192529781
Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world, shaping the environment throughout history as much as that environment has shaped them. In The Emerald Planet, David Beerling puts plants centre stage, revealing the crucial role they have played in driving global changes in the environment, in recording hidden facets of Earth's history, and in helping us to predict its future. His account draws together evidence from fossil plants, from experiments with their living counterparts, and from computer models of the 'Earth System', to illuminate the history of our planet and its biodiversity. This new approach reveals how plummeting carbon dioxide levels removed a barrier to the evolution of the leaf; how plants played a starring role in pushing oxygen levels upwards, allowing spectacular giant insects to thrive in the Carboniferous; and it strengthens fascinating and contentious fossil evidence for an ancient hole in the ozone layer. Along the way, Beerling introduces a lively cast of pioneering scientists from Victorian times onwards whose discoveries provided the crucial background to these and the other puzzles. This understanding of our planet's past sheds a sobering light on our own climate-changing activities, and offers clues to what our climatic and ecological futures might look like. There could be no more important time to take a close look at plants, and to understand the history of the world through the stories they tell. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.
Author : David J. Conrad
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 44,1 MB
Release : 2019-05-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1496624882
From telescopes to rockets to robots, see all the ways people have explored space. Where will space exploration take us next?
Author : Catherine Ipcizade
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 2010-02
Category : Giraffe
ISBN : 1429648805
Discusses the characteristics and habits of giraffes.
Author : Rafael Rebolo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 19,83 MB
Release : 2000-11-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521663359
This volume provides a state-of-the-art review of our current knowledge of brown dwarfs and very low-mass stars. The hunt for and study of these elusive objects is currently one of the most dynamic areas of research in astronomy for two reasons. Brown dwarfs bridge the gap between stars and planets, and they may constitute an important part of the 'dark matter' of the Universe. This volume presents review articles from a team of international authorities who gathered at a conference in La Palma to assess the spectacular progress that has been made in this field in the last few years.