Extraction To Extinction

Author : David Howe
Publisher : Saraband
ISBN 13 : 1915089638
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Extraction to Extinction written by David Howe and published by Saraband. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing our environmental impact through time, David Howe demonstrates how humanity’s exploitation of Earth’s natural resources has pushed our planet to its limit and asks: What’s next for our depleted planet? Everything we use started life in the earth, as a rock or a mineral vein, a layer of an ancient seabed, or perhaps the remains of a 400-million-year-old volcano. Humanity's ability to fashion nature to its own ends is by no means a new phenomenon—we have been inventing new ways to help ourselves to its bounty for tens of thousands of years. But today, we mine, quarry, pump, cut, blast, and crush Earth's resources at an unprecedented rate. We have become a dominant, even dangerous, force on the planet. In Extraction to Extinction, David Howe traces our impact through time to unearth how our obsession with endlessly producing and throwing away more and more stuff could destroy our planet. But is there still time to turn it around?

Author : Eugene F. Milone
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441980504
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Astronomical Photometry written by Eugene F. Milone and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will bring together experts in the field of astronomical photometry to discuss how their subfields provide the precision and accuracy in astronomical energy flux measurements that are needed to permit tests of astrophysical theories. Differential photometers and photometry, improvements in infrared precision, the improvements in precision and accuracy of CCD photometry, the absolute calibration of flux, the development of the Johnson UBVRI photometric system and other passband systems to measure and precisely classify specific types of stars and astrophysical quantities, and the current capabilities of spectrophotometry, and polarimetry to provide precise and accurate data, will all be discussed in this volume. The discussion of `differential’ or `two-star’ photometers will include those developed for planetary as well as stellar photometry and will range from the Princeton polarizing photometer through the pioneering work of Walraven to the differential photometers designed to measure the ashen light of Venus and to counter the effects of aurorae at high latitude sites; the last to be discussed will be the Rapid Alternate Detection System (RADS) developed at the University of Calgary in the 1980s.

Author : John Ogilvie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 710 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1534 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Author : Library of Congress. Office for Subject Cataloging Policy
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1548 pages
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Author : Library of Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1422 pages
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Author : Yves Arden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134831706
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge French Technical Dictionary Dictionnaire technique anglais written by Yves Arden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-03-21 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French-English volume of this highly acclaimed set consists of some 100,000 keywords in both French and English, drawn from the whole range of modern applied science and technical terminology. Covers over 70 subject areas, from engineering and chemistry to packaging, transportation, data processing and much more.

Author : Anthony D. Barnosky
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520292642
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dodging Extinction written by Anthony D. Barnosky and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-08-16 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paleobiologist Anthony D. Barnosky weaves together evidence from the deep past and the present to alert us to the looming Sixth Mass Extinction and to offer a practical, hopeful plan for avoiding it. Writing from the front lines of extinction research, Barnosky tells the overarching story of geologic and evolutionary history and how it informs the way humans inhabit, exploit, and impact Earth today. He presents compelling evidence that unless we rethink how we generate the power we use to run our global ecosystem, where we get our food, and how we make our money, we will trigger what would be the sixth great extinction on Earth, with dire consequences. Optimistic that we can change this ominous forecast if we act now, Barnosky provides clear-cut strategies to guide the planet away from global catastrophe. In many instances the necessary technology and know-how already exist and are being applied to crucial issues around human-caused climate change, feeding the world's growing population, and exploiting natural resources. Deeply informed yet accessibly written, Dodging Extinction is nothing short of a guidebook for saving the planet.

Author : Yves Arden
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415112249
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Routledge Dictionnaire Technique Anglais written by Yves Arden and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The French-English volume of this highly acclaimed set consists of some 100,000 keywords in both French and English, drawn from the whole range of modern applied science and technical terminology. Covers over 70 subject areas, from engineering and chemistry to packaging, transportation, data processing and much more.

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Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1258 pages
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