The Green Marble

Author : David Turner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231542844
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Green Marble written by David Turner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have difficulty thinking at the global scale. Yet as we come to understand our planet as a single, interconnected, complex system and encounter compelling evidence of human impact on Earth’s climate and biosphere, the need for a truly global effort is increasingly urgent. In this concise and accessible text, David P. Turner presents an overview of global environmental change and a synthesis of research and ideas from the rapidly evolving fields of earth system science and sustainability science that is suitable for anyone interested in humanity’s current predicaments and what we can do about them. The Green Marble examines Earth’s past, contemporary human disruption, and the prospects for global environmental governance. Turner emphasizes the functioning of the biosphere—the totality of life on Earth—including its influence on geologic history, its sensitivity to human impacts, and its possible role in ameliorating climate change. Relying on models of the earth system that synthesize vast amounts of monitoring information and recent research on biophysical processes, The Green Marble describes a range of scenarios for our planetary home, exploring the effects of anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions and factors such as economic globalization. Turner juxtaposes cutting-edge ideas from both the geosciences and the social sciences to illustrate how humanity has arrived upon its current dangerous trajectory, and how we might pull back from the brink of civilization-challenging environmental change. Growing out of the author’s popular course on global environmental change, The Green Marble is accessible to non-science majors and provides a framework for understanding the complex relationship of humanity to the global environment.

Author : William Faulkner
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0307873803
Total Pages : 107 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Marble Faun and A Green Bough written by William Faulkner and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published early in the author’s legendary career and collected here in a single illuminating volume, these are William Faulkner’s only two works of poetry: The Marble Faun (1924) and A Green Bough (1933). “These are primarily the poems of youth and a simple heart. They are the poems of a mind that reacts directly to sunlight and trees and skies and blue hills, reacts without evasion or self-consciousness. They are drenched in sunlight and color as is the land in which they were written, the land which gave birth and sustenance to their author. He has roots in this soil as surely and inevitably as has a tree. . . . The author of these poems is a man steeped in the soil of his native land, a Southerner by every instinct, and, more than that, a Mississippian. George Moor sad that all universal art became great by first being provincial, and the sunlight and mocking-birds and blue hills of North Mississippi are a part of this young man’s very being.”—from the preface to The Marble Faun, by Phil Stone

Author : Margaret Wise Brown
Publisher : HarperFestival
ISBN 13 : 9780694000036
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Goodnight Moon Room: A Pop-Up Book written by Margaret Wise Brown and published by HarperFestival. This book was released on 1985-10-22 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before going to sleep, a little rabbit says goodnight to all his familiar possessions, as his big, green bedroom slowly darkens. On board pages.

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 748 pages
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Author : Frank Lester Greene
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
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Download or read book Vermont, the Green Mountain State written by Frank Lester Greene and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Total Pages : 728 pages
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Download or read book Stone written by and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frederick Bradley
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393730746
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fine Marble In Architechture written by Frederick Bradley and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marble has always been the most elegant and beautiful structural material. Its near-immortal endurance led to its use in religious and monumental works in ancient times; it is still prized for its strength as well as its infinitely decorative character." "This book traces the history of its use and provides valuable information on the characteristics of various premium marbles: their esthetic features and defects, physical-mechanical characteristics, and how they are commonly worked and used. Aimed at bridging the gap between designers not necessarily expert in the marble industry and suppliers/producers, the book explains the terminology and classification of marble and provides information on the availability and sources of materials."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : David Green
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marble Mountain Wilderness written by David Green and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Salmon and Klamath rivers surround glacial basins and old-growth forests. Directions to trailheads and trail descriptions with information on the area's abundant wildlife and unique plants. Comes with a folded 15-minute topo map.

Author : Ernest Francis Burchard
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marble Resources of Southeastern Alaska written by Ernest Francis Burchard and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: