Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744055784
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Explore our planet through eye-popping maps showing you volcanoes and earthquakes, animals and fossils, climate change, railroads and space rockets, peoples and history. This unique encyclopedia provides the complete picture of planet Earth as you've never seen it before, showcased in stunning photography and state-of-the-art maps. You'll discover exactly what is happening across the continents in six diverse chapters covering the Earth, the living world, people and planet, engineering and technology, history, and culture. On this endless adventure you'll climb the tallest buildings, swim the longest rivers, and travel back in time to see ancient wonders in all their glory. You'll come face to face with the deadliest creatures, dive down to underwater shipwrecks, and take charge of air traffic control. Where on Earth introduces colorful 3-D maps to bring each and every page to life in unprecedented detail. This is the perfect reference to earn top grades in a school project, but if you're eager to set off on a round-the-world trip, put away your passport and download this ebook instead.
Where on Earth?
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744055784
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Explore our planet through eye-popping maps showing you volcanoes and earthquakes, animals and fossils, climate change, railroads and space rockets, peoples and history. This unique encyclopedia provides the complete picture of planet Earth as you've never seen it before, showcased in stunning photography and state-of-the-art maps. You'll discover exactly what is happening across the continents in six diverse chapters covering the Earth, the living world, people and planet, engineering and technology, history, and culture. On this endless adventure you'll climb the tallest buildings, swim the longest rivers, and travel back in time to see ancient wonders in all their glory. You'll come face to face with the deadliest creatures, dive down to underwater shipwrecks, and take charge of air traffic control. Where on Earth introduces colorful 3-D maps to bring each and every page to life in unprecedented detail. This is the perfect reference to earn top grades in a school project, but if you're eager to set off on a round-the-world trip, put away your passport and download this ebook instead.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744055784
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Explore our planet through eye-popping maps showing you volcanoes and earthquakes, animals and fossils, climate change, railroads and space rockets, peoples and history. This unique encyclopedia provides the complete picture of planet Earth as you've never seen it before, showcased in stunning photography and state-of-the-art maps. You'll discover exactly what is happening across the continents in six diverse chapters covering the Earth, the living world, people and planet, engineering and technology, history, and culture. On this endless adventure you'll climb the tallest buildings, swim the longest rivers, and travel back in time to see ancient wonders in all their glory. You'll come face to face with the deadliest creatures, dive down to underwater shipwrecks, and take charge of air traffic control. Where on Earth introduces colorful 3-D maps to bring each and every page to life in unprecedented detail. This is the perfect reference to earn top grades in a school project, but if you're eager to set off on a round-the-world trip, put away your passport and download this ebook instead.
Author:
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119798582
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119798582
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Fundamentals of Physics, Volume 1
Author: David Halliday
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119801192
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Renowned for its interactive focus on conceptual understanding, its superlative problem-solving instruction, and emphasis on reasoning skills, the Fundamentals of Physics: Volume 1, 12th Edition, is an industry-leading resource in physics teaching. With expansive, insightful, and accessible treatments of a wide variety of subjects, including straight line motion, measurement, vectors, and kinetic energy, the book is an invaluable reference for physics educators and students. In the first volume of this two-volume set, the authors discuss subjects including gravitation, wave theory, entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and more.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119801192
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 722
Book Description
Renowned for its interactive focus on conceptual understanding, its superlative problem-solving instruction, and emphasis on reasoning skills, the Fundamentals of Physics: Volume 1, 12th Edition, is an industry-leading resource in physics teaching. With expansive, insightful, and accessible treatments of a wide variety of subjects, including straight line motion, measurement, vectors, and kinetic energy, the book is an invaluable reference for physics educators and students. In the first volume of this two-volume set, the authors discuss subjects including gravitation, wave theory, entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics, and more.
Fundamentals of Physics
Author: David Halliday
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119801141
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1314
Book Description
Renowned for its interactive focus on conceptual understanding, its superlative problem-solving instruction, and emphasis on reasoning skills, the Fundamentals of Physics, 12th Edition, is an industry-leading resource in physics teaching. With expansive, insightful, and accessible treatments of a wide variety of subjects, including straight line motion, measurement, vectors, and kinetic energy, the book is an invaluable reference for physics educators and students.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119801141
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1314
Book Description
Renowned for its interactive focus on conceptual understanding, its superlative problem-solving instruction, and emphasis on reasoning skills, the Fundamentals of Physics, 12th Edition, is an industry-leading resource in physics teaching. With expansive, insightful, and accessible treatments of a wide variety of subjects, including straight line motion, measurement, vectors, and kinetic energy, the book is an invaluable reference for physics educators and students.
The Sciences
Author: James Trefil
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119049687
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
This text is an unbound, three hole punched version. The Sciences: An Integrated Approach, Binder Ready Version, 8th Edition by James Trefil and Robert Hazen uses an approach that recognizes that science forms a seamless web of knowledge about the universe. This text fully integrates physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth sciences, and biology and emphasizes general principles and their application to real- world situations. The goal of the text is to help students achieve scientific literacy. Applauded by students and instructors for its easy-to-read style and detail appropriate for non-science majors, the eighth edition has been updated to bring the most up-to-date coverage to the students in all areas of science.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119049687
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 640
Book Description
This text is an unbound, three hole punched version. The Sciences: An Integrated Approach, Binder Ready Version, 8th Edition by James Trefil and Robert Hazen uses an approach that recognizes that science forms a seamless web of knowledge about the universe. This text fully integrates physics, chemistry, astronomy, earth sciences, and biology and emphasizes general principles and their application to real- world situations. The goal of the text is to help students achieve scientific literacy. Applauded by students and instructors for its easy-to-read style and detail appropriate for non-science majors, the eighth edition has been updated to bring the most up-to-date coverage to the students in all areas of science.
The Measurement of Gravitomagnetism
Author: Lorenzo Iorio
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781600210020
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book is intended to give an updated overview on the state-of-the art of the theoretical and experimental efforts aimed to detect the elusive Lense-Thirring effect in the gravitational field of the Earth. The reader, after a robust introduction to the historical (Chapter 2) and theoretical (Chapters 3-5) aspects of the subject, will get acquainted with the subtleties required to design suitable observables which are able to sufficiently enhance the signal-to-noise ratio. Moreover, he/she should be able to follow autonomously the exciting developments which, hopefully, will take place in the near future if and when reliable few percent tests of this prediction of general relativity should become available. In an Earth-space based experiment with artificial satellites a good compromise between the need of reducing the impact of the systematic errors of gravitational origin and of non-gravitational origin must be obtained; this is not an easy task because such requirements are often in conflict one with each other. Consequently, a great attention is paid to elucidate many classical perturbing effects which, if not carefully modelled and accounted for in the data analysis, may alias the recovery of the gravitomagnetic signature. Indeed, we are dealing with a fundamental test of general relativity which must be honest, robust and based on solid error analysis. A critical and detailed discussion of the latest test with the LAGEOS satellites is included. The book will also be useful for better understanding the interplay among various geodetic, geophysical, general relativistic, astronomical and matter-wave interferometric effects which occurs in the weak-field and slow-motion approximation and which will become increasingly important in the near future thanks to the improvements in the accuracy of the orbital reconstruction process.
Publisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781600210020
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
This book is intended to give an updated overview on the state-of-the art of the theoretical and experimental efforts aimed to detect the elusive Lense-Thirring effect in the gravitational field of the Earth. The reader, after a robust introduction to the historical (Chapter 2) and theoretical (Chapters 3-5) aspects of the subject, will get acquainted with the subtleties required to design suitable observables which are able to sufficiently enhance the signal-to-noise ratio. Moreover, he/she should be able to follow autonomously the exciting developments which, hopefully, will take place in the near future if and when reliable few percent tests of this prediction of general relativity should become available. In an Earth-space based experiment with artificial satellites a good compromise between the need of reducing the impact of the systematic errors of gravitational origin and of non-gravitational origin must be obtained; this is not an easy task because such requirements are often in conflict one with each other. Consequently, a great attention is paid to elucidate many classical perturbing effects which, if not carefully modelled and accounted for in the data analysis, may alias the recovery of the gravitomagnetic signature. Indeed, we are dealing with a fundamental test of general relativity which must be honest, robust and based on solid error analysis. A critical and detailed discussion of the latest test with the LAGEOS satellites is included. The book will also be useful for better understanding the interplay among various geodetic, geophysical, general relativistic, astronomical and matter-wave interferometric effects which occurs in the weak-field and slow-motion approximation and which will become increasingly important in the near future thanks to the improvements in the accuracy of the orbital reconstruction process.
Earth Center
Author: Sai Bhaskar Reddy Nakka
Publisher: SAI BHASKAR REDDY NAKKA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Earth originated about 4.5 billion years ago, the first life evolved around 3.7 billion years ago. The Homo sapiens have lived since about 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. Massive and radical disastrous changes in the ecosystems have been happening due to the activities of ever growing human population sustenance. Last 150 years had been very disastrous for the earth due to the activities of human beings. Anyone desiring honour and respect should not forget the basis of ones existence. As human beings one need to show reverence to the three fundamental things a reason for ones existence on earth. Mother Earth Ancestral Lineage Biodiversity Such earth centers play a key role in bringing together all the people living in villages for a common purpose of presenting themselves as one community, with common heritage and values. They would be the sacred places which promote peace, harmony, well-being and happiness among the communities. The pride and honour of the local communities also improve. There is also scope as resource centers for knowledge sharing, capacity building, reinforce traditional values, awareness, sensitization and networking with other earth centers with common objectives. Any person by visiting a number of earth centers would value the earth resources and respect mother earth. Finally one would believe, mother earth is one, and it is for all, to coexist with least impact for peace and harmony. For the future generations they would leave a strong message to adopt sustainable development solutions. These are the centers by the people for sustainability. All those involved in the establishment and sustenance of earth centers are the earth leaders. Each earth center evolves to as per the aspirations of the local communities. The ideas shared in this book are not limited to a particular geographic region of place. The author visited several villages, and in each village, as per the convenience and resources they are planning their centers.
Publisher: SAI BHASKAR REDDY NAKKA
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Earth originated about 4.5 billion years ago, the first life evolved around 3.7 billion years ago. The Homo sapiens have lived since about 200,000 to 300,000 years ago. Massive and radical disastrous changes in the ecosystems have been happening due to the activities of ever growing human population sustenance. Last 150 years had been very disastrous for the earth due to the activities of human beings. Anyone desiring honour and respect should not forget the basis of ones existence. As human beings one need to show reverence to the three fundamental things a reason for ones existence on earth. Mother Earth Ancestral Lineage Biodiversity Such earth centers play a key role in bringing together all the people living in villages for a common purpose of presenting themselves as one community, with common heritage and values. They would be the sacred places which promote peace, harmony, well-being and happiness among the communities. The pride and honour of the local communities also improve. There is also scope as resource centers for knowledge sharing, capacity building, reinforce traditional values, awareness, sensitization and networking with other earth centers with common objectives. Any person by visiting a number of earth centers would value the earth resources and respect mother earth. Finally one would believe, mother earth is one, and it is for all, to coexist with least impact for peace and harmony. For the future generations they would leave a strong message to adopt sustainable development solutions. These are the centers by the people for sustainability. All those involved in the establishment and sustenance of earth centers are the earth leaders. Each earth center evolves to as per the aspirations of the local communities. The ideas shared in this book are not limited to a particular geographic region of place. The author visited several villages, and in each village, as per the convenience and resources they are planning their centers.
Beaches and Coasts
Author: Richard A. Davis, Jr.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119334489
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A new edition of a unique textbook that provides an exhaustive treatment of the world's different coasts—with focus on climate change sea-level rise Coastlines of the world are as diverse and complex as any geological setting on Earth, and understanding them is extremely important. Beaches and Coasts, Second Edition is an exciting and unique textbook that covers the world’s different coasts and details the highly varied processes that have shaped them. This new edition emphasizes the future susceptibility of coast to climate driven stresses and decreasing sediment supplies, and considers various aspects of coastal management that are and/or that need to be undertaken. Seeking to better educate students and readers about the sustainability of coast and coastal environments, this exciting and unique book offers enlightening coverage of: the Earth’s mobile crust; sediments of coastal environments; impacts of sea level change; weather systems and the effects of storms; the influence of wave energy and different tidal regimes; river deltas; coastal bays; estuaries and lagoons; tidal flats; coastal wetlands; beach and nearshore areas; coastal barriers; tidal inlets; glaciated coasts; and rocky coasts. Takes an extensive look at the world's varied coasts and covers the many processes that have shaped them over time Shows how coastal processes and landform evolution are expected to be impacted by climate change Includes new coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the 2005 flooding of New Orleans, Hurricane Sandy and its affect on New York and the earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean and Tohoku Lavishly illustrated with over 400 color photographs and figures Draws on a wealth of author experience that broadens the content of chapters and provides for numerous and varied examples Beaches and Coasts, Second Edition is an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate students of coastal geology, coastal processes and coastal environments.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119334489
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A new edition of a unique textbook that provides an exhaustive treatment of the world's different coasts—with focus on climate change sea-level rise Coastlines of the world are as diverse and complex as any geological setting on Earth, and understanding them is extremely important. Beaches and Coasts, Second Edition is an exciting and unique textbook that covers the world’s different coasts and details the highly varied processes that have shaped them. This new edition emphasizes the future susceptibility of coast to climate driven stresses and decreasing sediment supplies, and considers various aspects of coastal management that are and/or that need to be undertaken. Seeking to better educate students and readers about the sustainability of coast and coastal environments, this exciting and unique book offers enlightening coverage of: the Earth’s mobile crust; sediments of coastal environments; impacts of sea level change; weather systems and the effects of storms; the influence of wave energy and different tidal regimes; river deltas; coastal bays; estuaries and lagoons; tidal flats; coastal wetlands; beach and nearshore areas; coastal barriers; tidal inlets; glaciated coasts; and rocky coasts. Takes an extensive look at the world's varied coasts and covers the many processes that have shaped them over time Shows how coastal processes and landform evolution are expected to be impacted by climate change Includes new coverage of Hurricane Katrina and the 2005 flooding of New Orleans, Hurricane Sandy and its affect on New York and the earthquake and tsunami in the Indian Ocean and Tohoku Lavishly illustrated with over 400 color photographs and figures Draws on a wealth of author experience that broadens the content of chapters and provides for numerous and varied examples Beaches and Coasts, Second Edition is an excellent text for undergraduate and graduate students of coastal geology, coastal processes and coastal environments.
Divine Soul Songs
Author: Zhi Gang Sha
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439169721
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Divine Soul Songs carry divine frequency and vibration, with divine love, forgiveness, compassion, and light. Millions are searching for soul secrets, wisdom, knowledge, and practices to fulfill their spiritual journeys. They want to know the purpose of life. They want their spiritual journeys to be deeply blessed. They also want to transform their physical lives. They want health. They want happiness. They want to prolong life. They want good relationships. They want financial abundance. The Divine Soul Songs offered in this book can transform every aspect of your life. They are treasures to be used for healing, rejuvenation, and purification of your soul, heart, mind, and body, and the souls, hearts, minds, and bodies of others. Every book in the Soul Power Series offers new teachings to empower readers to do soul selfhealing and more, but this book has more practical exercises than any other. Here Dr. Sha gives you the experience of a live Divine Soul Songs workshop with him. He presents these treasures in such a simple and practical way that you'll soon experience profound results. Enjoy them. Practice them. Benefit from them. Use these divine treasures to serve yourself, your loved ones, and others.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1439169721
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Divine Soul Songs carry divine frequency and vibration, with divine love, forgiveness, compassion, and light. Millions are searching for soul secrets, wisdom, knowledge, and practices to fulfill their spiritual journeys. They want to know the purpose of life. They want their spiritual journeys to be deeply blessed. They also want to transform their physical lives. They want health. They want happiness. They want to prolong life. They want good relationships. They want financial abundance. The Divine Soul Songs offered in this book can transform every aspect of your life. They are treasures to be used for healing, rejuvenation, and purification of your soul, heart, mind, and body, and the souls, hearts, minds, and bodies of others. Every book in the Soul Power Series offers new teachings to empower readers to do soul selfhealing and more, but this book has more practical exercises than any other. Here Dr. Sha gives you the experience of a live Divine Soul Songs workshop with him. He presents these treasures in such a simple and practical way that you'll soon experience profound results. Enjoy them. Practice them. Benefit from them. Use these divine treasures to serve yourself, your loved ones, and others.
Define Universe and Give Two Examples
Author: Barton E. Dahneke
Publisher: Barton Dahneke
ISBN: 9780966085884
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description
Publisher: Barton Dahneke
ISBN: 9780966085884
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 692
Book Description