Author: Jay Dale
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1515749681
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Africa is an amazing continent! Discover Africa's people, places, animals, and landforms. Connect to the fiction text pair,ÊThe Tortoise and the Birds.
The Amazing Continent of Africa
Author: Jay Dale
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1515749681
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Africa is an amazing continent! Discover Africa's people, places, animals, and landforms. Connect to the fiction text pair,ÊThe Tortoise and the Birds.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1515749681
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 27
Book Description
Africa is an amazing continent! Discover Africa's people, places, animals, and landforms. Connect to the fiction text pair,ÊThe Tortoise and the Birds.
Dispatches from Continent Seven
Author: Rebecca Priestley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927249055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Since British explorer James Cook first circumnavigated Antarctica in the late 18th century, the white continent has exerted a powerful attraction. There is no permanent human habitation, and no mercy from the raw, relentless elements, yet for nearly 200 years explorers and scientists have been drawn to work and sometimes risk their lives here. Rebecca Priestley's landmark anthology reveals the numerous scientific discoveries that have been made, from how sea creatures survive in the freezing waters, to the continent's extraordinary proliferation of meteorites and the startling revelations of its fossils. In the early days, nations vied to establish a presence on the continent to try and claim its resources. Today scientists track the arrival of space particles and examine ice cores, sea-floor sediments and rocks hewn by glaciers to better understand our universe, uncover the story of climate change, and learn how a land once covered in forests became a frozen desert. More than an anthology, this unique book is a thrilling journey through time as explorers and scientists unravel the mysteries of Earth's last great wilderness.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781927249055
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Since British explorer James Cook first circumnavigated Antarctica in the late 18th century, the white continent has exerted a powerful attraction. There is no permanent human habitation, and no mercy from the raw, relentless elements, yet for nearly 200 years explorers and scientists have been drawn to work and sometimes risk their lives here. Rebecca Priestley's landmark anthology reveals the numerous scientific discoveries that have been made, from how sea creatures survive in the freezing waters, to the continent's extraordinary proliferation of meteorites and the startling revelations of its fossils. In the early days, nations vied to establish a presence on the continent to try and claim its resources. Today scientists track the arrival of space particles and examine ice cores, sea-floor sediments and rocks hewn by glaciers to better understand our universe, uncover the story of climate change, and learn how a land once covered in forests became a frozen desert. More than an anthology, this unique book is a thrilling journey through time as explorers and scientists unravel the mysteries of Earth's last great wilderness.
Antarctica
Author: David McGonigal
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
An Illustrated guide to Antarctica's environment, geography, wildlife, and history.
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Limited
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
An Illustrated guide to Antarctica's environment, geography, wildlife, and history.
Antarctica
Author: Gabrielle Walker
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547536976
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
The acclaimed science writer presents a wide-ranging exploration of Antarctica’s history, nature, and global significance in this “rollicking good read” (Kirkus). From the early expeditions of Ernest Shackleton to David Attenborough’s documentary series Frozen Planet, the continent of Antarctica has captured the world’s imagination. After the Antarctic Treaty of 1961, decades of scientific research revealed the true extent of its many mysteries. Now former Nature magazine staff writer Gabrielle Walker tells the full story of Antarctica—from its fascinating history to its uncertain future and the international teams of researchers who brave its forbidding climate. Drawing on her broad travels across the continent, Walker weaves all the significant threads of life on the vast ice sheet into a multifaceted narrative, illuminating what it really feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people. She chronicles cutting-edge science experiments, visits to the South Pole, and unsettling portents about our future in an age of global warming. “We are all anxious Antarctic watchers now, and Walker's book is the essential primer.”—The Guardian, UK
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 0547536976
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
The acclaimed science writer presents a wide-ranging exploration of Antarctica’s history, nature, and global significance in this “rollicking good read” (Kirkus). From the early expeditions of Ernest Shackleton to David Attenborough’s documentary series Frozen Planet, the continent of Antarctica has captured the world’s imagination. After the Antarctic Treaty of 1961, decades of scientific research revealed the true extent of its many mysteries. Now former Nature magazine staff writer Gabrielle Walker tells the full story of Antarctica—from its fascinating history to its uncertain future and the international teams of researchers who brave its forbidding climate. Drawing on her broad travels across the continent, Walker weaves all the significant threads of life on the vast ice sheet into a multifaceted narrative, illuminating what it really feels like to be there and why it draws so many different kinds of people. She chronicles cutting-edge science experiments, visits to the South Pole, and unsettling portents about our future in an age of global warming. “We are all anxious Antarctic watchers now, and Walker's book is the essential primer.”—The Guardian, UK
Restless Continent
Author: Michael Wesley
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1468313452
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
An essential road map to modern Asia’s dynamic transition on the world stage from the foreign policy expert and author of There Goes the Neighbourhood. The world has never seen economic development as rapid or significant as Asia’s during recent decades. Home to three-fifths of the global population, this restless continent will soon produce more than half of the world’s economic output and consume more energy than the rest of the world combined. All but three of the planet’s current and nascent nuclear powers are Asian, and it has the greatest growth in weapons spending of any other region. Yet, surprisingly little has been written about the future of Asia. Restless Continent is the first book to examine the economic, social, political, and strategic trends across the world’s largest continent, providing the necessary framework for thinking about the future of Asia—and the world. A professor of international affairs at Australian National University, Michael Wesley looks at the psychology of Asian countries becoming newly rich and powerful. He explores the geography and politics of conflict, and offers persuasive ideas about how to avert dispute, or even war. Written for general readers and policy specialists alike, Restless Continent is an agenda-shaping book about international affairs in the twenty-first century.
Publisher: ABRAMS
ISBN: 1468313452
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 117
Book Description
An essential road map to modern Asia’s dynamic transition on the world stage from the foreign policy expert and author of There Goes the Neighbourhood. The world has never seen economic development as rapid or significant as Asia’s during recent decades. Home to three-fifths of the global population, this restless continent will soon produce more than half of the world’s economic output and consume more energy than the rest of the world combined. All but three of the planet’s current and nascent nuclear powers are Asian, and it has the greatest growth in weapons spending of any other region. Yet, surprisingly little has been written about the future of Asia. Restless Continent is the first book to examine the economic, social, political, and strategic trends across the world’s largest continent, providing the necessary framework for thinking about the future of Asia—and the world. A professor of international affairs at Australian National University, Michael Wesley looks at the psychology of Asian countries becoming newly rich and powerful. He explores the geography and politics of conflict, and offers persuasive ideas about how to avert dispute, or even war. Written for general readers and policy specialists alike, Restless Continent is an agenda-shaping book about international affairs in the twenty-first century.
Letters from Three Continents
Author: Matthew Flournoy Ward
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Crofutt's Trans-continental Tourist's Guide
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pacific States
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A guidebook for the American West highlighting notable attractions and spaces.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pacific States
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
A guidebook for the American West highlighting notable attractions and spaces.
The Continental Monthly
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 762
Book Description
The Continental Drift Controversy: Volume 2, Paleomagnetism and Confirmation of Drift
Author: Henry R. Frankel
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107377323
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The resolution of the sixty-year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth science. This four-volume treatise on the continental drift controversy is the first complete history of the origin, debate and gradual acceptance of this revolutionary theory. Based on extensive interviews, archival papers and original works, Frankel weaves together the lives and work of the scientists involved, producing an accessible narrative for scientists and non-scientists alike. This second volume provides the first extensive account of the growing paleomagnetic case for continental drift in the 1950s and the development of apparent polar wander paths that showed how the continents had changed their positions relative to one another, more or less as Wegener had proposed. Paleomagnetism offered the first physical measure that continental drift had occurred and helped determine the changing latitudes of the continents through geologic time.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107377323
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545
Book Description
The resolution of the sixty-year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth science. This four-volume treatise on the continental drift controversy is the first complete history of the origin, debate and gradual acceptance of this revolutionary theory. Based on extensive interviews, archival papers and original works, Frankel weaves together the lives and work of the scientists involved, producing an accessible narrative for scientists and non-scientists alike. This second volume provides the first extensive account of the growing paleomagnetic case for continental drift in the 1950s and the development of apparent polar wander paths that showed how the continents had changed their positions relative to one another, more or less as Wegener had proposed. Paleomagnetism offered the first physical measure that continental drift had occurred and helped determine the changing latitudes of the continents through geologic time.
Amazing Stories
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description