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“eric l mills”

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  • The Fluid Envelope of our Planet

    How the Study of Ocean Currents Became a Science

    by Eric L. Mills ...
    Oceans have had a mysterious allure for centuries, inspiring fears, myths, and poetic imaginations. By the early twentieth century, however, scientists began to see oceans as physical phenomena that could be understood through mathematical geophysics. The Fluid Envelope of Our Planet explores the scientific developments from the early middle ages to the twentieth century that illuminated the once ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • The Power of the Sea

    Tsunamis, Storm Surges, Rogue Waves, and Our Quest to Predict Disasters

    by Bruce Parker ...
    Series series MacSci
    The Power of the Sea describes our struggle to understand the physics of the sea, so we can use that knowledge to predict when the sea will unleash its fury against us. In a wide-sweeping narrative spanning much of human history, Bruce Parker, former chief scientist of the National Ocean Service, interweaves thrilling and often moving stories of unpredicted natural disaster with an accessible ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps

    Empires of Time

    by Peter Galison ...
    "More than a history of science; it is a tour de force in the genre." —New York Times Book ReviewA dramatic new account of the parallel quests to harness time that culminated in the revolutionary science of relativity, Einstein's Clocks, Poincaré's Maps is "part history, part science, part adventure, part biography, part meditation on the meaning of modernity....In Galison's telling of science, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Sounding of the Whale

    Science and Cetaceans in the Twentieth Century

    by D. Graham Burnett ...
    "This wonderful book documents the interplays among science, conservation and politics in the evolving career of the whale over the last century." —William Perrin, Senior Scientist for Marine Mammals at the Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries ServiceFrom biblical times, whales have breached in the human imagination as looming figures of terror, power, confusion, and mystery. In the ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Cataclysm!

    Compelling Evidence of a Cosmic Catastrophe in 9500 B.C.

    by D. S. Allan, J. B. Delair ...
    Follow this multi-disciplinary, scientific study as it examines the evidence of a great global catastrophe that occurred only 11,500 years ago. Crustal shifting, the tilting of Earth's axis, mass extinctions, upthrusted mountain ranges, rising and shrinking land masses, and gigantic volcanic eruptions and earthquakes--all indicate that a fateful confrontation with a destructive cosmic visitor must ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Navigation

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Jim Bennett ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    From the Bronze Age mariners of the Mediterranean to contemporary sailors using satellite-based technologies, the history of navigation at sea, the art of finding a position and setting a course, is fascinating. The scientific and technological developments that have enabled accurate measurements of position were central to exploration, trade, and the opening up of new continents, and the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Ebb and Flow

    Tides and Life on Our Once and Future Planet

    by Tom Koppel ...
    Ebb and Flow was named one of 2007’s "best science books" by Peter Calamai, science editor of the Toronto Star [Dec. 30, 2007]. He calls it a "wonderful resource book. Tom Koppel seems to have visited or read about every place with unusual tides and water currents, yet he wears this scholarship lightly."Tides have shaped our world. They have carved out shorelines, transformed early life on Earth, ... Read more

    $8.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Spinning Magnet

    The Electromagnetic Force That Created the Modern World--and Could Destroy It

    by Alanna Mitchell ...
    The mystery of Earth's invisible, life-supporting powerAlanna Mitchell's globe-trotting history of the science of electromagnetism and the Earth's magnetic field--right up to the latest indications that the North and South Poles may soon reverse, with apocalyptic results--will soon change the way you think about our planet.Award-winning journalist Alanna Mitchell's science storytelling introduce ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

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  • Plate Tectonics

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Peter Molnar ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The 1960s revealed a new and revolutionary idea in geological thought: that the continents drift with respect to one another. After having been dismissed for decades as absurd, the concept gradually became part of geology's basic principles. We now know that the Earth's crust and upper mantle consist of a small number of rigid plates that move, and there are significant boundaries between pairs of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Triumph of Human Empire

    Verne, Morris, and Stevenson at the End of the World

    by Rosalind Williams ...
    In the early 1600s, in a haunting tale titled New Atlantis, Sir Francis Bacon imagined the discovery of an uncharted island. This island was home to the descendants of the lost realm of Atlantis, who had organized themselves to seek "the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Bacon's make-believe ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Convergence

    The Idea at the Heart of Science

    by Peter Watson ...
    “Those seeking a grand overview of science’s greatest hits over the past century will find it here.” —The Washington PostFrom the bestselling author of Ideas and The Modern Mind comes a bold history of science offering a groundbreaking and powerful argument: the many disparate scientific disciplines are converging on the same truths.Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and ... Read more

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  • Ice Core Evidence - Dispelling Arguments Against Immanuel Velikovsky’s Theories Based On Greenland Ice Cores

    by Charles Ginenthal ...
    The debate over ice core data has spanned many years. I have reexamined the record and analyzed the evidence in terms of Velikovsky's scenario. What I have found is that his critics, who have raised this ice core evidence, have based their objections on uniformitarian concepts and have ignored Velikovsky's scenario. In reality, the data supports Velikovsky's catastrophic scenario and contradicts ... Read more

    $3.99 USD