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  • Geological Hazards

    Earthquakes - Tsunamis - Volcanoes - Avalanches - Landslides - Floods

    by B.A. Bolt, W.L. Horn, G.A. MacDonald, R.F. Scott ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    Growth of population, communication and interdependence among countries has sharpened the impact of natural disasters. Not only have calamities and miseries been given wider publicity, but the realization has grown that through rational study and foresight much can be done to mitigate these hazards to life and social wellbeing. In this book we present a summary account of hazards which nowadays ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

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  • The Spiritual Technology of Ancient Egypt

    Sacred Science and the Mystery of Consciousness

    by Edward F. Malkowski ...
    How ancient Egyptians understood quantum theory• Investigates the history of how modern religion and the Age of Science were inspired by the sacred science of the ancients• Examines how quantum theory explains that the cosmos arises from consciousness• Reveals the unanimity between Schwaller de Lubicz’s “sacred science” and the science of a cosmos governed by quantum mechanicsSince the dawn of the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Why Does It Happen?: Earthquakes and Volcanoes

    Natural Disaster Books for Kids

    by Baby Professor ...
    Series Book 1 - Why Does It Happen
    Earthquakes and volcano eruptions are natural disasters that are best faced prepared. Through this picture book, a child goes through multi-sensory learning that makes it easier to understand the intensity of quakes and volcanoes. With a picture book, a child gets to hear the stories, see the pictures, feel and even smell the pages. These create memories that make lessons stick. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Mountains, Minerals, and Me

    Thirteen Years Revealing Earth’S Mysteries

    by Albert L. Lamarre ...
    Albert Lamarre never imagined that one day he would stare down the barrel of a shotgun pointed at him by a Texas ranchers daughter. Yet, there he wasin the middle of nowhereheld captive by a woman who meant business. Simply put, Lamarre was in this predicament because of his desire to learn more about a rocky outcrop. After all, that is what geologists do. In his fascinating narrative, Lamarre ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Clean-up of Former Soviet Military Installations

    Identification and Selection of Environmental Technologies for Use in Central and Eastern Europe

    Edited by John E. Moerlins, J.Michael Kuperberg, Peter I. Richter, Imre L. Biczo, Roy C. Herndon ...
    Series Book 1 - Nato Science Partnership Subseries
    A NATO Advanced Research Workshop (ARW) was conducted on June 21-23, 1994 in Visegnid, Hungary related to the clean-up of former Soviet military installation sites. This ARW included a technical site visit to the Komarom Base Site which is a former Soviet military installation in Hungary. During this three-day ARW, a strategy and set of recommendations were developed for selecting technologies and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Old-Growth Forests

    Function, Fate and Value

    Edited by Christian Wirth, Gerd Gleixner, Martin Heimann ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    Many terms often used to describe old-growth forests imply that these forests are less vigorous, less productive and less stable than younger forests. But research in the last two decades has yielded results that challenge the view of old-growth forests being in decline. Given the importance of forests in battling climate change and the fact that old-growth forests are shrinking at a rate of 0.5% ... Read more

    $287.09 USD

  • The Bear Brook Watershed in Maine: A Paired Watershed Experiment

    The First Decade (1987–1997)

    Edited by Stephen A. Norton, Ivan J. Fernandez ...
    The Bear Brook Watershed in Maine (BBWM) is a long-term, whole-watershed study examining the effects of experimentally elevated N and S deposition on a treated watershed, in comparison to the adjacent reference watershed. The study is in a northern New England, USA, forested ecosystem, and focuses on soil and stream hydrological and biogeochemical processes, and chemical responses of vegetation. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Estuaries: A Lifeline of Ecosystem Services in the Western Indian Ocean

    Edited by Salif Diop, Peter Scheren, John Ferdinand Machiwa ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book provides recent environmental, ecological and hydrodynamic information for the major estuaries and the coastal marine systems of the Western Indian Ocean Region. It covers various functions and values of the region’s estuarine ecosystems and their respective habitats, including the land/ocean interactions that define and impact ecosystem services. The Western Indian Ocean region covered ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Water Quality

    An Introduction

    by Claude E. Boyd ...
    Series series Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
    Water quality is important to everyone, but professionals in many disciplines need an understanding of this subject. Although water quality is complex, its general aspects can be grasped readily and with little background - only introductory chemistry and biology and a little algebra are needed. Unfortunately, the teaching of water quality is not well organized. In most colleges and universities, ... Read more

    $143.09 USD

  • Engineering Geology for Society and Territory - Volume 8

    Preservation of Cultural Heritage

    Edited by Giorgio Lollino, Daniele Giordan, Cristian Marunteanu, Basiles Christaras, Iwasaki Yoshinori, Claudio Margottini ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book is one out of 8 IAEG XII Congress volumes, and deals with the preservation of cultural heritage. In 1972, the World Heritage Convention linked in a single framework the concepts of nature conservation and the preservation of cultural sites. Since then, engineering geology is enlarging its contributions to national and international projects on this topic and is extending its interests to ... Read more

    $188.09 USD

  • Agent-Based Simulation of Vulnerability Dynamics

    A Case Study of the German North Sea Coast

    by Cilli Sobiech ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This thesis constitutes an extraordinary innovative research approach in transferring the concepts and methods of complex systems to risk research. It ambitiously bridges the barriers between theoretical, empirical and methodical research work and integrates these fields into one comprehensive approach of dealing with uncertainty in socio-ecological systems. The developed agent-based simulation ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Spatiotemporal Random Fields

    Theory and Applications

    by George Christakos ...
    Spatiotemporal Random Fields: Theory and Applications, Second Edition, provides readers with a new and updated edition of the text that explores the application of spatiotemporal random field models to problems in ocean, earth, and atmospheric sciences, spatiotemporal statistics, and geostatistics, among others. The new edition features considerable detail of spatiotemporal random field theory, ... Read more

    $116.99 USD