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  • Modeling the Ionosphere-Thermosphere

    Edited by J. D. Huba, Robert W. Schunk, G. V. Khazanov ...
    Series Book 201 - Geophysical Monograph Series
    Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series, Volume 201.Modeling the Ionosphere-Thermosphere System brings together for the first time a detailed description of the physics of the IT system in conjunction with numerical techniques to solve the complex system of equations that describe the system, as well as issues of current interest. Volume highlights ... Read more

    $123.00 USD

  • Magnetosphere-Ionosphere Coupling in the Solar System

    Edited by Charles R. Chappell, Robert W. Schunk, Peter M. Banks, Richard M. Thorne, James L. Burch ...
    Series Book 222 - Geophysical Monograph Series
    Over a half century of exploration of the Earth’s space environment, it has become evident that the interaction between the ionosphere and the magnetosphere plays a dominant role in the evolution and dynamics of magnetospheric plasmas and fields. Interestingly, it was recently discovered that this same interaction is of fundamental importance at other planets and moons throughout the solar system. ... Read more

    $186.00 USD

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    by John Edward Huth ...
    Long before GPS, Google Earth, and global transit, humans traveled vast distances using only environmental clues and simple instruments. John Huth asks what is lost when modern technology substitutes for our innate capacity to find our way. Encyclopedic in breadth, weaving together astronomy, meteorology, oceanography, and ethnography, The Lost Art of Finding Our Way puts us in the shoes, ships, ... Read more

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  • The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes

    How a Stone-Age Comet Changed the Course of World Culture

    by Richard Firestone, Allen West, Simon Warwick-Smith ...
    Scientific proof validating the legends and myths of ancient floods, fires, and weather extremes• Presents scientific evidence revealing the cause of the end of the last ice age and the cycles of geological events and species extinctions that followed• Connects physical data to the dramatic earth changes recounted in oral traditions around the world• Describes the impending danger from a ... Read more

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  • Defining the Wind

    The Beaufort Scale and How a 19th-Century Admiral Turned Science into Poetry

    by Scott Huler ...
    “Nature, rightly questioned, never lies.” —A Manual of Scientific Enquiry, Third Edition, 1859Scott Huler was working as a copy editor for a small publisher when he stumbled across the Beaufort Wind Scale in his Merriam Webster Collegiate Dictionary. It was one of those moments of discovery that writers live for. Written centuries ago, its 110 words launched Huler on a remarkable journey over land ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Chain of Life in Geological Time: A Sketch of the Origin and Succession of Animals and Plants

    by Sir John William Dawson ...
    Questions as to the origin and history of life are not at the present time answered by mere philosophical speculation and poetical imagining. Such solutions of these questions as science can profess to have obtained are based on vast accumulations of facts respecting the remains of animals and plants preserved in the rocky beds of the earth’s crust, which have been successively accumulated in the ... Read more

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  • Global Fever: How To Treat Climate Change

    by William H. Calvin ...
    Passionately written yet thoroughly grounded in the latest climate science, "Global Fever" delivers both a stark warning and an ambitious blueprint for saving the future of the planet. Photos. ... Read more

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  • 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

  • Exoplanet Atmospheres

    Physical Processes

    by Sara Seager ...
    Series series Princeton Series in Astrophysics
    Over the past twenty years, astronomers have identified hundreds of extrasolar planets--planets orbiting stars other than the sun. Recent research in this burgeoning field has made it possible to observe and measure the atmospheres of these exoplanets. This is the first textbook to describe the basic physical processes--including radiative transfer, molecular absorption, and chemical processes- ... Read more

    $61.19 USD

  • Operational Aspects of Oil and Gas Well Testing

    by S. McAleese ...
    Series Book 1 - Handbook of Petroleum Exploration and Production
    Well Testing is recognised by many operating oil and gas companies to be the most hazardous operation they routinely undertake. Therefore, it is of great importance that such operations are extremely well planned and executed.This handbook covers all the major "Operational Aspects of Oil and Gas Well Testing" and uses a structured approach to guide the reader through the steps required to safely ... Read more

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  • The Five Elements First Grade Geography Series

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    by Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's How Things Work Books
    Geography can be a tough nut to crack if introduced ineffectively. Children at fifth grade still need as much as visual as possible. They easily get bored with textbooks filled with writings. A splash of color and illustration will facilitate for better memory and the more effective absorption of geographic information. Hence, your child needs this book. Grab a copy today! ... Read more

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    by Richard Schmude, Jr. ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book is for two groups of people: those who want to study the remote planets with amateur astronomical equipment, and those who are just interested in learning about our knowledge of the remote planets.The Remote Planets, and How to Observe them is unique in that it gives a completely up-to-date summary of our current knowledge of the remote planets, and also explains how amateur astronomers ... Read more

    $40.49 USD