Book Description
What if we could open up our planet and look inside? From its red-hot core to the highest mountain peak, come see Earth as you've never seen it before in a colorful introduction to the powerful forces shaping our home.
Author : Gail Gibbons
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 1998-05-27
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0688158498
What if we could open up our planet and look inside? From its red-hot core to the highest mountain peak, come see Earth as you've never seen it before in a colorful introduction to the powerful forces shaping our home.
Author : Edmond A. Mathez
Publisher :
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781565845954
A collection of essays and articles provides a study of how the planet works, discussing Earth's structure, geographical features, geologic history, and evolution.
Author : David Roger Oldroyd
Publisher : Geological Society of London
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 15,24 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781862390966
Author : Kimberly Hutmacher
Publisher : Carson-Dellosa Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1618103547
In Studying Our Earth, Inside and Out, readers will learn in depth information about the layers of Earth and our changing landscape. Featuring real-life photographs, fascinating facts, a comprehension and extension section, and more, readers stay engaged while learning and strengthening their reading comprehension skills. My Science Library's rich, content-filled text and beautiful photographs bring science and the scientific process to life for readers. The series includes interesting facts about the Earth, the solar system, matter, energy, forces and motion, and life on our planet. The engaging text makes learning about science fun.
Author : David Grinspoon
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 2016-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 1455589136
For the first time in Earth's history, our planet is experiencing a confluence of rapidly accelerating changes prompted by one species: humans. Climate change is only the most visible of the modifications we've made--up until this point, inadvertently--to the planet. And our current behavior threatens not only our own future but that of countless other creatures. By comparing Earth's story to those of other planets, astrobiologist David Grinspoon shows what a strange and novel development it is for a species to evolve to build machines, and ultimately, global societies with world-shaping influence. Without minimizing the challenges of the next century, Grinspoon suggests that our present moment is not only one of peril, but also great potential, especially when viewed from a 10,000-year perspective. Our species has surmounted the threat of extinction before, thanks to our innate ingenuity and ability to adapt, and there's every reason to believe we can do so again. Our challenge now is to awaken to our role as a force of planetary change, and to grow into this task. We must become graceful planetary engineers, conscious shapers of our environment and caretakers of Earth's biosphere. This is a perspective that begs us to ask not just what future do we want to avoid, but what do we seek to build? What kind of world do we want? Are humans the worst thing or the best thing to ever happen to our planet? Today we stand at a pivotal juncture, and the answer will depend on the choices we make.
Author : Nicholas J. Clifford
Publisher : DK Publishing (Dorling Kindersley)
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Earth (Planet)
ISBN :
Explores how the earth works from the inside out.
Author : Patricia Lauber
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2002
Category :
ISBN : 9780060001742
Author : Daniel Hillel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 1992-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520080805
A moving tribute to the physical and spiritual properties of nature's richestelement by one of the world's leading soil conservationists.
Author : Stacy McAnulty
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2017-10-24
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250197910
A lighthearted nonfiction picture book about the formation and history of the Earth--told from the perspective of the Earth itself! "Hi, I’m Earth! But you can call me Planet Awesome." Prepare to learn all about Earth from the point-of-view of Earth herself! In this funny yet informative book, filled to the brim with kid-friendly facts, readers will discover key moments in Earth’s life, from her childhood more than four billion years ago all the way up to present day. Beloved children's book author Stacy McAnulty helps Earth tell her story, and award-winning illustrator David Litchfield brings the words to life. The book includes back matter with even more interesting tidbits. This title has Common Core connections.
Author : Maurice Strong
Publisher : Vintage Canada
Page : 503 pages
File Size : 45,32 MB
Release : 2010-11-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307366472
A surprising call to action from a key business and environmental player at the dawn of the millenium. From the Report to the Shareholders, Earth Inc., dated January 1, 2030 that begins Where on Earth Are We Going?: world hunger, ecological and environmental disaster, global warming, massive shifts in weather systems, the re-emergence of diseases long thought controlled, and political turmoil in a world where a barrel of water is more expensive than a barrel of oil. Hard-headed, practical, impassioned, this is a call to action by a key business and environmental leader at the end of the twentieth century that cannot be ignored. To explain how he came by his beliefs, Maurice Strong chronicles his poverty-stricken beginnings as a child in the prairies during the Depression to his appointment as President of Power Corporation at 29, his appointment as Undersecretary of the United Nations at 40, and on the domestic front, as Chairman of Ontario Hydro.