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  • The Dance of Air and Sea

    How oceans, weather, and life link together

    par Arnold H. Taylor ...
    How can the tiny plankton in the sea just off Western Europe be affected by changes 6000 km away on the other side of the North Atlantic Ocean? How can a slight rise in the temperature of the surface of the Pacific Ocean have a devastating impact on amphibian life in Costa Rica? Living populations across the globe are connected by great swayings of the world's atmosphere and oceans, the largest of ... En savoir plus

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Six Degrees

    Our Future on a Hotter Planet

    par Mark Lynas ...
    An eye-opening and vital account of the future of our earth and our civilisation if current rates of global warming persist, by the highly acclaimed author of ‘High Tide’.Picture yourself a few decades from now, in a world in which average temperatures are three degrees higher than they are now. On the edge of Greenland, rivers ten times the size of the Amazon are gushing off the ice sheet into ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Supercontinent

    10 Billion Years In The Life Of Our Planet

    par Ted Nield ...
    The shifting continents of the Earth are heading for inevitable collision: 250 million years from now, all the land masses on this planet will come together in a single, gigantic supercontinent which no human is ever likely to see. That future supercontinent will not be the first to form on Earth, nor will it be the last. Each cycle lasts half a billion years, making it the grandest of all the ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Mapping the Deep: The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science

    The Extraordinary Story of Ocean Science

    par Robert Kunzig ...
    A vivid, up-to-date tour of the Earth's last frontier, a remote and mysterious realm that nonetheless lies close to the heart of even the most land-locked reader.The sea covers seven-tenths of the Earth, but we have mapped only a small percentage of it. The sea contains millions of species of animals and plants, but we have identified only a few thousand of them. The sea controls our planet's ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Waking the Giant

    How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and volcanoes

    par Bill McGuire ...
    Twenty thousand years ago our planet was an icehouse. Temperatures were down six degrees; ice sheets kilometres thick buried much of Europe and North America and sea levels were 130m lower. The following 15 millennia saw an astonishing transformation as our planet metamorphosed into the temperate world upon which our civilisation has grown and thrived. One of the most dynamic periods in Earth ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • Climate

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Mark Maslin ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    In this wide-ranging Very Short Introduction to climate, Mark Maslin considers all aspects of the global climate system, exploring and explaining the different components that control climate on Earth. He considers the processes that allow energy to reach the Earth and how it is redistributed around the planet by the ocean-atmosphere system; the relationship and differences between climate and the ... En savoir plus

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Emerald Planet

    How plants changed Earth's history

    par David Beerling ...
    Collections series Oxford Landmark Science
    Plants have profoundly moulded the Earth's climate and the evolutionary trajectory of life. Far from being 'silent witnesses to the passage of time', plants are dynamic components of our world, shaping the environment throughout history as much as that environment has shaped them. In The Emerald Planet, David Beerling puts plants centre stage, revealing the crucial role they have played in driving ... En savoir plus

    $17.99 CAD

  • Landscapes and Geomorphology

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Andrew Goudie, Heather Viles ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    What were the landscapes of the past like? What will landscapes look like in the future? Landscapes are all around us, but most of us know very little about how they have developed, what goes on in them, and how they react to changing climates, tectonics and human activities. Examining what landscape is, and how we use a range of ideas and techniques to study it, Andrew Goudie and Heather Viles ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Ice Age

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Jamie Woodward ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    The study of the Quaternary ice age has revolutionized ideas about Earth system change and the pace of landscape and ecosystem dynamics. The Ice Age: A Very Short Introduction looks at evidence from the continents, the oceans, and the ice core records, and the human stories behind it all. Jamie Woodward examines the remarkable environmental shifts that took place during the Great Ice Age of the ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • The Earth

    A Very Short Introduction

    par Martin Redfern ...
    Collections series Very Short Introductions
    For generations, the ground beneath the feet of our ancestors seemed solid and unchanging. Around 30 years ago, two things happened that were to revolutionize the understanding of our home planet. First, geologists realized that the continents themselves were drifting across the surface of the globe and that oceans were being created and destroyed. Secondly, pictures of the entire planet were ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Goldilocks Planet

    The 4 billion year story of Earth's climate

    par Jan Zalasiewicz, Mark Williams ...
    Climate change is a major topic of concern today, scientifically, socially, and politically. It will undoubtedly continue to be so for the foreseeable future, as predicted changes in global temperatures, rainfall, and sea level take place, and as human society adapts to these changes. In this remarkable new work, Jan Zalasiewicz and Mark Williams demonstrate how the Earth's climate has ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Eruptions that Shook the World

    par Clive Oppenheimer ...
    What does it take for a volcanic eruption to really shake the world? Did volcanic eruptions extinguish the dinosaurs, or help humans to evolve, only to decimate their populations with a super-eruption 73,000 years ago? Did they contribute to the ebb and flow of ancient empires, the French Revolution and the rise of fascism in Europe in the 19th century? These are some of the claims made for ... En savoir plus

    $38.99 CAD