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Author : Daniel Hillel
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992-09-30
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520080807
A moving tribute to the physical and spiritual properties of nature's richestelement by one of the world's leading soil conservationists.
Author : Erika Nesvold
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780262047548
Can we do better in space than we’ve done here on Earth? We’ve pinpointed the destination, refined the technology, designed the habitat, outfitted our space residents. Are we forgetting something? A timely reminder that it’s not just rocket science, this thought-provoking book explores the all-too-human issues raised by the prospect of settling in outer space. It’s worth remembering, Erika Nesvold suggests, that in making new worlds, we don’t necessarily leave our earthly problems behind. Accordingly, her work highlights the complex ethical challenges that accompany any other-worldly venture—questions about the environment, labor rights, and medical ethics, among others. Any such venture, Nesvold contends, must be made on behalf of all humanity, with global input and collaboration. Off-Earth thus includes historical and contemporary examples from outside the dominant Western/US, abled, and privileged narrative of the space industry. Nesvold calls on experts in ethics, sociology, history, social justice, and law to launch a hopeful conversation about the potential ethical pitfalls of becoming a multi-planet species—and, ideally, to shed light on similar problems we presently face here on Earth. Space settlement is rapidly becoming ever more likely. Will it look like the utopian vision of Star Trek? Or the dark future of Star Wars? Nesvold challenges us to decide.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Astronautics
ISBN : 9783031500817
This volume investigates the challenges and opportunities for designing, manufacturing and operating off-Earth infrastructures in order to establish adaptive human habitats. The adaptive aspects are considered with respect to the development of adequate infrastructures designed to support human activities. Given the limitations in bringing materials from Earth, utilisation of in-situ resources is crucial for establishing and maintaining these infrastructures. Adaptive on-and off-Earth Environments focuses, among other aspects, on the design, production, and operation processes required to build and maintain such off-Earth infrastructures, while heavily relying on In-Situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU). Such design, production, and operation processes integrate cyber-physical approaches developed and tested on Earth. The challenge is to adapt on-Earth approaches to off-Earth applications aiming at technology advancement and ultimately transfer from on- to off-Earth research. This challenge is addressed with contributions from various disciplines ranging from power generation to architecture, construction, and materials engineering involving ISRU for manufacturing processes. All chapters, related to these disciplines, are structured with an emphasis on computing and adaptivity of on-Earth technology to off-Earth applications and vice versa to serve society at large.
Author : Matthew David Evans
Publisher : Matthew Evans
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781720017493
Scientists from the planets Teronovaj and Pacienco return to Earth 10,000 years after their pioneering ancestors’ departure. Physically altered by the need to adapt to harsh conditions on their planets, they struggle with the prejudice and fanaticism they encounter on an Earth recovering from nuclear holocaust and an ice age. When they become divided and trapped on opposite sides of Earth, crewmembers from the two planets must band together to escape native superstition and violence from pursuing military.
Author : Matthew David Evans
Publisher : Matthew Evans
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798651797950
Konsorcio was just the opening salvo in a greater war. Saga and Altaj lead Terons and Pacis in a fight against the Prots, in an attempt to save the Earth. Their embattled forces become separated and are forced to learn how to survive with their new Earthian allies. Battles rage around the planet, from the jungles of Africa to the ice-covered polar regions, as clashes in the Prots’ subterranean layers prove costly. Once again, scientific ingenuity becomes humanity’s greatest weapon.
Author : Matthew Evans
Publisher : Matthew Evans
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798650137160
The second book in the Off-Earth Evolution series. Saga is sent to the collaborative settlement on the planet of Konsorcio, in order to settle a rift that has broken out between settlers from Teronovaj and Pacienco. She and her crew reunite with old acquaintances and encounter unexpected hostility. While attempting to resolve problems between the two groups, they are forced to confront a deadly new enemy. Saga and Altaj muster scientific ingenuity, physical strength, and old military strategies in the fight to defend their people.
Author : Simon Y. Mills
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 710 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Alternative medicine
ISBN : PSU:000020746438
The effects of herbs on the human body are set in a lucid and modern context. Simon Mills describes traditional herbal pathology and therapeutics, and also suggests up-to-date research methods to validate herbalism so that it can take its rightful place among the medical sciences. For practising herbalist and lay reader alike, the detailed pharmacology, based on the author's own extensive research and experience, will be of crucial interest: the active constituents of.
Author : Todd Parr
Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-21
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780316186889
"I take care of the earth because I know I can do little things every day to make a BIG difference..." With his signature blend of playfulness and sensitiviy, Todd Parr explores the important, timely subject of environmental protection and conservation in this eco-friendly picture book. Featuing a circular die-cut Earth on the cover, and printed entirely with recycled materials and nontoxic soy inks, this book includes lots of easy, smart ideas on how we can all work together to make the Earth feel good - from planting a tree and using both sides of the paper, to saving energy and reusing old things in new ways. Best of all, the book includes an interior gatefold with a poster with tips/reminders on how kids can "go green" everyday. Equally whimsical and heartfelt, this sweet homage to our beautiful planet is sure to inspire readers of all ages to do their part in keeping the Earth happy and healthy.
Author : Margaret Mahy,Wendy Smith
Publisher : Viking Childrens Books
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Circus
ISBN : 067085736X
Delphinium spends her tenth birthday aboard a traveling space circus, fighting against the dark forces who are bent on stamping out fun.
Author : Aljean Harmetz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0671004654
Eight-year-old David Greene has already run away twice since his parents got divorced. The third time started out no differently--except this time, David doesn't return. The police are anxious to charge a local homeless man with his death, but David's mother is convinced he is alive. With the help of a maverick police officer, she discovers David's trail, and she's led down a harrowing path of clues.
Author : John Sayles
Publisher : Haymarket Books
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781642590784
In Yellow Earth, John Sayles introduces an epic cast of characters, weaving together narratives of competing agendas and worldviews with lyrical dexterity, insight, and wit. When rich layers of shale oil are discovered beneath the town of Yellow Earth, all hell breaks loose. Locals, oil workers, service workers, politicians, law enforcement, and get-rich-quick opportunists—along with an earnest wildlife biologist—commingle and collide as the population of the town triples overnight. Harleigh Killdeer, chairman of the tribal business council of the neighboring Three Nations reservation, entertains visions of "sovereignty by the barrel" and joins forces with a fast-talking entrepreneur. From casino dealers to activists and high school kids, everyone in the region is swept up in the unsparing wave of an oil boom. Sayles’s masterful storytelling draws an arc from the earliest exploitation of this land and its people all the way to twenty-first-century privatization schemes. Through the intertwining lives of its characters, Yellow Earth lays bare how the profit motive erodes human relationships, as well as our living planet. The fate of Yellow Earth serves as a parable for our times.
Author : Louis Bromfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1590989511
Pulitzer prize winning author's further exploration of sustainable agriculture and natural systems.
Author : Lynne Rae Perkins
Publisher : Greenwillow Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0061870927
Wait The train was moving. Ry could hardly tell at first, but now he knew. It was gaining speed, and he wasn't fast enough to catch it. He had only gotten off for a minute, just to make a phone call—and now it was gone. He was in the middle of nowhere, alone. Maybe it was the middle of nowhere, but to Ry, it felt like the beginning of something. Something that would take him in cars, planes, boats . . . over an ocean and back. Something like an adventure.
Author : Bradford Angier
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780811766340
A passport to freedom that shows how to find fun, food, shelter, and income on land that may be within easy-driving distance of the city and suburbs. Why work a lifetime, asks Angier, to accumulate enough money to retire from the rat race during the last, least active years of life, when a little ground can provide healthful, relaxed living—now—and income too? One Acre and Security explains how “three-squares-a-day” and money to spend can come from the earth with instructions on: sheep or pig farming, raising bees for honey, keeping dairy herbs of cows or goats, making money with herb culture, raising and selling rabbits and earthworms, running a poultry farm, raising fish, frogs, and turtles for profit and fun. Angier, the man who has done it all himself, shares too what he has learned about some of the ways to eat from nature’s free banquet table, how to stretch country-living with hikes on famous trails or on any untrammeled path, where to find the best hunting and fishing, and how to catch bigger, healthier fish. “This book is written for those who want to move—not to the distant wilderness—but just far enough away from the smog and the screaming traffic to be where meat will be theirs for the raising, fish for the catching, fruit and vegetables for the picking, fuel for the cutting, home for the satisfaction of building…breathing cleaner air, beholden to none, doing what they want to do most and giving it their best,” says Bradford Angier in One Acre and Security…
Author : Ken Follett
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 1009 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781101442197
#1 New York Times Bestseller Oprah's Book Club Selection The “extraordinary . . . monumental masterpiece” (Booklist) that changed the course of Ken Follett’s already phenomenal career—and begins where its prequel, The Evening and the Morning, ended. “Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,” extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity. Today, it stands as a testament to Follett’s unassailable command of the written word and to his universal appeal. The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known . . . of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect—a man divided in his soul . . . of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secret shame . . . and of a struggle between good and evil that will turn church against state and brother against brother. A spellbinding epic tale of ambition, anarchy, and absolute power set against the sprawling medieval canvas of twelfth-century England, this is Ken Follett’s historical masterpiece.