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Author : Cai Emmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1597093246
A scientist who has the power to influence the Earth's forces tries to teach her skill to kindred souls from around the world.
Author : Patrick D. Nunn
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780824832193
Islands—as well as entire continents—are reputed to have disappeared in many parts of the world. Yet there is little information on this subject concerning its largest ocean, the Pacific. Over the years, geologists have amassed data that point to the undeniable fact of islands having disappeared in the Pacific, a phenomenon that the oral traditions of many groups of Pacific Islanders also highlight. There are even a few instances where fragments of Pacific continents have disappeared, becoming hidden from view rather than being submerged. In this scientifically rigorous yet readily comprehensible account of the fascinating subject of vanished islands and hidden continents in the Pacific, the author ranges far and wide, from explanations of the region’s ancient history to the meanings of island myths. Using both original and up-to-date information, he shows that there is real value in bringing together myths and the geological understanding of land movements. A description of the Pacific Basin and the "ups and downs" of the land within its vast ocean is followed by chapters explaining how—long before humans arrived in this part of the world—islands and continents that no longer exist were once present. A succinct account is given of human settlement of the region and the establishment of cultural contexts for the observation of occasional catastrophic earth-surface changes and their encryption in folklore. The author also addresses the persistent myths of a "sunken continent" in the Pacific, which became widespread after European arrival and were subsequently incorporated into new age and pseudoscience explanations of our planet and its inhabitants. Finally, he presents original data and research on island disappearances witnessed by humans, recorded in oral and written traditions, and judged by geoscience to be authentic. Examples are drawn from throughout the Pacific, showing that not only have islands collapsed, and even vanished, within the past few hundred years, but that they are also liable to do so in the future.
Author : Cai Emmons
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : LCCN:2021005997
Sinking Islands continues the story of Bronwyn Artair, a scientist who possesses the power to influence the natural forces of the Earth. After several successful interventions, including one in Siberia, she has gone into hiding, worried about unintended consequences of her actions, as well as about the ethics of operating solo. But circumstances call her to action again, and an idea takes shape: What if she could impart her skill to other people? Gathering a few kindred souls from climate-troubled places around the world-Felipe from São Paulo, where drought conditions are creating strains on day-to-day life; Analu and his daughter Penina from a sinking island in the South Pacific; and Patty from the tornado-ridden plains of Kansas-she takes them to the wilds of Northern New Hampshire where she tries to teach them her skill. The novel, realistic but for the single fantastical element, explores how we might become more attuned to the Earth and act more collaboratively to solve the enormity of our climate problem.
Author : Andrea C. Simonelli,Graycar
Publisher : Springer
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-01-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137538666
Andrea Simonelli provides the first in-depth evaluation of climate displacement in the field of political science, specifically global governance. She evaluates four intergovernmental organizations (UNHCR, IOM, OCHA and the UNFCCC), and the structural and political constraints regarding their potential expansion to govern this new issue area.
Author : Michael B. Gerrard,Gregory E. Wannier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107025769
This book addresses legal issues of rising seas endangering the habitability and existence of island nations in the Pacific and Indian oceans.
Author : Edward B. Aveling
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Evolution
ISBN : STANFORD:36105116144176
Author : John Sterling Kingsley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030007043864
Author : Ian Cook
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789811512599
This book is the first book that looks at both the politics of maintaining the trajectory toward humanity’s final hundred years and the politics of those final hundred years. It is the first book to take up theoretical and practical aspects with respect to both the movement toward and events during these final hundred years. As a result, it is the first book that attempts to provide a more complete picture of the politics of catastrophic human-caused environment change. The fact that the book provides a way into the variety of policy problems that catastrophic human-caused environment change is creating means that it is also important to those in Public Policy. The book also raises a series of philosophical and ethical questions associated with human rights, which are significant to those who study Political Philosophy (and some of those who study Law), international action to mitigate the effects of climate change, the nature of science and the limitations of political institutions.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 950 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Baptists
ISBN : UOM:39015073346317
Volumes 7-77, 80-83 include 13th-83rd, 86th-89th annual report of the American Baptist missionary union.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Baptists
ISBN : UIUC:30112109811957
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89096078886
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Baptists
ISBN : IOWA:31858046358101
Author : James Dwight Dana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Coral reefs and islands
ISBN : ZBZH:ZBZ-00114915
Author : Dana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1872
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UBBS:UBBS-00108476
Author : James Dwight Dana
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026143351