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Author : Phillis Engelbert
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : PSU:000048616508
This volume, covering "meteorite" to "volcano," explores real-life stories as well as facts of natural destruction experienced on Earth.
Author : Bryn Barnard
Publisher : Crown Books for Young Readers
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780449814932
Did a meteorite wipe out the dinosaurs and allow for human evolution? Did an earthquake usher in the rise of Greek civilization? Did a snowstorm help create the New York subway? The answer to all these questions is a resounding yes! Over and over again, natural disasters have influenced the course of human history in ways great and small. From the Great Fire of London to the Great Kanto Quake, Bryn Barnard describes ten key moments when natural disasters have played a significant role in shaping our history. Highlighted with vivid and meticulously researched illustrations, Dangerous Planet demonstrates the mighty force of planet Earth–and the role humanity must play in its survival
Author : Anna Claybourne
Publisher : 100 Most
Page : 57 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781682974193
Learn how to face and survive the most disastrous things that could possibly happen! From terrifying natural disasters to dangerous weather, from getting lost in the wild to fighting off ferocious animal attacks, this is your ultimate survival guide to avalanches, killer bees, and much, much more. Each danger includes a risk rating of how likely you are to encounter it, as well as a percentage of how likely you are to survive.
Author : Nick Abadzis,Jackie Holderness
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Readers
ISBN : 0435294873
A collection of 90 readers aimed at students aged 7-17 learning English as an additional language, or those who would like extra support with their reading. Levelled into bands of Elementary, Intermediate and Advanced, these readers are categorised into three strands: fiction, non-fiction and science.
Author : Ellen Prager
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226541693
The Earth is a beautiful and wondrous planet, but also frustratingly complex and, at times, violent: much of what has made it livable can also cause catastrophe. Volcanic eruptions create land and produce fertile, nutrient-rich soil, but they can also bury forests, fields, and entire towns under ash, mud, lava, and debris. The very forces that create and recycle Earth’s crust also spawn destructive earthquakes and tsunamis. Water and wind bring and spread life, but in hurricanes they can leave devastation in their wake. And while it is the planet’s warmth that enables life to thrive, rapidly increasing temperatures are causing sea levels to rise and weather events to become more extreme. Today, we know more than ever before about the powerful forces that can cause catastrophe, but significant questions remain. Why can’t we better predict some natural disasters? What do scientists know about them already? What do they wish they knew? In Dangerous Earth, marine scientist and science communicator Ellen Prager explores the science of investigating volcanoes, earthquakes, tsunamis, hurricanes, landslides, rip currents, and—maybe the most perilous hazard of all—climate change. Each chapter considers a specific hazard, begins with a game-changing historical event (like the 1980 eruption of Mt. St. Helens or the landfall and impacts of Hurricane Harvey), and highlights what remains unknown about these dynamic phenomena. Along the way, we hear from scientists trying to read Earth’s warning signs, pass its messages along to the rest of us, and prevent catastrophic loss. A sweeping tour of some of the most awesome forces on our planet—many tragic, yet nonetheless awe-inspiring—Dangerous Earth is an illuminating journey through the undiscovered, unresolved, and in some cases unimagined mysteries that continue to frustrate and fascinate the world’s leading scientists: the “wish-we-knews” that ignite both our curiosity and global change.
Author : Mari Glan
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1548447714
Kari Keskiyo thought she was lucky winning a ticket to become one of the Martian colonists; Earth is on the brink of annihilation due to natural disasters. However, when she arrives on Mars, she is faced with worse predicaments, one of them being that her ex-fiance's failed cloning project has created mindless killers. Kari and Neil must put aside their spiritual and scientific differences and work together to not just save themselves, but the entire human race from extinction.
Author : Edmond Hamilton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1152795808
Author : Michael Carroll
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783031413605
The Earth is not the world it once was, and it is not the world it will always be. This book describes the exciting, complex, and occasionally baffling history of our own planet. Over the course of its 4.5 billion years, Earth has undergone astonishing changes to its surface and atmosphere, at times more closely resembling other planets in our Solar System than the habitable, teeming biosphere of today. Through these otherworldly analogs, author-illustrator Michael Carroll teaches readers about different aspects of our own planet’s past. Our nearest cosmic neighbor, Venus, offers insights into Earth’s own young atmosphere and surface, while Saturn’s moon Titan may offer a window into the genesis of life on Earth. Planet Earth, Past and Present explores these and many more connections. Original art accompanies each chapter, depicting major stages of the Earth’s evolution and providing vivid comparisons to other planets or moons. Come along on this journey through the Solar System—a journey that ultimately leads us home.
Author : Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing,Nils Bubandt,Elaine Gan,Heather Anne Swanson
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 709 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781452954493
Living on a damaged planet challenges who we are and where we live. This timely anthology calls on twenty eminent humanists and scientists to revitalize curiosity, observation, and transdisciplinary conversation about life on earth. As human-induced environmental change threatens multispecies livability, Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet puts forward a bold proposal: entangled histories, situated narratives, and thick descriptions offer urgent “arts of living.” Included are essays by scholars in anthropology, ecology, science studies, art, literature, and bioinformatics who posit critical and creative tools for collaborative survival in a more-than-human Anthropocene. The essays are organized around two key figures that also serve as the publication’s two openings: Ghosts, or landscapes haunted by the violences of modernity; and Monsters, or interspecies and intraspecies sociality. Ghosts and Monsters are tentacular, windy, and arboreal arts that invite readers to encounter ants, lichen, rocks, electrons, flying foxes, salmon, chestnut trees, mud volcanoes, border zones, graves, radioactive waste—in short, the wonders and terrors of an unintended epoch. Contributors: Karen Barad, U of California, Santa Cruz; Kate Brown, U of Maryland, Baltimore; Carla Freccero, U of California, Santa Cruz; Peter Funch, Aarhus U; Scott F. Gilbert, Swarthmore College; Deborah M. Gordon, Stanford U; Donna J. Haraway, U of California, Santa Cruz; Andreas Hejnol, U of Bergen, Norway; Ursula K. Le Guin; Marianne Elisabeth Lien, U of Oslo; Andrew Mathews, U of California, Santa Cruz; Margaret McFall-Ngai, U of Hawaii, Manoa; Ingrid M. Parker, U of California, Santa Cruz; Mary Louise Pratt, NYU; Anne Pringle, U of Wisconsin, Madison; Deborah Bird Rose, U of New South Wales, Sydney; Dorion Sagan; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Jens-Christian Svenning, Aarhus U.
Author : Lonely Planet Kids,Anna Brett
Publisher : Lonely Planet
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781788682091
Hazard hunters Eddie and Junko are exploring some of the most extreme environments on Earth! But don't worry, they have their dangermobile packed with gadgets to tackle everything they come across. Join them and discover the fires of erupting Stromboli, the world's fastest winds on Mt. Washington, Brazil's venomous snake island, and much more.
Author : Keith Burris
Publisher : Partridge Publishing Singapore
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781543764949
Ryan Singleton is sick of home—sick of his dad ragging on him and the dullness of closing his eyes at the end of the day, knowing he’s going to open them the next to the same monotonous thing. So he leaves home to become a bounty hunter. But that kind of life doesn’t come easy. He tears through one of the biggest zero gravity races in the area to secure the money he needs to start his future, and then nearly winds up dead on his first bounty. Luckily for him, a mysterious woman named Jody, an elite bounty hunter herself, comes to his rescue and dangles the future he dreams of right in front of him. All that stands in his way is Heydrich Kralick—a rival alien bounty hunter who hates him for besting him in that race. He’s ruthless, wanted by the law, and obsessed. Ryan stands to gain prestige, money, a world of passion and adventure. All he stands to lose is his life.
Author : Karen Sawyer
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781782790235
A collection of controversial research and alternative worldviews, presenting new and exciting ways of thinking about life as we know it.
Author : Loren Rhoads
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-07-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781597808286
Set in the wake of a galaxy wide war and the destruction of a human empire, The Dangerous Type follows the awakening of one of the galaxies most dangerous assassins and her quest for vengeance. Entombed for twenty years, Reana has been found and released. Thallian has been on the lam for the last fifteen years; a wanted war criminal whose entire family has been hunted down and murdered for their role in the galaxy wide genocide of the Templars. His name is the first on Reana’s list, as he’s the one that enslaved her, made her his assassin, and ultimate put her in a tomb. But Thallian is willing to risk everything—including his army of cloned sons—to capture her. Now it’s a race to see who kills who first. Alternatively, Gaven has spent the last twenty years trying to forget about Reana, who he once saved and then lost to the clutches of Thallian. Reana’s adopted sister, Ariel, has been running from the truth: the one about Reana, about her and Gavin, and doesn’t know if she’ll be able to face either of them. The Dangerous Type, a mix of military science fiction and an adventurous space opera that grabs you from the first pages and doesn’t let go. Along with a supporting cast of smugglers, black market doctors, and other ner-do-wells sprawled across a galaxy brimming with alien life, The Dangerous Type is a fantastic beginning to Loren Roads’ epic trilogy. Skyhorse Publishing, under our Night Shade and Talos imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of titles for readers interested in science fiction (space opera, time travel, hard SF, alien invasion, near-future dystopia), fantasy (grimdark, sword and sorcery, contemporary urban fantasy, steampunk, alternative history), and horror (zombies, vampires, and the occult and supernatural), and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller, a national bestseller, or a Hugo or Nebula award-winner, we are committed to publishing quality books from a diverse group of authors.
Author : Michael Atamanov
Publisher : Magic Dome Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9788076198975
Space is a dangerous place. Here, you're either a predator or soon to fall prey to a ruthless neighbor. And if you aren't tough enough to make it on your own, you'll need the backing of a formidable power to keep you safe from bigger fish. Earth used to have such protection – the great Geckho race. But unfortunately, the Geckho fell to an enemy onslaught, leaving planet Earth to fend for itself. And now, Earth humanity has precious little time to prove to their galactic neighbors that they are not to be trifled with. Thankfully though, they have not only the mighty Army of Earth and a capable space fleet, but also something unique of which no other race can boast – Gnat and his ancient cruiser, which can travel instantly to any point in the Universe, breaking all conventional strictures and laws of war.
Author : J. Langer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230356054
Using close readings and thematic studies of contemporary science fiction and postcolonial theory, ranging from discussions of Japanese and Canadian science fiction to a deconstruction of race and (post)colonialism in World of Warcraft, This book is the first comprehensive study of the complex and developing relationship between the two areas.