The No Nonsense Guide To Heat Wave Drought Hot Weather Safety Enhanced Edition

Author : Jeffery Sims
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-09
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781329053120

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The No-Nonsense Guide To Heat Wave, Drought, & Hot Weather Safety (Enhanced Edition) by Jeffery Sims Pdf

This book could save your life! The No-Nonsense Guide To Heat Wave, Drought,& Hot Weather Safety--Enhanced Edition is the re-edited guide focusing on preparation and planning for natural (and man-made) disasters. This guide is designed to provide a comprehensive source for the latest research related to hot-weather safety. Subjects covered include: providing a basic understanding of hot weather and its effects on the human body; addressing long-held myths on what helps to stay cool (and what doesn't); the effects of droughts and heat waves; how to be proactive in preparing for hot weather; water-saving strategies; providing sound advice by government & weather professionals/researchers on the best courses of action during hot-weather events. This manual also contains several updated appendices that include: a list of useful weather-warning smartphone and computer apps, a guide to specific types of sunburns, and several other relevant hot-weather topics, and a larger size.

Author : Jeffery Sims
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-26
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781312683150

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The No-Nonsense Guide To Blizzard Safety (Enhanced Edition) by Jeffery Sims Pdf

The Enhanced Edition of the book could STILL save your life! The No-Nonsense Guide To Blizzard Safety (Enhanced Edition has new material and more editing! This guide is designed to provide a comprehensive source for the latest research related to blizzard safety. Subjects covered include: providing a basic survey-level understanding of blizzards; how to be proactive in preparing for a blizzard; providing suggestions by government and weather professionals/researchers on the best courses of action before, during, & after a blizzard; what to do if trapped in a blizzard; what life-or-death issues remain after a blizzard. WHAT'S NEW: Larger book size, added information, greater editing, more images, and added appendices.

Author : Jeffery Sims
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781312980150

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The No-Nonsense Guide To Tornado Safety (Enhanced Edition) by Jeffery Sims Pdf

This book could save your life! The Enhanced Edition (larger sized) of the No-Nonsense Guide To Tornado Safety has been updated. This re-edited guide is designed to provide a comprehensive source for the latest research related to tornado safety. Updated subjects covered include: supplemental information on the understanding of tornadoes; addressing tornado myths; how to be proactive in preparing for a tornado event; providing sound advice by government and weather professionals/researchers on the best courses of action during a tornado; increased shelter information regarding tornadoes; and how to remain safe after a tornado event has occurred. This manual also contains several useful appendices that include a listing of government and charitable resources (for those affected by tornado disasters), a list of useful weather-warning smartphone & computer apps, and an updated list of local and privately-operated designated tornado shelters across the country for those without access to their own shelters.

Author : Jeffery Sims
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781312992993

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The No-Nonsense Guide To Flood Safety (Enhanced Edition) by Jeffery Sims Pdf

This book could save your life! The enhanced edition of The No-Nonsense Guide To Flood Safety has been updated, while continuing to provide a comprehensive source for the latest (updated) research related to flood safety. Subjects covered include: a basic survey-level understanding of floods; flood rating systems explanations, how to be proactive in preparing for flood emergencies; providing suggestions by government and weather professionals/researchers on the best courses of action before, during, & after a flood; and appendices that include regional contacts for federal assistance as well as instructions for sandbagging. This larger-sized guide has been updated with greater editing and more information, and continues it's mission as a 1-stop source for contingency planning as it relates to disaster & flood-related emergencies.

Author : Christopher B. Field,Vicente Barros,Thomas F. Stocker,Qin Dahe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107380103

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Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation by Christopher B. Field,Vicente Barros,Thomas F. Stocker,Qin Dahe Pdf

This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Special Report (IPCC-SREX) explores the challenge of understanding and managing the risks of climate extremes to advance climate change adaptation. Extreme weather and climate events, interacting with exposed and vulnerable human and natural systems, can lead to disasters. Changes in the frequency and severity of the physical events affect disaster risk, but so do the spatially diverse and temporally dynamic patterns of exposure and vulnerability. Some types of extreme weather and climate events have increased in frequency or magnitude, but populations and assets at risk have also increased, with consequences for disaster risk. Opportunities for managing risks of weather- and climate-related disasters exist or can be developed at any scale, local to international. Prepared following strict IPCC procedures, SREX is an invaluable assessment for anyone interested in climate extremes, environmental disasters and adaptation to climate change, including policymakers, the private sector and academic researchers.

Author : UNESCO
Publisher : UNESCO Publishing
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789231002984

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Getting the Message Across by UNESCO Pdf

Author : Robert Henson
Publisher : Rough Guides UK
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-05-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781405388658

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The Rough Guide to Climate Change by Robert Henson Pdf

The Rough Guide to Climate Change gives the complete picture of the single biggest issue facing the planet. Cutting a swathe through scientific research and political debate, this completely updated 3rd edition lays out the facts and assesses the options-global and personal-for dealing with the threat of a warming world. The guide looks at the evolution of our atmosphere over the last 4.5 billion years and what computer simulations of climate change reveal about our past, present and future. This updated edition includes scientific findings that have emerged since the 2007 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), as well as background on recent controversies and an updated politics section that reflects post-Copenhagen developments. Discover how rising temperatures and sea levels, plus changes to extreme weather patterns, are already affecting life around the world. The Rough Guide to Climate Change unravels how governments, scientists and engineers plan to tackle the problem and includes information on what you can do to help.

Author : Nathaniel Rich
Publisher : Picador
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : 1529015847

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Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich Pdf

By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed.Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantalizingly close we came to signing binding treaties that would have saved us all before the fossil fuels industry and politicians committed to anti-scientific denialism - is already a journalistic blockbuster, a full issue of the New York Times Magazine that has earned favorable comparisons to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and John Hersey's Hiroshima. Rich has become an instant, in-demand expert and speaker. A major movie deal is already in place. It is the story, perhaps, that can shift the conversation.In the book Losing Earth, Rich is able to provide more of the context for what did - and didn't - happen in the 1980s and, more important, is able to carry the story fully into the present day and wrestle with what those past failures mean for us in 2019. It is not just an agonizing revelation of historical missed opportunities, but a clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we got to now, and what we can and must do before it's truly too late.

Author : Joseph Henrich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780691178431

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The Secret of Our Success by Joseph Henrich Pdf

How our collective intelligence has helped us to evolve and prosper Humans are a puzzling species. On the one hand, we struggle to survive on our own in the wild, often failing to overcome even basic challenges, like obtaining food, building shelters, or avoiding predators. On the other hand, human groups have produced ingenious technologies, sophisticated languages, and complex institutions that have permitted us to successfully expand into a vast range of diverse environments. What has enabled us to dominate the globe, more than any other species, while remaining virtually helpless as lone individuals? This book shows that the secret of our success lies not in our innate intelligence, but in our collective brains—on the ability of human groups to socially interconnect and learn from one another over generations. Drawing insights from lost European explorers, clever chimpanzees, mobile hunter-gatherers, neuroscientific findings, ancient bones, and the human genome, Joseph Henrich demonstrates how our collective brains have propelled our species' genetic evolution and shaped our biology. Our early capacities for learning from others produced many cultural innovations, such as fire, cooking, water containers, plant knowledge, and projectile weapons, which in turn drove the expansion of our brains and altered our physiology, anatomy, and psychology in crucial ways. Later on, some collective brains generated and recombined powerful concepts, such as the lever, wheel, screw, and writing, while also creating the institutions that continue to alter our motivations and perceptions. Henrich shows how our genetics and biology are inextricably interwoven with cultural evolution, and how culture-gene interactions launched our species on an extraordinary evolutionary trajectory. Tracking clues from our ancient past to the present, The Secret of Our Success explores how the evolution of both our cultural and social natures produce a collective intelligence that explains both our species' immense success and the origins of human uniqueness.

Author : Anne K. Armstrong,Marianne E. Krasny,Jonathon P. Schuldt
Publisher : Comstock Publishing Associates
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781501730801

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Communicating Climate Change by Anne K. Armstrong,Marianne E. Krasny,Jonathon P. Schuldt Pdf

Environmental educators face a formidable challenge when they approach climate change due to the complexity of the science and of the political and cultural contexts in which people live. There is a clear consensus among climate scientists that climate change is already occurring as a result of human activities, but high levels of climate change awareness and growing levels of concern have not translated into meaningful action. Communicating Climate Change provides environmental educators with an understanding of how their audiences engage with climate change information as well as with concrete, empirically tested communication tools they can use to enhance their climate change program. Starting with the basics of climate science and climate change public opinion, Armstrong, Krasny, and Schuldt synthesize research from environmental psychology and climate change communication, weaving in examples of environmental education applications throughout this practical book. Each chapter covers a separate topic, from how environmental psychology explains the complex ways in which people interact with climate change information to communication strategies with a focus on framing, metaphors, and messengers. This broad set of topics will aid educators in formulating program language for their classrooms at all levels. Communicating Climate Change uses fictional vignettes of climate change education programs and true stories from climate change educators working in the field to illustrate the possibilities of applying research to practice. Armstrong et al, ably demonstrate that environmental education is an important player in fostering positive climate change dialogue and subsequent climate change action. Thanks to generous funding from Cornell University, the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access from Cornell Open (cornellopen.org) and other Open Access repositories.

Author : Jason S. Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108415637

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Climate Rationality by Jason S. Johnston Pdf

Johnston unpacks and critiques the legal, economic, and scientific basis for precautionary climate policies pursued in the United States. In doing so, he reveals an alternative approach to climate change policy that would enable the US to efficiently adapt to a changing climate and radically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions.

Author : Gary D. Schmidt
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780618724833

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The Wednesday Wars by Gary D. Schmidt Pdf

During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns muchof value about the world he lives in.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1878
Category : Science
ISBN : OSU:32435022760342

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Scientific American by Anonim Pdf

Monthly magazine devoted to topics of general scientific interest.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:889821836

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Climate Change in Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Office of Office of English Language Programs,Bureau of Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs,United States United States Department of State,Office of English Langua
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1508507384

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In the Loop by Office of Office of English Language Programs,Bureau of Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs,United States United States Department of State,Office of English Langua Pdf

In the Loop is divided into three parts: Part 1, "Idioms and Definitions"; Part 2, "Selected Idioms by Category"; and Part 3, "Classroom Activities." The idioms are listed alphabetically in Part 1. Part 2 highlights some of the most commonly used idioms, grouped into categories. Part 3 contains classroom suggestions to help teachers plan appropriate exercises for their students. There is also a complete index at the back of the book listing page numbers for both main entries and cross-references for each idiom.