From a writer and expert who has been at the center of the fight for more than thirty years, a brilliant, big-picture reckoning with our shocking failure to address climate change. Fire and Flood focuses on the malign power of key business interests, arguing that those same interests could flip the story very quickly—if they can get ahead of a looming economic catastrophe. Eugene Linden wrote his first story on climate change, for Time magazine, in 1988; it was just the beginning of his investi...
This new book provides an overview of the subject from the earliest times to the present and includes results of recent research into the history of chemistry. Extensively illustrated throughout, the book will appeal to all chemists interested in the history of their subject, and is an invaluable source book for students studying an undergraduate module on the history of chemistry.
A political and social reformer, Samuel Smiles (1812-1904) was also a noted biographer in the Victorian period. Following the engineer's death in 1848, Smiles published his highly successful Life of George Stephenson in 1857 (also reissued in this series). His interest in engineering evolved and he began working on biographies of Britain's most notable engineers from the Roman to the Victorian era. Originally published in three volumes between 1861 and 1862, this work contains detailed and livel...
Sins against Science (SUNY series, Studies in Scientific and Technical Communication)
by Lynda Walsh
Charles Fourier Sein Leben und seine Theorien
by Ferdinand August Bebel
Иной свет или Государства и империи Луны
by С. де Бержерак
Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was one of the most respected scientists of his day, influencing the work of Darwin. He is considered the founder of physical geography, climatology, ecology and oceanography. In 1829, the Russian government invited Humboldt to visit the gold and platinum mines in the Urals. As he studied the mountains' mineral wealth, he was the first to predict the presence of diamonds. During six months, his epic 10,000-mile expedition took him as far as th...
Late Antique Calendrical Thought and Its Reception in the Early Middle Ages (Studia Traditionis Theologiae, #26)
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by А. Ригельман
A History of the NorthEast Algal Society (NEAS)
by W Johansen and Peter M Bradley
Летопись Якутского края, составленная по l
by В. Л. Приклонский