Will Melting Ice Flood the Land?
The Origins of Water on Earth
Running Out of Fish
Where Storms Are Born
The Oceans and Weather
Life in the Ocean ...
and more
When the Romans first started trying to map themselves into the larger Mediterranean world, their sense of where they belonged and how they fitted in was a challenge simultaneously to their sense of time and their sense of space; the charts they needed were geographical and chronological at once. Providing such charts was harder than it may appear, not least because charts of time and space do not always overlap harmoniously. Different parts of the world can appear to occupy different dimensions of time, “allochronies,” as Johannes Fabian (1983) calls them, niches where the quality of time appears to be not the same as “ours,” where the inhabitants are stuck in the past or are perhaps already ahead, in the future.
Обстоятельная хроника-справочник становления и развития науки и техники, начиная с каменного века и до наших дней. Серьезная книга, которую легко и увлекательно читать. Пригодится ESP студентам и преподавателям, а также всем, кто задается вопросами: что, где, когда и как. In this age of genetic engineering and global warming, it is more important than ever to understand the history and current trends of science and technology. With so much information out there, though, it' s hard to know where to start. That' s where The History of Science and Technology -- the most comprehensive and up-to-date chronology of its kind -- comes in.
Dude, Where's My Country?
Dude, Where's My Country?avoids being completely one-sided, offering up areas where Moore believes Republicans get it right as well as some cutting criticisms of his fellow lefties. Such allowances, brief though they may be, make one long for a political climate where the shouting polemicists on both sides would see a few more shades of gray.
Dude, Where's My Country? is a little bit scattered, as Moore tries to cram opinions on Iraq, tax cuts, corporate welfare, Wesley Clark, and the Patriot Act into one slim volume--and the penchant to go for a laugh sometimes gets in the way of clear arguments. But such variety also gives the reader more Moore, providing a broader range of his bewildered, enraged, yet stalwartly upbeat point of view.
After The Beginning In a brilliant flash about fourteen billion years
ago, time and matter were born in a single instant of creation. An
immensely hot and dense universe began its rapid expansion everywhere,
creating space where there was no space and time where there was no
time. In the intense fire just after the beginning, the lightest
elements were forged, later to form primordial clouds that eventually
evolved into galaxies, stars, and planets. This evolution is the story
told in this fascinating book. Interwoven with the storyline are short
pieces on the pioneering men and women who revealed those wonders to us.
