Download or read book 1001 Questions Answered about Earthquakes Avalanches Floods and Other Natural Disasters written by Barbara Tufty and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1978 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book answers 1001 questions about all kinds of natural disasters: earthquakes, volcanoes, tsunamis, avalanches, landslides, floods, droughts, fires, and animal plagues. A very informative, readable book. 18 photographs, 23 line drawings.
Download or read book One Thousand and One Questions Answered about Earthquakes Avalanches Floods and Other Natural Disasters written by Barbara Tufty and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A History and Philosophy of Fluid Mechanics written by G. A. Tokaty and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-02-20 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the centuries, the intricacies of fluid mechanics — the study of the laws of motion and fluids in motion — have occupied many of history's greatest minds. In this pioneering account, a distinguished aeronautical scientist presents a history of fluid mechanics focusing on the achievements of the pioneering scientists and thinkers whose inspirations and experiments lay behind the evolution of such disparate devices as irrigation lifts, ocean liners, windmills, fireworks and spacecraft. The author first presents the basics of fluid mechanics, then explores the advances made through the work of such gifted thinkers as Plato, Aristotle, da Vinci, Galileo, Pascal, Newton, Bernoulli, Euler, Lagrange, Ernst Mach and other scientists of the 20th century. Especially important for its illuminating comparison of the development of fluid mechanics in the former Soviet Union with that in the West, the book concludes with studies of transsonic compressibility and aerodynamics, supersonic fluid mechanics, hypersonic gas dynamics and the universal matter-energy continuity. Professor G. A. Tokaty has headed the prestigious Aeronautical Research Laboratory at the Zhukovsky Academy of Aeronautics in Moscow, and has taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is Emeritus Professor of Aeronautics and Space Technology, The City University, London.
Download or read book The Lightning Discharge written by Martin A. Uman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Absorbing monograph by expert sets forth most of known properties of lightning: cloud and lightning charges, stepped leader, return stroke, dart leader, lightning on other planets, thunder, more. 144 illustrations.
Download or read book Fluvial Processes in Geomorphology written by Luna B. Leopold and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This excellent text is a pioneering work in the study of landform development under processes associated with running water. Its primary emphasis is on subjects that were the focus of the authors' studies in both field and laboratory. Part I deals with the process of change in the evolving landscape. Part II explores process and form, and Part III, the effects of time. In Part I, the relation of geomorphology to field problems is analyzed in studies of a mountain block in a semiarid climate, a meandering river cut into bedrock, and benches along a sea coast. Part Two contains studies of weathering, climate, and such denudational processes as flooding and erosion. Here, too, are examinations of the drainage basin as a geomorphic unit, water and sediment in channels, channel form and process, and hillslope characteristics and processes. In Part III, the authors cover geochronology, drainage pattern evolution, channel changes with time, and the evolution of hillslopes. Two appendixes will help readers convert units and equivalents, and identify symbols and nomenclature. 1964 edition.
Download or read book Natural Disasters as a Catalyst for Social Capital written by Kevin F. Adler and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-04-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural Disasters as a Catalyst for Social Capital examines the vastly under-explored link between natural disasters and social capital in regards to the unprecedented June 2008 flood in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. In-depth qualitative interviews with flood victims and key informants in Cedar Rapids reveal that a resident’s perception of social capital after a natural disaster is shaped by their vulnerabilities and social mobility, which vary substantially and need to be understood contextually. This book, in highlighting the enormous impact of one disaster in a mid-sized Midwestern city, offers a framework for a new theory for why social capital shifts in societies from one generation to another: the transformative impact of shared traumas.
Download or read book Lightning written by Martin A. Uman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete and comprehensive, this text for advanced undergraduates in physics and engineering features exceptional clarity and minimum of mathematic notation. The expert and up-to-date treatment covers lightning phenomena and terminology, lightning photography, lightning spectroscopy, electrical and magnetic field measurements and current measurements, and more. Five appendixes. 140 figures and tables.
Download or read book The Curious Lore of Precious Stones written by George Frederick Kunz and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1971-01-01 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpts from history and folklore trace the unusual beliefs and uses of gems since ancient times
Download or read book Earth the Sapphire Planet written by Url Lanham and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2016-04-10 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With some 70 percent of its surface covered by water, the Earth presents a picture of a gemlike blue planet when viewed from outer space. This sapphire jewel — the only planet in our solar system to sustain intelligent life — is the subject of this remarkably engaging and concise book by biologist, teacher, and popular science writer Url Lanham. Focusing on the Earth and the life forms that have evolved on it, Mr. Lanham's captivating study covers a wide range of subjects — from the work of Galileo, Copernicus, Herschel, and other scientists who contributed to our knowledge of Earth's position in the universe, to the Earth's internal physiology, intricacies of the biosphere, creation of continents, origins of plant and animal life, the diversity of physical habitats in which these life forms thrive, and much more. Well written and highly readable, this absorbing and optimistic natural history of the planet will take readers on a fantastic journey through time, offering up a host of facts and provocative insights. Easily accessible to advanced high school science students and college undergraduates, Earth, the Sapphire Planet will be warmly received as well by teachers and ecologically aware general readers.
Download or read book The History of Underwater Exploration written by Robert F. Marx and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The noted marine archaeologist and treasure-hunting diver's history of diving, from the free divers of the ancient world to those using modern research equipment. Subjects such as underwater archaeology, sunken treasure, oceanography and skin diving are explored along with the evolution of SCUBA equipment, submarine warfare, and more. 46 photographs.
Download or read book Precious Stones written by Max Bauer and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This classic study begins with a general analysis of precious stones followed by descriptions of their cutting and mounting. The remainder of this volume focuses on the diamond. 52 figures.
Download or read book Pirotechnia written by Vannoccio Biringucci and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pirotechnia.
Download or read book Groundwater and Seepage written by Milton Edward Harr and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Logical, analytical approach to the solution of groundwater and seepage problems and to understanding the design and analysis of earth structures that impound water. Coverage of previously unavailable Russian work, appendixes of concepts in advanced engineering mathematics, numerous worked-out and solved examples with over 200 problems of varying difficulty. Preface. List of Symbols. Appendixes.
Download or read book 1001 Questions Answered about Natural Land Disasters written by Barbara Tufty and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Doppler Radar and Weather Observations written by R. J. Doviak and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reviews the principles of Doppler radar and emphasizes the quantitative measurement of meteorological parameters. It illustrates the relation of Doppler radar data and images to atmospheric phenomena such as tornadoes, microbursts, waves, turbulence, density currents, hurricanes, and lightning. Geared toward upper-level undergraduates and graduate students, this text was written by two scientists at the National Severe Storms Laboratory in Norman, Oklahoma, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Topics include electromagnetic waves and propagation, weather signals and their Doppler spectra, weather signal processing, measurements of precipitation and turbulence, and observations of winds and storms as well as fair weather. Radar images and photographs of weather phenomena highlight the text.
Download or read book Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency written by DeMond S. Miller and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once again nature‘s fury has taken a toll in pain, suffering, and lives lost. In recognition of the need for a rapid and appropriate response, CRC Press will donate $5 to the American Red Cross for every copy of Community Disaster Recovery and Resiliency: Exploring Global Opportunities and Challenges sold. In the past, societies would learn from di
Download or read book Discovering the Natural Laws written by Milton A. Rothman and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessible, nonmathematical introduction to theory, experiments underlying laws of gravitation, motion, conservation of energy, electromagnetism, relativity, more. New epilogue. Bibliography.
