Download or read book Earth s Wish List written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Looking for Earths written by Alan Boss and published by . This book was released on 1998-09-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along the way we meet all the major players, from astronomer Peter van de Kamp, whose dreams of discovery lived on undeterred even after years of painstaking observations proved futile, to maverick NASA administrator Daniel Goldin, who dared to suggest in 1992 that "perhaps, just perhaps, the next generation's legacy will be an image of a planet 30 light years from Earth." We watch as the brilliant innovators Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz invent a new method for detection and, defying all odds, make the first major discovery by looking in territory where seasoned astronomers said no planets could ever be found.
Download or read book A Rapid Method for the Carrier free Determination of Individual Rare Earths by Ion Exchange at Room Temperature written by S. C. Foti and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A rapid procedure was devised for the quantitative recovery of the individual rare earth elements and yttrium from a synthetic mixture of carrier-free yttrium, terbium, europium, samarium, promethium, neodymium, praseodymium, cerium and lanthanum radionuclides. The separations are accomplished in 14 hours by elution from a Dowex 50W-X4 resin column with alpha-hydroxyisobutyrate solutions at room temperature. (Author).
Download or read book Network World written by and published by . This book was released on 1988-12-19 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than 20 years, Network World has been the premier provider of information, intelligence and insight for network and IT executives responsible for the digital nervous systems of large organizations. Readers are responsible for designing, implementing and managing the voice, data and video systems their companies use to support everything from business critical applications to employee collaboration and electronic commerce.
Download or read book The Barefoot Book of Earth Tales written by Dawn Casey and published by Barefoot Books. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how different cultures around the world set out to live in harmony with the natural world in this popular anthology, now in paperback. The seven folk tales are each followed by a hands-on activity that promotes green living and reinforces the eco-messages of the stories. Gold nautilus Book Award Winner.
Download or read book The Rare Earths Era written by Juan Manuel Chomón and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rare Earths Era: Strategic Metals Dependency & World Order addresses the centrality of 17 rare metallic elements necessary to the manufacture of a vast panoply of products developed through modern technology and in use worldwide—from smartphones, televisions, computers, and medical scanners to components of the most modern weapons systems in Western arsenals. Rare earths are hence crucial to strategic planning, whether for business, combating climate change, warfare, or ascendancy in world order. Called “rare earths” because of the low concentration in which they are found, which makes their extraction polluting and difficult, the miraculous properties of these elements can endow other materials with an unalterable super magnetism, an amazing hardness or robustness, a unique luminescence or fluorescence, and a special conductivity. The world as we now experience, enjoy and understand it is absolutely dependent on access to these metals in order to produce today’s technology. Without that, it’s goodbye to modernity. Rare earths may be key to understanding some of the most pressing geopolitical issues of our time. This book addresses the following questions: * How did the world become so dependent and addicted to Chinese rare earth metals? * Will critical minerals provide China with geopolitical leverage? * How will the global needs for rare earths impact the transition to clean energy? * What is the environmental impact of rare earths? * What is the role of the strategic minerals in the de-dollarization process? * Will we see new wars over rare earths resources? * Are critical minerals really on the radar of Western politicians?
Download or read book Countdown written by Alan Weisman and published by Little, Brown. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful investigation into the chances for humanity's future from the author of the bestseller The World Without Us. In his bestselling book The World Without Us, Alan Weisman considered how the Earth could heal and even refill empty niches if relieved of humanity's constant pressures. Behind that groundbreaking thought experiment was his hope that we would be inspired to find a way to add humans back to this vision of a restored, healthy planet-only in harmony, not mortal combat, with the rest of nature. But with a million more of us every 4 1/2 days on a planet that's not getting any bigger, and with our exhaust overheating the atmosphere and altering the chemistry of the oceans, prospects for a sustainable human future seem ever more in doubt. For this long awaited follow-up book, Weisman traveled to more than 20 countries to ask what experts agreed were probably the most important questions on Earth -- and also the hardest: How many humans can the planet hold without capsizing? How robust must the Earth's ecosystem be to assure our continued existence? Can we know which other species are essential to our survival? And, how might we actually arrive at a stable, optimum population, and design an economy to allow genuine prosperity without endless growth? Weisman visits an extraordinary range of the world's cultures, religions, nationalities, tribes, and political systems to learn what in their beliefs, histories, liturgies, or current circumstances might suggest that sometimes it's in their own best interest to limit their growth. The result is a landmark work of reporting: devastating, urgent, and, ultimately, deeply hopeful. By vividly detailing the burgeoning effects of our cumulative presence, Countdown reveals what may be the fastest, most acceptable, practical, and affordable way of returning our planet and our presence on it to balance. Weisman again shows that he is one of the most provocative journalists at work today, with a book whose message is so compelling that it will change how we see our lives and our destiny.
Download or read book S 131 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Healing Earths written by W. Rudolph Reinbacher and published by 1st Book Library. This book was released on 2003 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TRAVELS OF THE PRINCE is a narrative poem divided into five parts or Provenances. It is a fictionalized yet to some extent, parallel history told as a mythic tale, but with shadowy references to historical times, places, and events. The first part, "The Provenance of Darkness" is a kind of prehistory, the second suggests the Orient, the third, Greece, the forth, Rome, the fifth, the Modern Era. The principal characters, Prince Krishna, his friend, Baladev, (referred to as Dog, Sun, Weird), his enemy, Kaliya, (refered to as Snake, Python, Dissident) live in a timeless world in which events occur in a somewhat circular rather than linear way. The story begins when Prince Krishna, son of the Great Khan ruler of the Seven Realms that constitute the Empire, leaves his father's castle and against his father's wishes, begins a long adventurous journey from one realm to the next. This apparently rebellious action of the Prince, inspires Kaliya, the messianic leader of the autochthonous peoples, to rebel against the Empire and attack Baladev, Commander of the Imperial Army. New characters now appear, the Lords of the Seven Realms: Hiranyaksha of the Golden Eye, "the jewel-flashing dandy", Lord of the Second Realm, Kaliya's man; Phoibos Iskander, Duke of the Third realm, "a boy well made and fatal"; Arjuna Beak-o'-Bronze, Duke of the Fourth Realm; Narada "of the unhappy Consciousness, Lord of the Fifth Realm; Orlando, the Alchemist, Lord of the Sixth Realm; Hyperion, Lord of the Seventh Realm, "Held a secret so intense that no one dared to covet it". The almost continuous war that ensues between Kaliya and Baladev is destined to involve all of the Seven Realms as first one side, then the other appear to be the victor, each side hoping to enlist the sympathies of the Prince. Whereas the Khan is an enlightened monarch with democratic ideals, Kaliya's followers are of a static society, still mired in the past. On another level the war could be regarded as more a symbolic conflict between the mind-set of antiquity and the enduring quest of the individual for freedom of the creative spirit. The Prince, who has attachments for both Baladev and Kaliya, wavers between their opposing points of view. In the end, however, events bring him back, though under cloudy circumstances, to his father's castle at the place called Worldsend.
Download or read book Mother Earth Wish Book Wishes and Prayers for Healing Mother Earth written by Gwenddlyn and published by [Haliburton, Ont.] : Charasee Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book TouchPoints Heaven written by Randy Alcorn and published by Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2014-12-08 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Touchpoints - Heaven, based on Randy Alcorn's best-selling book Heaven, puts the answers to many of your questions about Heaven, eternity, and the New Earth at your fingertips. Then, arranged by topic, Touchpoints - Heaven provides simple, clear-cut, biblically based answers to such questions as, Will animals inhabit the New Earth? Will we sleep in Heaven? Will we all have beautiful bodies? And Will we work in Heaven?
Download or read book Moon Earth s Best Friend written by Stacy McAnulty and published by Henry Holt and Company (BYR). This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 21 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From writer Stacy McAnulty and illustrator Stevie Lewis, Moon! Earth's Best Friend is a light-hearted nonfiction picture book about the formation and history of the moon—told from the perspective of the moon itself. Meet Moon! She's more than just a rock—she’s Earth’s rock, her best friend she can always count on. Moon never turns her back on her friend (literally: she's always facing Earth with the same side!). These two will stick together forever. With characteristic humor and charm, Stacy McAnulty channels the voice of Moon in this next celestial "autobiography" in the Our Universe series. Rich with kid-friendly facts and beautifully brought to life by Stevie Lewis, this is an equally charming and irresistible companion to Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years and Sun! One in a Billion.
Download or read book Birds of Paradise written by Tim Laman and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dazzling photo essay, Laman and Scholes present gorgeous full-color photographs of all 39 species of the Birds of Paradise that highlight their unique and extraordinary plumage and mating behavior.
Download or read book The Great Disruption written by Paul Gilding and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. Instead we need to brace for impact, because global crisis is no longer avoidable. The 'Great Disruption' started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological change like the melting polar icecap. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our planet's ecosystems and resources. The Great Disruption offers a stark and unflinching look at the challenge humanity faces - yet also a deeply optimistic message. The coming decades will see loss, suffering and conflict as our planetary overdraft is paid. However, they will also bring out the best humanity can offer: compassion, innovation, resilience and adaptability. Gilding tells us how to fight, and win, what he calls 'the One Degree War' to prevent catastrophic warming of the earth, and how to start today. The crisis we are in represents a rare chance to replace our addiction to growth with an ethic of sustainability, and it's already happening. It's also an unmatched business opportunity: old industries will collapse while new companies literally reshape our economy. In the aftermath of the Great Disruption, we will measure 'growth' in a new way. It will mean not quantity of stuff, but quality, and happiness, of life. And, yes, there is life after shopping. The Great Disruption is an invigorating and well-informed polemic by an advocate for sustainability and climate change who has dedicated his life to campaigning for a balanced use of Earth's limited resources. It is essential reading.
Download or read book Earth Abides written by George R. Stewart and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1993-12 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Magic Wish List written by Lynn Voigt and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wishes come to us in many ways: dreams, ideas, and flashes of inspiration. Whenever you have a wish, all you need to do is write it down inside your Magic Wish List. If you don't, it will be lost forever.You don't need to know how a wish will come true or even why it will happen. All you really need to do is believe that it will. Write it down. It simply boils down to believing in what you wish for with all of your heart and soul. This is why miracles happen every moment of every day.Understand that it is what's truly in your heart and soul that drives your daily thoughts and actions. Only the things you believe are possible will become possible. It's up to you to take responsibility for the thoughts you allow to roam around in your head, and follow them wherever they may lead you.Be patient, believe and be grateful for all the blessings in your current life even when you feel overwhelmed by challenges. It's how you choose to overcome challenges that will open the doors to unconditional dreams and wishes. New doors are always there for you to open. Wishes are simply your inner voice of endless possibilities encouraging you to take action, open them, and enter through your Magic Wish List.
Download or read book The Portfolio written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
